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Video of man jumping on manatee investigated
The video shows a man doing a cannonball on top of what appears to be a manatee and a young calf swimming near a dock in a residential area somewhere in Florida. A voice is heard saying, "Should I do it? Let's do it. Jump, jump, ...
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Florida exports down slightly in March
The latest international trade numbers show that $5.18 billion worth of goods left Florida for international markets in March. The latest international trade numbers show that $5.18 billion worth of goods left Florida for international markets in March, down 0.4 percent from Februarys $5.2 billion, according to Durham, N.H.-based e-forecasting.com. The March data is the most recent ...
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Appeals court agrees to shield legislators
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida appeals court is ruling that state legislators and legislative staff don't have to answer questions in a contentious lawsuit.A divided 1st District Court of Appeals on Wednesday struck down an earlier decision connected to a challenge to Florida's new map for its 27 congressional districts.A coalition of groups sued last year and maintained legislators ...
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Pit bulls killed after attacking 3 in central Fla
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Two pit bulls involved in an attack on three people have been euthanized at the Halifax Humane Society in Daytona Beach.The dogs' owners decided to surrender them rather than going to a hearing following an attack Friday in Holly Hill, said Tyler Stover, a spokesman for the shelter.A similar fate may await three of five pit bulls involved in a May 5 attack on a woman ...
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Shout Out On 6 Airline Ratings
The peak travel season has begun and Consumer Reports has just released its latest airline ratings. On NBC 6 at 5:30 p.m., Trina Robinson will report who topped the list and who didn't. You can also get the results of today's Shout Out On 6 question. Tune in to ...
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Florida Gets A “C-” For How Much It Spends On Students
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) - When it comes to what Florida spends on its students the state doesn’t make the grade, according to data compiled by the U.S. Census. The Census has released its annual report on per-pupil spending for public elementary and secondary schools in fiscal year 2011. Florida spent $8,887 per student, which is significantly below the national average of ...
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HEAT Miami-Dade Broward County Public Schools Announce Wite Hot HEAT Day
by both Miami-Dade and Broward County Public Schools. All students, teachers, faculty and administrators are encouraged to wear white to support the HEAT as they take on the Indiana Pacers during the 2013 NBA Eastern Conference Finals. The franchise also encourages all South Florida HEAT fans to elevate their support of the team by wearing white throughout the day and into the night on Friday, ...
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Florida Catastrophe Fund Financially Stronger on Eve of Hurricane Season
Florida is heading into a new storm season with some good news for once. The state-created fund that backs up private insurers in Florida is in the best financial shape it has been in years -- maybe the best since it was created in 1993. And new estimates drawn by financial consultants and Wall Street firms suggest that the fund should be able to borrow enough money to cover its obligations ...
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Florida has a chance to get mandatory youth sentencing right — next time
The Florida Legislature should not spend its time trying to craftily dodge a Supreme Court ruling. It should tackle this difficult issue directly and fairly. Next year, Florida has the chance to get it ...
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Man With Ties to Boston Bombing Suspect Killed in Orlando
BOSTON | A man with ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect, was shot and killed by a law enforcement official in Orlando as the FBI tried to interview him early today, according to a law enforcement ...
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South Florida Water Management Head Resigns
WEST PALM BEACH | The executive director of the state agency overseeing water supply, flood control and Everglades restoration between Orlando and Key West has ...
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Sauer to build $8M chiller plant for University of Virginia
Sauer Inc. of Jacksonville has won an $8 million chiller plant project at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. The company will demolish about 2,200 tons of existing chillers and auxiliaries and build a plant to house a new chilled water system to serve the current load, a near-term expansion, and provide space for longer-range future load capacity, Sauer said in a news release. By ...
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Noted financial adviser Suze Orman to speak at vet school commencement
Orman will give the keynote address at the ceremony, which is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, according to Sarah Carey, director of public relations for the vet school.An estimated 100 students are scheduled to graduate, including Orman’s niece, Carey said.Orman has been a popular television personality for years as she shares financial advice with ...
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FBI Boston Division’s Response to Shooting Incident in Orlando Florida
The FBI is currently reviewing a shooting incident involving an FBI special agent. Based on preliminary information, the incident occurred in Orlando, Florida during the early morning hours of May 22, 2013. The agent, two Massachusetts State Police troopers, and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a ...
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Burglar Broke Into Auto Parts Store Twice Miami Police
Miami Police are looking for a crook who broke into the same auto parts store twice in a matter of days. The first break-in happened on March 5 at the Advance Auto Parts store at 3145 Northwest 7th Street when the suspect smashed through the front glass ...
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Trial begins in murder of 78-year-old St. Petersburg woman
ST. PETERSBURG -- Six years after Audrey Mulligan's death, the man accused of her murder is at last being tried. Attorneys will give their opening statements this morning. Virgil DeBose was arrested in March 2007 on a sexual battery charge against Mulligan, 78, who authorities say was attacked in her St. Petersburg ...
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Orlando dancer wows So You Think You Can Dance
Sebastian Serra, 23, of the Orlando Ballet impressed the judges in Tuesday's telecast and moved on to Vegas Week. Serra, who is from Puerto Rico, has been with the Orlando Ballet for three ...
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Orlando Catholics to collect funds for tornado victims
Orlando Catholic Bishop John Noonan has called for a diocesan relief collection to help the victims of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado on Saturday and Sunday, May ...
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Florida teacher snoozes in class loses 2 days of pay
Cypress Bay High School in Weston filed into class one day last month to get an unexpected education in the effects of exhaustion: Science teacher Patrick Geller was asleep at his desk. Quite soundly, ...
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Court Rules Miami-Dade Mass Murderer Competent Can Be Executed
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a Miami-Dade mass murderer is mentally competent to be executed. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a 65-page ruling that upheld a determination by the Florida Supreme Court that John Ferguson, 65, could be ...
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Miami-Dade School Officers Settle Sex Abuse Claims Against Police Chief
Two female police officers with the Miami-Dade County school system have settled lawsuits accusing the former police chief of sexually harassing them. Cmdr. Deanna Fox-Williams and Officer Yewande Gibson claimed in the lawsuits that former chief Charles Hurley asked them for dates and then retaliated against them when they refused his advances over several years. Hurley denied the claims but ...
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Florida man with links to Boston bombings killed
An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings. NBC News said the suspect was being questioned and was originally cooperative, but was fatally shot after attacking the agent. The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. The newspaper quoted the friend as saying Mr Todashev was being ...
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Homes next to Florida house swallowed by sinkhole killing man to be demolished
SEFFNER, Fla. - The homes on either side of the Tampa area house where a sinkhole opened under a man's bedroom are being demolished.Officials say the demolition will take place Wednesday in Seffner, Fla. The homes were condemned April 1, a month after the sinkhole opened under the house next door, killing 37-year-old Jeffrey Bush.The Tampa Bay Times reports that engineering consultants ...
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Woods Garcia comment hurtful time to move on
VIRGINIA WATER, England -- Sergio Garcia apologized to Tiger Woods on Wednesday for saying he would have "fried chicken" at dinner with his rival, a comment that Woods described as hurtful and inappropriate."I want to send an unreserved apology. I did not want to offend anyone," Garcia said Wednesday. "My answer was totally stupid and out of place."Garcia was at a ...
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Art Basel Miami Workshop at Arts and Business Council of Miami
As part of the 2013 Miami Arts Marketing Project Workshop Series, the Arts and Business Council of Miami will present The Art Basel Effect: Partnerships and ...
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Tampa to be linked with rest of state via high-speed rail
Tampa may be connected to Orlando via a high-speed railway by 2015 if the project stays on schedule and if politics do not get in the way. But, the long-term future of the grander project may be in doubt, despite the US losing ground internationally.
High-speed rail is a fairly modern advancement on rail travel that has been widely adopted in the modern world as the best form of overland mass transit. Highly developed countries like Japan, the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain have adopted high-speed rail extensively. Read more
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