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FDA warns of infections tied to Tennessee pharmacy
WASHINGTON -- Government health officials are investigating several complications reported with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that the investigation involves seven reports from patients who received steroid injections from Main Street Family Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy in Newbern, Tenn.The injections ...
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County third-graders make gains in FCAT scores
In this Nov. 19, 2012 file photo, Metcalfe Elementary School third-graders Majisti McCloud, left, and Armonie Jones use a dictionary. Alachua County third-graders showed improvement in FCAT scores this school year compared to last year's ...
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Health department seeking man who helped with rabid fox
The Alachua County Health Department is searching for a man who Tuesday morning helped assist an injured fox that later was found to be infected with rabies, according to a news release from the ...
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Memorial Weekend In Downtown Miami
Memorial Weekend 1111 Parrot Jungle Trail Tel: 305-400-7000 Jungle Island is now the home for 1,100 tropical birds, 2,000 varieties of plants and flowers, and the best trained bird show in the world. It is a place where exotic birds "fly free" every ...
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Atton Hotel will open in Miami and create 170 new jobs
Governor Rick Scott made an announcement on May 24 that South American hotel group Atton Hotel's first U.S. property will open in Miami in 2015. The 270-room hotel, which will be built in the Brickell Avenue area of downtown Miami, will result in 170 new direct jobs and $55 million in capital investment. Scott met with company officials over the past week during the Enterprise Florida trade ...
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Charley the Sea Turtle Released Off Florida Keys
Richie Moretti, founder of the Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla., examines "Charley," the loggerhead sea turtle, before releasing it about 25 miles off the Florida Keys Friday, May 24, ...
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Plastic Surgeon Charged With Attempted Murder Granted Bond
A Miami plastic surgeon, Dr. Orlando Llorente, 41, is facing attempted murder and kidnapping charges after he held his ex-girlfriend captive and beat her for several hours over a Facebook message, authorities said Wednesday. NBC 6's Willard Shepard ...
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Three Florida Beaches Make Dr. Beachs 2013 Top Ten List
Florida International University coastal research professor Steve Leatherman - AKA Dr. Beach - released his annual list Friday with Florida well ...
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A-Rods $30M mansion sale sets record in Miami Beach
Slugger Alex Rodriguez's $30 million mansion sale sets record on Miami Beach. Two local residential brokerages are now confirming the $30 million sale of Alex Rodriguezs mansion in Miami Beach. Mayi de la Vega, CEO, founder and estate agent at ONE Sothebys International Realty, and Arlene Susy Dunand represented A-Rod in the sale to a Palm Beach buyer. "The demand for trophy homes ...
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4 men charged after violent robbery at Boca T-Mobile store
Boca Raton police on Friday.The brazen afternoon heist on Dec. 2 began when two men pretending to be customers walked into the T-Mobile store at 2301 West Glades Rd., police ...
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Forecasts call for a beautiful holiday weekend across Tampa Bay
Grab the sunblock and beach towels. Forecasters are predicting gorgeous weather for Memorial Day weekend in Tampa Bay. Temperatures in the mid to high 80s will combine with a breeze and low humidity through Monday, said Mike Clay, chief meteorologist for Bay News 9. The conditions may verge on ideal, especially nice even for the gulf coast in the weeks before summer. "Usually there's ...
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Davie man promised girl 14 iPod for naked images cops say
iPod , police said. Michael Solano, 62, is facing more than a dozen counts of the charge of engaging a child in a sexual performance along with child pornography and drug charges. He's being held without bond ...
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Quirky chef Alton Brown bringing live show to Tampa
Quirky geektastic food show host Alton Brown is shown on a promotional video on his website ordering ponchos and air cannons for his upcoming tour -- one that's bringing him to Tampa -- for some "bizarre and potentially messy experiments." The Iron Chef host and Peabody Award-winning television personality is taking his brand of quirky humor and culinary science on the road with ...
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Tampa man arrested in connection with 2-year-olds death
TAMPA -- Detectives arrested a man this week in connection with the death of a 2-year-old boy last year, police said Friday. On May 25, 2012, Javaurian Saffold was alone with his girlfriend's son in their apartment at 5502 N 43rd St. When his girlfriend returned, the toddler was "lifeless and breathing shallow," Tampa police said. Saffold told his girlfriend the boy fell and ...
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Bears in the air on the prowl this holiday weekend
FORT LAUDERDALE — It's a traffic enforcement technique that's a half-century old, but until you're nabbed by a "bear in the air," you may never know it ...
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Orlando Catholic diocese to name four new priests
Bishop John Noonan of Orlando's Catholic diocese is set to ordain four men to the order of priesthood on Saturday, May 25, at 10 a.m. The men will be ordained at St. James Cathedral, 215 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando. The four men, who have each been preparing for the Sacrament of Holy Orders for nine years, are Deacons Ivan Olmo, Benjamin Lehnertz, Dominic Buckley and George Nursey, ...
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A-Rod Sells Miami Beach Home for $30M
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Eckerd College researchers define entrepreneurial mindset
What constitutes entrepreneurial mindset? Researchers at Eckerd College may have solved the puzzle. Tired of the many anecdotes and existing studies on innovation and entrepreneurial mindset, Director of Coaching at the Leadership Development Institute, Jennifer Hall, and colleagues Mark Davis and Pam Meyer created The Entrepreneurship Dimensions Profile to gain a definitive understanding of the ...
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Virginia Tech tops Florida State 3-2 in ACC baseball tourney
DURHAM, N.C. -- Mark Zagunis drilled a deep home run to left field to give Virginia Tech a 3-2 walk-off win over Florida State on Thursday night at Durham Bulls Athletic Park on the second day of pool play at the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball ...
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USF College of Nursing receives $2.1 million award for cancer study
The University of South Florida College Of Nursing has received $2.1 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for a clinical trial involving cancer symptom management. The project involves testing a brief intervention known as COPE, which aims to teach cancer patients management skills for improving symptoms they identify as the highest priority, according to a written ...
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Social Madness Meet competitor Jimerson and Cobb
Charles B. Jimerson is a partner at Jimerson & Cobb PA in Jacksonville. With nominations for the Social Madness challenge closed, and the competition actually starting in a month, we are offering up a quick introduction to some of the competitors this year. Next up is Jimerson and Cobb P.A. Heather Walsh offers insight. Number of ...
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Sea turtle returned to wild
MARATHON, Fla. -- A juvenile loggerhead sea turtle treated at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital has been returned to the wild.Charley was placed gently amid Sargassum seaweed some 25 miles off Marathon Friday morning. The reptile had been rescued 17 days earlier by a fisherman who saw it floating about 22 miles off the Middle Keys.Charley was nurtured from a hatchling as part of a sea ...
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$3.5 million Jax Chamber renovation almost complete
Jax Chamber consultant Anna Valent, CEO Daniel Davis, and Vince McCormack, president of Perdue Inc. on a hard hat tour of the chamber's new building. The structure is undergoing a $3.5 million rennovation, scheduled for completion in July. Billed as Downtowns new front door, the remodeled Jax Chamber building will be more visible, more accessible and will use modern technology to better tell ...
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Man Held for Taking Pictures of 10-Year-Old in Restroom
The witness, Peter Farley, noticed a flash go off and confronted Deherrera about taking the picture, so Deherrera began to delete the photos. Farley told staff about the incident and followed Deherrara out of the ...
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Man Solicited Naked Photos of Girl 14 for iPod Police
A Davie man is facing several child pornography charges after he solicited a 14-year-old girl to send him naked photographs of her in exchange for an Apple iPod, police said ...
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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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