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St. Petersburg lawmaker calls for study of Levy nuclear plant costs
A St. Petersburg lawmaker wants the Florida Public Service Commission to study the cost of the proposed Levy County nuclear plant compared to a natural gas facility. Rep. Dwight Dudley, D-St. Petersburg, said in a news release and letter to the commission this week that a Tampa Bay Times analysis that showed Levy would cost more than a natural gas facility over 60 years warrants a comprehensive ...
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Boca Raton sinkhole caused by water main break
Boca Raton street on Monday afternoon, police and city officials said. Just after a water main broke at about 4:30 p.m. Monday, a school bus with some children on board drove over the water-filled roadway on Burning Tree Lane north of Glades Road, causing the asphalt to collapse, ...
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Housing group Foreclosures cost Orlando $720M in wealth
Orlando has lost an estimated $720 million in wealth, particularly among low-income families, as a result of the wave of foreclosures, according to a report released today by a national housing nonprofit. Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, was among those who are expected to present the "Wasted Wealth" report Tuesday morning. The findings by the Alliance for a Just Society were ...
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Watch Florida Teen Arrested for Same-Sex Relationship
Freak hate it's -- slogan of the FaceBook page started by Caitlin hunt's parents. Desperate to help their eighteen year old daughter who is facing felony charges for having a sexual relationship ...
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Florida parents turn to Internet to help daughter charged with sex with girl minor
ORLANDO - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another girl.By late Monday afternoon, almost 100,000 people had signed ...
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First South Florida Technology Summit to be held Wednesday
The first South Florida Technology Summit will offer attendees an opportunity to learn about the hottest gadgets and to prepare for future tech advancements with workshops, tutorials, presentations, keynotes and exhibits. The annual technology summit, which is presented by TigerDirect.com in collaboration with The LAB Miami and Refresh Miami, will take place from 1 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday at the ...
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Family of man shot 16 times by Beach Hialeah cops says he was ‘executed’
Framegrab of video showing police approaching car with guns drawn during Miami Beach's Urban Beach Week last Memorial Day wknd, 2011. Video was shot on a phone by Narces ...
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JPMorgans Dimon faces shareholder referendum
TAMPA, Fla. -- Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO JPMorgan Chase, told shareholders Tuesday that last year's $6 billion trading loss had been expensive and "extremely embarrassing," but he also asked shareholders not to fixate on the issue."It would have been a terrible shame if that one issue were allowed to damage the company from doing all the things it was supposed to ...
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Guilty fraud plea in $5.6M Vegas embezzlement
LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with the embezzlement of $5.6 million from the prominent builder of residential high-rises in the Vegas area over nearly five years.U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden says Rocco Lazazzaro pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud at the Florida-based Turnberry Associates.He says Lazazzaro personally was ...
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Fla. Supreme Court says execution can go forward
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Supreme Court says the execution of a man who killed a prison guard in 1987 can go forward.The court denied an appeal Tuesday and said that William Van Poyck's June 12 execution will not be delayed.In June 1987, Van Poyck and co-defendant Frank Valdes ambushed two guards who were taking inmate James O'Brien in a prison van to a doctor's office in ...
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Wake Pouncey And Fields Win Team Awards
took home the Nat Moore Community Service Award, it was announced today. This was the first time that Wake has won Dan Marino Most Valuable Player Award which is voted on by the South Florida media. In 2012, he started all 16 games and finished the year with 53 tackles and 15 sacks. Wake ranked third in the AFC and fourth in the NFL in sacks and also tied for the sixth highest single season sack ...
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Barreto Were Excited About Our Chances
Each city will get to make a 20-minute presentation inside the Hyatt Harborside Hotel on Boston Harbor. Super Bowl Bid Committee Chairman Rodney Barreto and former Miami Dolphins wide ...
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Florida Gaming shares up 96 as Miami Jai-Alai revenue grows
Miami Jai-Alai owner Florida Gaming had $13 million in revenue in the first quarter. Shares of Florida Gaming were up 96 percent on Tuesday morning after the company reported greater revenues from Miami Jai-Alai. However, investors in the Miami-based company (OTCBB: FGMG) should be cautioned that they might not recover anything after it sells its jai-alai frontons in Miami and Fort Pierce to ...
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How South Floridas corporate titans split CEO and chairman role slideshow
No. 1: World Fuel (NYSE: INT) Michael J. Kasbar is president and CEO, while Paul H. Stebbins is executive chairman. The debate over whether Jamie Dimon should keep both his CEO and chairman roles at JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) was settled this morning he will -- but it made me wonder how South Florida's largest public companies are structured. There's quite a bit of variation as shown in ...
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Record Burmese python caught in Florida
Florida .It's a new record for the longest Burmese python caught in the wild in Florida. The previous record was a 17ft 7in python caught in August in Everglades national park.According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the 18ft 8in snake was caught May 11 alongside a road in rural Miami-Dade County.Wildlife officials said Monday that a Miami man spotted about 3ft of ...
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3 caught trying to retrieve repossessed car GPD says
An employee of Hyde N Seek Recovery, 1354 NW 53rd Ave., saw three people - later identified as Dalton Cassel, 18, Christopher Duval, 20, and Juanita Love, 36 - along the fence line of the closed business, according to a Gainesville Police Department report.The witness said Cassel was acting as a lookout while Love and Duval stood near the fence. All three walked away when they saw the employee, ...
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Governor Scott says Florida budget will create more jobs
Governor Rick Scott said, "The priorities outlined in this budget will continue to make Florida the perfect climate for business. Florida's unemployment rate dropped faster than anywhere else in the country except one state and we've created more than 330,000 private sector jobs in the past two years. Our unemployment rate continues to decline and we learned last week that Florida ...
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Criteria Recording Studios founder Emerman dies
MIAMI (AP) -- Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records, has died after a long illness, according to his daughter. He was ...
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Rev. Terry Jones plans Quran burnings in Tampa on Sept. 11
TAMPA - The Rev. Terry Jones is planning to burn 2,998 Qurans on Sept. 11 in Tampa, though the exact location of the event has not been announced. But on Jones' Facebook ...
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19-Foot Python Found Killed in Miami
snakes can grow to a terrifying size. Now, one man in Miami has found a record-setting snake that’s longer than three human adults are tall. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), a man named Jason Leon has found the longest Burmese python ever recorded in the state ...
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Tampa tea party groups to protest at IRS office
TAMPA -- Members of Tampa 912 and other tea party activists plan to protest from noon to 1 p.m. today in front of the Tampa office of the Internal Revenue Service at 3848 W Columbus Drive. Karen Jaroch, who co-founded the Tampa chapter of Glenn Beck's 9-12 group, last week told the Tampa Bay Times that when the group applied for tax-exempt status in 2010, it not only had to complete a ...
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JPMorgans annual shareholder meeting set to begin in Tampa
TAMPA -- Security was heavy in the lead up to JPMorgan Chase's annual meeting at it's Highland Oaks campus in East Tampa on Tuesday morning. Drivers underwent two checks before being allowed to park. A couple dozen media members were cordoned off in a small tent outside the facility with national camera crews shooting morning updates. This is the second year in a row that the New ...
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At The Miami Herald tweeting’s about breaking news in the a.m. and conversation in the p.m.
Have you ever tried tweeting at a major news organization? How often have they responded or retweeted? Probably not often -- and that corresponds to the findings offered by ...
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Gov. Scott vetoes funds for South Florida projects
Florida Gov. Rick Scott. Gov. Rick Scott signed the states largest budget on Monday at $74.1 billion, even after breaking out his veto pen to strike $368 million worth of special projects. Many of those projects would have been in South Florida. One of the common themes was a refusal to pay for stormwater mitigation and drainage projects in municipalities. Some cultural, care for the elderly, ...
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Medical examiner 24 dead in Oklahoma twister
A resident surveys the damage after the tornado hit the area near 149th and Drexel on Monday, May 20, 2013 in Oklahoma City, Okla. (AP Photo/ The Oklahoman, Chris ...
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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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