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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal appeals court granted Florida's request to reinstate portions of the state's election laws on Friday while it appeals a lower court's decision that the law was …
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By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
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5/6/22
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida power company has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine for a 2017 explosion that left five workers dead.
Tampa Electric Co. has pleaded guilty to violating an Occupational …
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5/6/22
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Floridians will save on items ranging from diapers and gasoline to auto racing tickets and energy efficient appliances under a $1 billion tax cut package signed into law by …
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By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
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5/6/22
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MIAMI (AP) — The Florida sheriff ostracized for his agency’s response to the high school massacre in Parkland that left 17 people dead will again be heading a law enforcement agency as the police …
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5/6/22
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX brought four astronauts home with a midnight splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, capping the busiest month yet for Elon Musk’s taxi service.
The …
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By MARCIA DUNN
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5/6/22
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The first Hispanic police chief in the city of Orlando's history plans to retire after four years on the job and three decades with the law enforcement agency.
Orlando …
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5/6/22
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been convicted of running an $80 million Ponzi scheme.
A federal jury in Tampa found Michael DaCorta guilty Wednesday of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and …
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5/5/22
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MIAMI (AP) — A little-noticed federal appeals court ruling this year threatens a key weapon in the United States’ war on drugs: A decades-old law that gives the U.S. broad authority to make …
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN
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5/5/22
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MIAMI (AP) — Jeffri Dávila-Reyes says he’s still mystified how he ended up serving hard time in a U.S. federal prison.
His cocaine bust at sea was closer to his homeland of Costa Rica than …
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN
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5/5/22
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Walgreens pharmacy chain has reached a $683 million settlement with the state of Florida in a lawsuit accusing the company of improperly dispensing millions of …
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By CURT ANDERSON
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5/5/22
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ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A sheriff deputy ran over a beachgoer who was lying on the sand in a Florida beach ...
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5/5/22
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MIAMI (AP) — The premier of the British Virgin Islands, whom U.S. prosecutors described as “corrupt to the core,” was given a $500,000 bond that would allow him to be released from prison as he …
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN
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5/4/22
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — A 20-year-old man drove a stolen Mercedes SUV as fast as 178 mph (286 kph) during a chase Monday night through six counties along Florida's Turnpike and Interstate 95, …
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5/4/22
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JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The director of a nonprofit research and environmental center in Florida has resigned amid continuing water-quality issues in sea turtle rehabilitation tanks and an exodus …
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5/4/22
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A 14-year-old Missouri boy who fell to his death from a 430-foot (130-meter) drop-tower ride in central Florida's tourist district appeared to slip out of his seat at the …
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER
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5/3/22
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man claiming to be a film financier was convicted Tuesday in South Florida of participating in a scheme to steal more than $60 million from investors and …
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5/3/22
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman was convicted Tuesday for her part in a 2016 Florida nightclub shooting that left two teenagers dead and 14 other people injured.
A Lee County jury found …
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5/3/22
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A 23-year-old Florida rapper who goes by the name Rod Wave has been arrested on a domestic battery charge, officials said.
Rodarius Green, whose song Heart on Ice …
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5/3/22
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MIAMI (AP) — A former bank branch manager and two men with ties to a Miami-Dade County comissioner are accused of stealing $640,000 from the county, officials said.
They used their positions to …
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5/3/22
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Members of central Florida's congressional delegation want to know why scores of people, including small children, are having to wait outside for days in order to get …
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5/2/22
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