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Ocala man accused of holding wife captive in home
OCALA -- A County man is under arrest after holding his wife captive in their home. Deputies responded to a home in the 5300 block of SW 87th Place on Sunday, May 19 in reference to domestic violence. The victim told deputies from approximately 11 p.m. on May 18 to 6 a.m. on May 19, her husband, Donald Palko, physically abused her and held her captive in their home. She said Palko physically ...
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Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1B promises not to screw it up
Left: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Right: Tumblr founder David Karp. Yahoo announced Monday, May 20, 2013 that it is acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion, adding it promises 'not to screw it up.' ...
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Brush fire prompts caution warning for drivers on SR 417
State Road 417 , east of Lake Nona. Traffic is not blocked, and visibility is reported as clear. The size of the brush fire is not yet available. This is a developing story. Refresh this page and watch News 13 for ...
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Clermont announces winners of Drop Saver Poster Contest
CLERMONT -- The winners are in for the annual Drop Saver Poster Contest in County . More than 1,300 students in second through fifth grades from Clermont Elementary, Cypress Ridge Elementary and Imagine South Lake Charter School participated for the chance to have their poster in a statewide contest. Entries from second and third graders were combined, along with fourth and fifth graders. ...
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Giant Burmese python sets Florida record
It's a new record for the longest Burmese python caught in the wild in Florida. The previous record was a 17-foot-7-inch python caught in August in Everglades National ...
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Florida mom alleges anti-gay bias after daughter expelled arrested
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News A teenage girl in Florida faces criminal charges for an alleged sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student in a case the defendant’s family says stems from anti-gay prejudice.Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, has been charged with two felony counts of "lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 years old" related to conduct with a minor she ...
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Miramar woman killed in fiery Turnpike crash named
The impact caused the Hyundai to burst into flame, police said. Soto and another witness helped pull the driver, Jeffrey Steven Bryce Jr., 33, to safety but were unable to rescue Vazquez, said police. Bryce was in critical condition Sunday at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Burn Center in Miami, according to FHP. Hospital officials said Monday they did not have permission to update his ...
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Record-setting python killed by knife-wielding Miami man
Say you're riding along late at night in rural southeast Miami-Dade County and you see a big python coming out of the brush. You (a) scream, swerve and punch the gas or (b) stop the car, grab the snake and start pulling. Meet Jason Leon of Miami, who answered (b) and wound up with the longest Burmese python ever captured in Florida. It measured 18 feet, 8 inches. The python was a ...
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Tampa Bay area waits its turn to bid for its fifth Super Bowl
TAMPA -- The National Football League Tuesday picks its host cities for Super Bowls L and LI -- that's 50 and 51, for the Roman numeral-challenged -- and Tampa Bay is not in the conversation. No surprise there, because the NFL did not invite the bay area to submit a bid for either game. Instead, invitations for those two games went to San Francisco, South Florida and Houston. The league ...
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Use you phone to check beach conditions
The weather? Perfect. Rip currents? No. What about bacteria in the water? You can answer this one with a few taps of your smart phone, thanks to a new app that will allow you to find the closest beach and check its water quality. The Waterkeeper Alliance has launched a new app, available ...
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MLB Toronto 7 Tampa Bay 5
Tampa Bay Rays . Dickey (4-5) allowed four hits and walked four in eight innings. Tampa Bay managed three runs -- two earned -- in the first three innings but didn't score off Dickey again. He struck out five Toronto reached Rays' starter Jake Odorizzi for three runs in the first two innings and, ...
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Florida governor signs budget but vetoes college tuition hike
By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE | Mon May 20, 2013 4:24pm EDT TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) - Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the largest budget in his state's history on Monday while vetoing a college tuition increase and axing $368 million in projects he said did not meet his Republican criteria of job creation, education improvement and holding down the cost of government. Scott, who ...
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Florida ahead of the curve on driverless auto testingS
WASHINGTON — Cars that steer themselves through bumper-to-bumper traffic will hit the market by the end of this year, and self-parking vehicles aren’t far behind. Fully autonomous models that don’t need human drivers at all are less than a decade from dealerships. But laws lag behind the rise of the robo-car. Only three states — Nevada, California and Florida — have ...
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Universal Orlando raises ticket prices
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Universal Orlando has raised the price of a one-day, single-park ticket to $92.The price increase, up from $89, went into effect this past weekend.Single-day admission for both Universal parks - Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure - went from $124 to $128. Similar increases were applied to multiday passes. Universal spokesman Tom Schroder says ...
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UFShands changes its name to University of Florida Health
Timothy Goldfarb, CEO of Shands HealthCare, and Dr. Michael Good, dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine, leave a press conference held to announce the changing of the name "UF&Shands" to "UF Health" at the UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital Monday. Goldfarb left the press conference with a keepsake, a sign with the old logo on ...
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Showdown over JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon comes to Tampa
TAMPA-- The head of the country's biggest bank finds out Tuesday if he gets to keep both of his titles. And the drama will unfold right here in Tampa. Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, faces a growing shareholder push to relinquish the title of board chairman during the New York banking conglomerate's annual meeting. Slated to begin at 10 a.m. at the bank's ...
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Universal Orlando raises one-day theme park admission to $92
The cost of a one-day, one-park ticket to Universal Orlando has gone up three bucks to $92, plus tax. The increase made over the weekend makes Universal the first Orlando theme park to top the $90 threshold. Tickets for children ages 3 to 9 jumped to $86, plus tax. This is the second year in a row that Universal has rolled out price increases that put it ahead of Disney World. Universal has ...
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Two drivers sought in connection with Lauderdale hit-and-run
Fort Lauderdale Police are seeking the drivers of a red Volkswagen Beetle and a black pickup truck in connection with a hit-and-run crash that injured a toddler last ...
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Florida waiting for Powerball winner to come forward
Lottery officials in Florida are waiting for the person holding a winning Powerball ticket worth $590.5 million to come forward. The ticket was purchased at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills in the days before Saturday's winning numbers were called, ABC News reported. Monday was the earliest the ticket holder was able to come forward, as the Florida's lottery headquarters in ...
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FedEx offers faster same-day service in Miami
FedEx Corp. said its FedEx Express unit recently launched an upgraded version of its SameDay City service in Miami. The Memphis-based delivery giant has provided same-day delivery in Miami and 27 other U.S. cities since 2008, but now provides pickup and delivery in as short as three hours in the Miami area, the company said.Miami is among nine U.S. cities getting the faster service. Others are ...
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Female officers settle suits against Miami-Dade schools and former police chief
The Miami-Dade school district has settled two lawsuits by female officers who said the former chief of schools police sexually harassed them for years.An attorney representing Cmdr. Deanna Fox-Williams and Officer Yewande Gibson announced in court Friday that they’d reached a settlement and agreed to dismiss their cases. The women filed suit in January against former police chief Charles ...
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18-foot-8-inch python caught in South Florida
MIAMI -- The longest Burmese python ever caught in the state - 18 feet, 8 inches long and 128 pounds - was found alongside a rural South Florida road, wildlife officials said Monday.About 3 feet of the snake was spotted sticking out of some roadside brush May 11 by Jason Leon of Miami and some friends as they drove late at night through a rural area of southeast Miami-Dade County, according to ...
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Man catches largest python ever found in Florida
The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission said Jason Leon, of Hialeah, found the 18-foot, 8-inch beast while riding in a rural area in southeast Miami-Dade County on May 11. About 3 feet of the snake was spotted sticking out of some roadside ...
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Governor Rick Scott signs Florida budget
Governor Rick Scott today highlighted the Florida Families First budget that includes $20.3 billion in total funding for K-12 education, an increase of $1.08 billion over last year's ...
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Josh Freeman Not Bothered by Competition
Head Coach Greg Schiano repeated on Monday that Josh Freeman is the Bucs' starter, and both he and his quarterback dismissed the notion that Mike Glennon's arrival has Freeman looking over his ...
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New federal law will affect thousands of Fort Lauderdale homes
New federal law expected to increase prices and add time to renovations of homes across the country built before 1978, what impact will it have on Fort Lauderdale?
Renovations of any kind to most buildings in Fort Lauderdale are expected to go up in the wake of a new federal law, the Renovation, Repair and Painting law, which is intended to protect children from the damaging effects of toxic lead. Read more
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