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Broward mayor offers support in congressional race
Broward County Commissioner Ken Keechl is endorsing Scott Galvin in the crowded Democratic primary field in the 17th Congressional District.
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Legislation encourages improvements to Florida's ports to be ready for Panama Canal expansion
A pair of bills aimed at reshaping the state ports to prepare for the expansion of the Panama Canal picked up steam Wednesday, with Gov.
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FEMA says no Florida request for drywall
A FEMA official says the state's request doesn't meet the federal criteria for an emergency or major disaster.
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Crist Says Florida Ports Need To Be More Competitive
Gov. Charlie Crist says Florida is missing the boat when it comes to the competitive standing of its ports.
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Florida last year taxed motorists' wallets. Now, it's taxing their patience. The Legislature in 2009 dramatically raised a wide range of fees collected by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
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Crist in D.C. seeking Florida school, space money
Charlie Crist is seeking more federal money for the space program and Florida's schools.
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Encore Bank sells Florida assets
The St. Petersburg Times today is reporting Houston-based Encore Bank is pulling out of the Florida market, selling six offices on Florida's West Coast to different investor groups.
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Ex-coach Dungy speaks to inmates in South Carolina
Tony Dungy stood before more than 1,700 prisoners Tuesday, sharing a smile and message of hope that has become his life's work.
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McCollum Wants To Sue Feds Over Health Care Bill
Attorney General Bill McCollum and four state agencies are working to show how costly the federal health care bill would be and he's asking his peers around the country to help him sue the federal government.
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Mass attack on pill mills: If all bills don't pass, enough may for this year
The Legislature is considering several bills to regulate pain clinics, a welcome sign that lawmakers are serious about ending Florida's dubious distinction as America's "pill mill." Two of the bills - one sponsored by Rep.
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Adoption For All Press Conference
More than 2,000 children in Florida are awaiting adoption, and half of them have no family members able to provide them care.
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N.C.-based Marine from Florida killed in Afghanistan
A North Carolina-based Marine from Florida has been killed in combat in Afghanistan.
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Rubio defends committee spending
Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio defended himself Monday after a news report revealed that two political committees he started while serving in the Florida House spent heavily on operating costs and payments to relatives, but did little to help other Republicans seeking office.
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Open Government Common Thread In Campaign For Governor
Two gubernatorial candidates are praising Florida's open government laws. Democrat Alex Sink, the chief financial officer, and Republican state Sen.
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Deputies shoot dog during Pompano Beach search
The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that the incident happened Sunday morning.
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US botched Haiti flights to Fla.
More than two weeks after the quake, Florida officials warned they could not treat any more victims.
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Murder-For-Hire Plot Hearing Rescheduled
A South Florida woman accused of hiring an undercover police officer to kill her newlywed husband was expected in court for a status hearing Monday but that hearing has been rescheduled for a later date.
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State wants to take sin out of film incentive
Once they were gay. Or homosexual. Occasionally they turned up as same-sex couples. This week in Tallahassee, that particular category of humanity received a new, slightly clunkier designation. Call them practitioners of ``non-traditional family values.'' The terminology surfaced in legislation designed to pump $75 million in tax incentives into Florida's flagging film industry. Except, of course, for films that might depict nontraditional family values. Rep. Stephen Precourt invented the term, which Hollywood executives might find puzzling. The Orlando Republican didn't provide a precise definition, but he inserted it into a list of unsavory (apparently taxable) movie attributes. The state would deny its 5 percent ``family friendly'' tax break to movies that ``exhibit or imply any act of smoking, sex, nudity, nontraditional family values, gratuitous violence, or vulgar or profane language.''Whatever practices nontraditional family values entail, in Florida, they apparently rank down there with smoking, cussing, killing and doing the dirty deed on the big screen. Asked to clarify what he meant, Precourt only offered his personal definition of ``traditional'' family values. ``Think of it as Mayberry,'' he told The Palm Beach Post. ``That's when I grew up -- the '60s. That's what life was like. I want Florida to be known for making those kinds of movies.'' Precourt added that movies depicting gays ``would not be the kind of thing I'd say that we want to invest public dollars in.''
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No charges in fasting death
The husband of a Florida woman who died alone during a religious fast says he was trying to respect the woman's wishes by not disturbing her.
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Gov't in the sunshine? More like in the shade
TALLAHASSEE - When he entered "the People's House" with populist zeal, Gov. Charlie Crist made open government a cornerstone of his administration.
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