The Cooler

Here's what caught my eye in this morning's news feeds.

A- TC Palm: School sure has changed.

PORT ST. LUCIE — A St. Lucie West Centennial High School teacher took painkillers, drank beer and smoked "weed" with a teen student at her house in June until they passed out on her couch.

B- South Florida Business Journal: No more Maroone.

AutoNation is renaming more than 160 stores around the nation to remove the local brand name and solidify the company’s position as the biggest U.S. auto retailer.

The move is expected to help the company market itself nationwide and allow a better online sales platform, something AutoNation has been developing for years.

In South Florida, the company confirmed Thursday that it will strip local dealerships of the Maroone name – a fixture for decades - starting Feb. 1. The dealerships' namesake, Mike Maroone, continues as president of AutoNation, however.

C- CBS4: Video, 24 hours at a busy fire station in Hollywood.

On a Friday morning in late December, CBS4 reporter Carey Codd and photojournalist Harrison Williams arrived at the House of Pain to see what a 24 hour shift is like. They found a bed, unloaded their gear and headed out on the first of many emergency calls.

The calls poured in — a dead body, a possible car fire and an elderly woman who fell and hit her head were just a few of the 19 calls the team ran on during the 8 am-8 am shift. Each call was handled with the same seriousness, attention to detail and care that you would expect from trained firefighter/paramedics. And no matter how tired or hungry the crew that filled up the rescue truck was, they never let it show.

D- CBS4: Creep.

Police were called and told a man was looking into a window and masturbating. Davie Police said they found 18-year-old Luis Velasco standing in front of the north side of a trailer at 616 SW 131 Avenue.

Police said he was in front of a bedroom window jumping up and down looking inside of it. Police detained Velasco and said when they looked inside the home they saw a woman taking a bath.

E- NBC Miami: Darwin nods.

A pedestrian was struck and killed on the northbound lanes of I-95 near U.S. 441 Thursday night, a Florida Highway Patrol spokesman said.

F- WPLG: Video, American Airlines' new 777's.



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