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Divided Citizens board approves $52 million deal for start-up insurer that gave to Scott committee
Overriding objections it was rushing a deal that could hurt public trust, the board of state-run insurer Citizens narrowly approved a plan Wednesday to transfer 60,000 customers eight days before hurricane season and pay more than $50 million to a start-up insurance company that gave generously to Gov. Rick Scott's political committee.As The Palm Beach Post reported in April, Heritage ...
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Driver who caused fatal crash loses license
The driver who caused a January crash that killed four family members, must pay $4,000, give up his driver’s license and complete 120 hours of community service, a Broward judge ruled Wednesday.Romial Romeus, 37, of Lauderdale Lakes, was issued a traffic citation for careless driving after the Florida Highway Patrol determined that his Nissan Altima caused the crash Jan. 2.Killed were ...
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Daniel Shoer Roth Hialeah ‘boletera’ a political scapegoat in ballot scandal
Since the eruption of the electoral fraud volcano last summer, Hialeah ballot broker Deisy Pentón de Cabrera has been depicted by the authorities and the media as Snow White’s Queen Grimhilde transformed into a witch. Her basket hides not only a poisoned apple, but a complete harvest that, with the scandal’s shooting lava, has become rotten applesauce. She doesn’t ...
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Hollywood meeting will focus on changes to Margaritaville lease
Hollywood residents and business owners will get their first glimpse of the proposed changes to Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort’s lease with the city at a community meeting Thursday.The meeting, which will begin at 6 p.m., will be held at City Hall, 2600 Hollywood Blvd.The 350-room hotel and restaurant project has hit several snags since the developers first signed an agreement with ...
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Suspect in custody after police-involved shooting in Miami-Dade
According to investigators, officers were attempting a traffic stop on a vehicle on Wednesday in the area of 54th Street and Northwest 3rd Avenue when the alleged suspect in the vehicle fled on ...
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Pacers need to bring the heat at Miami
Miami Heat forward LeBron James, left, shoots over Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert during the second half of Game 6 of their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series in Indianapolis, Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael ...
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1 Suspect in Custody After Search Police
Two men are in custody after police say a group of suspects barged into a home, stole two vehicles and fled. Miami-Dade Police spokesman Det. Alvaro Zabaleta discusses the ...
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County home sales continue to rise at rates concerning to some
Palm Beach County home prices in April rocketed to levels not seen since before the economic crash of 2008.Propelled by investors buying quickly and with cash, the $265,000 median sales price for a single-family home last month was 26 percent higher than the same period in 2012 and up 6 percent from March, according to a report released Wednesday by the Realtors Association of the Palm ...
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Bondi other AGs ask Urban Outfitters to quit selling druggy accessories
Pam Bondi and 22 other attorneys general are demanding that Urban Outfitters quit selling accessories they say is glorifying drug use and ';undermining'; efforts to combat prescription drug abuse. The trendy company is targeting the hipster crowd with a line of products that riff on prescription drugs, including a set of syringe-shaped shot glasses along with shot glasses, beer ...
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Cardinal Newman football stories
Interim Seminole Ridge High football coach Justin Hilliker pulled out his cell phone mid-ceremony and called ex-Hawks coach Matt Dickmann, who recently started a new coaching job in Georgia."I was wondering if you'd say a few words over the speaker phone," Hilliker said to Dickmann as he motioned to Ridge's ...
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9-year-old Tornado Victim Loved Family Singing
Josh Hornsby's 9-year-old daughter Janae was among seven children killed when a tornado hit Plaza Towers Elementary Monday afternoon. (May ...
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Pick your poison Hurricane or tornado At least hurricanes one threat we can see coming
An American flag sits in a destroyed car's window in a neighborhood devastated by Monday's tornado Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Moore, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Tony ...
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Moore Native Toby Keith Tours Tornado Damage
Moore, Oklahoma native Toby Keith toured the tornado damage to his hometown Wednesday. The popular recording artist said he will plan a benefit concert to raise money to help the community recover, but the first priority is helping people ...
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Moore mother sheltered family in a bathtub
Amber told FOX23 it was a mother's instinct and the fact that she has lived in Oklahoma for years. She grabbed her girls, helmets, a mattress and sheltered them ...
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Makeshit hospital serving Okla. tornado victims volunteers
Medical crews told FOX23 more injuries can happen after a tornado than during the storm because of the number of volunteers in Moore and the amount of debris they ...
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SEC accuses South Miami of defrauding bond investors in downtown parking garage deal
A South Miami parking-garage controversy that has sparked political clashes, malpractice lawsuits and firings reached a climax Wednesday, when the Securities and Exchange Commission accused city officials of defrauding bond investors about the downtown facility’s tax-exempt status.In a civil action, the SEC charged the city with misleading those investors about the tax-exempt eligibility ...
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Ex-CEO sentenced to jail for stealing public money from Liberty City veterans group
The former chief executive officer of a Liberty City veterans assistance organization was sentenced Wednesday to 85 days in jail for stealing taxpayer grant money intended to benefit military veterans.Charles Leon Cutler was convicted at trial in March of two counts of grand theft. In addition to jail time, he was sentenced to four years of probation, and he will be required to pay restitution ...
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Senate president House speaker tout legislative accomplishments during tour
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. -- Maj. Gen. Emmett Titshaw didn’t get far into his tour of the Brooksville armory before he brought up some trouble on his mind.The Florida National Guard’s highest-ranking officer came to town Wednesday morning to show state Senate President Don Gaetz and House Speaker Will Weatherford how $2 million in the state’s budget would modernize the 21-year-old ...
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Citizens OK’s deal for Scott donor
TALLAHASSEE -- A startup insurance company with ties to current and former top politicians could receive up to $52 million from Citizens Property Insurance Corp., after the board voted 3-2 Wednesday to approve a “unique” and “outside-the-box” deal.Heritage Property and Casualty Company, which opened for business nine months ago and contributed $110,000 to Gov. Rick ...
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Panel to examine condemned mans competency
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Rick Scott has appointed a panel to examine whether a man set to be executed next month is mentally competent.Scott issued an order Wednesday granting a temporary stay for 49-year-old Marshall Lee Gore, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on June 24. Gore's attorneys claim he's insane.The order states a three-doctor commission is to meet next Tuesday ...
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Surgeons remove 4-pound hairball from tiger
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from Tampa Bay area surgeons when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.A 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Clearwater, the clinic said in a news release. Dr. Mike Reems, of BluePearl Veterinary Partners, ...
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Miami Beach residents businesses police brace for Memorial Day crush
Miami Beach is holding its collective breath through Monday, hoping to dodge the human stampedes, tear gas and deadly police shootings that have marred recent Memorial Day weekends. The ...
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Surgeons remove tigers basketball-sized hairball
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.The 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at a veterinary center in the Tampa Bay area community of Clearwater. Doctors said in a statement that they safely removed ...
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Victim Of Miami Cannibal Attack What He Looks Like Now
tore the flesh from Poppo’s face with his teeth and then turned on officers, who shot him to death. The grisly attack was the beginning of a string of weird incidents around the country last year, which set off much speculation about the dangers of synthetic marijuana. But during the mediastorm, we barely heard a thing about the victim, who came away from the gruesome event disfigured but ...
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Pocket-dialing 911 leads to Fla. murder charge
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -; Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed ...
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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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