A small private Cirrus SR22 plane heading to a nearby general aviation airport in Kissimmee, Fla., had been out of radio contact for over an hour in the skies near Orlando, Florida Sunday.

Pilots of a Southwest Boeing 737 were asked by a Florida air traffic controller supervisor to change course and take a closer look at the Cirrus plane.

The incident is especially inappropriate because the behavior of the pilot of the Cirrus private plane was unpredictable — putting passengers and crew on the Southwest jet in jeopardy. The Southwest jet had 137 passengers onboard.

The Cirrus was flying at 11,000 feet heading to a general aviation airport in Kissimmee, Florida. The Southwest Boeing 737 flew at 12,000 feet about 10 miles behind the Cirrus, while heading to Orlando International Airport.

The Florida air traffic controller supervisor was suspended after officials said he compromised the safety of passengers by letting two planes fly too close to each other.

Police said they think they have identified two children whose bodies were stuffed into luggage and dumped in a South Florida canal. Authorities believe the children were siblings, but they have not released their names.

Divers from three agencies were searching water in a canal for additional leads.

Detectives questioning Clem Beauchamp, 34, of 105 Southwest 7th Ave., Delray Beach in the deaths of a girl between ages 6 and 10 and a boy between 10 and 12, according to

Beauchamp walked into the police department around 10 a.m. to talk to Delray Beach police. He waited in lobby, sitting with his head in his hands, rocking back and forth. Minutes later he followed detectives into another room.

Delray Beach police spokeswoman. The children were found Wednesday bobbing in the C-15 canal.

About 9 a.m. Wednesday, police opened a bag reported by a passerby that was floating in the canal and pulled out the body of a girl, who appeared to be between 6 and 12 years old. The bag was a few hundred yards west of the two-lane bridge connecting Carl Bolter Drive and Brant Drive.

Wednesday afternoon police divers found the body of a boy, about 10 to 12 years old, stuffed in a black canvas-type suitcase about one-half mile west of the location where the girl was found.

The girl is described as black and weighing 70-90 pounds. She is just over 4 feet tall and her hair was braided with white or clear beads, according to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner’s Office. She was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark-colored pants and blue Polo sneakers.

The boy also was black, and wearing dark blue or black shorts.

Redland Middle School, 16001 SW. 248th Street, and Redland Elementary School, 24501 SW 162nd Ave., were placed on locked down after a shooting at an auto sales lot near 248th Street and South Dixie Highway.

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SECURITY VIDEO catches transient man raiding the breakfast sausage stored in the freezer. Joe Brown: “When you get to 55-plus, you don’t get a whole lot of excitement, so this is great.”

The folks at Mariners Cove retirement community in Estero, Florida got quite an eyeful when some breakfast sausage went missing, and security videos were checked. Video shows the sausage thief walking around the clubhouse with nothing on, in footage obscured by authorities. The police recognized the sausage bandit as a local transient, Joshua Abernathy.

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies, Boca Raton police, Delray Beach police and Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue firefighter/paramedics responded about 6:15 a.m. Thursday to Southwest 18th Street, west of Boca Raton near Boca Rio Road, to a report of a police cruiser wrapped around a palm tree with an injured officer trapped inside.

Delray Beach police sergeant Adam Rosenthal was alive inside the squad, and firefighters worked efficiently to extricate him from the wrecked police car. He was transported to Delray Medical Center via a Trauma Hawk helicopter. He died en route or shortly after he arrived at the hospital.

The crash is under investigation.

Delray Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida with a city total population of 60,020.

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A southwest Florida HIghway Patrol deputy’s police cruiser hit a pedestrian who was walking her bicycle across Collier Boulevard.

A Florida Highway Patrol Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser hit a woman crossing Collier Boulevard near Pasedo Drive in Naples, Florida about 10:15 p.m. February 8, 2011. The police cruiser was traveling north on Collier Boulevard when the incident occurred.

The woman Cicelia McKinnon, 47, was impacted hard by the car and ended up under the car. She suffered a broken leg, a broken arm and internal injuries in the crash. She doesn’t have health insurance. She also has poor vision and no eye glasses.

The unemployed victim said she was crossing in a dark stretch of the road because her bike doesn’t have a light and she didn’t want to get cited for a no-light violation.