A second man this year has fatally shot himself with a rented handgun at the Delray Shooting Center.
Delray Beach police say the 64-year-old man rented the gun and bought ammunition and targets Friday afternoon. He went to a shooting stall and shot at his targets for about half an hour before shooting himself in the head.
A 41-year-old man visiting from Quebec fatally shot himself at the Delray Shooting Center in June, and a 19-year-old Coral Springs man killed himself at the range in January 2002.
SUNRISE
Team gets field back after owls are evicted
Stan and Gladys, a pair of owls that invaded a South Florida high school football team's home turf, have been evicted.
Piper High School's football team had to stop practicing and playing on its home field after a two burrowing owls began to nest in the ground. The owls are a "species of special concern."
The nests were destroyed last week with the permission of wildlife officials and a new burrow was dug. Science students plan a burrow project for the owls this month.
PALM BAY
Graffiti foiled by shortage of purple
A graffiti artist who apparently ran out of paint midway through a spray-painted creation left a note to explain the unfinished work.
Palm Bay police Officer Dan Fisher says the artist painted the words "ran out of purple" on the white wall next to an incomplete purple piece called "Solo."
MIAMI
Rare Florida species may gain protection
A bat and a fern found only in Florida may be added to the federal list of endangered and threatened species.
The Florida bristle fern lives only in pine woods in Miami-Dade and Sumter counties.
The Florida bonneted bat is found in only a dozen spots in South and Central Florida.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday that the species are under consideration.
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