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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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14-month-old boy hit dragged by car near Tampa
A 14-month-old boy injured Friday evening when he was hit by a car and dragged about 10 feet, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. The boy was playing with about seven other kids at 4421 Cobia Drive just after 6:30 p.m. Just as a car that had stopped to drop someone off began to pull away, one of the children threw a rock in front of it, the Sheriff's Office said. Jaike ...
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AA flight bound for Miami gets diverted to Aruba
ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- An American Airlines flight that was headed to Miami from Brazil has made an emergency landing in Aruba because of a mechanical problem.Spokeswoman Dori Alvarez said Friday that maintenance crews checked the plane once it landed and fixed the problem. She said the plane would depart Friday night for Miami. Flight 234 was carrying 218 passengers and 14 crew members.Alvarez ...
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University of Miami Hospital sends team to Panama to save NCIS agent’s life
Avid runner Noel Zuniga had just finished his daily run, when he began experiencing chest pains.It was 6:30 p.m. on March 17, and Zuniga an NCIS agent in charge for the U. S. Embassy in Panama, had returned days earlier from a snorkeling trip. He had a healthy, active lifestyle. But that wouldn’t matter when the chest spasms started. What he thought was a muscle spasm would change his life ...
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Boat sinks strands 2 in Florida Everglades
Will Cazanas and his 13-year-old son William of Palm Beach County were out air boating about 12 miles west of the Loxahatchee Boat Ramp and three miles east of U. S. Highway 27 when their boat got stuck and ...
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Miami-Dade Animal Services seeks stolen dog
The Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department is asking for the public's help in finding the couple responsible for the theft of Django, a 1-year-old intact male Belgian ...
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Flash mob at CVS focuses on morning-after pill
Stephanie Sequin, right, talks about why she thinks the morning after pill should be sold over the counter at the CVS on SW 13th Street on Friday in ...
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Sessions for bicyclists start on Monday
What: Free informational programs about bicycle and pedestrian safety in honor of National Bike MonthWhen: Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and May 29 at 11:30 a.m.Where: Headquarters Library, 401 E. University ...
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Courthouse blogger faces Bar scrutiny after criticizing judges
Fort Lauderdale attorney Bill Gelin, widely known as the main writer of JAABlog, is being investigated by the Florida Bar for posting articles critical of two South Florida ...
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Plantation man pleads guilty to armored truck robbery in Sunrise
A Plantation man has pleaded guilty for his role in the armed robbery of an armored truck in January, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer announced Friday.Christopher Ferguson, 40, and another suspect stole $280,000 Jan. 17 outside the Space Coast Credit Union in Sunrise, prosecutors said.During the holdup, Ferguson and another suspect ordered a Brinks guard to the ground at gunpoint. The suspects ...
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Hollywoods assistant police chief retiring two months after being relieved of duty
HOLLYWOOD — Assistant Police Chief Jimmy Jones, the subject of an active Internal Affairs investigation into alleged misconduct, will retire this month. Jones, 50, sent a resignation letter to Chief Vincent Affanato this week saying his retirement would take effect May ...
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Fort Lauderdale pill mill doctor will go to prison
pill mill – his salary went up 400 percent, the "chaotic" waiting room overflowed with patients from out of town and he was told to give everyone the maximum number of pain pills.But instead of calling the police or leaving the practice his cousin recruited him to join, Dr. Stephen G. Anthony, 64, of Davie, continued to work there and eventually bought the business, court records ...
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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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