Regina Anderson, widow of Deputy James Anderson, Jr., accepted a $15,000 check from the BTLS Foundation.  Deputy James Anderson was killed in an auto accident involving an intoxicated driver in January.

A $15,000 check was given to widow Roberta Ambroise at the Florida Highway Patrol station in Southwest Miami-Dade. Her husband was killed after a driver struck his patrol car on the Turnpike in May.

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HOUSTON (KTRK) — Local and federal investigators were at a northwest Houston home Friday night where an explosion sent a woman to the hospital.
The woman was opening a package left at her doorstep in the 2100 block of Seamist Court Friday evening. She had found the shoe-sized box in front of her home about a day ago but didn’t decide to open it until around 6:30pm Friday.
The woman, who officials said is in her 60s, took the box to the backyard and opened it on the patio. That’s when it exploded.
“Don’t know where it came from — postal service or whether it was dropped off. I don’t have that information yet,” said HPD Lt. Colin Weatherly.”The person went outside, basically opened the packaged; it detonated.”
Residents told Eyewitness News that when the bomb went off, it sounded like a transformer blew.
The woman was transported to Northwest Memorial Hospital with facial injuries that are not life-threatening.
Officials with the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as the Houston Police Department’s homicide and bomb squad were at the scene investigating.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the house was targeted, however, Eyewitness News found out the home is owned by an oil company executive.
Stay with Eyewitness News for updates to this story.
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On Wednesday, July 14, checks totaling $45,000 from funds raised by the Bubba the Love Sponge® Foundation through donations and its second annual “Bubba’s Bikes for Badges” charity event held in St. Petersburg, Florida in May will be presented by Tampa-based, syndicated and satellite radio talk personality Bubba the Love Sponge® to the widows of three Florida law enforcement officers who were killed this year in the line of duty:

- Dixie County Sheriff’s Office Captain Chad Reed, who was shot and killed during a shootout in January
- St. Johns County Deputy James Anderson, Jr., who was killed in an auto accident involving an intoxicated driver in January
- Florida Highway Patrol trooper Patrick Ambroise, who was killed in May when his patrol vehicle was hit by another driver on the Florida Turnpike

Bubba the Love Sponge® will present checks for $15,000 each to family members of the deceased officers at these locations:

11am: Dixie County Courthouse, 214 NE 351 Hwy, Suite L, Cross City, FL 32628 with Sheriff Dewey Hatcher and Holly Reed, widow of Captain Chad Reed
2pm: St Johns County Sheriff’s Office, 4015 Lewis Speedway, St Augustine, FL 32084 with Sheriff David Shoar and Regina Anderson, widow of Deputy James Anderson, Jr.
4:30pm: Florida Highway Patrol station at Snapper Creek Service Plaza & Turnpike, Miami, FL 33176 with Florida Highway Patrol troopers and Roberta Ambroise, widow of Trooper Patrick Ambroise

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Tampa, Florida (www.wtsp.com)– The state fire marshal is recommending criminal felony charges as the result of a radio stunt that got out of control, and the Tampa Fire Department says Hillsborough State Attorney Mark Ober’s Office is dragging its feet in filing the charges.

That stunt occurred in December when The M.J. Morning Show on Clear Channels 93.3 tried to fry a turkey in oil, which was ignited inside a van. The van caught fire and the Tampa Fire Department had to be called.

While the radio station was “yukking” it up on the air, Tampa Fire Captain Bill Wade was not amused. At the time, Wade angrily said “When you put a cooker inside a van, you put furniture inside that van and you know you are going to start a fire, you are doing it intentionally.”

That is the same conclusion the state fire marshal came to, and it issued an 8-page report recommending two criminal felony charges for arson and injuring a firefighter because of the arson. The report also recommends two misdemeanor charges be filed.

Ober’s office has had that report since January.

While a spokesman for the office says they can’t comment because it is an open investigation and these take time, the Tampa Fire Department isn’t buying it. Wade says the State Attorney’s Office has had the information for six months and he can’t understand why it is taking so long. According to Wade, the Tampa Fire Marshal has been down to the State Attorney’s Office several times and hasn’t had a specific answer to what the hang-up us.

A Clear Channel spokesman says the company will not comment, but on the day of incident, a staff member knew he might be in trouble. He can be heard on an aircheck asking M.J. — whose wife was a former Hillsborough Assistant State Attorney — if he could be charged with arson. M.J. replied he didn’t know.

The Tampa Fire Department says it should be a fairly cut and dry case, and that is why it is doing a slow burn over a stunt it believes is criminal and where it says charges should be filed.

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