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Is the third time a charm? The family of missing girl Caylee Anthony hope so.

The mother of a missing Central Florida toddler was taken into custody for the third time Monday.

Casey Anthony was visiting her home confinement officer at the Orange County jail when sheriff’s deputies re-arrested her on new check fraud charges. A hearing on the new charges is scheduled for Tuesday.

Casey reported her three-year-old daughter Caylee missing in mid-July, though police say Caylee had been missing since mid-June. Casey was first arrested shortly after reporting her daughter missing. A bail bondsman from California provided bail, but Casey was re-arrested on theft and fraud charges unrelated to Caylee’s disappearance.

An 11-year-old girl in Orange County, Florida is facing trial after being accused of punching a deputy sheriff in the face.

Deputies say they were forced to use their tasers on Thalia Jimenez after they say she attacked the deputy at Moss Park Elementary School in March. Teachers say Jimenez became combative after they confronted her about pushing another student.

The girl’s mother said her daughter has a learning disability and reacted out of fear.

Looks like the Orlando police are trying to find any excuse to put Casey Anthony back in jail, and who can blame them?

A handgun was removed from the trunk of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony’s grandfather’s car, MyFOXOrlando.com reported.

Acting on a tip, police took the gun late Friday night from George Anthony’s car — parked in his driveway — and brought it to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

It was not immediately clear what the significance the find will mean — if any — in the missing 3-year-old’s case.

New lab results show that not only were human remains in Casey Anthony’s trunk, but there were also traces of chloroform.

Casey Anthony’s computer, confiscated within hours of her arrest in July on charges of child neglect, making false official statements and obstruction of justice, also showed visits to Web sites with information about chloroform.

The discovery of chloroform, a chemical compound that can be used to incapacitate crime victims, is a piece of evidence prosecutors will use in building the case of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony.

Florida investigators are saying that they have found proof that human remains were at some point in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car. For those living under a rock the last couple month’s, Casey’s daughter Caylee went missing at the beginning of June, and Anthony did not report the missing girl for over a month.

Investigators have found chemical evidence of human decomposition in the trunk of the car connected to Florida mother Casey Anthony, a law enforcement source said Wednesday.

A spokesman for the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility, also known as the Body Farm, said investigators were testing the air found in the trunk of the car for chemical compounds only found in cadavers.

At the time, the spokesman said, “we would not have performed these tests if we didn’t think there was something there.”

Florida police have brought in 3 cadaver dogs to help in the search for missing Orlando girl Caylee Anthony.

A sheriff’s investigator, Sergeant John Allen, said Friday that authorities don’t rule out the possibility that Caylee Marie Anthony is still alive.

Deputies say the girl’s 22-year-old mother, Casey Marie Anthony, was arrested Wednesday on charges of child neglect and criminal obstruction. They say the woman told investigators she had dropped off her daughter at a baby sitter last month but hadn’t seen her since. The woman didn’t contact police until this week, officials say, once relatives became concerned.

Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of Caylee Anthony, who has not been seen in over a month, said on the Today Show that her daughter Casey knows who has the missing girl and that police should let her out so she can help find her. Or maybe, you know, SHE SHOULD JUST TELL THE POLICE THE INFORMATION.

“I know Casey knows who has her,” Cindy Anthony told NBC. “I know Casey doesn’t know where they’re at right at the moment. But I don’t know anything else right now because I can’t speak to my daughter. And we’re trying to get that changed very quickly.”

Casey Anthony, 22, reported her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony missing last week. The little girl’s grandmother says Caylee was last seen June 9. Authorities say the child’s mother has repeatedly lied to investigators and showed little emotion during interviews about her daughter’s whereabouts.

“She didn’t seem to be concerned,” Orange County Deputy Sheriff Carlos Padilla told “Good Morning America” on Monday.

Casey Anthony is being held without bond after it was discovered that her 2-year-old daughter Caylee has been missing for almost a month. Anthony’s mother finally got involved an notified authorities.

Casey Anthony told detectives she dropped Caylee off at a baby sitter’s house June 9 but that the child was not there when she went to pick her up.

She never notified deputies.

She didn’t tell her parents.

She did her own investigation, she told detectives. She went to clubs that the baby sitter, a woman she identified as Zenaida Gonzalez, is known to frequent. She said she was afraid her daughter would get hurt if authorities got involved because she had seen that happen in movies.

Investigators discovered that the apartment Casey Anthony said belonged to the baby sitter had been vacant for nearly five months.

“It’s difficult to sort through what we’ve been told, given that what we’ve been given was false,” said Sgt. John Allen of the sheriff’s child-abuse unit.

What kind of scumbag would stick a gun in a baby’s face, just to make off with a little cash from a pizza joint? Apparently this one.

The 1-year-old baby probably didn’t even understand that her life was in danger as the robber pointed a gun at her head.

“It’s bad, it’s bad to take advantage of a little baby just to get money,” said former employee Ramon Sanchez.

Money is what they were after. Around 9:30pm Sunday, two men stormed into the Mr. Pizza shop on Winegard Road and demanded cash. One pulled a gun on the cashier and the other pointed his gun at the head of the baby, telling the mother not to get any closer.

“Anybody who walks around with a gun and who’s robbing people, they’re dangerous. To take that gun and point it at a child, again that’s being a coward,” said Commander Spike Hopkins, Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

A pregnant woman and her unborn baby are both dead after she was shot while her husband was cleaning his gun.

Yailen Abreu, 23, and the fetus died Tuesday at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Orange County sheriff’s officials said Abreu was hit in the stomach while her husband was cleaning his gun late Monday at their Orlando-area home. She was six months pregnant.

Police have discovered the body of Brooke Bennett about a mile from her uncle’s property just a day after he was named a person of interest. Documents also came out yesterday implicating him in planning on using Bennett as part of a child sex ring.

The girl’s uncle, Michael Jacques, who has been in custody since Sunday on sexual assault charges involving another underage girl, is to be charged in federal court with kidnapping, police Sgt. Tara Thomas said.

Bennett last was seen alive with Jacques at a convenience store last Wednesday.

“The painful discovery of Brooke’s body today is tragic and heartbreaking,” Baker said.

He called the death “clearly suspicious” but declined to give details before a planned briefing Thursday morning.

Police have turned their attention to the uncle of missing 12-year-old Brooke Bennett, a registered sex offender who is being charged with sexually assaulting another girl.

The alleged victim of the sex assaults, a relative of [Michael] Jacques, told police Jacques assaulted her during a five-year period, beginning when she was 9 years old and ending a few weeks ago, Orange County State’s Attorney Will Porter said.

Meanwhile, Jacques, pronounced “Jakes,” was being described as “a person of interest” in last Wednesday’s disappearance of Bennett. Col. James Baker, commander of the Vermont State Police, said investigators narrowed their probe and began focusing on Jacques based on information developed late Saturday and early Sunday through computer forensics.

You have to wonder how a father that would leave an 18-month-old locked in a hot car would get custody of his four kids to begin with. The outside temperature on the day this allegedly took place was nearly 100 degrees.

Cosimo Capitiano offered no explanation to the judge Monday about why he left his baby in a hot car Sunday, but his estranged wife’s attorney said he shouldn’t have had custody of the children to begin with.

The attorney representing the children’s mother, Aurelius Capitiano, said the father lied that she was keeping them in an unsafe home in south Florida so that he could get custody of them and avoid having to pay child support. Until he did that, the children had been with their mother. The judge’s decision Monday means all four children are going home with their mother.

Kathy Fishbough just happened to park her car at the Chuck E. Cheese parking lot next to Capitanio’s vehicle. She quickly realized the toddler was locked inside the car.

“All windows were up. The car wasn’t on. No keys in ignition. I was like, ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me,’” she said.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a 10-month-old boy who was allegedly kidnapped by his mother from a hospital in Orange, California.

Alakahi Thompson was taken from the hospital at 455 S. Main St. in Orange around 10 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

The suspect is identified as Ida Marybel Torres, a Latina who is 5 feet 4, 125 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

Investigators say Torres also fled with her 5-year-old and 11-year-old children. It’s believed she is driving a rental car– a silver 2008 Chrysler Sebring, license plate 6AHA682, and may be headed for Kentucky.

The Sheriff’s Department said the boy’s father has legal custody of the child and Torres only has visitation rights.

A boy at the Meadowbrook Middle School in Orlando, Florida hid behind a bookcase in his classroom, urinated into his teacher’s lunch box, closed it, and gave it back to her. School officials think that perhaps the boy took the teacher’s joke to its literal conclusion. We don’t think that teacher will be too quick with the jesting going forward. We also think she might be in the market for a new lunch box.

The teacher, Jameeka Chambers, was put on paid leave Tuesday while district administrators continue investigating what happened in her classroom last week.

Based on statements from other students in the class, school officials think that when the boy asked to go the restroom on Thursday, Chambers told him to hold it or use her lunchbox. The boy then took the lunchbox, hid behind a bookcase, urinated in it and returned it to the teacher, said Frank Kruppenbacher, attorney for the Orange County School Board.

“I think we clearly know she didn’t tell him, ‘Go pee in this box,’ in the sense of going to go do that,” Kruppenbacher said. “That’s beyond our comprehension.”