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Price of Admission At Universal Orlando Increases by $3
The price of admission keeps rising at Universal Orlando. Both Universal theme parks — Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure — announced a $3 increase for a single-day ticket to $92, plus tax. This move makes Universal tickets more expensive than its rival Walt Disney World, which hasn't announced a price increase. Universal Studios has seen a ...
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Lesbian 18 faces 15 years in prison for sex with classmate 14
Nearly 80,000 supporters since Friday have signed an Internet petition demanding felony sex charges be dropped against an 18-year-old lesbian who dated a 14-year-old high-school basketball teammate.Kaitlyn Hunt of Indian River County is charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 to 16 years old. If convicted, she would be given a sentence ranging from probation ...
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Gov. Scott vetoes 3 tuition hike $368M in projects
Rick Scott vetoed $368 million in lawmaker pet projects Monday and blocked a 3 percent tuition hike for Florida colleges and universities.The tuition increase passed earlier this month was a small piece of the overall $74.1 billion budget, which includes restoring $300 million in cuts to universities from last year, $50 million in incentive awards for faculty and another $85 million in campus ...
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19-foot python killed Florida man captures kills record-setting Burmese python
A Florida man with experience handling snakes captured and killed a 128-pound Burmese python he discovered on the side of the road in Miami-Dade County, ...
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FHP identifies cyclist who died in crash as Miami man
Authorities have identified the man who died Sunday afternoon after he lost control of his motorbike.Florida Highways Patrol said Gardy Louissaint, 31, of Miami was driving an Honda 1000 on Ives Dairy Road east of Northeast 10th Avenue at 1.50 PM when he attempted to change lanes to overtake another vehicle and lost control.He slammed into a utility pole and was pronounced dead at the scene, ...
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6 months before boy’s death DCF said he was safe
Catalina Marista Bruno had been arrested three times on charges involving drugs or alcohol. She had been drinking last July when police arrested her husband for beating her in front of her children. And she was deemed to be drunk in November when she reportedly clipped several walls before passing out with her infant son untethered in the front seat with her.Still, state child welfare ...
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North Miami Beach runoff election may be in judge’s hands
North Miami Beach’s runoff election will be held Tuesday, but with one caveat: The city’s canvassing board cannot certify the official results until further order from the courts. Judge Darrin Gayles of the 11th Judicial Circuit Court made that decision Monday after a hearing in which Seat 4 candidate Yvenoline Dargenson’s residency came under question due to a lawsuit ...
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No bond for ex-RB Collins probation hearing Jul 1
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A Louisiana judge has ordered former Miami Dolphins running back Cecil Collins held without bond until a probation hearing July 1.The Advocate ( http://bit.ly/12pRZDO) reports that District Judge Mike Caldwell will decide whether Collins violated probation on Louisiana charges by committing a burglary in Florida in late 1999.Collins was released from a Florida prison May 1 ...
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Heroin Returns in Floridas War on Pill Mills
Kevin Foley stood before a judge in Broward County's drug court - fellow abusers sitting behind him in the benches - talking about the fitful life of a recovering addict, the random drug tests, the counseling and what he hoped was his next, clean chapter. Foley, 21, has been hooked on heroin for nearly two years. Before that, he was popping oxycodone and other prescription pills ...
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19-Foot Python Killed Man Kills Giant Snake After Encounter in Florida
A previously captured 13-foot Burmese python is held in the Everglades, Florida in this January 17, 2013 file photo. A 19-foot python has been killed in Florida this month, according to reports.A man from Miami-Dade County is reported to have killed the huge Burmese Python. The species is known to be quite an invasive species in the state, and it is common for people to go out of their way to ...
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Orlando hoping for some lottery Magic
Magic senior vice president Pat Williams is seen kissing the ping-pong ball after Orlando won the No. 1 overall pick in the 2004 draft and chose Dwight Howard. The NBA is hoping for the same Tuesday night to jump-start the rebuilding process. (Steve Freeman/NBAE via Getty ...
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New Tampa Bay Water manager hails from North Carolina
CLEARWATER — If the Tampa Bay Water board approves his contract, the new general manager of the wholesale utility serving Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough counties will be Matthew Jordan, an engineer from North Carolina. After negotiations with the utility's attorney, Jordan, currently the CEO of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, has accepted the $180,000 a year job, according ...
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Loxahatchee man accused of killing neighbor after fight over dogs
Richard Bohl, 47, of Loxahatchee Groves, faces a homicide charge after shooting his neighbor, Gary Jorglewich twice in the face, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office arrest ...
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Beleaguered Goodman juror wants to disqualify prosecutors
Attorneys for Dennis DeMartin, the former John Goodman juror fighting a criminal contempt charge, on Monday filed their strongest attack yet against ...
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Customs seizes elephant meat dead primate in LA
LOS ANGELES -; U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including elephant meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and ...
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Fred Grimm On Robaina Miami-Dade voters got it right
Credit the wisdom of Miami-Dade voters. They saw through Julio Robaina.Two years ago, county mayoral candidate Robaina had twice as much money in his campaign account as rival Carlos Gimenez. Robaina had endorsements from Jeb Bush and from Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart and other powerbrokers in South Florida’s political establishment.And Robaina had a ready retort for his critics. When ...
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Florida homeowners to receive $19.25 million in “unprecedented’’ settlement
Wells Fargo Bank and insurer QBE have agreed to pay an estimated $19.25 million to more than 24,000 Florida homeowners under a proposed settlement that plaintiff attorneys call “unprecedented.”Without admitting wrongdoing, the firms would settle claims they inflated premiums — often to five or six times above normal rates — for “force-placed” insurance. ...
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Parents Woman tricked into abortion struggling
TAMPA, Fla. -- The parents of a Tampa woman who says she was tricked by her boyfriend into taking a pill that led to a miscarriage spoke out Monday, saying no woman should ever have to endure such a "horrific act."James and Rosa Lee told a news conference their 26-year-old daughter Remee is struggling after losing her 6-week-old embryo, but is holding up. Remee Lee is not speaking to ...
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Police to crack down on seatbelt use violations
Law enforcement officials around the state kicked off their annual ';Click It or Ticket'; campaign Monday as part of a nationwide effort to boost seatbelt ...
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Surveillance Video Shows Restaurant Burglary
Two boys, a 16-year-old and 17-year-old, are charged with burglary and grand theft of a home in Lighthouse Point, according to Police Chief Ross ...
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Broward women brought 143 Haitian workers to US for fake jobs feds say
Haiti with false promises of steady paying jobs in construction or on farms, the hope of getting permanent residency and making a life in the U.S., they said.But when they arrived, they found the jobs didn't exist, and they were left to fend for themselves — the victims of a fraud perpetrated by two Broward women, prosecutors said.The plot was so audacious that one of the women, Jetta ...
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Losing North Miami Candidates Recount Votes
NORTH MIAMI (CBS4) – In a return to primitive election tabulation, North Miami candidates painstakingly hand counted almost 7,000 ballots Monday. Doctor Joseph Smith, who came in third place for the mayoral vote, paid almost $500 fee to see every vote. When CBS4's David Sutta commented to Smith about reverting to this old school way of counting votes, he responded, "Correct. ...
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Judge tosses ex-BP executives obstruction charge
NEW ORLEANS -; A federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in ...
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Miami’s City National Bank is a focus of a former Spanish banker’s problems in Spain
City National Bank of Florida’s net income: 2007: $68.4 million 2008: $42.5 million 2009: ($9.0 million) 2010: ($436.5 million) 2011: $34.4 million 2012: $190.2 ...
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Workforce Florida Offers Funding for Logistics Industry
has made available a $2 million Quick Response Training Challenge Grant for employers in Florida's logistics and trade industry, according to Chris Hart IV, president and CEO of the statewide work force policy board.The ...
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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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