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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 ...
Movie Review
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Made in 1985 for a budget of only $100,000, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" sat on a shelf until 1989 when it was finally shown at a series of film festivals, then made its rounds on the midnight theater circuit. Many critics lavished it for being brutally honest about its subject matter, which in some ways, it is. Unfortunately, like so many small budget movies, the lack of money shows throu ... ...
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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 ...