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Florida Couple Fined $746 For Crime Of Feeding Homeless People
After feeding the hungry in a Daytona Beach park every weekend for more than a year, it’s just as easy to imagine Chico and Debbie Jimenez given a ticker-tape parade as what they actually got: a slew of citations and a permanent ban from the park. Chico and Debbie Jimenez, a husband and wife team, aren’t handing out food in the Florida heat every Wednesday because of a court order or for a paycheck. They do it because they believe helping the poor is their religious duty.
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Leaving Homeless Person On The Streets: $31,065. Giving Them Housing: $10,051.
Even if you don’t think society has a moral obligation to care for the least among us, a new study underscores that we have a financial obligation to do so. Late last week, the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness released a new study showing that, when accounting for a variety of public expenses, Florida residents pay $31,065 per chronically homeless person every year they live on the streets.
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Warm Water Sparks Flesh-Eating Disease Warning in Florida
Florida health officials are warning beachgoers about a seawater bacterium that can invade cuts and scrapes and cause flesh-eating disease.
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How Florida Became the Most Savage State
Doctors in Florida cannot legally protect children from guns.
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Missouri couple’s $680,000 Florida beach house is built on the wrong lot
A dream beach house in Florida has turned into a nightmare for a Missouri couple. Six months after the custom house was built along the Atlantic Ocean near Palm Coast, Mark and Brenda Voss learned it's on the wrong lot in the gated Ocean Hammock community.
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Officials want South Florida to break off into its own state
Oficials in the City of South Miami have passed a resolution in favor of splitting the state in half so South Florida would become the 51st state. Vice Mayor Walter Harris proposed the resolution and it passed with a 3-2 vote at the city commission meeting on Oct. 7.
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Inmate reports threats by guard, turns up dead
Latandra Ellington had weathered some of Lowell Correctional Institution’s harshest and most primitive realities, and was just seven months shy of freedom — and being reunited with her four young children. But on Sept. 21, Ellington wrote a chilling letter to her aunt telling her she feared she wouldn’t make it out alive. One of the officers at the prison — she identified him as “Sgt. Q” — had threatened to beat and kill her, she wrote.
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Grayton Artists Series Redneck Rye-viera
Grayton Redneck Rye-viera, a fresh hopped ale with rye malt, hits shelves. "We’re excited to collaborate with these artists and announce our Artist Series, an initiative where we feature designs from local artists on our 22-oz. seasonal beers."
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‘Florida Man’: New documentary explores why Florida is so goddamned weird
Jon Stewart has called Florida “America’s Wang,” and it does seem like the state’s strong peninsular properties somehow attract people who are on the end of their rope. In Florida Man, Sean Dunne’s endlessly quotable and surprisingly poignant documentary about worn-out and inebriated layabouts in the Sunshine State, the viewer meets a wide variety of beercan philosophers in the course of 50 minutes, many of whom have tales to tell...
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott vetoes record nearly $461 million in state budget
Florida Gov. Rick Scott vetoed a record $461.4 million from the new state budget Tuesday, quickly wiping out many spending priorities of his fellow Republicans in the Legislature.
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The Obama Gap
A case study in electoral failure.
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Bird mystery: Thousands Disappear and Abandon Eggs, Nests on Island Off Florida's Gulf Coast
The din created by thousands of nesting birds is usually the first thing you notice about Seahorse Key, a 150-acre mangrove-covered dune off Florida's Gulf Coast.
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Florida Supreme Court orders new congressional map with eight districts to be redrawn
TALLAHASSEE — In a precedent-setting ruling Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court overturned the state's congressional districts drawn by the GOP-led Legislature and ordered a new map with eight districts redrawn in time for the 2016 election.
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Florida Supreme Court Throws Out Congressional Map, Orders Battleground Districts Redrawn
The state court ordered the Legislature to redraw eight congressional districts in a Thursday decision, including battlegrounds held by Reps. David Jolly and Carlos Curbelo.
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One of America’s weirdest congressional districts has just been trashed by the Florida Supreme Court
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state legislature must redraw at least eight congressional districts, including the 5th, that had been gerrymandered to favor the GOP.
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Meet Alan Grayson: the brash Democrat who could help win back the Senate
Who is Alan Grayson? Alan Grayson is an outspokenly progressive Democratic member of the House of Representatives from Florida who is responsible for 90% of all scowly leftist congressional zingers posted in your Facebook feed now that Barney Frank has retired. He is running for the Florida Senate seat that Marco Rubio will vacate in 2016 because he really wants to become president.
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Florida Cops Laundered Millions For Drug Cartels, Failed To Make A Single Arrest
The undercover unit laundered over $70 million for drug cartels—more than twice as much as what was actually taken off the streets.
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Armed Robbers use backhoe to rob ATM from bank in Florida
Florida cops have captured two robbers who were on their attempt to flee after seizing an ATM from the local bank with the help of a stolen backhoe. The robbers were identified as Francisco Hernandez, 53 and Jesus Antonio Sanchez, 50 both residents of Clewiston. They are currently being held at the Polk County Jail on grand theft auto charges as reported by the Orlando Sentinel.
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Orlando attraction No. 1 on TripAdvisor's top amusement parks list — but it's not the one you think it is
Aren't lists interesting sometimes? TripAdvisor released its annual Traveler's Choice awards for amusement parks and water parks in the U.S.and worldwide, and as you might expect, Orlando was represented by seven of the top 10...
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Teen driver charged after allegedly running over OPD cop
A teenager was arrested and charged Tuesday after allegedly running over Orlando police Officer William Anderson during a traffic stop Monday night, officials said.
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