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County mayor Consider putting watchdog function under clerk’s control
Palm Beach County commissioners should consider putting its embattled corruption watchdog under the clerk's office, to allow its investigations more independence, County Mayor Steven Abrams said this week.The Office of Inspector General, formed three years ago after a series of corruption scandals, has been hamstrung by legal battles over its funding and pushback over its ...
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Flower shop helping Moore tornado victims
In a place where there is so much devastation and heartache, FOX23's Sharon Phillips found one woman who is using flower petals to bless the victims and their ...
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AP Top Stories May 23 P
Here's the latest news for Thursday, May 23: Obama sets new guidelines on drones; More arrests in suspected London terror attack; Young Okla. tornado victim remembered; Penguins are cool in ...
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Closer Look at Okla. School Where Children Died
City officials from Moore, Oklahoma, showed reporters for the first time a close look at the destroyed Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven students were killed in Monday's tornado. (May ...
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Heritage president defends Citizens deal
Letters began rolling out to thousands of homeowners in Palm Beach County Thursday as company officials defended a $52 million deal to transfer up to 60,000 Citizens insurance customers to a start-up company that gave to Gov. Rick Scott's political committee, but one lawmaker blasted it."Tallahassee is for sale and this is a perfect example," said state Rep. Mike Fasano, R-New ...
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Cerabino New financial literacy requirement for students could be a boon — literally
It turns out that when it comes to "financial literacy" I am, well, semi-literate.I learned that this week while taking an online financial literacy course offered by the Debt Management Credit Counseling Corp., a Broward County-based nonprofit company that educates state workers, college students and high school students on understanding money management and the financial world we all ...
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Tulsa County Sheriff Deputies helping in Moore
FOX23 tagged along with some Tulsa County Sheriff's office deputies and found that helping out isn't always the most exciting thing, but it still makes a huge ...
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No new positives in latest results of Harrington patients testing
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Hearing for suspects in Fairmont Terrace resumes Friday
A preliminary hearing for two brothers accused in the quadruple murder of four women at the Fairmont Terrace Apartments will continues on ...
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Sports tournaments score economic development for Palm Beach County
From the more than 3,000 families who live in Wellington for the equestrian season to the 168,000 people who attend the Honda Classic to the 160,000 who watch spring training games, sports events generated an estimated $260 million in Palm Beach County in the past year."It impacts our quality of life in Palm Beach County," Business Development Board President and CEO Kelly Smallridge ...
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Around the world - Bangkok Thailand
Thai worker installs a bamboo scaffolding during renovation work of China Gate in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, May 23 , 2013.(AP Photo/Sakchai ...
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Around the world - New York
Visitors to New York's Times Square take in the sight from the top of the TKTS staircase, Thursday, May 23, 2013 in New York. According to the Times Square Alliance an average of 370,000 pedestrians enter the Times Square area each day.(AP Photo/Mary ...
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Around the world - Warsaw Poland
People admire and take pictures of a racing car parked in front of a hotel in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The car is one of many participating in the international Gumball 3000 rally, an event in which unusual and high power cars drive some 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) through Europe. (AP Photo/Czarek ...
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Around the world - Sanaa Yemen
Yemeni potter Yousef Abdullah, 25, works on clay kilns used to make bread at a pottery workshop on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Hani ...
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Around the world - Memphis Tenn.
In this photo taken May 21, 2013, Bellevue Middle School 7th grader Nyla Swett, 13, and 8th grader Khalin Sargent, 14, are introduced as the king and queen of the school during a coronation ball in Memphis, Tenn. For the 21st straight year the students at the school won the Kids Kan food drive by collecting more food for the Mid-South Food Bank than any other school in the tri-state region. ...
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Around the world - Dhaka Bangladesh
A Bangladeshi woman walks on a waterlogged street with her children after heavy rainfall in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/A.M. ...
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Around the world - Boston Mass.
U.S. Army Pfc. Corey Shelton, of Virginia Beach, Va., uses a wooden stick to drive flags into the grass on Boston Common in advance of the Memorial Day weekend in Boston, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles ...
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Around the world - Srinagar India
A Kashmiri Bakarwal girl plays on a swing as others wait their turn on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Bakarwals are nomadic herders in Jammu Kashmir state, who wander in search of good pastures for their cattle. (AP Photo/Mukhtar ...
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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
Photo credit: Getty Images | Members of Scouts for Equality hold a rally to call for equality and inclusion for gays in the Boy Scouts of America as part of the "Scouts for Equality Day of Action" in Washington, DC. (May 22, ...
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Murder suspect’s death accusations shock to Orlando neighbors
KISSIMMEE -- Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen martial-arts fighter killed by an FBI agent in Orlando on Tuesday, was a bit of a mystery to his neighbors in his modest gated community in Kissimmee.They knew little about his lifestyle, his travels or his relationship with one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.They did know him as the kind of guy who helped neighbors in the ...
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Zimmerman attorney wants jury pool sequestered
ORLANDO, Fla. -- George Zimmerman's attorney says he is going to ask a judge to sequester not only the jury but the jury pool in the upcoming trial of the Florida neighborhood watch leader.Attorney Mark O'Mara said Thursday that may involve sequestering 500 potential jurors in order to find six people who can serve on the jury.O'Mara says he hasn't ever heard of 500 people ...
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Miami Beach developer neighbors settle dispute
The residents of Sunset Islands 3 and 4 have settled their differences with the developers of a mixed-used condo building at the foot of an historic bridge leading into the island community. The agreement, which was submitted to the city on May 13, marks an end to dozens of hours of hearings, rehearings, appeals and private meetings regarding the project, slated to take the place of what’s ...
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Broken elevator traps man in apartment
Electricians were working to fix the elevator on Thursday evening. An inspector didn't expect the elevator to be up and running by the end of the ...
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Detective breaks down while testifying in robbery trial
"The fact that the detective broke down and cried, you have to put it out of your mind," Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Jorge Rodrigez-Chomat told ...
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Police prepare for Urban Beach Weekend
The city estimates 200,000 people will make their way to South Beach through Memorial Day. Officers patrolled Ocean Drive ahead of road closures on ...
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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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