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The scent of a woman: Woman ditches clothes to elude K-9 officer
South Florida Sun-SentinelAngela C. Ferranti's plan didn't work. The 25-year-old Port St. Lucie woman found in her bra and panties after a Mar. 31 traffic crash told a Port St. Lucie officer she stripped off her clothes in an effort to 'conceal her scent' from a police dog,...Tags: Port St. Lucie (St. Lucie, Florida)
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Cops: Mom threatened to kill son with knife for refusing haircut
South Florida Sun-SentinelDonna M. Townsend, a Port St. Lucie mom, is accused of getting a 14-inch-long kitchen knife and telling her 14-year-old son 'she might as well kill him' -- all because he didn't want to sit for a haircut, reports TCPalm.com. She's also accused of...Tags: Port St. Lucie (St. Lucie, Florida), Personal Service
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Cops: Neighbor goes batty over loud music
South Florida Sun-SentinelThe feud started over loud music. Stephen D. Kurtycz, 42, cussed and asked the neighbors in an impolite manner to turn down the volume of their music, reports TCPalm.com. The Port St. Lucie man is accused of going inside his garage and getting a... -
FPL seeks state approval to pass on cost of nuclear expansions to customers
South Florida Sun SentinelFlorida Power & Light Co. officials on Tuesday sought state approval to pass on the costs for expanding the utility's nuclear power plants to consumers — a $67 million cost next year. At the first of three Public Service Commission hearings in...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Natural Gas, Defense Equipment, Natural Resources, Florida Power & Light
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Messages between commissioner Lisa Edgar and Jorge Chamizo
South Florida Sun-SentinelCommissioner Lisa Edgar and Jorge Chamizo, a lobbyist for several major electric utilities, exchange a brief conversation on legislative issues. Edgar said they did not discuss pending PSC matters. "I always think about [what I'm barred from discussing]...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, FPL Group
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Acreage family's joy laced with gloom: Will baby boy become cancer victim?
Palm Beach PostIn late 2007, when Yvette Peart's daughter Rodeania, 9, began having headaches, the mother thought she knew why. "I had migraines myself when I was a girl -- 12 or 13," said Peart, 35. "Or I thought maybe Rodeania had eyestrain." She gave the girl...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Happiness (state of mind), Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), West Palm Beach
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Molecular studies institute opens in St. Lucie County
Treasure Coast NewspapersThe Treasure Coast officially became Florida's research coast Saturday, as more than 200 people celebrated the grand opening of the Torrey Pines Institute of Molecular Studies and all it has to offer for Florida's and St. Lucie County's future. "Today we...Tags: Health, Ken Pruitt, Companies and Corporations, Science and Technology, Science
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Highway rest areas no place to let your guard down
Sun-Sentinel.comWARNING: If you are traveling by car this summer, stay alert when stopping at highway rest areas. Meant to serve as safe grounds for a nap, snack or bathroom break, highway rest stops throughout Florida and across the country sometimes become the...Tags: Safety of Citizens, Health, New York, Missouri, Miramar
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Fla. woman chooses to go jail over $7.45 bill
A woman decided to go to jail rather than pay her bill at a Fort Pierce Waffle House restaurant. The total she went to jail over: $7.45. According to a police report, Maryanne O'Neill, 66, ordered coffee and a sandwich at a Waffle House restaurant on...Tags: Restaurants, Misdemeanors, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Dining and Drinking
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Florida's Shame Day 4: Florida's new farms?
It was a great idea until the Florida Legislature ruined it. Read on. Spring 2001: What vision! For once Florida got ahead of its next land grab. Now that developers had pretty much paved the coasts from south to north, legislators realized that the...Tags: Health, Elections, Agricultural Research and Technology, Politics, Hospitals and Clinics
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Florida's Shame -- Failure to launch
Did you enjoy your commute this morning? Neither did we. Seems to get worse every day whether you're coming or going. But don't you wonder why this is? Those of you here in 1985 probably remember hearing legislators tout a new law that said, once and for...Tags: Regional Authority, Elections, Public Officials, Politics, Government
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Stimulus dollars headed to Treasure Coast this week
TCPalm.comThe first dollars from the $787 billion federal economic stimulus package arrive on the Treasure Coast this week. But the bigger ticket items -- the ones designed to create jobs -- are months away at the earliest. This week unemployment benefits in...Tags: Bill Nelson, Health Insurance, Politics, U.S. Army, Wages and Pensions
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