"Alligator Ron" Bergeron, a fifth generation Floridian has spent a lifetime advocating for the Everglades, now he mulls a run for governor. Photo by CandaceWest.com

"Alligator Ron" Bergeron, a fifth generation Floridian has spent a lifetime advocating for the Everglades, now he mulls a run for governor. Photo by CandaceWest.com

Donna Kalil holds a ball python she caught in the Everglades. She adopted the snake, naming him Benny. Donna Kalil is one of the few women paid by the Florida government to track down and take out Burmese pythons, the invasive, monstrous snakes that have taken over the Everglades. Photo by CandaceWest.com

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Jonathan Drew on reinventing Drew Estate and the cigars industry. Photo by Candace West/ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Jonathan Drew on reinventing Drew Estate and the cigar industry. Photo by Candace West/ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Jorge Perez runs Related Group of Florida, which claims to have developed more than 80,000 condos, mostly in Miami, since it was founded in 1979. Photo by Candace West/ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Cardinal Gibbons High School in Ft. Lauderdale. St. Thomas Aquinas vs. Cardinal Gibbons in football. St. Thomas' #15, QB Jacob Rudock charges with the ball.

Kali Donner of Cypress Bay. Douglas vs. Cypress Bay in girls' tennis. Monarch High, 

  Story on how Jai-Alai is a dying sport  and how the frontons are managing to stay open despite the lack of customers.

Boyd Anderson High School is the setting for the North Central Track Meet. Ft. Lauderdale Highs' Lauren Cooper won the girls pole vault at 8'6.

Fort Lauderdale Hall of Fame Diving Pool. Jevon Tarantino.  He's one of the best divers in the country and is hopeful of making the U.S. Olympic team.  Jevon and his Sync Dive Partner Chris Colwill.

Out at 2nd is Pipers James Hayes by Taravellas Jason Gray.

Weekend warriors come out to compete in the Corporate Warriors Challenge Miami at Haulover Beach.

Weekend warriors come out to compete in the Corporate Warriors Challenge Miami at Haulover Beach.

St. Thomas vs. Deerfield Beach High girls Basketball.; L to R are: Christina Diaz (St. Thomas); Princess Stewart (Deerfield) and Susan Beauzil (St. Thomas).; The three fight for the ball all the way to the floor in the close game.

Bank Atlantic in the Sunshine Shopping Plaza. 4211 W. Commercial Blvd. Tamarac. BSO said the bank was robbed today and that the suspect got away with "bait money", maybe more. Here a BSO Deputy dusts for fingerpints.

BSO detectives rest with their suspect after a long chase.

Friends, family, and fellow police officers gather at the home of one of the slain officers Roger Castillo. Two Miami-Dade police officers were shot dead while attempting to serve a homicide warrant. The officers were identified as Roger Castillo, father of three, and Amanda Haworth, also a mother.

Police officers are emotionally moved as they gather for the funeral of Hollywood police officer Alex Del Rio. Del Rio was killed in the line of duty when he lost control of his Ford Crown Victoria and crashed into a tree. The vehicle burst into flames, killing him. Del Rio had been an officer for nine years.

A man is overcome with grief as he is just handed his deceased cat. The man watched as Ft. Lauderdale Fire Rescue tried to revive his pet without success after he pulled the cat from his burning apartment.

Neighborhood children watch a DC-9 cargo plane burn outside the front yard as they peek through a fence in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The plane crashed and burned Monday in the middle of a street in a residential neighborhood. All three men aboard the plane survived, and there were no reports of injuries on the ground.

Village Park in Ft. Lauderdale is a moble home park that was hit hard with hurricane damage. Resident Steve Ulise counts his blessings as he sits on the tree trunk that came thru his bedroom wall. Steve was sleeping in bed when the tree just missed him.

Norcrest Elementary School in Pompano Beach was damaged during hurricane Wilma but is still open for school Monday. Here Cheyenne Allen writes and draws her hurricane Wilma experiences in Mrs. Ashenfelter's first grade class.

Debbie Zelman is fighting stomach cancer but still makes time to raise money for research. On Sunday, Debbie's Dream Foundation will hold A Night of Laughter at the Improv comedy club at the Hard Rock. Debbie is organizing the event along with the help of others and has already sold a majority of the tickets.

Greg Kovach is the Dining Room Captain and your Dining in the Dark server at Market 17. A family owned restaurant has built their entire business around the Farm to Table concept. If you are in the mood to Dine in the Dark, a server will then his don night-vision goggles and bring your meals with the aid of a flashlight. Dining in the dark is served as a blind tasting menu.

Bob Grasso is a speech pathologist and Little League Coach by day, and ghost hunter by night. Grasso searches out creepy places with his camera and his tri-field meter that measures electro magnetic energy in search of visions of ghosts or orbs. Grasso has a website where he displays his photos. This is Grasso at Evergreen Cemetery in Ft. Lauderdale.

Kimberly Vuzquez, a Nova Optometry Student, examines the eyes of five year old Jayden Isme. Kids In Distress (KID) and Nova Southeastern University celebrate the opening of the Kid Dental Clinic and NSU The Eye Care Institute at KID. The clinics are now open to children six months to 18 years of age and their families for preventative and comprehensive dental and eye care. The total square footage of the Kids in Distress building that houses both the optometry and dental clinics is about 10,000 square feet.  There is about 4,700 square feet for each clinic.