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Educational series to provide Alzheimer’s support
A series of classes to educate and empower both adults in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease or related dementia and their caregivers begins next month at the community center.Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association Southeast Florida Chapter, the five-week free program provides information, guidance, support and ...
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Raw French Soldier Stabbed in Throat Near Paris
A French soldier has been stabbed outside Paris. France's military spokesman says the soldier was wounded in the throat but his life is not in danger. (May ...
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Royal Palm Beach makes slow progress on dog park at Commons Park
Last year the village council unanimously agreed to spend $63,000 to add a dog park to Commons Park. Nearly one year later, the park is no closer to being built.Delays in the opening of Commons Park and the more pressing roadway improvement project along Crestwood Boulevard have put the 0.7-acre dog park on the back burner, village officials ...
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Families proud as names of four Vietnam veterans added to Delray Beach memorial
Bernard Macon has stood before panel W31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, where the name of his little brother, Marine Corps Pfc. Samuel Cornelius Macon, is inscribed on the 53rd line of the black granite wall.But this Memorial Day, the West Palm Beach resident will stand before a different wall -- one that holds a plaque unveiled Saturday at Veterans Park that features the names ...
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Mayor Person Killed in San Antonio Flooding
The San Antonio Fire Department says a 29-year-old woman was trapped in her car, got on the roof and was swept away in floodwaters. Her body was later found against a fence. (May ...
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Boy 3 flown to hospital in critical condition after nearly drowning in pool at Port St. Lucie home
A 3-year-old boy was flown to a hospital in critical condition today after nearly drowning in a swimming pool at his home, Port St. Lucie police said.Nehemiah Smith was taken to St. Lucie Medical Center, then airlifted to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce, police said.Police officers and a St. Lucie County Fire Rescue crew arrived at the home, in the 1600 block of Southwest Taurus ...
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Crews battle brush fire in heavily wooded Acreage lot
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue crews and the Florida Division of Forestry are extinguishing "hot spots" left over from a brush fire today near Lane N and Grapeview Boulevard in The Acreage.Initially, crews got reports of 12-foot flames but found a small brush fire in a heavily wooded lot when they arrived around 2 p.m., said Capt. Albert Borroto, spokesman for Palm Beach County Fire ...
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Raw Apple 1 Computers Sells for More Than $650k
One of the only six surviving original 1976 "Apple 1" computers still in working order sold for the world record price of $671,400 at an auction on Saturday. (May ...
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AP Top Stories May 25 P
Here's the latest news for Saturday, May 25: UK police question alleged soldier killer's friend; No quick fix for downed bridge on holiday weekend; 16 children, 1 teacher die in Pakistan bus fire; Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault ...
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Lantana air strip with old-time charm braces for modern ‘glass and chrome’ upgrade
Florida Airmotive, the long-time operator of Palm Beach County's Lantana airport, is leaving. It's long-term lease expires next year. (Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach ...
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Loggerhead’s new CEO wants to raise marine center’s profile
Jack Lighton, president and CEO of Loggerhead Marinelife Center, started as a volunteer at the Juno Beach center, which helps turtles such as Smitty, the sub-adult loggerhead in the tank behind ...
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Brush fire closes northbound I-95 lanes in St. Lucie County
Northbound lanes on Interstate 95 and Midway Road near Fort Pierce are shut down because of a brush fire, the Florida Highway Patrol said.Crews were dispatched shortly after 2 p.m. today.St. Lucie County has had trouble with brush fires at other times this year. Lightning caused a 200-acre fire March 24 about 15 miles north of today's fire, along Indrio Road west of U.S. 1.Check back for ...
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Hagel Urges Cadets to End Scourge of Sex Assault
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel urged graduating West Point cadets to stamp out the scourge of harrassment and sexual assault in the military. He called the issue a "profound betrayal of sacred oaths and trusts". (May ...
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Editorial Obama administration has four months to sell the Affordable Care Act
The 37th attempt to repeal or defund the Affordable Care Act that passed the U.S. House 10 days ago is the least of many challenges confronting the Obama administration as deadlines near for implementing the health care law.By Oct. 1, people with incomes below 400 percent of the federal poverty level -- $46,000 for individuals -- are supposed to be able to buy health insurance on the new ...
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Schultz commentary Political malpractice from the Florida House
It has been three weeks since the Florida Legislature left $51 billion, compassion and logic on the table, and it still doesn't make sense.Roughly 4 million Floridians lack health insurance. When they get sick, many of them go to a hospital emergency room, often ...
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Editorial Don’t let ambitions of Snook Islands project just wash away
It looks as if Lake Worth Lagoon is even muckier than anyone thought.How else to explain the disappearance of massive amounts of sand into the bed of the Intracoastal Waterway in Lake Worth? Palm Beach County contractors were supposed to use 180,000 cubic yards of sand to create an archipelago of tiny mangrove islands and oyster beds around the Lake Avenue Bridge, an expansion of the Snook ...
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Gun thefts won’t change most police agency policies
A Jupiter thief assembled a small arsenal of weaponry by breaking into cars from five law-enforcement agencies over the last six months, officials said, but only the Martin County Sheriff's Office said it will take measures to prevent such thefts.Sheriff William Snyder said Friday that because of the break-ins, he's planning on buying $500 gun safes that bolt into vehicle trunks for ...
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How the smoking ban led to MORE people being hurt
In New York there has been a rise in people being injured outside bowling alleys. The reasoning is that smokers who step out for a puff in bowling shoes are falling making trips to the emergency ...
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Lawyers want water district’s Meeker deposed on billboard contract
Four days after Melissa Meeker's surprise resignation as executive director of the South Florida Water Management District, her name was bandied about in an Orlando courtroom Friday, where attorneys want to force her to testify about how a company owned by a former board member and her ex-business partner won a lucrative contract to build billboards on district land.Information demanded of ...
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Coast Guard rescues man 41 from ocean off Lake Worth
The U.S. Coast Guard today rescued a 41-year-old man after his vessel sank southeast of Lake Worth.A call to Coast Guard Sector Miami reported that a 17-foot vessel piloted by Michael Forbes was taking on water about 40 mile southeast of Lake Worth, the Coast Guard said.The Coast Guard Cutter Robert Yered and a Air Station Miami MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew went in search of Forbes. A rescue ...
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The next 24 Trading on summer blockbusters
Two summer blockbusters go head-to-head, and how they fare is of interest even to traders. Plus, will investors take a shine to Tiffany & Co. when the company reports on Tuesday? Victor Reklaitis breaks down market-moving information for Memorial Day weekend. Photo: Universal ...
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Two women arrested for attacking robbing cab driver
Two women have been arrested in connection with the beating and robbery of a taxicab driver, Fort Lauderdale police said on Saturday.The women, Kimberly Amber Parker, 29 and Jessica Lee Dennis, 21, are both charged with carjacking, strong-arm robbery and battery.Read the whole story ...
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Towns HR lifts UVa past FSU 7-4 in 12 innings
DURHAM, N.C. -- Kenny Towns' three-run homer in the bottom of the 12th inning lifted Virginia past Florida State 7-4 on Saturday at the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament.Towns finished with four RBIs and Joe McCarthy also homered for the third-seeded Cavaliers (47-10). They trailed by three early before rallying to finish the tournament 2-1.Florida State's Jameis Winston ...
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After decades of searching could a handful of debris provide the answer
http://www.miamiherald.com/issues/ Nearly half a century passed before the suspected remains of six airmen made the journey from a rice paddy in southeastern Laos to a forensics lab near Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. But once those remains arrived, the experts preparing to study and identify them knew that at best the men were only halfway home. Getting them all the way would be a challenge. The ...
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Worlds second-oldest man dies at 113
When he died Thursday, Sisnett was the oldest man in the Western Hemisphere, whose age had been validated, according to the Gerontology Research Group. He was likely the second oldest man on the ...
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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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