Happy Leap Day! Let's all use this rare gift of one extra day to add a little something extra to our own lives, and to the lives of those of us around us. Let's make a difference! Or, you know, we could just go to work, I guess.

FRIDAY, FEB. 26:

A Tampa fugitive arrested in Ohio reportedly attempted to bite his own fingerprints off while in custody to avoid being identified. It's not the climate that keeps our region so temperate — it's the entire population, collectively and constantly beaming with pride.

A Largo woman won a $43 million Florida Lotto jackpot. That sounds like about the right amount of compensation for having to be in Largo. (We kid! We kid! Largo is plenty rad, make sure you stop into Barley Mow Brewing.)

SATURDAY, FEB. 27:

A tip led Hillsborough deputies to a cockfighting ring in LIthia. Because a guy from here biting off his own fingerprints in the nation's second weirdest state isn't gonna carry the Bay area through an entire weekend, right?

More than 8,000 people voted on 27 entries to a contest for recycled yard art at the Florida State Fair. Hey, it's cooler than it sounds.

SUNDAY, FEB. 28:

And finally, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his first Best Actor Oscar — too bad it was during a ceremony destined to be remembered only for Lady Gaga and a Kevin Hart porno joke.

This article appears in Feb 25 – Mar 2, 2016.