The pilots of a Boeing 737 started to mistakenly take off from a taxiway at a Florida airport on Thursday before an air traffic controller told them to stop, the Federal Aviation Administration said,

Federal agencies are investigating after a Southwest Airlines jet nearly took off from a taxiway instead of a runway at Orlando International Airport.

A Southwest Airlines flight almost took off from a taxiway, rather than a runway, at Orlando International Airport in Florida before an air traffic controller stopped the plane, officials said.

ORLANDO — Detectives have recovered four diamond earrings two weeks after a man gulped down the Tiffany & Co. jewelry worth nearly $770,000 during his arrest on the side of a Panhandle highway, authorities said Friday.

The police in Orlando, Fla., said that a suspect spent time in a hospital while they waited for the stolen jewels to be “expelled from his system.”

A woman was arrested Tuesday after police said she drowned her dog in an Orlando International Airport restroom because she couldn’t take it on her flight.