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Lowe others reflect on his 10-year tenure
For all intents and purposes, Lowe's 10-year tenure as a city commissioner and then mayor ended shortly before midnight Thursday in a sparsely populated meeting room at City Hall.It was another marathon meeting, but this one was Lowe's last.Commissioners told stories of serving together. Commissioner Randy Wells recalled one about Lowe calming a group scared of a snake on a sister city ...
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Many workplaces insure domestic partners some now also pay the tax on benefits
Rob Rosenwald (left), an assistant city attorney and his partner Thomas Barker (right) are shown outside of city hall on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The city has domestic partner benefits and is weighing whether to pay the federal taxes on those ...
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New owners of St. Petersburg ALF have imperfect record
ST. PETERSBURG -- The new owners of the Palazzo Di Oro, an assisted living facility that closed suddenly two years ago amid financial turmoil, may have problems of their own. In recent years, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has found dozens of deficiencies at facilities operated by Senior Management Advisors of Clearwater and fined them thousands of dollars. The state agency ...
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Man dies after crashing into school bus
PLANT CITY, Fla. -- A man driving a pickup truck died after crashing into a Tampa Bay area school bus.The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reports that 66-year-old James Allen Flint died at the scene Friday afternoon.The bus driver and three students from Plant City High School were on the bus when it was knocked onto its side. Two students were taken to a nearby hospital with minor ...
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Pill mill doc pleads guilty to drug tax charges
MIAMI -- A South Florida doctor is facing up to two decades in prison after pleading guilty to drug and tax charges arising from an illegal pill mill operation.Dr. Stephen Anthony of Davie entered his guilty pleas Friday to conspiring to illegally dispense large amounts of oxycodone, money laundering and tax evasion. He will be sentenced Oct. 4 in Miami federal court.Over a 10-month period, ...
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Fox News Does What Florida Refused To Do Gives Allen West A Job
Omigod, remember when I was talking about Allen West the other day and mentioned that he clearly needs a job, what with boredom obviously driving his conjured conspiracy theories and breathless attempts to create ‘scandal’ with nary a shred of logic or ...
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Black bear once captured in Orlando captured again in Tampa
Parramore neighborhood causing a mini-panic last year has once again been captured, only this time in a Tampa subdivision.The estimated 300-pound male wandered 125 miles from ...
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Man Says He Caught Largest Burmese Python on Record
Wrestling a Burmese python wasn't exactly what 23 year old Jason Leon planned when he visited the Everglades with his buddies last week. He was riding ATV's near Florida City when they saw a sight they'll never ...
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Woman Says Thieves Spent $9000 on Her Credit Cards
She says the store manager told her there was nothing they could do because the cashiers don't check identifications when somebody uses a credit ...
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Discover Haiti Miami Donna Karan Showcases Haitian Artisans At Little Haiti Cultural Center
Fashion designer Donna Karan walks through the art gallery during her visit to Little Haiti at the Discover Haiti Exhibition in Miami, Friday, May 17, 2013. Karan is among the designers and celebrities who have advocated for Haitian artisans since a catastrophic earthquake shook the Caribbean country in 2010. (AP Photo/Alan ...
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Embattled Scott Trumpets Drop in Florida Jobless Rate
TAMPA | Florida Gov. Rick Scott — who has made his handling of the state's economy the main thrust of his re-election campaign — got more to boast about ...
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Fish Orlando App Maps Central Florida Lakes
ORLANDO | A new smartphone application announced Thursday by state wildlife officials allows tourists and residents in Central Florida to see maps of major lakes in the area while catching up some fishing ...
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Florida Higher Education Fix Financial Aid
Those facts make it tempting to blast Gov. Rick Scott for considering a veto of the proposed 3 percent tuition increase in the state budget.It's unclear whether the governor even has the power to veto such an increase, so this could provide another example of Scott making a power grab in higher education.But Scott deserves credit for continuing to speak out about college affordability. ...
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Kosher prison food lawsuit goes forward
Bruce Rich didn’t fare so well in the Florida justice system in 1999, when a Miami-Dade County jury found him guilty of murdering his parents and a judge sentenced him to life in prison. But he scored a victory last week when an Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling put him one step closer to receiving kosher meals at Union Correctional Institution in North Florida — and hundreds ...
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Florida Key West Pride June 5-9
Key West Pride will be celebrated June 5-9 honoring diversity, openness and freedom on the subtropical island internationally known as a top gay and lesbian vacation spot. Festival events include pool and dance parties, comedy and film, a street fair, contests, a pride parade and more — and visitors will get a chance to meet Gilbert Baker, who in 1978 created the original rainbow flag that ...
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Meet 2 doctors who broke barriers in Miami
Dr. Dazelle Simpson became Miami's first black female pediatrician in 1953 after graduating from the top of her class from Meharry Medical College. The Miami Herald captured the event, its headline reading, "First Negro Woman ...
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Florida business leaders praise Governor Rick Scott
Florida business leaders are pleased that Governor Rick Scott signed legislation that will eliminate sales tax on equipment purchased by manufacturers to use in the manufacturing of ...
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Wade Shows Up At Girls Prom
Nicole Muxo said she asked out Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade to her senior prom because he s her favorite basketball player and she thinks he's a positive role model for a lot of people. She said she first asked Wade to come to ...
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Key West Marks Centennial Flight
Exactly 100 years after making the first successful flight between Key West and Havana, Cuba, aviation pioneer Domingo Rosillo del Toro is being ...
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Police seek thieves who stole purebred dog from Miami-Dade shelter
Miami-Dade Animal Services is seeking the public’s help in identifying two people who stole a purebred Belgian Malinois shepherd dog from a county animal shelter on Tuesday.The dog, named Django, is an intact 1-year-old male, according to a news release from Animal Services.Belgian Malinois dogs look much like German Shepherds, but are smaller and more agile. They’re often used as ...
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2 suspended in Orange County home-confinement program fallout
Two Orange County Corrections employees have been suspended for 10 days without pay in connection with the county's home confinement ...
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Man woman arrested in connection with Winter Garden murder
WINTER GARDEN -- Police have arrested a man and woman in connection with the murder of a Winter Garden father. Jadarion Jackson, 20, and Latara Conyers, 33, are charged as suspects involved in the killing of 35-year-old Sylvester Wright. Wright ...
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Verdict Reached in Trial of Miramar Police Captain
A now 16-year-girl said that a Miramar Police captain made her strip naked and expose her genitalia to prove she was not having sexual intercourse in a parked car as testimony began in his trial Tuesday. The teen, defense attorney Alberto Milian and witness Steven Gaynor Jr. spoke in ...
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Couple Steals Dog From Shelter
The couple stole 1-year-old Django, an intact Belgian Malinois male, from the Miami-Dade Animal Services Shelter on May 14. On Friday, authorities released images of the coupld stealing the ...
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Ex-Miramar police captain convicted for ordering girl 15 to expose herself
A deputy handcuffs retired Miramar police Captain Juan De Los Rios Friday after a jury convicted him of lewd and lascivious conduct for ordering a girl, 15, to expose her ...
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Florida's Exploration Park keeps state ahead
NASA’s new Space Life Sciences Lab and the adjacent Exploration Park, which is still under development, are testaments to Florida’s ongoing leadership in the exploration and understanding of space travel and the world beyond Earth’s stratosphere.
Florida has long been at the forefront of space travel internationally, it is here, at Cape Canaveral, that NASA’s shuttles take to the skies headed for the moon, or, more commonly, the International Space Station. Read more
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