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Florida gives Delray Beach deadline to eliminate LGBTQ+ pride intersection — or state will do the removal
South Florida Sun Sentinel
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August 18, 2025
The reprieve for Delray Beach’s LGBTQ+ pride intersection didn’t last long. On Friday, the southeast Florida district secretary of the state Department of Transportation ordered City Manager Terrence Moore to have the pride intersection removed by...
Wildlife officials searching for gator that bit woman in Florida
WTSP - Florida
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August 18, 2025
The woman was hiking in Collier County when she was bitten on her arm and leg, according to officials. COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — Florida wildlife officials are searching for an alligator that bit a woman while she was hiking. Florida Fish and...
Wildlife officials urge public to report rainbow snake sightings
WFTV - Florida
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August 18, 2025
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is asking the public to report sightings of the elusive rainbow snake, a nonvenomous species whose population has declined over recent decades. Rainbow snakes, known for...
Florida’s new ‘Deportation Depot’ immigrant detention center stirs fears among neighbors
Florida Politics
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August 18, 2025
Lucy Johnson didn’t know a shuttered prison down the road would soon hold as many as 2,000 immigrant detainees until a reporter told her. Standing under her carport as ribs sizzled on the grill and her four children played in the yard, she said...
Florida’s Retail Evolution Is Paying Off
REBusinessOnline
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August 18, 2025
3When asked what makes Florida appealing from a retail perspective, Steven Miskew, CEO of Southeast Centers, put it succinctly: “The good macro-economic drivers are here: population growth, lack of supply and low vacancy, all in a pro-business...
Florida condo owners and board members are clashing following reforms
WFSU Public Media - Florida
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August 18, 2025
After a condominium building in Surfside collapsed in 2021, killing 98 people, state lawmakers hurried to unanimously pass protections to prevent it from happening again. Although the reforms had good intentions, they left many condominium owners...
Top energy group calls for probe into secretive 'national lawfare campaign' to influence judges on climate
Fox News
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Fox News correspondent Mark Meredith reports on President Donald Trump’s plans to annul prior climate policy on ‘Special Report.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A prominent pro-energy group is calling on the Trump...
Thomas Edison and Henry Ford among the original Florida snowbirds
South Florida Sun Sentinel
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August 18, 2025
FORT MYERS — Thomas Edison and Henry Ford are famous for their innovations in electricity generation and automobiles respectively, but they were also at the forefront of a massively popular trend in Florida: Rich people from up north spending the...
FWC seeks reports of sightings in Florida of rare rainbow snake
WGCU - Florida
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August 18, 2025
Florida range of rainbow snake The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is asking the public to report sightings of the elusive rainbow snake (Farancia erytrogramma), a nonvenomous species whose population has declined in recent...
'Why here?': Florida’s new ‘Deportation Depot’ immigrant detention center stirs fears among neighbors
Orlando Weekly - Florida
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August 18, 2025
click to enlarge Photo via Kaley Mantz/Fresh Take Florida Baker Correctional Institution, set to become Florida's second immigration detention center in Sanderson, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. Lucy Johnson didn’t know a shuttered prison down the...
Will latest Florida directive force Delray Beach leaders to remove LGBTQ+ crosswalk?
The Palm Beach Post - Florida
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Delray Beach commissioners are resisting Florida's order to remove a rainbow crosswalk installed in support of the LGBTQ+ community. The state has threatened to remove the crosswalk themselves and bill the city if it isn't removed by September 3,...
Conservation group sues Florida over bear hunt plan, says it limits public input
WKMG 6 - Florida
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August 18, 2025
OVIEDO, Fla. – A Central Florida-based conservation group is fighting in court against a planned black bear hunt scheduled for December. Bear Warriors United filed a petition last week with the Division of Administrative Hearings to stop the hunt...
UF Scientist Unlocks The Power Of Soil Microbes To Transform Florida Agriculture
The Free Press - Tampa - Florida
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August 18, 2025
Dr. Jose Rolando’s research at UF/IFAS aims to help growers build healthier soil, reduce costs, and create more resilient crops in the face of a changing climate. A new microbiologist at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural...
A Florida Mom Is Suing a Dairy Farm After She Consumed Raw Milk, Killing Her Unborn Child
Green Matters
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August 18, 2025
You should never consume raw dairy milk. No matter how ethical or familial the picture is painted by dairy farms like Florida-based Keely Farms Dairy, the realities of the dairy industry are savage and unconscionable. In April 2025, the FDA halted...
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees face abuse and are denied due process, say lawyers
The Guardian
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August 18, 2025
A federal judge in Miami was hearing arguments on Monday that detainees at the remote immigration jail in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” are routinely subjected to human rights abuses and denied due process before being...
Illegal immigrant accused of killing 3 in Florida highway crash crossed border into California in 2018: DHS
Fox News
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier reacts after an illegal migrant truck driver licensed in the state of California caused a fatal crash on the Florida Turnpike that left three people dead. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The...
Judge weighs detainees' legal rights at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida Everglades
KSAT - Texas
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August 18, 2025
MIAMI – A federal judge heard arguments Monday over whether detainees at a temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades have been denied their legal rights. In the second of two lawsuits challenging practices at the facility...
Judge weighs detainees’ legal rights at Florida Everglades detention center
Daily Democrat - California
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August 18, 2025
By DAVID FISCHER and MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge heard arguments Monday over whether detainees at a temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades have been denied their legal rights. In the second...
Flesh-eating bacteria now deadlier than sharks as cases surge fivefold in Florida and beyond
Natural News
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August 18, 2025
Flesh-eating bacteria now deadlier than sharks as cases surge fivefold in Florida and beyond A silent bacterial threat, Vibrio vulnificus, is deadlier than sharks and spreading rapidly in U.S. coastal waters. Hurricanes and warming waters fuel its...
'Scared to go back to India': Truck driver Harjinder Singh who killed 3 in Florida was allowed to stay in US in 2018 on $5,000 bond
The Times of India
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Indian-origin truck driver Harjinder Singh who killed three in Florida said in 2018 he was scared to go back to India. After Indian-origin truck driver Harjinder Singh killed three taking a wrong turn with his semi-truck in Florida, the Donald...