A violent and random home invasion in a gated Seminole County community has residents on edge. Inside the Terra Oak community, four masked men kicked in the door of a home and tied up their victim with tape.

College student Eric Kim says he was sleeping Wednesday afternoon when the armed men busted in and threatened to kill him. The thieves ransacked the house and turned on a faucet to flood the home.

Kim says he was afraid they might shoot him.

"They're like 'hey if you move, I'll kill you,'", he said. "Then they left and I was just scared, you know. All that time I was begging them not to kill me."

The Seminole County sheriff's investigators said it appeared to be a random attack. The suspects were spotted leaving in a gold Nissan Sentra.

Lou Pearlman is scheduled to appear in federal court for sentencing this week, but his attorneys want it delayed. They asked if this week's sentencing could be pushed back so he can work with a pop band named US-5. Pearlman is charged with bilking clients out of hundreds of millions of dollars.If Pearlman puts together his new band, he says he can use the profits to help pay back the people he's accused of cheating.

Brian LaFave couldn't care less how high gasoline prices climb these days _ he's parked his pickup truck and is refusing to buy gas for a month, possibly longer.

"The goal is to not use one drop of gas for 31 days," LaFave said, calling it his personal stand against the oil companies.

Now LaFave, 31, is riding his bicycle or walking everywhere he goes. He won't even let friends pick him up unless they already planned on being in the neighborhood.

"If they're not going out of their way, I can take the ride," he said. "But if they're going out of their way, then ... I'm still consuming gasoline so it kind of defeats the purpose."

LaFave started the effort May 11. He bikes to his third-shift job at Aldrich Chemical in Sheboygan Falls, a 9-mile commute.

"I did like a practice run ... two days in a row to make sure I could do it," he said. "I'm not in the greatest shape. The mornings are the worst. It feels like it takes forever. I get like a mile down the road and I want to die."

It's a big change for someone who put 300 miles on his truck the week before he stopped driving it.

LaFave fills out a chart each day listing how many miles he bikes, the destination and the gas price that day, among other things. He plans to compute his savings and donate that amount to a charity that provides food to children in Africa.

"I think just with the gas prices being so high, everybody complains about it but no one ever really does anything about it," LaFave said. "People continue to drive nonstop and not think about it, but I just wanted to take a stand and say, `I'm not gonna pay this much money for gas.'"

A Tallahassee woman is recovering Tuesday after fighting for her life against a bobcat. Elaine Grace, 57, says she was walking her dog on a trail behind an apartment complex Monday when her dog noticed the big cat in the bushes. That's when the bobcat attacked them, but Grace was able to fend it off until help arrived. "I just grabbed it by the throat and held it down and screamed and screamed and screamed until these great people, Cindy and Chad, came, but it felt like I was screaming forever," she said. Grace received several deep scratches and puncture wounds to the shoulder and chest, but is in good condition. The bobcat will be euthanized and checked for rabies.

An unusual passenger was waiting at a bus stop in Orange County.Deputies said a 6-foot alligator was waiting at the bus stop near the Residence Inn on Universal Drive just south of Sand Lake Road. Universal Drive was temporarily shut down.The gator was captured and the Fish and Game Commission will decide what to do with it.

When David Perry lost his class ring at Crandon Beach 50 years ago, he thought it was gone forever.But the Miami High grad got a surprising phone call this weekend at his home in Seattle.
A Davie teacher found his ring, buried beneath a foot of sand on the ocean floor, not far from the Key Biscayne coast. Jorge Balmori and his sons like to spend weekends searching for underwater treasures with a metal detector. They found Perry's ring and tracked him down.

A wild police chase was caught on a police cruiser's dashboard camera as a man wanted for a violent carjacking tried to escape from police in Pensacola.In the video the suspect's car could be seen weaving in and out of traffic almost crashing into innocent drivers. Deputies say Rhoderick Lewis drove through two fences before they caught him. Lewis is being held on $200,000 bond.

An Orlando man says a woman with a hammer attacked in downtown Orlando.The 23-year old victim said he was in front of the Waverly condominiums on Central Avenue on Wednesday night when a woman hit him on the head. She demanded cash and told the victim she hadn't eaten in three days.
The victim only had $8 on him. He received several stitches on his head.