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Broward sheriff wants $100M more in budget
Broward Sheriff Scott Israel submitted a request Tuesday asking for $100 million more in his budget, but that couldn't be done without raising taxes, and that doesn't appear to be something the county commissioners are ready to ...
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Deerfield Beach Man Hit Girl With iPad Cord Authorities
A Miami Beach father, 49-year-old Adolfo Guzman, is facing an aggravated child abuse charge after he tied his 12-year-old son to a pole and left him for hours while he went shopping, police said. The boy said that he didn't tell his father he was at a friend's house Sunday, and said his father is innocent. His sister and Miami Beach Police spokesman Sgt. Bobby Hernandez also spoke ...
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Israel Snipes warned to keep budgets lean
The budget outlook is brighter, but it's not time for a taxpayer-funded spending spree, county commissioners told the sheriff and other top county leaders Tuesday.Property tax money has started flowing back in, thanks to rising property values. But county commissioners said they still want to run the kind of lean government they pared down to during the Great Recession. And they said ...
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Lauderdale Lakes man wins $38.5 million negligence judgment
Lauderdale Lakes man who was left in a vegetative state after undergoing a "manipulation under anesthesia" in 2008, and another $10 million to the man's two daughters.Dale Whyte, 37, never woke up after going into cardiac arrest while undergoing the controversial outpatient procedure at the Atlantic Surgical Center ...
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Coconut Creek manager expected to resign this week
COCONUT CREEK— Two weeks after commissioners publicly criticized him and said he has anger management issues, City Manager Dave Rivera is poised to resign.The City Commission is scheduled to consider the resignation and retirement of Rivera, who has worked in the city since 1994 and has an annual salary of $216,921, on Thursday ...
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Developer tweaks Margaritaville contract with Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD— City Hall has a slightly new deal with the Margaritaville developer and will hold a meeting this week to clue in the public. Residents can ask questions about the proposed changes at 6 p.m. Thursday in the city commission ...
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Citizens board meets to consider transfer of 60000 customers
The board of state-run insurer Citizens will meet Wednesday to approve the transfer of up to 60,000 customers to Heritage Property and Casualty Insurance Co., removing $14 billion in exposure from Citizens personal lines and coastal accounts.Heritage, a St. Petersburg-based start-up licensed last August, is already on track to take 54,299 Citizens customers from previous transfers, according to ...
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Missing Lake Worth attorney called “full-time charlatan” in lawsuit
Missing Lake Worth attorney Timothy McCabe is described as a "one-time parishioner turned full-time charlatan" in the latest lawsuit seeking to recoup client money the 55-year-old is alleged to have taken to maintain a maze of investment schemes.The lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County by prominent South Florida attorney William Scherer accuses McCabe, who disappeared in early April, of ...
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Kids in Peril Post Special Investigation
Florida camps are completely unregulated. Nobody knows how many operate here. Nobody checks up on the people who run them. As a result, children have suffered profound harm, a Palm Beach Post investigation has ...
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Cerabino Boca aviation official grounded after suggesting that airport doesn’t need federal money
It's ironic that former Boca Raton councilman Dave Freudenberg has been vanquished from the inner circle controlling the Boca Raton Airport.It was Freudenberg, when he was head of the Boca Raton Pilots Association 15 years ago, who led the push to get a control tower at the airport for safety reasons. And it was Freudenberg this year who was the lone voice on the seven-member airport board ...
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State proposes listing to let parents check on summer camp worker backgrounds
Parents may soon have a way to know whether their children's summer camp workers have undergone criminal background screenings as required by state law.Under a proposed rule being crafted by the Department of Children and Families, summer camps in Florida would be required to post information about their camps in an online database. But to get on the list, camps first would have to prove ...
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Two South Florida locals get ready to aid tornado victims in Oklahoma
An aerial view of Briarwood Elementary that was damaged in Monday's tornado Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Tony ...
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Reunited Dad Son We Just Praise God
David Wheeler spent an agonizing three hours looking for his son Gabriel, who was one of the last rescued from the rubble of Briarwood Elementary after a massive tornado blew through. (May ...
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Water District Executive Director Meeker resigns no reason given
Melissa Meeker, the executive director of the South Florida Water Management District, has resigned.Meeker, who has headed the district for two years, cited no reason for her departure in her resignation letter to Gov. Rick Scott, Herschel Vinyard, Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and district staff. District spokesman Randy Smith referred all questions to the ...
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Man leads cops on chase then tries to hit officer with his car before being arrested
A 31-year-old man is in the county jail today after he led police on a chase, hit an officer with his car, and then told the officer that the cocaine he found was actually homemade breath mints, Delray Beach Police say.Lawrence Fleury of Delray Beach was arrested early today on charges including aggravated battery on an officer, possession of marijuana and resisting an officer.Police were ...
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AP Top Stories May 21 P
Here's the latest news for Tuesday, May 21st: Oklahoma's governor pledges rebuilding after tornado; Apple CEO takes on tax critics; Arizona woman seeks to avoid death penalty; Is the pope an ...
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Coral Reef High students earn summer internship at FIU
Florida International University . The internship will include hands-on access to agroecology workshops at the university’s organic garden, special guest lectures, professional development, specialized labs, pesticide remediation, field stations and field trips. Students will also receive a $500 ...
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‘Zombie’ attack victim may spend rest of life in Miami-Dade nursing home
Ronald Poppo listens to Heat games through a portable radio, but he’ll never watch TV again. He’s relearning how to play guitar, but he has lost interest in reconnecting with his family. Poppo’s doctors offer to give him prosthetic eyes and rebuild his chewed-off nose, but he turns them down. “He’s blind, so he can’t see what he looks like now, and it ...
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5 things to know in Florida for May 22
Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.FACE-CHEWING VICTIM CONTINUES RECOVERY IN MIAMIA homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year appeared Tuesday to be mostly at peace with his disfigurement, strumming a guitar, making jokes and thanking people for their donations to help pay for his care. Ronald Poppo ...
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Undocumented immigrant spared deportation allowed to remain for one year
Rene Rivas was about to be deported in the dark of night, at 4 a.m.But that was last week.Seven days later, on Monday, the undocumented immigrant was released from an immigration lock-up and allowed to work legally and live openly with his wife and children in Miami for a year. The roller-coaster story of this 41-year-old construction worker from Durango, Mexico, is anything but common as ...
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Miami-Dade non-profit offers free hearing screenings this week
Audiologist Maria Ortiz gets ready to test 10-year-old Vincent Feola's hearing during the Hearing and Speech Center of Florida's open house Tuesday. The free hearings continue this week. (Vincent's hearing turned out just ...
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Floridas longest serving death row inmate dies
RAIFORD, Fla. -- A man who has been on death row longer than any other inmate in Florida has died in prison.The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/16L6tVt) reports that Gary Alvord died Sunday at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford.A spokeswoman confirmed the death but could not provide details, including whether Alvord's body was claimed by relatives or whether he will be buried on ...
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Philbin I Thought The Guys Practiced Fast
. I think they were three excellent choices and the three of them are well deserving of the award. With that, we can open up for questions." (On ...
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Its Super Bowl XIX all over again for San Francisco and Miami
Super Bowl XIX at Stanford Stadium. Miami Dolphins vs. San Francisco 49ers. January 20, 1985 San Francisco 49ers fans can remember the first and only Super Bowl played in the Bay Area like it was yesterday. Now, more than 30 years later, one of the hottest sporting events on the planet returns to the Bay in 2016. In the years since, other metropolitan areas have reaped the economic benefit of ...
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Survivors recount massive tornado
The deadly tornado that destroyed parts of Moore, Okla., will likely be among the costliest twisters in U.S. history. Here are the 10 most expensive tornadoes since ...
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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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