Sorry State: Florida's Banking Boom

DA BOMB Guy, bomb, chest

Each Friday, Radar falls in love again with Florida—home of fallen stars, closeted politicians, deranged people of every stripe, and Disney.

• Sunshine swindle?: Investigators are trying to figure out if a bank employee with a fake bomb strapped to his chest is victim or suspect in a successful Miami bank robbery.

• Elián González, Part II: A Cuban pig farmer stars.

• Deep sea crime?: Four people go missing from a charter boat named Joe Cool off the Miami coast. Two of them—one of whom is a fugitive—are discovered clinging to a life raft; they are now being questioned by the FBI. The ghost boat is found and towed in to shore.

• Ninja burglars rob two Orlando jewelry stores.