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New bricks installed at Veterans Memorial Park in Bushnell
BUSHNELL -- The latest group of bricks has been installed at Veterans Memorial Park in County . The park, which is located on the west side of the historic courthouse, serves as a tribute to the men and women who served our country. If you are interested in ordering a brick for a living or deceased veteran, call the Sumter County Veterans Services at (352) 569-1520. Each brick costs $50 and ...
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Drug rehabilitation center opens in Umatilla
The Recovery Village held a grand opening of their 67,000-square-foot lodge-style treatment center. It includes a large exercise facility, meditation rooms, indoor and outdoor pools, a theater, and much more. A typical stay at the center will be around $32,500. The center renovated the former Umatilla Academy for Girls, which shut down in 2006 after reports the girls were mistreated and ...
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Election reform law expands early voting days
Last November people all over Florida waited for hours to vote during the early voting period and on Election Day, like the people waiting at this polling place in Orlando's Dr. Phillips neighborhood. A new election law promises to prevent ...
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SeaWorld Orlando launches reusable cup program
SeaWorld says each refill with a reusable cup prevents the emission of approximately 27 grams of CO2. (PHOTO/SeaWorld ...
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Powerball rumors swirl in Zephyrhills
The city of Zephyrhills is still waiting for its big Powerball winner to come forward. The winning ticket, with a grand prize worth $590.5 million, was purchased at the Gall Boulevard ...
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St. Cloud police arrest 16 in drug sweep
ST. CLOUD -- In Osceola County, police are in the middle of Operation Summer Sweep to to combat illegal drug activity. St. Cloud Police said they arrested 16 people during the first day of the operation. Two search warrants were served on Friday and police said that more than 240-grams of marijuana were seized along with about$ 1,928.00 in cash. All sixteen people arrested were taken to ...
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Florida volunteers head to Oklahoma to help tornado victims
LONGWOOD -- Central Floridians are stepping up to help in a disaster elsewhere in the country, as a team of 10 people from Longwood prepare to help survivors of a ...
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Melbourne Beach Mayor Tom Davis resigns
This 2011 file photo shows Tom Davis during his campaign to become mayor of West Melbourne. Davis, who was elected in November 2011, announced his resignation Monday, May 20, 2013. (FILE/Tom Davis, via ...
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FDOT holding hearing about SR-40 widening project
OCALA -- The Florida Department of Transportation is holding a public hearing Tuesday night about plans to widen State Road 40. The meeting will be held at the Lillian Bryant Meeting Hall, located ...
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Victim of Miami face-chewing attack last year making progress doctors say
Doctor Urmen Desai, left, talks to reporters as Dr. Wrood M. Kassira, center, and Dr. Renaud Saint-Vil, right, look on during a news conference in Miami, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The doctors gave an an update on the progress of Ronald Poppo, a homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami. The attack left Poppo blind, but the doctors say he's been ...
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Police seek purse snatcher and two shoppers
Hallandale Beach Police are searching for a purse snatcher and two women suspected of going Christmas shopping with credit cards from that stolen purse, police said. The strong arm robbery happened around 12:25 p.m. on Dec. 20 outside the Desjardins Bank at 1001 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd. A young man grabbed the purse and ran off but there was no bank surveillance camera in the north parking lot ...
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Venezuelan Banker and Miami Brokerage Workers Are Accused of Fraud
CARACAS, Venezuela ...
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Causeway Cannibal victim keeps positive attitude nearly year later
MIAMI— When the so-called Causeway Cannibal chewed off a homeless man's face, disfiguring and blinding him, images of the facial injuries spread across the Internet and sparked worldwide revulsion.Yet nearly a year after that brutal assault in Miami, Ronald Poppo remains without a nose and without even prosthetic eyes, because he has rebuffed surgeons' offers to rebuild his ...
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Gov. Rick Scott signs elections bill to fix long voter lines
TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott has finished the fix of the flawed election law that relegated Florida to a late-night joke in 2012 by signing an elections clean-up bill passed on the final day of the legislative session.The measure, signed by Scott late Monday before he left for a trade mission to Chile, reverses several provisions implemented in 2011 by GOP lawmakers in anticipation of the ...
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Man gets 10 years for fatal street fight
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Jacksonville man who said he was defending himself when he fatally shot another man during a street fight has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.A Duval County judge sentenced 20-year-old Quintavis Sermond Seay on Monday for manslaughter. The Florida Times-Union ( http://goo.gl/2SJ0H) reports that under a plea agreement, the judge could have given Seay anywhere from ...
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Area agencies standing by to assist tornado victims
As the level of devastation becomes clearer following this week’s deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma, area charities and service agencies are waiting to see how they can help -- and how much help will be ...
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Walls to new GPD building start going up
In March of next year, the new building will open, ready for officers to return. But until then, construction continues at 721 NW Sixth St., where the original worn-down headquarters once stood.On Tuesday, workers in hardhats hammered away, installing support beams and starting on the exterior walls. A poured concrete slab serves as the site's current foundation."It's ...
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Early Easter leaves Orlando hotels with April hangover
After four months of year-over-year growth, business dipped in April at Orlando-area hotels, likely because of an early Easter this year and the absence of a couple of big conventions in town.Hotels in the Orlando market filled 72.6 percent of their rooms last month, compared with 75.6 percent in April 2012, and the average daily room price slipped 1 percent to $105.66, according to the latest ...
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Deerfield Beach Man Hit Girl With iPad Cord Authorities
A Miami Beach father, 49-year-old Adolfo Guzman, is facing an aggravated child abuse charge after he tied his 12-year-old son to a pole and left him for hours while he went shopping, police said. The boy said that he didn't tell his father he was at a friend's house Sunday, and said his father is innocent. His sister and Miami Beach Police spokesman Sgt. Bobby Hernandez also spoke ...
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West Delray man shoots through door at suspected intruders
Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office detectives and deputies stand outside a house on the 5000 block of Palm Ridge Boulevard after a man shot through his back door after thinking three men were trying to break in around 2 p.m. on ...
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Lauderdale Lakes man wins $38.5 million negligence judgment
Lauderdale Lakes man who was left in a vegetative state after undergoing a "manipulation under anesthesia" in 2008, and another $10 million to the man's two daughters.Dale Whyte, 37, never woke up after going into cardiac arrest while undergoing the controversial outpatient procedure at the Atlantic Surgical Center ...
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Fort Lauderdale offers new attorney $175000 salary
FORT LAUDERDALE— Mayor Jack Seiler started off contract negotiations with would-be city attorney Cynthia A. Everett on Monday by offering her a $175,000 salary.Everett, who is currently the village attorney ...
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Developer tweaks Margaritaville contract with Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD— City Hall has a slightly new deal with the Margaritaville developer and will hold a meeting this week to clue in the public. Residents can ask questions about the proposed changes at 6 p.m. Thursday in the city commission ...
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Record breaking 18 ft python captured in Florida
Jason Leon (L), caught the 18-foot, 8-inch Burmese python in southeast Miami-Dade County; University of Florida scientists lie down next to the record snake. ORLANDO, Fla., -- An 18-foot, 8-inch Burmese python set a record for the longest snake ever captured in South Florida, where the exotic species has taken up residence.College student Jason Leon snared the female python in a rural area ...
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‘Zombie’ attack victim may spend rest of life in Miami-Dade nursing home
Ronald Poppo listens to Heat games through a portable radio, but he’ll never watch TV again. He’s relearning how to play guitar, but he has lost interest in reconnecting with his family. Poppo’s doctors offer to give him prosthetic eyes and rebuild his chewed-off nose, but he turns them down. “He’s blind, so he can’t see what he looks like now, and it ...
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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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