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Jet-setter’s love of travel fueled by early Miami trip
Carolyn Kremins has always loved to travel. Growing up in Long Island, she spent her childhood going on road trips to Niagara Falls and the Catskills.“I wanted so desperately to go on a plane,” she said in a recent phone interview. “I used my grandfather as an excuse.”Like many grandfathers in the late 1970s, Kremins’ spent winters in Miami Beach. For her first ever ...
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Hands Across The Sand Miami 2013 Locals Protest Off-Shore Drilling Stand For Clean Energy
On Saturday, weekend beach-goers and environmental activists joined hands along Miami Beach to take a stand against the U.S. dependence on oil and to promote clean energy resources. ...
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Autistic boy 8 disappears while vacationing in Florida
PERDIDO KEY, Fla. – Authorities are searching by land and sea for an 8-year-old Autistic boy who went missing while vacationing in the Florida Panhandle. Escambia County Sheriff's officials said Owen Elliot Black was on the beaches of Perdido Key with his mother and wandered off on his own and 4 p.m. Friday. He has brown hair and eyes and was last seen wearing a red and blue striped ...
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8 yr-old Autistic boy goes missing on Fla vacation
PERDIDO KEY, Fla. -- Authorities are searching by land and sea for an 8-year-old Autistic boy who went missing while vacationing in the Florida Panhandle.Escambia County Sheriff's officials said Owen Elliot Black was on the beaches of Perdido Key with his mother and wandered off on his own and 4 p.m. Friday. He has brown hair and eyes and was last seen wearing a red and blue striped shirt ...
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Dwyane Wade Prom Miami Heat Star Surprises Teen After Turning Her Down
Dwyane Wade showed up at a prom Friday night and surprised one lucky – and persistent – fan who has asked him multiple times to be her date since last Fall.The Miami Heat superstar pulled up to the Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School senior prom at the LaJolla Ballroom in Coral Gables, Fla., decked out in a sleek black suit, white shirt, no tie, and striking red loafers ensemble. ...
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Florida man arrested for driving naked allegedly stealing motorcycle
Police in Florida said they arrested a man twice within a 12-hour period, once for driving his car naked and a second time for allegedly stealing a motorcycle. Brian Blake Bienvenu, 24, of Delray Beach, Fla., began his alleged crime spree at 2:20 a.m. local time Thursday, when a security official at Highland Beach Club observed him parking his vehicle in the nude, police said. Bienvenu tried ...
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FHP Orlando man struck killed by car in Hernando County
Spring Hill just before 3:30 a.m. when he was struck by a 2001 Volkswagen Jetta driven by Robbie Leanus Robinson, 25, of New Port Richey. Davila died at the scene. Robinson and a passenger were not ...
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Greg Cote Knicks would have been spicier matchup for Miami Heat
Miami Heat players have been steadfastly neutral in claiming no preference as they waited for Indiana and New York to figure out which would play the underdog in the NBA’s upcoming Eastern Conference finals. Confident champions do not deign to worry about who’s next; they leave the worrying to opponents. The lion who runs the jungle does not much care if he is feasting on zebra or ...
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Lightning sparks fire that destroys home in The Villages
THE VILLAGES -- A house was destroyed after lightning struck the County home and ignited a fire. Marion County Fire Rescue said they responded to a structure fire on SE Northridge Court just after 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Flames were visible through the roof when firefighters arrived. Crews said the initially attacked the fire from the inside. However, it quickly become too dangerous, so ...
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Orlando native heading to Haiti to make a difference
As senior vice president of convention sales and services at Visit Orlando, Tammi Runzler would seem to have it all. But she's leaving it all behind to head to ...
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Mother accused of leaving child home alone locked in bedroom
ORLANDO -- Orlando police arrested a woman for child neglect after they say she left her child locked in a bedroom for hours at a time. Jamesha Williams, 21, was arrested Friday after police received a tip that the child was being left alone and responded to her apartment. According to the arrest report, police could hear a small child yelling from a bedroom in the apartment. Williams ...
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In bid to combat prostitution human trafficking lawmakers vote to limit massage hours
Florida Legislature is also flexing its muscle in the fight against the growth of adult-oriented massage establishments, places whose marketing and signage skews closer to adult entertainment than therapeutic well-being. In South Florida, they're known for their blacked-out windows, neon signs, late-night hours, and sexually suggestive postings in online classified ads. Many are listed on ...
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Happy to be in Alachua Krishnas looking to grow
ALACHUA — The Hare Krishnas founded their community in Alachua in 1977. More than 35 years later, they say it is the largest Hare Krishna community in North ...
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Fla couples charged after pipe bomb weapons found
COCOA, Fla. -- A Cocoa couple has been charged after police said they found pipe bombs and a cache of weapons inside their central Florida home.The Brevard County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad evacuated neighbors from a dozen nearby homes as they searched the couple's two-story apartment Friday. Authorities found two pipe bombs along with rifles, handguns and shotguns. Two elementary ...
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Leonard Pitts Jr. In Florida timely injustice
Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been exonerated and freed from death row in the previous 23 years, Ryan committed an act of profound moral courage, imposing a moratorium on capital punishment. In 2003, in the waning days of his term, he ...
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Single ticket scoops $590m jackpot in Florida lottery
A single ticket in Florida has matched all the numbers to win the highest Powerball lottery jackpot in history at an estimated 590.5 million dollars (389.2m), officials said ...
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Charter bus hits killed victim at Fla. airport
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Authorities are investigating after a pedestrian was hit by a bus and killed at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport.Broward Sheriff's officials said the unidentified victim was walking along the lower level of the terminal Saturday when they were hit by a private charter bus.The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. None of the roughly 10 people ...
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Dad son rescued after airboat sinks in Everglades
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. -- A man and his 13-year-old son have been rescued after their airboat sank in the Florida Everglades.Will Cazanas and his son were stranded for two hours Friday after their airboat sank in western Broward County.Broward County Sheriff's officials sent out an airboat after receiving a distress call. They found the pair about 20 minutes into their search. The Palm Beach ...
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ONE LUCKY WINNERWinning Ticket For $590.5M Powerball Sold in Florida
Powerball numbers are chosen in the drawing at the Florida Lottery on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, in Tallahassee, Fla. The numbers drawn in the $579.9-million game were: 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and Powerball of 6. (AP Photo/Phil ...
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One lucky Florida Powerball winner
A Florida supermarket sold the only winning ticket in last night’s $600 million Powerball drawing, lottery officials in the Sunshine State announced.The winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22, and 52, and the Powerball was 11.The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., about 29 miles northeast of Tampa, the Florida Lottery announced on Twitter."We’re ...
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Powerball One ticket-holder in Florida wins $600 million jackpot
ORLANDO, Fla. -- One of the tickets sold in Florida for the Powerball game Saturday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 10-13-14-22-52, Powerball: 11 The player matching all five numbers and the Powerball won the $600 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $40 million for Wednesday, May 22. Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $1 ...
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Crash victim saves driver unable to rescue passenger in fiery fatal crash
A driver who crashed into a car that burst into flames saved the other driver, but couldn't rescue a passenger who was killed during the Saturday collision ...
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Man shot during dispute with neighbor over dogs in Loxahatchee
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office .The altercation occurred about 7:30 p.m. in the 17000 block of 40th Run North. Deputies found a man suffering from gunshot wounds, the Sheriff's Office said.The unidentified man was transported to St. Mary's Medical Center in critical ...
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Bus strikes kills woman at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
A woman's airport visit to greet an arriving traveler turned deadly when she tripped in a roadway and a charter bus ran over her. It forced the normally hectic four-lane arrivals section ...
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City of Weston horse places fourth at Pimlico Race Course
Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The owners chose to name the 3-year-old thoroughbred after their city of residence. City of Weston competed in the $100,000 Chick Lang Stakes among eight other ...
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The Pier in danger after decades of memories and pictures
Advocates for The Pier want it to be renovated and restored in its current form, kept as the tourist attraction it is, while city officials feel it would be more economical and feasible to tear it down and replace it with a new structure. The advocates for The Pier want us to decide.
The Pier, as it is called by St Petersburg residents, or the St Petersburg Pier, as it is known nationally and even internationally, is one of the major landmarks of the city and a seminal tourist attraction and has been visited by tens of millions of people during the course of its existence, but it may soon be demolished and replaced, which has courted the anger of many residents. Read more
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