The Cooler

Another quiet news day in South Florida. Here's about all I could find for you.

A- Herald: Giving up the pet with the house.

As foreclosures mount and unemployment rises, many in Broward and Miami-Dade are finding they can no longer afford their pets.

''We are now receiving weekly calls from police having us go into foreclosed homes with them because pets have been abandoned,'' said Sara Pizano, director of Miami-Dade County's Animal Services Department. ``That's not something that happened a year or two ago.''

B- Herald: Wrong turn, Clyde.

On a day made for tourists and other tropical-weather-worshiping creatures, the 12,376-strong ING Miami Marathon and Half Marathon had its seventh running in near-ideal circumstances -- until Jynocel Basweti of Kenya made a wrong turn.

Confusion about the route altered the race for the two front-runners.

Basweti, 22, was in the lead Sunday at about Mile 20, saw a video truck turn unexpectedly and got distracted. He followed the truck, which, according to race organizers, had been incorrectly ordered off the course by a police officer.

C- Herald: Video, Miami Marathon.

D- Sun-Sentinel: Slideshow, Chili Cookoff.

E- Palm Beach Post: Getting even.

Tidbits of toilet paper twisted in the wind at Bernard Madoff's Palm Beach home Monday morning - possibly the work of some ticked off teens who lost their trust funds.

Some teenage boys called The Palm Beach Post newsroom Sunday evening to take credit for the prank - one they said was sanctioned by their parents. They said they were acting in retaliation after they lost their trust funds to the accused swindler.

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