SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) — A 17-year-old girl died Sunday during a strong storm that swept through central Florida, damaging homes and businesses.
The woman was driving in Spring Hill, north of …
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4/11/21
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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman who claimed she is Harry Potter fatally struck a federal judge visiting from New York and seriously injured a 6-year-old boy after swerving her car onto a …
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4/11/21
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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Staking his claim to the Republican Party, former President Donald Trump is casting his populist policies and attack-dog politics as the key to future GOP success.
In a …
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By STEVE PEOPLES
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4/11/21
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — They sprouted like yellow flowers early Wednesday in front of Memorial Hospital Jacksonville, planted there by nurses, doctors and staff to remember the past year’s …
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By DAN SCANLAN, Florida Times-Union
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4/11/21
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NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Joan Antonuccio begged God not to take her daughter as she rushed to Naples Community Hospital from her home in Golden Gate Estates.
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By JAKE ALLEN, Naples Daily News
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4/11/21
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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump plans to affirm his commitment to the Republican Party — and raise the possibility that someone else will be the GOP's next presidential …
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By STEVE PEOPLES
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4/10/21
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LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is facing charges that he killed his girlfriend's 2-year-old son, telling detectives he struck the child for urinating on the couch, officials said …
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4/10/21
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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — A cluster of severe storms swept across Southern states early Saturday, destroying buildings in the Florida Panhandle and dropping large hail on a coastal Alabama …
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4/10/21
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Professional wrestlers have a nickname for Michael Dockins.
The “Gimmick Attorney.”
A “gimmick” is a term for a wrestler’s in-ring persona and anything that …
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By PAUL GUZZO, Tampa Bay Times
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4/10/21
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — 2020, with its rhythmic sound and attractive numerals, was supposed to be a great year to get married.
But we all know what happened last year: COVID-19 destroyed …
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By LOIS K. SOLOMON, South Florida Sun Sentinel
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4/10/21
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MIAMI (AP) — The mere whiff of a scandal once unraveled political careers with stunning speed. Not anymore.
Embroiled in a federal sex trafficking investigation, of Florida has denied the …
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By WILL WEISSERT and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
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4/9/21
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Does the thought of a frog fascinate you or freak you out? What if you imagined one with claws?
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By Brad Buck
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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — There will be no reckoning at the Republican National Committee.
Three months after former President Donald Trump helped incite a violent attack against Congress, the GOP …
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By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN
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4/9/21
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy has been arrested after making a bomb threat at his South Florida school, sheriff's officials said.
The student was arrested Thursday after …
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4/9/21
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge sentenced a 21-year-old man to 24 years in prison for killing an Ohio mother and her young daughter in a 2018 traffic crash.
Hillsborough Circuit Judge …
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4/9/21
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman whose image went viral when she coughed on a customer at a Pier 1 store last year in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has been sentenced to 30 days in …
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4/9/21
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CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who was driving a motorcycle with his young stepdaughter in his lap is facing several charges after she was seriously injured when he ran a stop sign and laid …
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4/9/21
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) —
A proposal pushed by the leader of the Florida Senate to close the state's pension plan to most new enrollees won approval Thursday from the Republican-controlled …
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By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN
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4/8/21
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An associate of Rep. Matt Gaetz's is working toward a plea deal with federal prosecutors investigating a sex trafficking operation, potentially escalating the facing the …
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER
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4/8/21
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MIAMI (AP) — The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to demand cruise ships be allowed to start sailing immediately, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced …
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By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
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4/8/21
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