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DELAND -- A quiet serenity hypnotizes passengers as Walter Pyster steers the ferry across the St. Johns River. To the dock. Turn around. To the island. |
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(AP) -- Drain the swamp. Progress awaits. The idea lured developers with grand schemes of opening a new frontier in a land uninhabited by modern man, a vast, murky expanse of sawgrass and marsh that extends like a tundra for miles. |
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JACKSONVILLE -- (AP) -- Memorial services have been scheduled for four young children and their paternal grandparents who were killed Friday when a fire raced through their mobile home. |
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Doctor suspended for third surgery blunder The Florida Board of Medicine temporarily suspended a Tampa hand surgeon they said operated on the wrong body part of a patient -- her third such mistake. |
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State Sen. Ken Pruitt in 2003 and 2004 received a discount worth $8,345 from a Royal Palm Beach home builder who partnered with and retained lobbyists, possibly a violation of the state law that banned lawmakers from taking gifts of more than $100 from people or entities with lobbyists. |
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(AP) -- Despite efforts by the Vatican, U.S. lawmakers and the president, Michael Schiavo says he could not divorce his brain-damaged wife and give up the fight to let her die. |
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(AP) -- Despite efforts by the Vatican, U.S. lawmakers and the president, Michael Schiavo says he could not divorce his brain-damaged wife and give up the fight to let her die. |
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On the surface, there's nothing remarkable about Joan Davies, who hosts Polk Place, an informative, Polk County government-access television show, chatting smoothly with a variety of guests. |
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(AP) -- Two Florida doctors have pleaded guilty to illegally selling prescription drugs over the Internet and laundering the money they earned from the sales. |
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(AP) -- Two Michigan men were rescued Saturday after they were tossed into chilly Lake Okeechobee when their commercial tugboat capsized, authorities said. |
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Election controversies continue to plague Florida. With the memory of a botched 2000 presidential election still on the minds of most elections supervisors in the state, Leon County's Ion Sancho is now finding he can't get the equipment he says he needs to guarantee an honest election. |
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No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers drawn Saturday night, resulting in a rollover jackpot worth an estimated $20 million for Wednesday's drawing, lottery officials said Sunday. |
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It's been a lobster season that fisherman Jason Yarbrough would rather forget. And he's one of the lucky ones. First, a string of hurricanes claimed more than half his lobster traps. |
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JACKSONVILLE -- (AP) -- A man was convicted of fatally beating and shaking his infant son during a violent episode nearly three years ago. |
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It's 1:30 p.m. and the pathway is jammed, the bleachers are crammed and the fish bowl is tilting. Even Skip, the guy in the wet suit holding a microphone, notices it. |
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On the surface, there's nothing remarkable about Joan Davies, who hosts Polk Place, an informative, Polk County government-access television show, chatting smoothly with a variety of guests. |
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(AP) -- Navy construction crews unearthed a rare Spanish ship that had been buried for centuries under sand on Pensacola's Naval Air Station. |
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Two Michigan men were rescued Saturday after they were tossed into chilly Lake Okeechobee when their commercial tugboat capsized, authorities said. |
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NEW PORT RICHEY -- (AP) -- A man associated with a Pasco County mobile home known as a neo-Nazi hangout has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a teenage boy, sheriff's officials say. |
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Juvenile boot camps in Florida are about to disappear -- at least in name -- and be replaced by kinder, gentler versions that will emphasize counseling over military-style drills and exercise, state lawmakers said Friday. |
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A whistle-blower accused Attorney General Charlie Crist and a top aide of ''misconduct'' for failing to investigate a troubled -- but deep-pocketed -- personnel company tied to Crist's campaign for governor. |
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More than a thousand severely disabled or chronically ill children who relied on state dollars for life-sustaining nutritional supplements have been cut off from Florida's Medicaid program, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings to the agency, state officials acknowledged Thursday. |
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