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Sick turtle is released off the Florida Keys after treatment - video
A rescued loggerhead sea turtle is released off the Florida Keys on Friday, after being treated for swallowing a small piece of plastic which disrupted its digestive system. Charley the turtle, who weighs 3kg and is 30.5cm long, was found by a fisherman floating in a Sargasso weed patch. Charley reportedly traveled around 2,000 miles from Santa Marta, Colombia, before reaching ...
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Deputies 22 dead cats found in Fla. mans home
TAMPA, Fla. -- A Tampa man has been charged with animal cruelty after authorities discovered 22 dead cats at his home.The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reports deputies were executing an eviction at the home of James Hopkins when the cats were discovered Thursday.Deputies say the deceased felines were being stored in two freezers. Investigators also discovered more than two dozen ...
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Girl charged with library bomb threat
NAPLES, Fla. -- A12-year-old girl has been charged with making a bomb threat at a southwest Florida public library.Naples police say a Collier County Library branch was evacuated Wednesday morning after a worker found a note in the book depository that threatened to "blow up" the library. A sheriff's office K-9 searched the library but did not find any explosives.An investigation ...
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People can still fish at St. Pete Pier for summer
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The St. Petersburg Pier is scheduled to close soon, but people will still be able to fish off the structure until later this summer.The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/14IhGSy) reports that the city will continue to allow people to fish from the road that leads to the pier building, at least for several weeks. The Pier is scheduled for closure on May 31.Residents and ...
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Campaign touts alarms alerting kids left in cars
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- South Florida officials are partnering with a charity to help reimburse child care providers for installing alarms that alert a driver when a child has been left in the car.The Broward County Board of County Commissioners recently passed an ordinance requiring child care centers and family child care homes to install safety alarms in vehicles carrying six or more ...
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NBA Code of Conduct
The National Basketball Association, Miami HEAT, and AmericanAirlines Arena are committed to creating a safe, comfortable, and enjoyable sports & entertainment experience. NBA fans have a right to expect an environment where: Players respect and appreciate each and every fan. Guests will be treated in a consistent, professional, and courteous manner by all Arena and team ...
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A quiet St. Petersburg mayors race via Twitter
The Pinellas Supervisor of Elections is posting daily updates on how many signatures have been verified on the more than 20,000 petitions turned in to the city clerk. As of Thursday, the county had processed 8,512 signatures, and 95 percent had been declared valid. The office updates the total at the end of each day on its website. Concerned Citizens of St. Petersburg handed in more than ...
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Americans United Deplores Florida Courts Decision Allowing Deceptive Amendments On November Ballot
Disappointing Court Decision Will Be Appealed, Says AU's Lynn FLORIDA - August 4 - Americans United for Separation of Church and State will appeal Leon Circuit Judge John ...
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Orlando police charge teen in security officer’s death www.privateofficer.com
A 17-year-old with a prior arrest for stealing a gun during a home burglary was charged by Orlando police Thursday with one count of first-degree murder in the death of an apartment complex security guard. Terrance Anthony, who was already being detained on several unrelated charges, is accused of killing Allen Ray McPherson on Oct. 20. McPherson, 48, was working at the Sabal Palm Apartments ...
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Pacers Turn Up Heat in Miami to Level Series
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UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday May 25
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Pacers lead at half in game 2 at Miami
Roy Hibbert shoots the ball as Miami Heat center Chris Bosh defends during the first half of Game 2 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series. (AP Photo/Lynne ...
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FWC Promotes Boating Safety Ahead of Holiday Weekend
As boating season kicks off, the Coast Guard is encouraging people to stay safe. Officer Jorge Pino of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Joe Abeyta give their ...
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Noon kickoff with Gators shows how far Miami ACC have fallen
Wake Forest on Raycom? Can't say I really blame ESPN for sticking this game in the undesirable noon slot. Miami is, after all, the home team and this is the ACC's TV game. Quite frankly, both UM and the ACC haven't been relevant on a national level for years. It also doesn't help that the Gators, even though they won 11 games last season, aren't the sexiest of teams and ...
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Florida Staves Off Steals by Arizona
TALLAHASSEE | Florida has a new fiscal game plan to keep its spring training lineup of baseball teams from jumping to the Cactus League in ...
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Barber’s Honor a Highlight During Sneaker Soiree Event
Ronde Barber's record-breaking 200th consecutive start to open the 2012 NFL season was one of the moments recognized during the Tampa Bay Sports Commission's annual Sneaker Soiree ...
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Student Shot In The Leg At Redland Middle School Near Miami
A teenage student was shot in the leg at a middle school south of Miami Friday afternoon, sending the campus into lockdown. Miami-Dade Police said investigators were questioning a classmate who allegedly brought the firearm inside a backpack to Redland Middle School in Homestead. Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesman John Schuster told NBC6 ...
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Abortion pill cases link Tampa woman to stranger in Oklahoma
TAMPA -- Five years ago, an Air Force airman grudgingly married his pregnant girlfriend but began lacing her food with ground up abortion pills. She miscarried in her second trimester, after consuming a deviled egg. Caylinn Young, 25, of Oklahoma felt isolated in her experience until she read recently about a Lutz woman named Remee Lee, 26, who miscarried in March, reportedly under similar ...
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FHP planes to help catch speeders this holiday weekend
Memorial Day weekend, looking for oblivious lead-footed drivers traveling South Florida's roadways. The agency wants to reduce holiday weekend traffic fatalities statewide. Since 2008, those have ranged from 22 to 33 deaths per year. There were 27 fatal crashes in Florida last year during Memorial Day weekend. "We're out to enforce speed laws to save lives," FHP Sgt. Mark ...
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Communications satellite launched into space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, will serve ...
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Judge rejects request to exhume bodies at school
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A circuit judge is rejecting a request to exhume human remains on the site of a now-defunct Panhandle reform school.Judge William Wright, who is based in Jackson County, ruled Friday against the request made by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.Bondi's office filed the petition in March. There is believed to be unmarked graves on the school site. Wright in his ...
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Holiday weekend crowds way down from boom in Miami Beach
the place for Memorial Day weekend revelers, with hot acts, sold-out hotels and can’t-miss parties that cater to African-American crowds.Just two years ago, hotel occupancy averaged more than 85 percent over the weekend with daily rates about $260 — far higher than the month’s average of 74.4 percent occupancy at $195 a night and the holiday weekend’s highest numbers in ...
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Students gets chess lessons aplenty
Williams Elementary fourth-grader Dejayauna Johnson, 11, challenges Lincoln Middle School eighth-grader Davis Washburn, 14, to a game of chess Friday. Washburn was playing three other students at the same time, and every time he came back to Johnson's board the pieces were in different places so he accused her of cheating. Johnson told him to bring it on, and Washburn replied, "Now I ...
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Paralegals attorney says no setup in Tampa DUI case
TAMPA -- The paralegal at the center of scandalous allegations of a DUI setup talked to prosecutors behind closed doors Thursday. But the attorney for Melissa Personius contends there was no plot by the paralegal's bosses to get C. Philip Campbell, their opposing counsel, arrested on a DUI charge in the middle of a heated trial. "It wasn't like, 'Get this guy drunk, get him ...
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Virginia Tech tops Georgia Tech 3-2 in ACC tourney
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Chad Pinder drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh to help Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech 3-2 on Friday in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, clinching an appearance in Sunday's ...
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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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