TALLAHASSEE – Gambling talks continue in the Legislature Thursday, as the House committee charged with drafting a gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida considers the impact of Vegas-style casinos on the state’s tourism industry and economy.
Also, Senate budget committees will meet for the first time since Senate President Jeff Atwater released information on [...]
TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a Death Row inmate so a hearing can be held to determine the validity of a new standardized IQ test that could spare his life by showing he’s mentally retarded.
The justices issued the 5-2 decision just hours after hearing oral argument.
A lawyer for [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Key players on whaling huddled behind closed doors in Florida in an uncertain bid to find common ground on an issue that has bitterly divided Australia and Japan.
Negotiators opened talks at a resort hotel in St. Pete Beach, near St. Petersburg, participants said. Media were not allowed into [...]
(CBS) - Dawn Brancheau is the third person killed by the orca named Tilikum. She lost her life during an incident at SeaWorld in Orlando on Wednesday.
Since then, there have been calls for the killer whale to be euthanized, which SeaWorld is flatly rejecting, and for it to be let loose into the wild. Animal [...]
MIAMI — Authorities said a body fell out of a plane that traveled to Miami from the Dominican Republic.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the body fell from the wheel well of an Amerijet cargo flight that left the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon. The flight arrived in South Florida about two hours later.
Bergen [...]
Andre WatkinsA suspect in a Tampa shooting rampage that left a young woman dead and two others critically injured was captured early today after a manhunt, authorities said.
Andre Watkins, 53, was wanted in three separate shootings in Tampa on Friday. He was taken into custody after police surrounded his car while he was fueling at [...]
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MIAMI – The body of a student from a south Florida university has been recovered a month after she was reported missing in Haiti’s massive earthquake.
Lynn University officials say the U.S. Department of State contacted the family of 23-year-old Courtney Hayes Wednesday to confirm the young woman’s death. Two faculty members and three students [...]
ORLANDO — Florida citrus growers lost more than 4 percent of their orange crop and more than 3 percent of their grapefruit crop during last month’s freezing weather.
A citrus forecast report released Tuesday puts Florida’s orange crop in February at 129 million boxes, down from the estimate of 135 million boxes in January. Each box [...]
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Endeavour, NASA’s youngest space shuttle, became the final orbiter to lift off at night with its launch to the the International Space Station this morning.
Built as a replacement after the shuttle Challenger was lost on launch in 1986, Endeavour arched into space through breaks in the predawn cloud cover over Kennedy Space [...]
Sapp with the Buccaneers in 2003MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Former NFL star Warren Sapp has been charged with domestic battery in South Florida, and the analyst will not be part of the NFL Network’s Super Bowl coverage on Sunday.
Sapp was charged with one count of misdemeanor domestic battery and is expected to appear before a [...]
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