Florida News
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By AFP
Miami -
Health authorities Monday lifted a travel warning for the Miami neighborhood of Wynwood -- site of the United States' first local Zika outbreak -- after the governor declared no evidence of active transmission of the virus there in the last 45 days.
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Los Angeles -
A few days ago, it was reported that two school children in Southern California were diagnosed with possibly having leprosy or Hansen's Disease. People are asking, how can that be possible in a developed country?
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By AFP
Miami -
Tests have found the Zika virus in mosquitoes from Miami, the first detected on continental United States, confirming local transmission of the disease, the Florida authorities said.
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Auburndale -
Authorities nationwide are warning internet users who arrange dates with strangers online to be a lot more careful in the wake of the slaying of a Florida man who met a woman online who allegedly arranged to have him robbed and killed.
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By AFP
Miami -
People at the epicenter of America's first homegrown outbreak of the Zika virus are worried that one of the weapons being used to fight it amounts to a cannon rather than a fly swatter.
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One of bro-country's hottest double acts, Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley are about to enter the fray once again with 'Dig Your Roots,' released worldwide on August 26. How does this record compare to its predecessors? Digital Journal found out.
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By AFP
Miami -
Zika fears prompted US health authorities on Monday to issue a travel warning for a small section of Miami where local mosquitoes have spread the virus to 14 people, officials said.
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Washington -
San Francisco, the gleaming city by the bay and financial center of the West, now has another title to add to its allure: marijuana capital.
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By AFP
Miami -
Florida health officials said Friday they believe that four people have been infected locally with Zika, in what would be the first evidence that mosquitoes carrying the virus are present in the continental United States.
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Lakeland -
Four Polk County, Florida adults have been arrested for using a stun gun to discipline children living in their home, according to local authorities.
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By AFP
Washington -
An unarmed black man trying to help an autistic man was shot and wounded by Florida police while lying on the ground with his arms raised in the air and pleading with officers to hold their fire.
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By AFP
Stuart -
Every night Tim Robinson sleeps in his boat, which floats atop a blanket of foul-smelling bright green slime.
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Florida's governor announced on Tuesday a woman from Haiti gave birth to a child with microcephaly, a first for Florida, bringing to five the number of babies born in the U.S. with the birth defect related to Zika virus disease.
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Fort Pierce -
Even if nothing more than misery and alarm comes from last week's mass shooting in a Florida nightclub, at least U.S. law enforcement will have to stop taking bows over keeping the country safe from terrorism.
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Palmetto -
For those duffers playing golf in Florida, there are more than just the typical course hazards to keep an eye on. Alligators will occasionally stroll across the fairway or be hunkering down in a sand trap.
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If you're planning a trip to Florida this summer, you might want to be careful of where you go, especially if it's anywhere near the Everglades. It has now been confirmed that yes, another new non-native species has invaded Florida.
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Pompano Beach -
An ultra-marathoner who likes to "run" in an enormous, inflatable bubble on the ocean may want to contemplate the cliche "No means no."
That's because he was rescued by the Coast Guard for the second time, while trying to run from Florida to Bermuda.
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Miami -
Cases of citrus greening continue to affect Florida’s orange groves. New figures indicate that up to 90 percent of the acreage and 80 percent of their trees are infected by the bacterial disease.
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By AFP
Washington -
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton won the presidential primaries in Florida, US networks projected -- big wins for the frontrunners in the 2016 White House race.Clinton was also projected to win the primary in North Carolina.
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Just one day after boasting about her four-year-old son's prowess with a gun, a proud gun-loving mom was shot.
By her son.
It seems that the boy found the loaded gun in mom Jamie Gilt's pickup truck and shot her as they drove down a Putnam County road.
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Salt Lake City -
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the Republican Party nominee for president four years ago, blasted 2016 front-runner Donald Trump as a "fraud" and a "phony" Thursday in a speech at a Utah university.
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Florida environmentalists have had a bit of good news after state lawmakers, bowing to public outcry, unexpectedly dropped a bill backed by the oil industry that would have promoted fracking in the ecologically sensitive Everglades.
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By AFP
Miami -
Authorities in Florida suspended the upcoming execution of a death row inmate, after the US Supreme Court found problems with how the state sentences people to death.
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Orlando -
An Alabama family alleges that an escaped snake at Disney's Animal Kingdom plopped out of a tree and bit a boy, leading to the death of the boy's grandmother.
Matt Morgan, the family's attorney, said Thursday that the family plans to sue Disney World.
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Princeton -
Buy an organic salad, get a free lizard.
That's what happened when Sally Mabon unwrapped a bundle of tatsoi greens — she and her kindergartener, Faye, wound up with a three-inch-long green anole lizard tucked inside.
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Singer Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys has addressed his recent arrest in Key West, Florida, via his social networks.
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Tampa -
A new method for tackling the serious citrus greening disease has been proposed. This involves powering a laser beam towards citrus leaves. Initial trials have proved successful.
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Orlando -
A Florida woman woke up right before midnight Tuesday and shot at and killed a person she thought was an intruder.
But it was no intruder; instead she allegedly shot her 27-year -old daughter, who was pronounced dead on Wednesday.
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Edgewater -
Some learn the hard way. A 27-year-old Edgewater man who was arrested for allegedly running a stolen gift card ring, was jailed a second time after posting bail, when he attempted to sell an additional 1,000 gift cards to pay his legal fees.
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This year, one of the finest vocalists of the last 40 years - in any genre - put out his first studio album in nearly a decade and, as one would hope, it's a worthy addition to his impressive back catalogue. He filled Digital Journal in on the details.
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Florida Image
Starke resident Daniel Cooney and his two sons defended the separation of church and state by showing up to protest the monument.
The Watchtower at Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. St. Augustine, Fla. 9/9/13
This photo was taken with a Kodak 16 MP digital camera with a 5x optical aspheric lens.
I took my new camera on a test drive...
I took my new camera on a test drive...
Behind the Scenes at the RNC
White peacock at Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. St. Augustine, Fla. 9/9/13
Florida police car. Melkom
Jacksonsville, Fla. 9/8/13
Behind the Scenes at the RNC
A juvenile smalltooth sawfish in the Charlotte Harbor estuarine system, Florida. A new study finds that female sawfish can reproduce asexually in the wild. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
A little girl smiles as she drinks a Sponge-Bob chocolate drink makes her forget about the losing her home and not knowing where her friends are while staying at a YMCA shelfter.
Protest of Ten Commandments monument in Starke, Florida.
Boats line the rear of a small marina along the Weechi Wachee River.
A child consoles with his father wondering how long they will need to live in a shelter and what will happen to them. This was on the minds of many I spoke with who went back to a home where nothing was left for them.
A man starts February with a kayak adventure on the Weeki Wachee River.
Chiefs fan thrilled with victory over Jaguars. Jacksonville, Fla. 9/8/13
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