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Tallahassee Democrat

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Fishermen describe rescue of teens who spent 16 hours adrift overnight off Gulf coast

Cutting through the waters and chilly temperatures off Florida's Gulf coast just after sunrise early Tuesday, a trio of fishermen aboard a small boat experienced the catch of a lifetime: They spotted two 16-year-old friends who had spent the night adrift on a paddleboard waving down their rescuers from atop an oyster bar miles from shore. The teens, identified by family and friends on social media as Eva Aponte and Avery Bryan, survived 16 hours on the water in temperatures that dipped into the low 40s. Rescuers described them as shivering cold with cuts to their hands and feet...

Florida · 2025-03-18

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Wife of doctor found dead in Tarpon Springs mansion ordered to pay his children $200M

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - It has been more than a decade since a prominent doctor was found shot to death in his garage in Tarpon Springs. Dr. Steven Schwartz, a 74-year-old kidney specialist, was found dead from two gunshot wounds in the garage of his Tarpon Springs mansion back in May 2014. His wife found him and called the police, saying there had been a burglary.

Tarpon Springs, FL · 2025-03-19
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Palm Beach Daily News

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DeSantis shipping out Ladapo may be a false positive – unless Trump guts the CDC | Opinion

I’d like to thank Gov. Ron DeSantis for proposing a way to remove Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo from the state. It takes a big man, although not literally big, to admit one’s mistakes and take decisive action to correct them. So, I read with great relief that DeSantis has been hatching a premature exit plan for the state’s chief medical officer, a doctor the governor so carelessly inflicted on the people of Florida four years ago. Maybe DeSantis has one of his trademark secret flights in the works, an opportunity to whisk Ladapo out of state on a...

Florida · 2025-03-19

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Under a new bill, the federal government will compensate New Jersey police and fire districts for Trump’s security costs

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. reintroduced a bipartisan bill that would allow the Secret Service to reimburse state and local law enforcement and fire departments for their assistance in protecting President Trump at his Florida, New Jersey, and New York residences. Kean reintroduced the Presidential Security Resources Reimbursement Act a week...

New Jersey · 2025-03-18
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A New Jersey Paleontologist’s Priceless Fossil Collection Was Dumped In A Landfill By UPS Because His University Wasn’t Paying Their Bills

Professor Martin Becker of New Jersey's William Paterson University shipped 19 boxes of fossils to a colleague in Florida — then they were dumped in a Tennessee landfill by UPS because the university failed to make their payments. New Jersey’s William Paterson University is being sued by one of...

Florida · 2025-03-19

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Photo of Mystery Animal that 'Looks a Little Bit Wrong and a Little Bit Right' Baffles Florida Wildlife Group

The South Florida Wildlands Association posted a photo of a strange creature that has inspired hundreds of comments

Florida · 2025-03-19

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Florida Pool Company Owner Convicted Of $1.5 Million Fraud, Faces 20-Year Minimum Sentence

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s Office of Statewide Prosecution announced that James Ivan Staten, Jr., the owner and operator of Olympus Pools, has been found guilty of defrauding Floridians out of more than $1.5 million. Staten was convicted on 35 counts, including aggravated white-collar crime, organized scheme to defraud,...

Florida · 2025-03-19

Tampa Bay Times

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This land swap would give 700 acres of North Florida state forest to peanut farm

In a move that has alarmed wildlife advocacy groups, state water managers are considering a land swap that would give nearly 700 acres of North Florida state forest land to a neighboring peanut farming company. The proposal comes more than a decade after a separate peanut operation sought the same...

Madison County, FL · 2025-03-19

WFLA

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Woman, 65, dies from ‘inhumane attack’ over purse at Tampa park: sheriff

A young man has been charged with murder following the death of a woman who Hillsborough County deputies said he brutally beat over "nothing more than a purse."

Tampa, FL · 2025-03-18

The News-Press

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After immigration training vote fails, Florida attorney general is investigating. What we know

The state attorney's office will be investigating the members of a Florida city who voted against an agreement for local law enforcement to train as immigration enforcement officers , according to a social media post. "The Fort Myers City Council’s vote to not approve the police department’s 287(g) agreement with ICE is very troubling," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a post to X , formerly Twitter, Monday night after the city council meeting. "Preventing a local law enforcement agency from entering into a 287(g) agreement with the federal government prevents that agency from participating in certain federal...

Fort Myers, FL · 2025-03-18

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Hillsborough County K-9 shot, killed after attacking neighbor's alpaca: HCSO

LITHIA, Fla. - A K-9 with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office was shot and killed after jumping a fence and attacking an alpaca, officials said. According to HCSO, Master Deputy Charles Perdomo let his K-9, Brooks, outside for a bathroom break in his fenced yard in Lithia around 9:30 p.m. Monday.

Hillsborough County, FL · 2025-03-18