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Small Florida town buzzing over news of local lotto winner
Clutching the Powerball tickets that she estimates she won $8 on, Denise Godsey looks over at a gaggle of gathered television news trucks at a Publix in Zephyrhills, ...
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Small Florida city wonders who hit historic $590.5M Powerball lottery jackpot
Kelly Branscom, of Zionsville, buys 2 Powerball lottery tickets, one for her and one for her cat Token, from a walk up window at a Hess gas station on the corner of Brodhead Avenue and Broadway, Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Bethlehem, Pa.. At left, is Alex Lopez, of Bethlehem, with Powerball tickets in hand. (AP Photo/The Express-Times, Stephen ...
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Trailer Home Fire Being Investigated as Arson Davie Police
Tossie Crowder is trying to figure out what started the fire that destroyed the Allapattah home where she lives with her 17-year-old nephew. She and Miami Fire-Rescue spokesman Lt. Ignatius Carroll spoke about the fire, which is being investigated as a possible ...
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Sunrise clinic renamed for Bill Kling veterans advocate
Mike Ryan, left, Mayor of Sunrise; Sylvia Gallen, second from left; U.S. Rep Ted Deutch, third from left; U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, fourth from left; and Dr. Gwen Findley, Assistant Director of the Veteran's Adminstration Miami Healthcare System, right, look up as the William "Bill," Kling Outpatient Clinic in Sunrise is ...
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Port Everglades workers struck by cargo container
Port Everglades worker was hospitalized after he was hit by a cargo container Sunday afternoon, Broward Sheriff's officials said. The 52-year-old man was transported to Broward Health Medical Center with injuries that were not life threatening, Mike Jachles, a spokesman for ...
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MLB Tampa Bay 3 Baltimore 1
Tampa Bay Rays beat Baltimore 3-1 to complete a three-game sweep. Moore surrendered five hits, walked only one and struck out three en route to his major-best eighth victory. The left-hander lowered his ERA to 2.29 with the 106-pitch ...
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Forensics utilized in animal abuse crackdown
Adam Leath deals with the ugliness of animal abuse daily, operating out of a closet-sized office as the Gainesville-based southeast regional director of investigations and response for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) since late 2011.But he hopes through his work that more people who abuse or neglect animals will pay for their crimes.';Law enforcement, ...
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Suspects wanted in Port Orange Kohls robbery
A still image taken from surveillance footage of a suspect wanted in a robbery of a Port Orange Kohl's Department Store. (IMAGE/Port Orange Police ...
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Governor Scott plans to veto tuition hike for college students
TALLAHASSEE (AP) -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott is going to veto a proposed three percent tuition hike for college and university students. The Republican-led Florida Legislature included the hike in a $74.5 billion budget passed earlier this month. Scott will sign the budget into law on Monday, but is expected to veto numerous spending items, including the proposed tuition hike. In a copy of ...
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Lifeguard pulls shark away from Cocoa Beach shore
COCOA BEACH -- A shark sighting in Cocoa Beach was too close for comfort Sunday. Ocean Rescue told News 13 a sharked washed in near the Cocoa Beach Pier and had to be pulled back into deeper waters by a lifeguard. Witnesses said the five-foot-long shark was near where some kids were playing. The lifeguard, Zach Cooney, grabbed the shark by its tail to move it away from a small crowd that ...
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Woman killed in one-car crash on I-95
Boynton Beach Boulevard and struck a pole, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.Rose Manie Corvil was pronounced dead at the scene of the 5:44 a.m. crash, said ...
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Pompano Beach Boat overturns offshore
POMPANO BEACH— A 19-foot boat overturned about 30 yards offshore Sunday afternoon, authorities said.About five or six people were on board, all are safe, said Mike Jachles, a spokesman for ...
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St. Petersburgs Night of Museums
This weekend, St. Petersburg will see two international events take place that happen only once a year: Restaurant Day, when anyone can don a toque and become a chef, will take place on May 18, right before the Night of Museums, which begins at 6 p.m. that evening and lasts till 6 a.m. the following ...
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MLB Miami 2 Arizona 1
Marcell Ozuna delivered a two-run double Sunday and the Miami Marlins survived a late Arizona rally to edge the Diamondbacks 2-1. Ozuna doubled home Adeiny Hechavarria and Derek Dietrich with two out in the sixth inning, providing Miami's only ...
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Bozzone bounces back to emphatic Florida win
Source: ONE Sport Former world champion Terenzo Bozzone bounced back with a big win at Iron Man 70.3 Florida in Haines City today. After having a car door opened on him while riding his bike two days before the Iron Man 70.3 Asia-Pacific Championship in Auckland in January, New Zealand'sBozzone struggled to get back to form. At that race he found himself well off course during the ...
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Search for Man Spotted in Water Off Lower Matecumbe Key
Miami-Dade Police on Monday identified Jeffrey Vincent, 39, as the diver who is being searched for after he went missing off of Key Biscayne Sunday. Miami-Dade Police spokesman Detective Alvaro Zabaleta and Miami Beach Coast Guard Lt. Commander Joe Abeyta discussed the ...
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Coast Guard rescues 13 from sinking boat in Fla.
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 13 people after their boat sank in the waters off Clearwater.Luckily the family's boat sank close to the Coast Guard station at Sand Key on Saturday morning. Everyone onboard was also wearing a life jacket.Rescuers escorted the boaters safely to shore. The Tampa Bay Times (http://www.ittybittyurl.com/1jPF) reports the 20-foot boat was ...
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Weather updates Storms build over Central Florida
rain already drenched parts of Volusia and Marion counties and more is on the way for parts of Central Florida. Scattered showers and storms are expected as the east coast sea breeze and other outflows push inland. Those storms should push south and southeast at 10 to 15 mph bringing heavy rainfall. The heaviest amounts of rain are forecast near the coast, with additional showers in Volusia, ...
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Fla. girl who lost feet in lawnmower meets dolphin
TAMPA, Fla. -- A toddler whose feet were amputated after her father accidentally backed over her with a riding lawnmower had a special meeting with her hero.Ireland Nugent has often been seen clutching a stuffed animal of Winter, the dolphin with a prosthetic tail, in her wheelchair since the April 11 accident. She even carried the toy with her when she left the hospital nearly a month after ...
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Fla. gov. steps up pace on signing death warrants
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Rick Scott is signing death warrants at a pace rarely seen in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.Scott already has signed five death warrants this year, including three in a recent span of less than four weeks."I go through them and when people have exhausted their appeals and when they're finished with their clemency process, then I ...
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Deltona man ejected in Flagler County crash
BUNNELL -- A 50-year-old Deltona man is dead after he was ejected from a car in County . Florida Highway Patrol troopers said Christina Laming, 41, was traveling northbound on U.S. 1 north of Otis Stone Hunter Road when she drifted onto the grassy median. Laming then over-corrected, crossed over both northbound lanes and overturned partially on the east shoulder. Joseph Drenner was ejected ...
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Funeral services set for Kissimmee firefighter killed in crash
The Kissimmee Fire Department has announced arrangements for a firefighter, who died May 16. (PHOTO/City of Kissimmee Fire ...
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POLITIFACT Texas Gov.s boast rated true
A former presidential contender, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, is doing a little bragging. "If we want to get American working again, we need Washington to get out of the way," he said. The day Obama swung through Austin earlier this month, Perry ran an ad in the local newspaper in which he referenced the "Texas model working much better than Washington's," saying that ...
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Teacher-training programs’ success under scrutiny
Teacher-training programs success under scrutiny Florida and several other states are creating accountability systems so education schools will develop quantitative ways to measure their programs ...
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Teen arrested after cops say she bit mans penis
BRADENTON, Fla. -- A 19-year-old high school student has been arrested after authorities say she bit her boyfriend's penis when he refused to have sex with her.Manatee Sheriff's Office said Krystle Harrison made several advances toward her boyfriend of three years and he rebuffed her. According to an arrest report, she grabbed him and bit his genitals.He left the house, but the arrest ...
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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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