The 900 block of Gaines Street was shuttered for hours Wednesday after a construction crew working in the area uncovered what law enforcement called a "suspicious device." After a more than six-hour wait, a crew from the Tyndall Air Force Base determined the partially unearthed device was actually a piece of old mechanical equipment.
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WFSU’s Mike Plummer shows us the fateful story of a World War II era B-17 bomber that crashed at Saint Marks on a summer day in 1944. The plane went down carrying a crew of ten men…only one airman survived. Long forgotten, the wreckage was rediscovered in 2011. A historic marker is now in place so the story of these men won’t be forgotten again.
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Reporter Mike Plummer: When I think of the St. Marks National
Wildlife Refuge, I usually think of unspoiled nature and its signature
lighthouse. But in 2011, a crew from the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found something else on the refuge that had