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• "In these historic cases, it's really about having an accurate record and finding out what happened and knowing the truth about what happened," said Erin Kimmerle, a USF anthropologist who is leading the excavation.
• Former inmates at the reform school from the 1950s and 1960s have detailed horrific beatings that took place in a small, white concrete block building at the facility. A group of survivors call themselves the "White House Boys" and five years ago called for an investigation into the graves. In 2010, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement ended an investigation and said it could not substantiate or refute claims that boys died at the hands of staff.
• USF later began its own research and discovered even more graves than the state department had identified. USF has worked for months to secure a permit to exhume the remains, finally receiving permission from Gov. Rick Scott and the state Cabinet after being rejected by Secretary of State Ken Detzner, who reports to Scott.
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911 calls offer look at deadly crash of car driven by 8-year-old boy in Phoenix
• PHOENIX (AP) -- A 911 call released Friday provides a dramatic account of a tragic joyride by an 8-year-old boy in his mother's car as he swerved through traffic, turned around at a convenience store and eventually slamming into a light pole, killing his 6-year-old sister.
• The caller followed the car up and down a main Phoenix road before it crashed, causing minor injuries to the 8-year-old driver.
• "I'm driving and it looks like next to me there are these two little kids driving a car," said the caller, who identified himself as Rudy de la Cruz. "They're in a red car and it looks like two little kids, and they're driving like recklessly. They're all over the lanes and not stopping."
• At about the same time, the children's mother called 911 in a panic to report someone had taken her two older children and her car was gone.
• "My car's been stolen and my kids have been taken," Glendolyn Bell tells dis (Continued on page 29)
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