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Citizens OK’s deal for Scott donor
TALLAHASSEE -- A startup insurance company with ties to current and former top politicians could receive up to $52 million from Citizens Property Insurance Corp., after the board voted 3-2 Wednesday to approve a “unique” and “outside-the-box” deal.Heritage Property and Casualty Company, which opened for business nine months ago and contributed $110,000 to Gov. Rick ...
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Panel to examine condemned mans competency
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Rick Scott has appointed a panel to examine whether a man set to be executed next month is mentally competent.Scott issued an order Wednesday granting a temporary stay for 49-year-old Marshall Lee Gore, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on June 24. Gore's attorneys claim he's insane.The order states a three-doctor commission is to meet next Tuesday ...
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Surgeons remove 4-pound hairball from tiger
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from Tampa Bay area surgeons when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.A 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Clearwater, the clinic said in a news release. Dr. Mike Reems, of BluePearl Veterinary Partners, ...
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Surgeons remove tigers basketball-sized hairball
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.The 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at a veterinary center in the Tampa Bay area community of Clearwater. Doctors said in a statement that they safely removed ...
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How you can help cut down on mosquitoes
With the rains come the mosquitoes, and Alachua County is already prepping for an intense mosquito season, as heavy rainfalls break up the increasingly warm ...
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Eastside students touched by Rosewood
Blink and you'll miss it.But on Wednesday, 20 Eastside High School juniors stepped off the beaten path in Rosewood to get a living history lesson on the racial violence that destroyed the town in 1923.They were led by Marvin Dunn, a retired professor at Florida International University and a forefront historian on racial violence in Florida.He took the group of AP U.S. history students into ...
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Virginia Tech beats Virginia 10-1 in ACC tourney
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Chad Pinder hit two home runs - including a sixth-inning grand slam - and drove in six runs to help Virginia Tech beat Virginia 10-1 on Wednesday in pool play of the Atlantic Coast Conference ...
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Victim Of Miami Cannibal Attack What He Looks Like Now
tore the flesh from Poppo’s face with his teeth and then turned on officers, who shot him to death. The grisly attack was the beginning of a string of weird incidents around the country last year, which set off much speculation about the dangers of synthetic marijuana. But during the mediastorm, we barely heard a thing about the victim, who came away from the gruesome event disfigured but ...
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Traffic warnings issued for weekend beach bash in Fort Lauderdale
Memorial Day weekend beach bash, but getting and leaving from the sand may be a hassle.City officials are urging anyone attending the Great American Beach Party at the beach to avoid the Las Olas Boulevard bridge because of ongoing construction work.The construction and rehabilitation calls for shutting down both westbound lanes on the north side of the bridge and reducing traffic to one lane in ...
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Coming to Tampas riverfront — beach volleyball
TAMPA -- It's had ice-skating in the winter. Now, for the first time, Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park will offer beach volleyball this summer. The white-sand court is going in this week for Saturday's Tampa Bay Margarita Festival, but it's staying through July 31. "We thought it would be pretty cool, like an urban beach kind of thing," said Ferdian Jap of Big City Events, ...
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Man shot to death in Florida while being questioned in Boston bombing investigation
Debris is seen along Boylston Street after explosions went off at the 117th Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts April 15, 2013. Two explosions hit the Boston Marathon as runners crossed the finish line on Monday. (JESSICA ...
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Pocket-dialing 911 leads to Fla. murder charge
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -; Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed ...
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Miami Commission could allow high-paid city execs to collect salary pension
Miami city commissioners, who in recent years have cut severance pay and pensions to balance budgets, could vote Tuesday to allow four of the city’s highest earners to return from retirement and collect their pension on top of their hefty salary. The plan could mean millions of dollars of extra pay over the long haul for the city clerk, auditor, city attorney and the city manager. But it ...
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Fred Grimm Broward may be Koch brothers’ own “deal from hell”
As puns go, the caption was pretty vapid. “Sun Sentinel doesn’t need a Koch problem.” (Pronounced, by the way, “coke.”)The banner held by a small band of demonstrators also featured a caricature of those infamous (or famous, depending on one’s political leaning) brothers with money bags and vampire teeth.Plainly, the protesters were alarmed by unconfirmed news ...
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Feds tell Fla. court immigrant cant be lawyer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that Florida should deny a law license to anyone who enters or remains in the country without legal permission.Federal authorities were asked last month by the Florida Supreme Court to help it decide whether federal law precludes the court's admission of an undocumented immigrant to the Florida Bar.Attorneys for the Department ...
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Fla. legislative leaders barnstorming across state
TAMPA, Fla. -- Florida's two legislative leaders are traveling across the state to tout legislation passed during the recently concluded session.The tour, which began on Wednesday, is unusual and not something that has been done by previous top legislators. It could fuel speculation that House Speaker Will Weatherford is looking to raise his political profile.Weatherford and Senate ...
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New Miami-Dade Schools police chief named
The school board appointed Ian Moffett on Wednesday. He was most recently a law enforcement trainer at the Miami Police Academy and previously worked for the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department for 15 ...
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Tiger has surgery in Clearwater for giant hairball
CLEARWATER -- It's not a typical case of a cat with a hairball. The cat at BluePearl Veterinary animal hospital in Clearwater Wednesday weighs about 400 lbs - and its hairball had to be removed through surgery. A 18-year-old tiger named 'Ty' went under the knife Wednesday at BluePearl Veterinary Partners specialty and emergency hospital in Clearwater. The hairball they removed ...
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Watch beer go from grain to glass at Orlando Brewery
ORLANDO -- If you just so happen to have a frosty mug filled with your favorite beer next to you, you might dig this idea. At no charge, Orlando Brewing is offering 45 minute tours of its brewery, showing you how your next "cold one" is born. "When he runs out of beer, then the tour's over," joked Orlando Brewing President John Cheek, referring to the tour guide. ...
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Priority Health High Blood Pressure Education Month
May is High Blood Pressure Education Month. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a silent killer because 90 percent of patients have no ...
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Fort Bragg soldier from Osceola County declared dead
ST CLOUD -- The US Army has declared dead a Fort Bragg soldier from St. Cloud, after being missing for more than a year. Specialist Kelli Bordeaux, 23, was last seen headed to a bar near her apartment in North Carolina in April 2012. Witnesses report seeing her leave the bar with a homeless sex offender, who denied any role in her disappearance. Volunteers scoured secluded areas around the ...
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Mrs. Fixit Book Safes
Most of Mrs. Fixit's projects are items you proudly want to display. This latest endeavour, hidden book compartments, is something you might want to keep low ...
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Caryn Kelley Medical examiner explains why death was homicide
Caryn Kelley is expected to take the stand in her own defense. She's faces up to 30 years in prison if she is found guilty of ...
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Community prayer service held for Oklahoma tornado victims
The Daytona Beach Black Clergy Alliance held a community prayer service at Tubman King Community Church for the Oklahoma tornado victims -- Wednesday, May 22, ...
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Kaitlyn Hunt gay Fla. teen charged for underage girlfriend
Kaitlyn Hunt and her father, Steve, in Vero Beach on Monday, May 20, 2013 after Kaitlyn, 18, was arrested, expelled from school and charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery for dating and having sex with her 14-year-old girlfriend, who was a fellow player on her basketball team. (PHOTO/Hunt ...
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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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