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JTA to discontinue trolly service Downtown
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority will no longer offer trolley services in the Downtown segment of Jacksonville. Starting June 3, the JTA is discontinuing all operations north of the Jacksonville Landing to the St. James Building, and east to the City Hall Annex Building. Our customers spoke, and we listened, said Clinton Forbes, chief of transit operations support. The new Riverside ...
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Miami-Dade public defender allowed to pull out of cases because of workload
Describing what it called a "damning indictment" of representation for poor criminal defendants, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Miami-Dade County public defender's office could withdraw from a large chunk of felony cases because of excessive workloads.The court divided 5-2 on the issue, with Justice Peggy Quince writing a majority opinion that said attorneys ...
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Vernon Dolphins Youth Camper To Dolphins Draft Pick
. Vernon, now 22, remembers his experience at the team's youth football camp in 2003 like it just happened. It was then that Vernon decided for himself that football and not soccer was going to be his passion and he planned his future. "Actually, during my first week of OTAs last year that was going through my head," said Vernon, a defensive end who was chosen in the third round ...
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Felon ripped off Target stores in Central Florida deputies say
Osceola County Sheriff's Office said they watched Angel Guillermo Diaz burglarize two Super Target stores in Osceola, including one at 4795 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway ...
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Play Tampa Bay Theme park tips Sunset Music Festival Backyard BBQ
Theme Park Guide ) and tips, and offer suggestions for how to spend Memorial Day in Tampa Bay. Here are the quick details on those events, and for even more things to do, head ...
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St. Petersburg City Council candidates dont live where they claim
ST. PETERSBURG -- District 4 City Council candidates Darden Rice and David McKalip said they would move to run for council even as they criticized the redistricting process that drew their current homes out of the district. Both candidates said publicly they would make the sacrifice because they wanted to help improve the city. The problem: The Tampa Bay Times found that neither candidate ...
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Florida ranks high in economic outlook
Florida has the ninth best economic outlook in the country, according to a study by the American Legislative Exchange Council. The ranking provides a forecast based on existing state economic policy. States with a higher economic outlook ranking can expect better growth than states with lower ranking, a statement said. Factors that lead to a higher rating include low tax rates, right-to-work ...
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Florida Cops Plan to Harass Gun Show Attendees
The Tampa Bay Times reports that the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office plans to "strictly enforce a county law mandating background checks for all customers at gun shows" and close down private firearms sales between individuals. Working closely with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office will conduct an undercover ...
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Hurricane forecast Another busy Atlantic season
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.Thursday's outlook calls for 13 to 20 named storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes.The prediction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is more than what's considered an average Atlantic season. Last year was the third-busiest ...
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Largest captured Fla. black bear is relocated
PAISELEY, Fla. -- The largest Florida black bear ever captured has been relocated.Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Joy Hill says the 620-pound bear was captured on Monday. It had been getting into trash in the Ocala National Forest, even into secured garbage in a shed by pulling the aluminum siding off to get his free meal.The bear was trapped in Lake County. ...
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Bucs Banks Reach Contract Agreement
Tampa Bay is down to just one unsigned draftee after inking second-round pick Johnthan Banks, the award-winning cornerback out of Mississippi State, to a four-year deal on ...
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Florida Mayor Candidate Claims Jesus Endorsed Her Gets Only 56 Votes Loses To Gay Man
NBC News footage . Seven candidates ran for Mayor of North Miami, FL in Tuesday’s race. Who can blame them? North Miami’s a beautiful and fascinating place. One candidate in particular appeared to feel extremely confident about winning. Anne Pierre — a nurse, mom, radio DJ, and Haitian creole pop star with a Master’s degree in Public Health — claimed that she had ...
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George Zimmerman defense releases photos texts of Trayvon Martin
Martin last year during a confrontation at a gated community in Sanford. He is pleading not guilty, claiming self-defense. His trial starts next month. The photos show Martin blowing smoke and extending his middle finger to the camera. The photos also show a gun and what appears to be a potted marijuana plant. In the text messages, Martin tells a friend that his mother has told him he needs to ...
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Kerry Kennedy farmworker protest Wendys in NYC
Kennedy heads the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights, named for her late father. She led the crowd outside the stockholders' meeting in a chant of "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? ...
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Men on Bicycles Robbed Slapped Woman Miami Police
Ducasse was followed by three men on bicycles when suddenly one of them pulled out a gun and demanded her purse, police said. Another suspect grabbed the purse and slapped her in the ...
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20 Students Honored for Helping Crash Victims
A group of 20 students headed to prom - along with their limousine driver - helped rescue five adults and two children, who were trapped in a van after they crashed on Interstate 595 Saturday. Students Frank Tucker and Peter Kim described what ...
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Home invasion robbers pose as police beat Miramar man
Miramar police said. "If you know you have done nothing wrong and you're not expecting police at your door, call 911," Miramar police spokeswoman Tania Rues said. According to Rues, the incident began to unfold shortly after 1 a.m. when the owner of a home along the 2000 block of Southwest ...
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Tampa City Council opts not to hire its own budget analyst
TAMPA -- The City Council on Thursday decided this is not the time to hire its own budget analyst to keep an eye on Mayor Bob Buckhorn's administration. With a $15 million to $20 million revenue shortfall looming for next year's budget, several council members characterized the analyst as a luxury the city cannot afford -- at least, not now. Instead, they said, any available funds ...
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Man mistaken as burglar bitten by Davie police dog
Roger Alvarez says he received these wounds from a Davie K-9 when he and a cousin were working on the roof of a restaurant about 2:40 a.m. Wednesday and they were mistaken for ...
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Dog that went missing back home with her family
PLANTATION— Izzy, the retired police dog who went missing during a thunderstorm Monday night, is back home with her family. The 7-year-old black Lab dashed out of her owners' house in Plantation about 9 ...
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Dwyane Wade Receives 2012-13 Seasonlong Kia Community Assist Award
The Miami HEAT announced today thatDwyane Wade is the recipient of the "2012-13 Seasonlong Kia Community Assist Award" in recognition of his outstanding efforts in the community and his ongoing philanthropic and charitable work.The award recognizes the NBA player who best reflects the passion that the league and its players have for giving back to their communities. This year marked ...
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South Florida roreclosure rates mortgage delinquency down in March
Foreclosure activity was down in South Florida in March. Foreclosure activity in South Florida was down in March, with Miami-Dade County recording the largest year-over-year decrease. The CoreLogic data reveals that the rate of Miami-Dade foreclosures among outstanding mortgage loans was 13.25 percent in March, down 4.26 percentage points from the same month last year. The county's mortgage ...
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Max Planck Florida gets $2M grant for neurological study
Max Planck Florida researcher Jason Christie The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience in Jupiter announced that one of its researchers received a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes for Health. The five-year grant will help Dr. Jason Christie study the electrical signaling connections between neurons in the brain. He plans to use laser-based techniques to study this so he ...
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A-Rod sells Miami Beach mansion at 21 discount
Alex Rodriguez's home has sold for $30 million. New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez may have sold his South Florida home for $30 million, a 21 percent discount on the original price. According to TMZ, a Palm Beach celebrity signed on the dotted line for the sluggers spacious home in Miami Beach. The onetime home run king bought the property, at 4358 N. Bay Road, in 2010 for $7.4 million. He ...
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Florida FBI Shooting May Be Linked to Boston Area Triple Slaying
U.S. news reports say a Chechen man killed in an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that may have been connected to dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan ...
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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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