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Man accused of pointing cane yelling Boom at deputy
Mark David Molinksi faces charges after he held up a metal cane and pointed it like a gun, saying "Boom!" to a deputy and a Riviera Beach police officer, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department arrest ...
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Video Tampa school volunteer wins $10000 award
A school volunteer at Just Elementary became $10,000 richer Friday, thanks to a simple mantra: Just Love. Lynnette Henry is the 2013 winner of We Deliver, a reward for her extra efforts to help students, colleagues and the community. She was the counselor at Just Elementary Elementary when she started a program called Just Love, which is a partnership with Idlewild Baptist Church. The school ...
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Judge sentences drunk driver who fled fatal Tampa crash
TAMPA -- Hank Tippins could barely get the words out between sobs that racked his body so hard he hunched over and gasped for air. "I'm so sorry for what I did to your mom and your family," he said haltingly. "I'm so sorry. I should have never been drinking that night. I should have never gotten in the car to drive." Tippins, a 29-year-old engineer with a wife and ...
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Fort Lauderdale targets liquor convenience stores
FORT LAUDERDALE— Fearing that liquor and convenience stores are a breeding ground for crime in the heart of the city's northwest community, officials may permanently ban new ones from opening in the area.The city and local businesses are concerned the stores could also inhibit redevelopment efforts along the Sistrunk Boulevard corridor, which recently underwent $15 million in ...
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St. Petersburg leaders want answers on generous police perk on take-home cars
ST. PETERSBURG -- As Mayor Bill Foster works to close a $4 million budget gap this year and find money for employee raises next year, a generous police perk the mayor approved after taking office is coming under scrutiny. Nearly 80 percent the city's police officers are assigned a take-home car that they can drive to and from work and gas up for free at city pumps -- courtesy of ...
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Davie collecting money to help tornado victims in Oklahoma
Rachel Swyear hugs a volunteer who helped her salvage belongings from her tornado-devastated home in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado killed 24 people, injured more than 375 people and damaged 1,200 ...
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Florida teen in underage sex case rejects plea agreement
A female Florida high school senior accused of having sex with her underage girlfriend has rejected a plea agreement, attorneys said. Kaitlyn Hunt, who is 18 and attends Sebastian River High School in Sebastian, Fla., is charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 to 16 years old. If convicted, she could be sentenced to 15 years in prison and registered as a sex ...
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Northwestern Diving Coach Florida States Young Tabbed for World University Games
Northwestern head diving coach Alik Sarkisian has been named the head coach and team leader for USA Diving at the 2013 World University Games July 6-17 in Kazan, ...
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Miami-Dade Schools celebrates dedication of Brucie Ball Education Center
A rededication ceremony was held Friday, May 10, for the Brucie Ball Educational Center in Miami. Brucie Ball, who had been the assistant superintendent of the Office of Special Education and Psychological Services, passed away in 2008. The former Merrick Educational Center was renamed at a School Board meeting on March 13 in recognition of Ball’s efforts in special ...
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Miami Gardens’ 5K for Foster Care draws dozens of runners
Dozens of people turned out to run in the fourth annual 5K for Foster Care at the Betty T. Ferguson Recreation Center in Miami Gardens on Saturday, May 18. The run benefited the Center for Family and Child Enrichment Services, a resource provider for foster parents, adoptive parents and children in need of ...
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Florida’s top two youth volunteers honored for service
Florida’s top two youth volunteers are Alexis Lehrman, 15, of Design and Architecture Senior High School in Miami and Joshua Williams, 12, of Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove.Prudential Financial Inc., in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals, sponsors The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. The nationwide program honors two young people from ...
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Boxes of medical records missing from Jackson
Boxes of medical records for more than 1,400 patients of Jackson Health System have been missing since January, the hospital system reported Friday, after mailing letters to affected patients informing them of the privacy breach and offering free credit protection services — even though Jackson administrators say Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and financial statements were ...
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Southern Co. team weighing changes from renewables
ATLANTA -- The Southern Co. is brainstorming ways it could more widely incorporate renewable energy, particularly solar power, into its traditional business model, CEO Thomas Fanning said this week.The southeast utility has assembled a brainstorming team tasked with considering how renewable energy technology might be used in coming years if its costs continue falling and solar panels become ...
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Lumber mill near Live Oak expected to bring 350 jobs
An Austrian lumber company plans to build a $130 million sawmill near Live Oak employing 350 people, a project touted as a shot in the arm to the local economy while also raising concerns about its effects on the timber supply and competing sawmills as well as its cost to ...
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Community group renews call for city to ban use of mountaintop coal by GRU
A community group has renewed its call for the city of Gainesville to officially end Gainesville Regional Utilities' use of coal mined through blasting and shearing off ...
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Memorial Weekend Miami 2013- Day Parties
Ace Hood Celebrity Mansion Birthday Party Memorial WeekendNyc Compton | XO Management | Reem Team | Platinum Kids | City Elite Group4:00 PM to 11:00 PMVilla 221221 NE 17th St Miami, FL 33132 Welcome to MiamiBryant McKinnie & Friends1pm-9pmDJ EnticeMaxine Lounge/Bamboo PoolCatalina Beach Club & Resort1732 Collins Ave Miami ...
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Lawyers to take over jobless-benefit appeals in Florida
Beginning next year, the state will change the way unemployment appeals are handled by requiring that hearing officers be lawyers. Currently, appeals referees do not have to be attorneys. They are Department of Economic Opportunity staff members trained to decide cases in which an employee or employer challenges a decision to withhold or award unemployment benefits. A bill passed in this ...
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Police Daytona woman says pair hired her to defraud Boca stores
Loniee Hughes, 35, of South Daytona, is facing charges after she allegedly agreed to open up fraudulent lines of credit at stores in Boca Raton in exchange for cash, according to Boca Raton ...
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Boca-based pet rescue group heading to Oklahoma City to help animals
BOCA RATON— — Help is on the way for the shelter dogs of Oklahoma City. The Tri-County Humane Society is sending a team of six people to pick up dozens of dogs and bring them back to South Florida for adoption. The crew leaves Saturday and is expected back late Wednesday with as many as 100 dogs. "We will need homes for all these animals," said Amanda Chussler, assistant ...
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In Tampa parents celebrate reuniting with their children
TAMPA -- Gary Morch remembers the knock on the door. He scrambled to the kitchen counter and hid the spoon, syringe and pills in a drawer. His toddler son, Adison, played in a bedroom. Morch opened the door. Child protective investigators walked ...
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St. Petersburg mayor to meet with NAACP over shootings and hiring practices
ST. PETERSBURG -- Mayor Bill Foster plans to meet Tuesday with black leaders about rising tension between the African American community and the city's police officers. Black leaders said they are concerned about shootings in March and April in which officers shot into moving cars, which the department forbids unless there is a threat from someone with a gun. Both incidents are under ...
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Tampa stocks go into long weekend on a mostly up note Video
May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Bloombergs Alix Steel, Adam Johnson and Julie Hyman report on todays ten most important stocks including The Gap, Sears and Procter & Gamble. (Source: Bloomberg) Stock prices for most of the largest publicly traded companies in the Tampa area gained ground in advance of the Memorial Day weekend. Bloomin Brands (NASDAQ: BLMN) posted the biggest jump, one day after pricing a ...
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Florida would provide parts to U.S.-produced Apple computer line
US-based Apple Mac line would include components from Florida, according to company CEO Tim Cook Florida got a bite of good news from Apple during Tim Cooks recent Senate hearing testimony on taxes, with the CEO announcing Florida would take part in a U.S.-based Mac line. He wasnt specific about where in Florida, but Cook did say Texas would be home base for assembling the Mac line. Illinois and ...
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Fla. House speaker questions unique Citizens deal
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford says he has serious concerns about a unique deal involving the state's largest property insurer.Weatherford on Friday questioned an arrangement where Heritage Property Insurance and Casualty will receive $52 million to absorb 60,000 policies now held by Citizens Property Insurance Corp.The deal was narrowly approved by the ...
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Man faces life sentence for rape murder
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A Tampa Bay area man will spend the rest of his life in prison for raping an elderly woman, who died a short time later.A Pinellas County jury found 49-year-old Virgil DeBose guilty Friday of felony murder, sexual battery and burglary. A life sentence was the judge's only option.Prosecutors say DeBose attacked 78-year-old Audrey Mulligan in her Paradise Shores condo 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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