Only in Florida: A quadruple amputee is “armed and on the run” from authorities, a shoplifter managed to stuff a chainsaw down his pants and make his getaway on a bicycle, and proof that if a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
New in the animal kingdom: A Slovenian unicorn, a recently discovered “bat frog” named for Ozzy Osbourne, and a breakthrough in the race to clone a woolly mammoth.
Music recommendation: John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Film recommendation: The Station Agent (2003). It’s streaming on Netflix.
This day in history: In a letter to J. C. C. Davidson on November 17, 1935, British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin wrote that “I feel we should not give him [Churchill] a post at this stage. Anything he undertakes he puts his heart and soul into. If there is going to be a war—and no one can say that there is not—we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister.”
