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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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UF law school unveils environmental fellowship
A new scholarship program at the UF Levin College of Law has been created to support law school graduates who want a career championing the environment and helping draft public policy to protect the ...
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Florida Teen Rejects Plea Deal On Felony Charges For Same-Sex Relationship
charged with a felony for having a sexual relationship with her younger girlfriend, has rejected a plea deal that would have included two years of house arrest and having to register as a sex offender. A statement released by her lawyers argued that she is being selectively prosecuted for having been in a same-sex relationship when she turned ...
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Florida orange grove turned elephant sanctuary
The new National Elephant Center is taking shape in a former Florida orange grove where it now houses four African elephants. WPTV's Jon Shainman ...
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A-Rod sells Miami Beach house for $30 million
Alex Rodriguez has sold his Miami Beach home for $30 million. A-Rod's business partner, Jose More, confirmed that the sale closed Friday. Rodriguez bought the 54,000-square-foot piece of waterfront land for $7.4 million in 2010. Using his own construction company, Newport Property Construction, he spent another $7.6 million building a nearly-20,000-square-foot ...
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Redland School on Code Red Lockdown After Bullet Incident
A dozen students were hospitalized after a school bus collided with a car in Opa-locka Monday morning, officials said. The accident happened in the area of Northwest 37th Avenue and Langley Road when the bus was rear-ended by the car, the Miami-Dade Fire Department ...
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Court at Florida school acquits Wicked Witch
A "court" comprised of students at a Florida school found the Wicked Witch of the West "not guilty by reason of insanity" on an attempted murder charge. Mark Haynes, a seventh grade literature teacher at St. Anthony Catholic School in Fort Lauderdale, said his students played the roles of the defendant, victims, witnesses, prosecutors and defense lawyers, while students from ...
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Penguin exhibit at Floridas SeaWorld will get 10 tons of snow daily
By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. | Fri May 24, 2013 3:40pm EDT ORLANDO, Fla. May 24 (Reuters) - SeaWorld Orlando opened its "Antarctica: Empire of the Penguins" on Friday, a new attraction that will be coated with 10 tons of fresh snow each day. To recreate a cold, dry climate suitable for penguins in hot, humid Florida, designers used airtight doors, humidifiers and air ...
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Bankia sells City National Bank of Florida for $883 million
for $883 million (583 million pounds), part of a plan to sell assets to boost solvency.Bankia, bailed out by Europe last year in Spain's biggest bank rescue, said the sale would book 180 million euros (153.9 million pounds) of net capital gains and generate 30 basis points of core capital, a measure of resilience to economic downturn.Bankia must sell assets and close branches under the ...
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Gov. warns schools he will fight tuition hikes
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott is strongly warning universities that he will fight against any tuition hikes this year.Scott made the warning in a letter sent out Friday to the heads of the boards that oversee the state's 12 public universities. He urged university boards to join him in a "worthy battle" to keep tuition rates flat."I want to be clear on this: ...
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FDA warns of infections tied to Tennessee pharmacy
WASHINGTON -- Government health officials are investigating several complications reported with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that the investigation involves seven reports from patients who received steroid injections from Main Street Family Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy in Newbern, Tenn.The injections ...
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County third-graders make gains in FCAT scores
In this Nov. 19, 2012 file photo, Metcalfe Elementary School third-graders Majisti McCloud, left, and Armonie Jones use a dictionary. Alachua County third-graders showed improvement in FCAT scores this school year compared to last year's ...
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Health department seeking man who helped with rabid fox
The Alachua County Health Department is searching for a man who Tuesday morning helped assist an injured fox that later was found to be infected with rabies, according to a news release from the ...
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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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