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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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5 things to know in Florida for May 22
Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.FACE-CHEWING VICTIM CONTINUES RECOVERY IN MIAMIA homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year appeared Tuesday to be mostly at peace with his disfigurement, strumming a guitar, making jokes and thanking people for their donations to help pay for his care. Ronald Poppo ...
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Undocumented immigrant spared deportation allowed to remain for one year
Rene Rivas was about to be deported in the dark of night, at 4 a.m.But that was last week.Seven days later, on Monday, the undocumented immigrant was released from an immigration lock-up and allowed to work legally and live openly with his wife and children in Miami for a year. The roller-coaster story of this 41-year-old construction worker from Durango, Mexico, is anything but common as ...
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Miami-Dade non-profit offers free hearing screenings this week
Audiologist Maria Ortiz gets ready to test 10-year-old Vincent Feola's hearing during the Hearing and Speech Center of Florida's open house Tuesday. The free hearings continue this week. (Vincent's hearing turned out just ...
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Floridas longest serving death row inmate dies
RAIFORD, Fla. -- A man who has been on death row longer than any other inmate in Florida has died in prison.The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/16L6tVt) reports that Gary Alvord died Sunday at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford.A spokeswoman confirmed the death but could not provide details, including whether Alvord's body was claimed by relatives or whether he will be buried on ...
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Philbin I Thought The Guys Practiced Fast
. I think they were three excellent choices and the three of them are well deserving of the award. With that, we can open up for questions." (On ...
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Its Super Bowl XIX all over again for San Francisco and Miami
Super Bowl XIX at Stanford Stadium. Miami Dolphins vs. San Francisco 49ers. January 20, 1985 San Francisco 49ers fans can remember the first and only Super Bowl played in the Bay Area like it was yesterday. Now, more than 30 years later, one of the hottest sporting events on the planet returns to the Bay in 2016. In the years since, other metropolitan areas have reaped the economic benefit of ...
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Miami-Dade commissioners vote to overhaul sewer system
The Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to spend billions of dollars to overhaul the county's sewer system, avoiding more delays and possibly millions in fines, and prompting a raise in monthly water and sewer rates to pay for ...
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Massive regional disaster drill draws inspiration from tornado response
But on Tuesday, the National Guard and other first responders pulling people from the debris, triaging and treating their injuries, and disposing of hazardous materials were at Camp Blanding for a massive training operation called Vigilant Guard.While the work was hot and tiring, Georgia National Guard Col. Vernon Atkinson said the troops learned through Monday's deadly Oklahoma tornadoes ...
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RTI Donor Services opens Alachua division creating 33 jobs
Most of the jobs are at a facility with lab space the company is leasing in Progress Corporate Park but also are at satellite offices in Melbourne, Jacksonville and Tallahassee.RTI Donor Services is a not-for-profit organization formed in 1998 by Alachua-based RTI Biologics, a publicly traded company that prepares donated tissue for surgery. The donor services operation has had administrative ...
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Chinese language contest held in St Petersburg
/enpproperty--> ST PETERSBURG - A Chinese language proficiency competition featuring student teams from five Russian regions was held here on Tuesday, with the winners set to sail into an international contest to be held in China. In the city's iconic Hermitage Theater, university teams from St Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok and a joint Siberian team took turns ...
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Bankruptcy judge rejects Renzis efforts to stop foreclosures on Miami condo projects
Developer Renzo Renzis attempt to stop foreclosure auctions on two Miami condominium projects through Chapter 7 filings has failed. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Isicoff granted a motion by an affiliate of Miami Beach-based developer Crescent Heights to continue pursuing its foreclosure lawsuit against Renzis Beacon at Brickell Village, Beacon Developer Partners and Blue on Coral Way. Renzis ...
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Bucs Have High Hopes for Steven Means
anticipated. The 6-foot-4, 250-pound defensive end wasn't highly recruited coming out of high school and didn't receive an invitation to the NFL combine following a standout college at Buffalo either. So when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers called in the fifth round last month, Means understandably was thrilled and surprised. The Bucs believe they selected a player who has a chance to develop ...
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Yet More Bucs in the Top 100
After seeing Dashon Goldson, Gerald McCoy and Darrelle Revis revealed among the first 40 names in NFL Network's Top 100 Players of 2013 series, Buc fans will find two more familiar names between #51-60 on Thursday ...
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Conservative groups protest in Tampa
Nearly 100 people took to the streets in Tampa today outside the IRS building on Boy Scout Blvd to warn everyone that the IRS and the government have gone too ...
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Your Weather Photos May 2013
Severe weather took place throughout South Florida on May 20. A flood watch remains in effect until 10 p.m. for Eastern Miami-Dade & Broward Counties on May 21. NBC 6 viewers sent in pictures from their neighborhood. Send us your pictures by emailing to iSee@nbc6.com or on Twitter/Instagram with ...
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Lawsuits Against Former Schools Police Chief District Settled
Charles Hurley submitted his letter of resignation on Feb. 8, a district official confirmed to NBC 6 on Wednesday. The Miami-Dade Schools Police chief was demoted after two female officers filed lawsuits in January claiming that he sexually harassed them, and then retaliated against them after they refused his advances. Officers Deanna Fox-Williams and Yewande Gibson spoke with NBC 6 in January. ...
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Broward judges Twitter use ruffles Public Defender
The Twitter account of Broward Circuit Judge Matthew Destry seems to have ruffled the feathers of Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein. Destry's messages themselves are anything but controversial. He rarely posts more than once a day, and his posts appear to be going up during breaks in ...
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Horticultural therapy for war veterans.
There are still Vietnam veterans living in poverty or on the street in the United States today, everyday many commit suicide from despair. Since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, suicide rates among veterans have spiked again as sufferers of a range of mental and physical injuries fall through the net. Veteran Farms are one way in which these veterans can be helped.
Adam Burke is a man with a mission, to help war veterans returning to the United States after tours abroad, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, that have struggled to reintegrate with society. This may be due to PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder), physical injuries, such as disability, or a sense of a loss of purpose after the harried action of a war zone. Read more
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