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More guns seized at OIA than any other Florida airport
That kind of apology is routine.Eitel was the 19th person at OIA arrested this year or issued an at-large charging affidavit for "carrying a firearm in a place prohibited by law," records ...
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Boy finds deputys gun in Tampa theater
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Police say a gun found by a 9-year-old boy inside a bathroom stall at a movie theater in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood belonged to a Hillsborough County ...
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Rubio Says People Should Learn English Before Permanent Resident Status
Speaking in Washington, Senator Marco Rubio said: "When you apply for that green card after the tenyear period and more has expired, you're going to have to prove that you're proficient in English because I think assimilation is ...
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Pool of 40 Potential Jurors Reached in Zimmerman Trial
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the February 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He has pleaded not guilty, saying he acted in ...
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Executive headhunting firm gets easy payday from Tampa Port Authority
TAMPA -- Last year the Tampa Port Authority's governing board voted to hire Boyden Global Executive Search to help it look for a new CEO to lead the port. Boyden helped the board select and hire Paul Anderson, the former CEO of the Port of Jacksonville, to take over the Port of Tampa at the start of the year. Tampa paid Boyden $119,992 to help find Anderson. But the executive headhunter ...
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Fate of Fort Lauderdale millionaire Guma Aguiar still a mystery one year later
Port Everglades inlet a year ago Wednesday - the day he vanished, leaving behind an overwhelming tangle of business and personal lawsuits, a family in turmoil and questions about his survival. Since then, many of his legal troubles have been resolved, but the people closest to Aguiar - who would be 36 if he's still alive - continue to wrangle over his wealth, estimated last year to be ...
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Police search in vain for body of missing Hallandale Beach woman
Investigators and K-9 officers from several law enforcement agencies search 180 acres, including a canal, about a mile west of Sun Life Stadium on Monday, June 20, 2011, for clues in the disappearance of Lynda Robin Meier. Meier, 40, from Hallandale Beach, vanished June 4, ...
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2103
As of Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at least 2,103 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...
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Miami-Dade unions call for health-insurance account audit
The heads of three county labor unions fired up their troops outside County Hall on Tuesday afternoon, castigating Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s administration for carrying a $42 million surplus in the county’s health-insurance account while asking employees to contribute more toward healthcare costs. Police Benevolent Association President John Rivera, Service Employees International Union ...
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French company coming to Florida
MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A French company is expanding its operations in Florida.Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who is on a week-long trade mission in Paris, announced on Tuesday that Vision Systems would create its first U.S. subsidiary in Melbourne.Scott said that the company will eventually hire 40 people over the next three years. The company based in Lyon, France, is a supplier for the aeronautics, ...
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Florida attorney general sues Nationwide Pools
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday announced a lawsuit against Nationwide Pools and Keith Stuart, who owns the pool-construction company accused of ripping off its customers and leaving their pools ...
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Gainesville City Commission to consider reworked University Corners plan
Vacant property at the intersection of West University Avenue and 13th Street, the proposed site of University Corners, is shown in this April 30, 2013 file ...
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Noted funeral director Thomas blended grief work whimsy
He could also be silly as MT Noggin the clown, entertaining at children’s birthday parties and nursing homes.In a life spanning 74 years, he also served as a state legislator, consulted funeral businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada and helped community organizations wherever he lived.Thomas died June 12 after being diagnosed in January with acute myeloid leukemia, said his wife, ...
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Mi Boudoir celebrates First Annual 2013 Miami Style Fusion Charity Event
'First Annual 2013 Miami Style Fusion Charity Event' on June 22, 2013. The event that will be hosted by Mi Boudoir will take place at Nina Torres Fine Art Gallery located at 1800 N Bayshore Drive Suite CP1 in Miami; from 7:00 PM to 3:00 ...
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Miami to have its own Little Santo Domingo” before year end EFE
MIAMI. - Adding to Miami neighborhoods such as "Little Havana" or "Little Haiti" that already draw tourists to southern Florida's multicultural city, will be its own "Little Santo Domingo" before year end," EFE reports. "Right now I'm working on a concept to create a "Little Santo Domingo" in District 1 of Miami," the commissioner ...
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40 jurors reached in Zimmerman trial
George Zimmerman arrives in Seminole circuit court on the sixth day of his murder trial on June 17, 2013 in Sanford, Florida. (Photo by Joe Burbank-Pool/Getty ...
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Cousteaus Grandson Plans 31-Day Florida Underwater Exploration
Starting Sept. 30, Cousteau will lead Mission 31, where he and his team will live underwater and conduct research experiments, according to his ...
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Port of Tampa approves three-year contract with Carnival
TAMPA -- The Tampa Port Authority's governing board on Tuesday approved a new contract with Carnival Corporation that will keep the world's largest cruise ship operator in Tampa. Officials said the new agreement is expected to generate an extra $1 million in cruise revenue a year for the Port of Tampa. Carnival's pervious 10-year contract with the port had expired a year ago but ...
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Tampa Bays priciest estate hits the market for $17.5 million
CLEARWATER -- Century Oaks, the opulent 14-bedroom estate that birthed one of Clearwater's wealthiest neighborhoods, is up for sale at $17.5 million, making it the priciest home on the market in Tampa Bay. The 30,000-square-foot estate was listed for sale Friday by businessman and world-champion powerboat racer Hugh Fuller, who bought it for $5.5 million in 1996 from British Formula 1 ...
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Defense contractor Conax to close St. Petersburg plant cutting 141 jobs
Conax Florida, a division of British defense contractor Cobham plc, is closing it St. Petersburg plant by September, idling 141 workers. The shutdown was disclosed in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (or WARN) notice filed with state and local officials Tuesday. The company, which does business under the name Cobham Life Support, blamed the closing on "a continuing downturn ...
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Judge Admonishes Miami Beach Attorneys In Memorial Day Shooting Probe
Miami Beach police have confirmed that a gun was found in the car of man who was shot to death in a police involved shooting early Monday ...
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Miami Beach advisory board backs Portman-CMC plan to overhaul convention center
As Miami Beach moves closer to selecting a development team to execute a $1 billion overhaul of the city’s convention center district, advisory boards are weighing in with their own recommendations. On Tuesday, a slim majority of the Miami Beach Convention Center Advisory Board voted 4-3 to endorse the Portman-CMC plan over South Beach ACE’s. Both teams are finalists for the project, ...
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Dead zone predictions much less spread than 2012
NEW ORLEANS -- Scientists in Michigan and Louisiana are predicting a big summer "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. In the Chesapeake Bay, a smaller than average dead zone is expected.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released predictions Tuesday for areas with too little oxygen to support life.It says the Gulf zone prediction is 7,286 to 8,561 square miles - anywhere ...
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Florida couple who made child porn sentenced after international search
A North Florida man and his wife will both spend about three decades in federal prison for sexually abusing children, capturing it on video and posting their illegal acts online for millions to see.Brandon Gillreath, 33, was sentenced Monday to 35 years in prison and lifetime probation. His wife, 25-year-old Corine Motley, was sentenced to 29 years and six months in prison followed by 20 years ...
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Florida unveils deals in Paris
French connections to Florida. Scott, who traveled to France on Friday as part of a weeklong Enterprise Florida trade mission, has made three business-related announcements: •Lyon, France-based Vision Systems, which supplies aircraft and automotive components, intends to spend $1.2 million to open a subsidiary ...
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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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