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Marco Rubio faces pressure to resign
It's entirely possible that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) heard the expression “don’t quit your day job” and took it too literally. The far-right Floridian, more so than other senators running for president, just doesn’t show up for work much anymore. After five years in Congress, Rubio doesn’t even like his job, and he makes no real effort to do it effectively – choosing instead to routinely skip votes, briefings, hearings, and practically all day-to-day tasks.
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NSFW A Wild Weekend in Florida (with tweets)
@_zolarmoon's story @TheDillion1 fittingly dubbed Jarrett and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Florida Trip.
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Insane. Invisible. In Danger
How $100 million in cuts created chaos in Florida’s mental hospitals. First in a series.
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This creepy 65-year-old clown will terrify your misbehaving kid for cash
His name is Wrinkles and he's booked for months in advance. By Peter Holley.
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Photos: Beneath the Surface in Florida -- National Geographic Travel
Check out a gallery of photos of life under the water’s surface in Florida.
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The Route of the Original American Road Trip Route Is Disappearing
In the past 15 years, while hunting for missing pieces of the Old Spanish Trail, Charlotte Kahl would sometimes find herself following pick-up trucks.
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11-foot gator eats burglary suspect hiding in Florida pond
Hide in a gator pond. Yeah, why not?
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Life’s Rich Pageant: Meet a Florida Man
“I wasn’t a hunter-fisherman. And it was not a good idea, and then it went terribly wrong.” By Holly Anderson.
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Divers work to clean up failed Florida reef project from the '70s
An attempt to save Florida coral is wrecking the reef instead. Apparently, they didn't think through what seawater does to metal. The divers are off before dawn. Diver Thomas Pennypacker is on a rescue mission off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, saving a piece of Florida's natural coral reef. A massive 35-acre graveyard of old tires. It started as a way to get rid of tires clogging up landfills back in 1970. Up to two million tires, bundled by metal clips, were dumped to create an artificial reef.
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Florida spends millions making sure the mentally ill go to court and gets nothing for it
Patients get little therapy, just drills to teach them how a courtroom works.
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Jeb Bush’s Everglades Fight
As the governor of Florida, he forged a landmark accord to preserve a state treasure—and then exploded it. By Dexter Filkins.
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A Princess In Patchwork: Sewing For The Miss Florida Seminole Princess Pageant
The Miss Florida Seminole Princess Pageant features intricate outfits that combine traditional Seminole patchwork techniques with modern twists, like rayon and lace.
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Entire Florida Police Dept Busted Laundering Tens of Millions for International Drug Cartels
The village of Bal Harbour, population 2,513, may have a tiny footprint on the northern tip of Miami Beach, but its police department had grand aspirations of going after international drug traffickers, and making a few million dollars while they were at it. The Bal Harbour PD and the Glades County Sheriff’s Office set up a giant money laundering scheme with the purported goal of busting drug cartels and stemming the surge of drug dealing going on in the area.
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Deadly Overnight Tornado in Florida
A tornado caused damage across the West Coast of Florida early Sunday morning.
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Florida Archaeologists Condemn Proposed 'Citizen Archaeology' Permit
A recently proposed bill in Florida is making news this week for the outcry it has generated among archaeologists. House Bill 803 has been put forth to change the cultural resource laws in the state. For the cost of a $100 permit, anyone would be able to dig by hand or use a trowel to excavate an artifact, take it home to display it, or sell it to the highest bidder, as long as they report the location where they found it.
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Florida Man Charged With Killing A Guy For Touching His Truck
Warren James Buchanan hates when people fondle his truck. He hates it so much that, according to police, he killed a man last week over it. On January 5th, 67 year-old German Heredia was strolling down the street with his granddaughters and their dogs, the Brevard County Sheriff’s office told Orlando Sentinel. That’s when Buchanan, out of nowhere, walked up behind a fence and accused Heredia of touching his truck.
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A New Railway Rivals a Glamorous Past
Before Walt Disney came Henry Flagler, who made Florida a tourist hotspot by laying rails along the state’s east coast. Now, a new high-speed train is set to follow in his tracks.
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Miami-Dade prison inmate death in shower ruled accidental, sources say
The death of Darren Rainey, a mentally ill inmate thrown into a steaming shower at Dade Correctional Institution in a case that sparked scrutiny on conditions inside Florida’s prison system, has been ruled accidental, the Herald has learned. The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s autopsy report, completed this week, concluded that Rainey died from complications of schizophrenia, heart disease and “confinement” in the shower back in June 2012, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
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Florida mayors to Rubio: We’re going under, take climate change seriously
"Our cities and towns are already coping with the impacts of climate change today." Flooding at high tides, severe storm surges, and the intrusion of saltwater into municipal water supplies are all problems these cities face. Those issues come thanks to 20cm of sea-level rise over the previous century. Studies project that the area could see up to another 30cm rise by 2050,
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Shark Attacks Reach New High in 2015
Last year was not a good time to swim with sharks, according to new data. The big fish attacked humans 98 times worldwide last year, the most since the University of Florida began recording the International Shark Attack File 57 years ago. The incidents tallied by the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida do not include those in which a human provoked the shark, according to a statement from the museum.
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