Every dog has his day in court.

Or at least two Florida drug sniffing dogs, Franky and Aldo, will.

On Halloween, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two separate Florida cases involving the smells picked up by drug sniffing canines.

One case involves whether a warrant is needed before a police dog goes sniffing around the door of a possible drug house. The other deals with the reliability of drug dogs and how much their skill is relevant to the admissibility of evidence.

The economic disaster of the oyster industry around Apalachicola Bay has turned inside out the pockets of a community that has long relied upon the waterway for its life.

Families are suffering -- many say "desperately" -- as the state continues to await a response from the Obama administration on whether to declare the region a fishery resources disaster. The bay has been hindered by severe drought, a reduction in fresh water and also self-inflicted wounds from the harvesting of immature oysters in recent, difficult times.