Gwen Cash said she was injured on New Year’s Eve while trying to protect her dog from an alligator in Pembroke Pines.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – A South Florida woman is recovering in the hospital after she was found naked and stuck in a storm drain, WPLG-TV reported. Images show Delray Beach police and firefighters surrounding a storm drain near the intersection of Atlantic Blvd. Ad“They did in fact, to their surprise, find a woman stuck in that storm drain,” said Moschella. Her knees were all scraped up.”Authorities aren’t sure how the woman got into the storm drain or how long she was down there. “It appears she may have been in that storm drain for at least a couple of days, perhaps longer,” White said.

MIAMI – A graduate student from South Florida died this week in a horrific accident inside a parking garage in Columbus, Ohio, authorities said. (WPLG)According to the Columbus Police Department, the incident occurred shortly after 11:30 p.m. Monday. Police said she accidentally accelerated when she opened her car door and her vehicle collided with the payment kiosk, trapping her head between her car door and the exit toll booth. According to her Facebook page, Strauss was from Boca Raton and graduated from Florida Atlantic University, where she was on the dance team. Ohio State University released a statement to PEOPLE, saying Strauss was a graduate student in their College of Social Work when she was killed.

CLERMONT, Fla. (AP) – A central Florida woman is accused of submitting false voter registration information that switched the party affiliations of voters without their knowledge, sheriff's investigators said. She's charged with 10 felony counts of submission of false voter registration information. A day earlier Lake County officials had announced that 119 false voter registration applications had been filed, news outlets reported. Elections officials flagged the forms because they included incorrect information, including birth dates, Social Security numbers or driver's license numbers. Sheriff's investigators said all 119 false forms were assigned to Hall, a registered Republican, to collect.

TAMPA, Fla. – A woman in Tampa, Florida is facing charges after authorities say she tried to build a bomb inside a Walmart on Saturday. According to a sheriff’s office news release, a store security guard caught Emily Stallard, 37, going through store aisles and opening items. The guard called police and Stallard was detained. There was a child with her at the time. Stallard is charged with offenses including attempted arson, firebombing, child abuse, and battery on a law enforcement officer.