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Road rage leads to off-duty Florida police officer’s arrest www.privateofficer.com
An off-duty Lakeland police officer, enraged because another driver cut him off in traffic, followed the man, pushed him and punched him in the face Sunday before two bystanders broke up the fight, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. Jerry Monroe, 41, was arrested Monday on a misdemeanor battery charge and placed on paid leave. Monroe and his 14-year-old son were eastbound on County ...
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Retired Orlando Sentinel columnist Charley Reese dies at 76
Charley Reese, a retired Orlando Sentinel columnist known for his conservative voice, has died, according to a Facebook post by his daughter.Reese, who was 76, died Tuesday after a long illness, according to the post. He was admitted to a hospital in February and later was transferred to a rehabilitation facility.Reese, who lived in Seminole County, worked for the newspaper from 1972 until his ...
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Womans Remains Identified Decades After Murder
Last year, some 28 years after the crime, he made a positive identification on Padilla's remains, some of them found in that green garbage bag described by ...
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Bloody Scene After Dog Attacks Hialeah Mans Cat
Luciano Molina says a stray dog’s attack on him and his cat all happened so fast. After he grabbed a machete-style knife, it ended with blood splattered ...
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Doctors say victim of face-chewing attack in Miami last year making progress playing guitar
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this undated photo provided by Jackson Health System, Ronald Poppo, a homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami, plays the guitar in his room at Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center in Cutler Bay, Fla. The attack left Poppo blind, but doctors say he's been working with an occupational therapist to learn how to take ...
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Florida Lesbian Gets Support After Arrest for Sex With Teammate 14
MIAMI -- Kaitlyn Hunt's parents insist that their daughter, a Central Florida high school senior, is being prosecuted for sex crimes only because her lover was another girl. The state attorney says that gender makes no difference; the age of the two girls is at the crux of the ...
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Gay Florida teen charged with having underage girlfriend
Kaitlyn Hunt 18, was expelled from school for dating and having sex with her 14-year-old girlfriend, who was a fellow player on her basketball team. Her father, Steve Hunt, right, wants the two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 to 16 years reduced to a misdemeanor. MIAMI-An 18-year-old Florida cheerleader is facing felony charges that she had sexual contact with her ...
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Floridas Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Dies
The Tampa Bay Times reports that Gary Alvord died Sunday at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford. A spokeswoman confirmed the death but could not provide details, including whether Alvord's body was claimed by relatives or whether he will be buried on state grounds. For almost 40 years, Alvord waited out a death sentence he received for the 1973 murders of three women in Tampa. The ...
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Orlando Man Pleads Guilty In Fatal Stabbing
A Jacksonville man has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a Chicago fan at a popular waterfront shopping area before a Bears/Jaguars football game last ...
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Gas line rapture leads to evacuation of two dozen homes
Roughly two dozen Ocala homeowners had to evacuate their residences Tuesday evening after a gas line was ruptured when a tall oak tree fell over, according to Ocala Fire Rescue and Ocala Police Department ...
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Sounders FC will travel to Florida for U.S. Open Cup third round
The game is set. Sounders FC will travel to face the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the second-tier North American Soccer League in the third round of the U.S. Open Cup. The May 29 game will kick off at 4:30 p.m. at Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Rowdies eliminated VSI Tampa Bay of the third-tier USL ...
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Brevard school officials refuse to answer lawsuit questions
VIERA -- The fight to save three schools in Brevard County moves to the courtroom Wednesday afternoon. Two parents, backed by civil rights leaders, are suing and accusing the school board of racial discrimination when they decided which schools to close in February 2013. Their attorney, Shayan Elahi, admits that it is never easy to discuss accusations of racial discrimination. However, Elahi ...
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VIDEO Man jumps on manatee for stunt
This amateur video shows a manatee and her calf coming up to a dock in a Cocoa Beach canal. Florida Fish and Wildlife officers say a man then jumped on the larger manatee's ...
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Wreck closes I-275 S in Tampa
TAMPA -- A wreck on Interstate 275 S left at least one person with serious injuries and temporarily closed the roadway Tuesday night, authorities said. The crash happened about 8:25 p.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol. All lanes of I-275 S near the exit for Dale Mabry Highway were blocked until about 9:45 p.m., Tampa police said. The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the crash. ...
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Tony DeFillipo Beth Spiegel win North Miami Beach council seats in runoff election
North Miami Beach voters elected Anthony "Tony" DeFillipo as the newest member of the city council and for Councilwoman Beth E. Spiegel to remain in her seat as a result of Tuesday’s runoff. DeFillipo beat out Hillel Hellinger for the Seat 2 position by taking 1,174 votes (69.5 percent of the vote). Hellinger received 516 votes (30.5 percent). "I am very happy," ...
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Teachers others to get raise 2 bonus
The Alachua County School Board on Tuesday approved both a 2 percent bonus and the integration of an extra $2 million into the base pay for instructional staff -- which includes teachers, guidance counselors and media specialists.The one-time bonus came from $2 million in local funds allocated by the School Board.Bonuses have been applied a number of ways over the years, but, "We felt that ...
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HCSO41 identities stolen by Tampa teen
TAMPA, Fla. - His name is DevonteCourtney Jackson. From old pictures posted on his Facebook page, you can tell he likes money and lots of it. But that ArmwoodHigh School student is now behind bars. On Monday, deputies say they found the 18-year-old in possession of a bag of fraudulently obtained credit cards and a list of victims at his Tampa townhome. "He purchased the cards, or got these ...
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Orlando area group packs thousands of meals for Oklahoma tornado victims
Aylah Shujaat, 5, (left, on the table), and Kiana Woodman, 14 (right), pack meals Tuesday, May 21, 2013, helping over 100 Bank of America volunteers including their family members assemble food packages at the Feeding Children Everywhere facility in Longwood. They are planning to package 15,000 meals that will be sent to Okalhoma to help feed ...
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Lawsuit Filed Over Urban Beach Weekend Shooting
Just days before the "Urban Beach Weekend" festivities begin, the City of Miami Beach was hit with a civil lawsuit for an incident that happened during the same event two years ...
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Fallon Fox Im Just Another Woman
Transgender mixed martial arts fighter Fallon Fox is about to put her perfect record on the line in South Florida. And the battle isn't just in the ring. "I'm just another woman, just like any of them. I just come from a different background," she said in an interview with NBC 6's Willard Shepard. Former professional fighter Mickey Demos and Amateur boxer Syeda Fahmin ...
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FIRST ON ORLANDOSENTINEL.COM Orlando Philharmonic to buy Plaza Live Theatre
The Orlando Philharmonic will announce today that it is buying the iconic Plaza Live Theatre on Bumby Avenue, where the orchestra will update the 1,000-seat music hall to accommodate chamber music concerts while also keeping a schedule of rock, jazz, comedy and contemporary music shows. "As we move into our third decade, The Plaza provides a unique opportunity for us to have our own ...
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Boater Missing Off The Coast Of Key West
KEY WEST (CBSMiami/AP) – An Alaska man, along with his sailboat, has gone missing in the Keys. Jay Wesley Rydberg, 40, has been living on a sailboat for the past year in Key West's Garrison Bight Marina, according to reports from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. According to Rydberg's sister, Jill Lesseig, he had sailed from Key West to Fort Myers and was on his way ...
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Man goes missing while on Keys boating trip
KEY WEST, Fla. -- Authorities in the Florida Keys are searching for a man who went missing during a boating trip.The Monroe County Sheriff's Office reports that the U.S. Coast Guard detected 40-year-old Jay Wesley Rydberg's emergency beacon May 14 at 4:13 a.m. During a 78-hour search, Rydberg's beacon was found 33 miles north of Key West, but there were no signs Rydberg or his ...
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Body of missing fishman found in Osceola County
OSCEOLA COUNTY -- Sheriff's deputies discovered the body of a missing commercial fisherman from St. Cloud. According to officials with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, the body of William Louis Platt was found Tuesday afternoon floating in Lake Marian near Kenansville. He'd been missing since Monday night when he was supposed to be setting lines to catch ...
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Some residents of Orlando unthrilled by new theme park plan
Tourism is essential to the economy of Orlando, to such an extent that The City Beautiful has become something of the capital city of amusement parks, not necessarily because of their number, but because of the calibre of amusement parks that are located within Orlando. A new theme park proposal for the city, however, has courted the ire of residents.
The three major amusement parks, or theme parks in Orlando are Walt Disney World Resort, SeaWorld Orlando and Universal Studios Orlando, all of which are massive in size and comprise of several different huge parks within themselves. Read more
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