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Company pays $10K for 9-year-old's cake at auction
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A 9-year-old girl's cake brought in a lot of dough in Florida. Cash, that is — $10,000 to be exact. A fertilizer company paid the sum for Abigail Putnam's cake at the Polk County Youth Fair. Abigail's father, Adam...Tags: Auction Service, Florida, Agricultural Research and Technology, Science and Technology, Companies and Corporations
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Letters to the editor: compassionate cruise line, student debt, and Kiera Wilmot
At a time when so many cruise lines are being villified — some deservedly — I would like to voice my experience with the Royal Caribbean International Cruise Lines. On April 28, on the first day of our planned cruise on the Caribbean, my...Tags: Science, Holidays, Human Interest, Royal Caribbean International, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Zero-tolerance policies are needlessly criminalizing kids
When Kiera Wilmot curiously mixed toilet-bowl cleaner with aluminum foil near her school gazebo last month, she did not imagine the experiment would end in adult felony charges. The 16-year old Polk County girl was a good student with an exemplary...Tags: NAACP, Prosecution, Florida State University, Benedict College, Science and Technology
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Florida jobless rate dips to 7.2 percent in April
Florida's unemployment rate continues to fall, dipping from 7.5 percent in March to 7.2 percent in April — the lowest level in five years. Metro Orlando's jobless rate also improved, falling to 6.4 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage...
Tags: Orange County (Florida), Government, Employment Opportunities, Unemployment, Politics
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Kiera Wilmot already paid too high price for science experiment
Kiera Wilmot was handcuffed at her high school, hustled into the back of a police car and taken to jail for something that should have sent her to a few days of after-school detention. If common sense prevailed over draconian codes of conduct in Florida...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Police Arrests, Lawyers
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Free Kiera Wilmot as Florida confuses scientific aspirations with criminal intent
“Free Kiera Wilmot.” Let me get this straight: A 16 year-old girl participating in her school’s science project gets arrested after she mixes toilet bowl cleaner and pieces of aluminum foil in a water bottle that explodes. Nothing...
Tags: Criminals, Science, Criminal Laws, Rick Scott, Crime, Law and Justice
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Armed prostitution suspects arrested after posting photos with attack weapons on Facebook
Two Central Florida women who were snared in a January prostitution sting were arrested Monday after bragging about guns on their social-media accounts, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Felons Brittany Dodd, 25, of Lakeland and Maylee...Tags: Prostitution, Theft, Grady Judd, Police Arrests, Firearms
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Cops: Prostitutes arrested after bragging about guns on social media
Two women who were arrested in a January prostitution sting were arrested Monday after bragging about guns on their social media accounts, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Brittany Dodd, 25, of Lakeland and Maylee Rossi, 27, of Davenport...Tags: Sex Crimes, Prostitution, Polk County Sheriff's Office, Grady Judd, Police Arrests
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Nan Rich, long shot for governor, says she's undeterred
In her dark-horse campaign to become Florida's next governor, former state Sen. Nan Rich likes to recall the stories of Democratic political legends Reubin Askew, Lawton Chiles and Bob Graham. Each was a little-known state senator when he launched his...
Tags: Government, Politics, Miami Beach, Children's Health, Interior Policy
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Betty Chandler, Eccleston's 'heart,' helps school usher in a new era
The faces painted high on the walls in Eccleston Elementary's library are like old friends to Betty Chandler, Orange County schools' longest-serving employee. She helped establish the library, then came back to run it for more than 35 years. When...
Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Christianity, Anglicanism, Students
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Sunday, August 15, 2004
Sentinel Staff WriterSunday, the day of rest, was anything but. As we awoke to the second day of New Reality, again we put our backs into it. Tree debris rose in streets like bone piles in a grisly graveyard. Empty water bottles and the sharp scent of sap marked the...Tags: Interstate 4, Florida
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Charley may be gone, but toll keeps climbing
Sentinel National Correspondent-------------------- 7:22 a.m. Early today, 391,000 people remained without power, said Kristy Campbell, spokeswoman at the state emergency management center. One of three hospitals shut down by the storm, Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte,...Tags: Health, Lee County (Florida), Politics, Career and Workplace, Weather Warnings
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