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  • Fla. girl who lost feet in lawnmower meets dolphin

    TAMPA, Fla. -- A toddler whose feet were amputated after her father accidentally backed over her with a riding lawnmower had a special meeting with her hero.Ireland Nugent has often been seen clutching a stuffed animal of Winter, the dolphin with a prosthetic tail, in her wheelchair since the April 11 accident. She even carried the toy with her when she left the hospital nearly a month after ...

  • Fla. gov. steps up pace on signing death warrants

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Rick Scott is signing death warrants at a pace rarely seen in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.Scott already has signed five death warrants this year, including three in a recent span of less than four weeks."I go through them and when people have exhausted their appeals and when they're finished with their clemency process, then I ...

  • Deltona man ejected in Flagler County crash

    BUNNELL -- A 50-year-old Deltona man is dead after he was ejected from a car in County . Florida Highway Patrol troopers said Christina Laming, 41, was traveling northbound on U.S. 1 north of Otis Stone Hunter Road when she drifted onto the grassy median. Laming then over-corrected, crossed over both northbound lanes and overturned partially on the east shoulder. Joseph Drenner was ejected ...

  • Funeral services set for Kissimmee firefighter killed in crash

    The Kissimmee Fire Department has announced arrangements for a firefighter, who died May 16. (PHOTO/City of Kissimmee Fire ...

  • POLITIFACT Texas Gov.s boast rated true

    A former presidential contender, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, is doing a little bragging. "If we want to get American working again, we need Washington to get out of the way," he said. The day Obama swung through Austin earlier this month, Perry ran an ad in the local newspaper in which he referenced the "Texas model working much better than Washington's," saying that ...

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Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues [DVD]

Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues [DVD]

It's never a good sign when a movie has serious problems with its title. Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues, which has also been known as The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II, is a sequel not to a movie called Boggy Creek or ... ...

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  • Teacher-training programs’ success under scrutiny

    Teacher-training programs’ success under scrutiny Florida and several other states are creating accountability systems so education schools will develop quantitative ways to measure their programs’ ...

  • Teen arrested after cops say she bit mans penis

    BRADENTON, Fla. -- A 19-year-old high school student has been arrested after authorities say she bit her boyfriend's penis when he refused to have sex with her.Manatee Sheriff's Office said Krystle Harrison made several advances toward her boyfriend of three years and he rebuffed her. According to an arrest report, she grabbed him and bit his genitals.He left the house, but the arrest ...

  • Powerball Winner May 18 Bought Ticket In Florida Supermarket

    May 19, 2013 1:39 pm A Powerball winning ticket has been sold in Florida, meaning that one lucky person has claimed the biggest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million on May 18, 2013, lottery officials said ...

  • Same-Sex High School Relationship Leads To Expulsion Arrest Of Florida Teen

    @MSN High school is a time for humans to make lots of mistakes. It’s when we find out who we are. It’s when we develop our personalities, our attitudes, and we do it all by making lots, and lots, and lots of mistakes. There is study after study that shows that the biology of the teenage brain is such that it takes longer to calculate risks associated with their decisions and ...

  • Florida Lotto jackpot rises to $12 million

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $12 million after no one matched the six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Sunday. A total of 48 tickets matched five numbers to win $4,565.50 each; 2,674 tickets matched four numbers for $68 each; and 54,226 tickets matched three numbers for $5 each. The winning Florida Lotto numbers ...

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