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Shriners to bring convention to Daytona Beach
The Shriners are a philanthropic group that has existed since 1872. Among their biggest charitable projects is the Shriners Hospital for Children. (PHOTO/ Shriners ...
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Parramore residents rally against Orlando Creative Village
Residents of Orlando's historic Parramore neighborhood rally outside City Hall, claiming the city's plans for a new Creative Village will force them out of their homes - Monday, June 17, 2013. (VIDEO STILL/Bakari Savage, ...
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Unmanned boat goes in circles after boaters fall overboard
PINELLAS -- Two people have been rescued after falling off a boat in downtown St. Petersburg. The unmanned boat went in circles for at least 30 minutes. Crews let the boat run out of fuel before they attempted to stop it. The conditions of the two boaters have not been released. According to the Coast Guard, a Good Samaritan helped the boaters out of the water and took them to the St. ...
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Fewer buses bus sharing on Lake County school budget plan
The Lake County School District is looking at a plan to cut $3 million from the school budget by making high and middle school students ride the bus together, and also eliminating buses for students who live within two miles of the ...
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For young immigrants big changes since Obama order
In this Wednesday, June 12, 2013 photo, Jorge Tume is shown working on a computer at a concrete company in Miami. Tumes parents brought him and his younger brother to the U.S. from Peru on tourist visas when they were young and decided to stay, becoming unauthorized immigrants with no legal status. (AP Photo/Wilfredo ...
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Daughter Tracks Down Dads Accused Shooter
Joselyn Martinez was just nine years old when her father was gunned down outside their family's restaurant. Twenty-seven years later, she was able to use some Internet sleuthing to track down the man accused of killing her ...
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Prancercise Creator to Lead Contest at Casino
On Tuesday, South Florida residents who want try it out for themselves with Rohrback can. She will be at the Seminole Casino at Coconut Creek from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., leading a contest, where participants will do their own version of the ...
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Delray could void trash hauler contract consultants say
Delray Beach 's decision to renew a contract with its trash hauler last year without first putting it out to bid. The City Commission and City Manager Louie Chapman, Jr. received a legal analysis from ...
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Fort Lauderdale misses out on national recognition
FORT LAUDERDALE— There won't be any All-America City signs going up in the city this year. When the winners of the annual recognition were announced by the National Civic League over the weekend, the city finished as a runner-up in the award program. The city was one of 20 finalists that competed in ...
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Two arrested after crash in Pembroke Pines
The FBI announced the arrests of Cedric C. Williams and Burnett Malik Godbee following an armed burglary at a Winn Dixie and a crash in Pembroke ...
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Coral Springs woman accused of using counterfeit bills
Seven months after being arrested for using a fake $100 bill, Monalisa Cardozo is again behind bars, accused of repeating the same crime.Cardozo, 29, ...
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Orange County may allow backyard chickens following Orlandos lead
Orange County have something to cluck about: Backyard hens may soon be allowed beyond Orlando city limits. The city began allowing "urban chickens" in coops as part of a pilot program last year, and other local governments have been watching the results. On Tuesday, Orange County commissioners will hold a public hearing on allowing backyard coops in the unincorporated area, and Lake ...
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Deputy stops scooter driver over lack of eyewear makes theft arrest
Randy Ramsey, 25, of Boynton Beach, is facing charges after a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputy pulled him over because he wasn't wearing protective eyewear, according to an arrest ...
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Man arrested after making Best Buy customers uncomfortable deputies say
Jean Makihotch, 24, of no fixed address, was arrested Friday, June 14, 2013 at a Best Buy in Wellington, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest ...
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Miami-Dade Expected To Approve No-Kill Animal Shelter
MIAMI (CBS4) – Howls and meows of agreement may be heard from the Miami-Dade animal control shelter Tuesday, after County Commissioners give expected approval to a plan to improve the life expectancy of dogs and cats taken there. Each year approximately 37,000 canines and felines make their way to the shelter, and about one-third don’t make it out alive. They are gassed – or, ...
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Miami Girl Injured In Drive-By Shooting Out Of Hospital
MIAMI (CBS4) – A little girl injured during a drive-by shooting in Miami on Sunday has been released from the hospital. Miami Police are investigating the incident after 8-year-old Danejah Peterson and another man were shot. According to the girl's grandmother, Danajah was walking home with her mother near Northwest 12th Street and First Place in Overtown just before midnight when ...
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Man killed by Miami-Dade police stabbed mother two sisters
A man killed by police on Sunday had stabbed three relatives and confronted arriving police officers, Miami-Dade police said on Monday.Police said the domestic violence incident began at around 5:30 p.m. when units were called to a home at 15015 Monroe St. on a report that three woman had been stabbed.The suspect, Joe White III, 48, had attacked his mother and two sisters. As the officers tried ...
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FBI Miami Announces the Arrests of Two Robbery Suspects
The FBI announces the arrest of Cedric C. Williams, 33, of Miami Gardens, Florida, and Burnett Malik Godbee, 32, of Miami, Florida, for their alleged involvement in an armed robbery this morning, June 17, 2013, at the Winn-Dixie Supermarket located at 701 NW 99th Avenue in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Godbee was taken into custody in Pembroke Pines, Florida, without incident by the Pembroke Pines ...
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Robbery of Wells Fargo Bank Branch in Miami
The FBI is releasing photographs from a robbery that took place June 17, 2013, at approximately 11:10 a.m. at the Wells Fargo Bank located at 1051 NW 14th Street in Miami, Florida. A robber entered the bank and demanded money from an employee. Money was taken, but the amount will not be released at this time. There were customers in the bank at the time of the robbery. There were no shots fired ...
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Drivers body found identified in Margate canal crash
MARGATE — Police have recovered the body of a man who died late Saturday when the car he was driving veered off Royal Palm Boulevard and plowed through two fences, a hedge and knocked over a tree before flipping into a canal.The body of Parasram Nandalall, 21, surfaced and was pulled from the water at 2:30 a.m. Monday from the canal near the crash site in the 6800 block of Royal Palm, ...
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St. Petersburg councilman Jeff Danner wants to educate voters on Lens
ST. PETERSBURG -- Council member Jeff Danner wants to spend tax dollars to educate residents about the proposed Lens even as support for the project appears to be dwindling. Danner will ask the council Thursday to discuss ways to educate voters before they head to the polls Aug. 27 to decide the fate of the $50 million project. "There's a lot of misinformation out there," Danner ...
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Florida Aquarium offers price break on Thursday nights
Kids are out of school and you're trying to fill the summer days, but the Florida Aquarium has a deal for those summer nights. You can get into the aquarium for only $15 after 4 p.m. every Thursday this summer (after 5 p.m. on July 4) starting this week. The aquarium, which normally costs $21.95 for adults, $16.95 for kids, will be open until 8 p.m. and you can catch a show by the Florida ...
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Ticket prices heating up for final games in Miami
MIAMI - With the final week of the NBA season now here, ticket prices are going into overdrive.The online ticket resale site StubHub showed just about 3,000 tickets were available for purchase on the secondary markets in Miami for Game 6 of the NBA Finals between the Heat and the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night.Standing-room only prices were bottoming out at $185. For an actual seat, the ...
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Tropical depression forms off the coast of Belize system to bring heavy rains
MIAMI - A tropical depression has formed off the coast of Belize and forecasters say it is expected to bring as much as five inches of rain to parts of Belize, Guatemala and northern Honduras. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atlantic season's second tropical depression formed Monday. The depression has winds of 35 mph (56 kph). Some weakening is expected after the ...
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South Florida Crowned Next Spot For Miss USA
DORAL (CBSMiami) -Doral residents should get ready for an invasion of young beautiful women, tons of hairspray and full glitz because the Miss USA pageant is coming to South Florida. Donald Trump, who owns the pageant, announced Sunday that he will move Miss USA out of Las Vegas and to his golf resort in Doral for the next three years, according to CBS4 news partner ...
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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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