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U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:31pm neoform

www.floridatoday.com -- Florida elections officials will begin enforcing a law which changes the state's "rules of political engagement": campaigns can't ask voters about the issues. For example, political committees that push or want to defeat ballot initiatives, such as cha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- The photo of a Florida woman who has been missing for a year-and-a-half has turned up on Internet dating sites for lesbians and senior citizens. A picture of Jennifer Kesse, who disappeared in Orlando when she was 24, has been posted with the profile o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 11:31am neoform

CNN -- A small plane crashed into two homes Tuesday in Sanford, Florida, near Orlando, killing the pilot and the passenger on the aircraft and injuring four people, three of whom were critically burned, authorities said. The two dead were believed to be the only.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 4:24pm neoform

FOX News -- A 10-month-old boy in Florida was caught on videotape sipping a high-octane cocktail — gin and juice — and his mother and two relatives now are facing child abuse charges. The boy's 16-year-old Brandenton, Fla., mother was arrested Thursday and cha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 10:03am neoform

Yahoo News -- Deep in the heart of the Florida Keys, wildlife officials are laying bait laced with poison to try to wipe out a colony of enormous African rats that could threaten crops and other animals. U.S. federal and state officials are beginning the final phase.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 8:52pm neoform

FOX News -- Confusing signs on the bathroom doors at McGuire's Irish Pub have played jokes on customers for years — sending women to the men's room and vice versa. But the father of a girl who was interrupted by a man in the women's room and Florida's Department.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 19, 2007 @ 11:29am mrmdc

Miami Herald -- Florida's prosecutors are floating a proposal to the Legislature to give them the power to secretly falsify public court records -- with a judge's approval -- for undercover law enforcement purposes. Spurred by Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fern�.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Relentless wildfires burned into the early morning Tuesday across Florida's Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses. Firefighters in the Brevard County town of Palm Bay have spent more.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 27, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Power executives were still in the dark Wednesday about how a glitch at a substation triggered a blackout that cut power to millions across south Florida. The outage snarled traffic when traffic signals went dead, forced hospitals to scramble for generato.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 27, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Mark Lunsford, whose daughter Jessica was abducted, raped and killed by a neighbor in 2005, is planning to sue the Citrus County, Florida, sheriff for failing to search the neighbor's home, Lunsford's attorneys said. The proposed lawsuit, which has not ye.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

CNN -- Authorities disabled and blew up a device used Tuesday in a bizarre bank robbery in Hollywood, Florida. The device had been strapped to a man who told police two armed men had abducted him earlier in the day from his house in nearby Dania Beach. He said t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 12:57am neoform

FOX News -- Wanted: Thrill-seeking animal lovers with cool heads and quick reflexes. Must have finesse, agility and high tolerance for pain — and low pay. Alligator handlers across South Florida said there is simply less money, glamour and interest in the profes.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 10:13pm neoform

USA Today -- A low-pressure system lingering over the South early Tuesday is expected to bring more heavy rain and thunderstorms from eastern Texas to the Georgia coast and into Florida. While the storms caused flooding in parts of the South and the Plains, rain is.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 12:38pm neoform

SF Gate -- A man who lost his ball in a golf course pond nearly lost a limb when a nearly 11-foot alligator latched on to his arm and pulled him in the water, authorities said. Bruce Burger, 50, was trying to retrieve his ball Monday from a pond on the sixth hole.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 12:23am neoform

FOX News -- Roughly three weeks after Stepha Henry vanished from a relative’s Florida home, police and family members are refusing to give up the search for the 22-year-old woman. Henry, of Brooklyn, N.Y. was last seen on May 29, climbing into a dark sedan with.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

CNN -- Forecasters predicted rain and thunderstorms in the Plains, New England and South Florida on Wednesday. Much of the West Coast was expected to be clear and sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms were expected across the Plains and parts of the uppe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

FOX News -- A young model from Georgia was buried near her home Tuesday, leaving family and friends wondering how her life came to such a violent end apparently at the hands of a man she had met in Florida who had moved there seeking a fresh start. Amity Kozak, 29.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

CNN -- Tropical Storm Barry and its remnants gave a much-needed soaking to thousands of acres of burning swamp and timberland in northern Florida and southeastern Georgia. The remains of the storm rode up the East Coast Sunday with gusty winds and rain fallin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:19am neoform

USA Today -- Tropical Storm Barry brought heavy rain to a parched Florida early Saturday, along with strong winds and heavy surf along the state's Gulf coast. Rain was falling throughout the state, where droughts conditions have left Lake Okeechobee at its lowest r.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:15pm neoform

CNN -- Tropical Storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico and set sail for Florida on Friday -- the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season. Barry is the second named storm of the year, after Subtropical Storm Andrea made its debut May 9. In an 8 p.m. ET.. Read More