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  • March 2008

    • Stingray Kills Boater off Fla. Keys

      CNN  |  Mar 20, 08 2:54 PM CDT

      Stingray Kills Boater off Fla. Keys

      (Newser) - A stingray leapt out of the water and struck a 55-year-old Michigan woman who was sunbathing on the deck of a boat off the Florida Keys yesterday, CNN reports. The woman, who was with her husband and children, was knocked to the ground and pronounced dead at a local hospital. No word on the specific cause of death yet, but local reports say she was impaled through the neck by the 75 lb. ray's barb. More »

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      Florida  • accident  • accidental death  • Florida Keys  • boat accident  • stingray

    • Candidates Reject Fla. Delegate Compromise

      Talahassee Democrat  |  Mar 20, 08 12:19 PM CDT

      Candidates Reject Fla. Delegate Compromise

      (Newser) - The Obama and Clinton campaigns rejected a compromise plan for seating Florida’s delegates—half according to its illicit January primary and the other half based on national vote totals or delegate counts. Sunshine State lawmakers are demanding their state get some sort of say in the tight Dem race; one suggested the candidates “get in a room together and work this thing out.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Florida  • delegates  • primary  • DNC  • compromise  • Sunshine State

    • Michigan Close to Re-Vote Deal; Florida Plan Fades

      Associated Press  |  Mar 13, 08 9:08 PM CDT

      Michigan Close to Re-Vote Deal; Florida Plan Fades

      (Newser) - Michigan officials are close to a deal on how to stage a primary do-over for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the AP reports. No date has been set, but details may be released tomorrow. It likely will be a regular primary, and it must be staged sometime before June 10. In Florida, meanwhile, plans for a re-vote hit a brick wall today as opposition surfaced to the idea of conducting it by mail. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Florida  • Michigan  • delegates  • primary  • voting

    • Girls Gone Wild Mogul Goes Free

      E! Online  |  Mar 13, 08 10:29 AM CDT

      Girls Gone Wild Mogul Goes Free

      (Newser) - Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis, who's been behind bars for nearly a year, is a free man today after cutting a deal with Florida prosecutors, E! News reports. He faced felony charges from filming underage girls for the raunchy videos that have made him millions. Francis blasted the "corrupt town, run by corrupt officials" that put him away on "trumped-up charges." He pleaded no contest to a charge of child abuse for the filming and several misdemeanors. More »

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      Florida  • Nevada  • Girls Gone Wild  • Joe Francis  • adult films  • spring break

    • Florida Will Go With June 3 Mail-In Primary

      USA Today  |  Mar 13, 08 8:53 AM CDT

      Florida Will Go With June 3 Mail-In Primary

      (Newser) - Florida Democrats will announce plans for a new June 3 mail-in primary, despite opposition from the state's congressional delegation and concern from both candidates,  USA Today reports. Opponents are concerned ballots may fail to reach low-income voters who tend to change addresses frequently. Hillary Clinton wants the results of the original primary, which she won, to stand. More »

    • 10 Amazing Places to Unwind

      Forbes  |  Mar 10, 08 3:00 AM CDT

      10 Amazing Places to Unwind

      (Newser) - Americans need a vacation—badly—with fewer than two-thirds of workers using their allotted time last year, reports Forbes . But not everyone's idea of fun is vegging out . Here are top-notch US getaways for those who like active travel: Kapalua Resort, Maui, Hawaii: Golf, bird-watching and a marine-life preserves. Golden Door Resort, Escondido, California: Feel revived at the nation's top stand-alone spa. Walden Country Inn and Stables, Aurora, Ohio: Ride horseback on 32 acres of trails. More »

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      Florida  • travel  • Hawaii  • vacation  • Phoenix  • spa  • resorts  • Kennebunkport  • Maui  • Aspen  • Kapalua  • Palm Springs

    • Mich., Fla. Closer to Approving Re-Votes

      Chicago Tribune  |  Mar 9, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Mich., Fla. Closer to Approving Re-Votes

      (Newser) - Michigan and Florida senators appeared closer today to approving mail-in re-votes for their disqualified primaries, the Swamp blog reports. DNC chair Howard Dean said he also supported the mail-ins if state leaders can agree with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on how to run them. “I have to run these rules so that the losing side feels it’s been treated fairly,” he said on “This Week with George Stephanopolous.” More »

    • Deal Close for Mail-in Florida Revote

      Newsweek  |  Mar 8, 08 1:20 PM CST

      Deal Close for Mail-in Florida Revote

      (Newser) - Floridians will get a chance to vote again in the Democratic primary, this time by mail, if Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and Gov. Charlie Crist have their way. Nelson tells Newsweek that plans are all but set for a re-vote, this time paid for by soft money donations. But hurdles remain, including what Nelson’s spokesman calls a “tiny” Florida law against mail-in voting. More »

    • Clinton's Strategy: Pray for Rain

      Politico  |  Mar 4, 08 10:50 AM CST

      Clinton's Strategy: Pray for Rain

      (Newser) - With delegate math and the campaign narrative both against her, Hillary Clinton’s current strategy is simply to hope for the best, Politico reports. “Some other, yet unknown, turn of events” must conspire to help her out—and Clintonites are looking to Barack Obama’s recent spate of bad press and fresh chatter about another crack at a Florida primary. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Florida  • Texas primary  • Ohio primary

    • Fireman Dead in Fla. Wendy's Shooting

      Palm Beach Post  |  Mar 3, 08 8:00 PM CST

      Fireman Dead in Fla. Wendy's Shooting

      (Newser) - A gunman killed a local firefighter and wounded five others in a West Palm Beach Wendy's today before taking his own life, the Palm Beach Post reports. Shooter Alburn Edward Blake left no suicide note but was said by one witness to be an ex-worker at the restaurant. "Looks like this was just another random shooting like we've seen around the United States," a Palm Beach County Sheriff's spokesman told the AP. More »

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      crime  • Florida  • suicide  • shooting  • homicide  • gun violence  • murder suicide  • Palm Beach  • Wendy's

    • Conrad Black Starts 6½-Year Prison Term

      Reuters  |  Mar 3, 08 6:54 PM CST

      Conrad Black Starts 6&frac12;-Year Prison Term

      (Newser) - Ex-newspaper mogul Conrad Black arrived at a Florida prison today to start his 6-and-1/2 year term for fraud and obstruction of justice, Reuters reports. He stayed mum as his wife drove him in, but is appealing the ruling that he helped bilk his former company of $6.1 million. "My book about this outrage is almost ready, so if I must go, I will not be going quietly," he wrote in a recent email. More »

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      Florida  • prison  • newspaper  • Conrad Black  • appeal  • embezzlement  • sentenced

    • Engineer's Goof Turned Out Florida Lights

      Miami Herald  |  Mar 1, 08 10:31 AM CST

      Engineer's Goof Turned Out Florida Lights

      (Newser) - One engineer's blunder shut off the power in Florida Tuesday, the Miami Herald reports. Florida Light & Power says a field engineer diagnosing a faulty switch disabled two levels of safety backups—against company policy—as he worked. In a bit of extremely unfortunate timing, a fault then occurred that knocked out dozens of transmission lines and substations, including one that served the Turkey Point nuclear reactor. More »

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      Florida  • electricity  • power outage  • blackout  • engineers  • utility companies  • mistake

  • February 2008

    • Stowaway Cat Headed Home After 3 Weeks

      South Florida Sun-Sentinel  |  Feb 27, 08 12:23 PM CST

      Stowaway Cat Headed Home After 3 Weeks

      (Newser) - Being a bit on the chubby side probably saved Meatloaf the cat's life, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. The year-old feline wandered into a man's moving container in Florida and was rescued three weeks later when an employee at a Phoenix warehouse heard meowing coming from a crate. Meatloaf, emaciated but alive, emerged when the container was unlocked. More »

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      Florida  • Arizona  • cat  • Humane Society

    • Power Returns to Millions in Fla.

      St. Petersburg Times  |  Feb 26, 08 4:40 PM CST

      Power Returns to Millions in Fla.

      (Newser) - A blackout that cut off millions of Florida residents today is ending, authorities say, but they disagree on the cause. Florida Power & Light blames a substation west of Miami for sparking the outage, and a state emergency office says a station south of Miami suffered a mechanical failure that triggered two nuclear plants to go offline, the St. Petersburg Times reports. More »

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      Florida  • Miami  • power outage  • nuclear power plants  • traffic accident  • blackout

    • Huge Power Outage Strikes Fla.

      Miami Herald  |  Feb 26, 08 2:30 PM CST

      Huge Power Outage Strikes Fla.

      (Newser) - Power outages concentrated in the Miami area struck across Florida just after 1 this afternoon, the Miami Herald reports. The lights started coming back on within 2 hours, but the cause of the blackout still wasn't known. Both nuclear reactors at the Turkey Point plant south of Miami automatically shut down, blacking out hundreds of thousands of customers, "but we do not know why at this point," said an NRC spokesman. More »

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      Florida  • power outage

    • Balmy, With a Chance of Pythons

      USA Today  |  Feb 21, 08 9:16 AM CST

      Balmy, With a Chance of Pythons

      (Newser) - Burmese pythons could rapidly establish a stranglehold on the southern US due in part to snake-loving global warming, according to a new government report. With climate change and more pet owners releasing unwanted snakes into the wild, the adaptable serpent could soon call home any area from Northern California through the Southwest, deep South and Atlantic Coast, reports USA Today. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • Florida  • animal  • alligator  • snakes  • habitat  • burmese python

    • Florida Schools Must Teach Evolution

      Tallahassee Democrat  |  Feb 19, 08 6:18 PM CST

      Florida Schools Must Teach Evolution

      (Newser) - Teachers in Florida's public schools must for the first time teach evolution, but they must present it as a "scientific theory" rather than a fact, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. The state's Board of Education approved the new curriculum standards today. The old ones made no mention of evolution. Religious leaders and conservative lawmakers fought for the last-minute amendment to teach it as a theory. More »

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      Florida  • evolution

    • South Florida Quiet After Castro Resigns

      Miami Herald  |  Feb 19, 08 5:16 PM CST

      South Florida Quiet After Castro Resigns

      (Newser) - Few South Florida Cubans bothered to celebrate Fidel Castro's retirement today, the Miami Herald reports. Exile leaders dismissed the power shift to Castro's brother Raul as politics as usual for the island nation. "Just because he has given up a title, doesn't mean he has given up power,'' lawmaker Mario Diaz-Balart said. More »

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      Florida  • Cuba  • Fidel Castro  • Raul Castro  • Miami  • Cuban Americans  • South Florida  • Cuban exiles  • Little Havana

    • Church Launches 'Sex Challenge'

      St. Petersburg Times  |  Feb 19, 08 7:51 AM CST

      Church Launches 'Sex Challenge'

      (Newser) - A Florida church has issued a 30-day "sex challenge" to its members that's likely to be a much bigger hit with those who are married—at least the husbands among them—than the singles, the St. Petersburg Time s reports. The Relevant Church wants married couples to have sex every day for 30 days, and singles to abstain for the entire month. Leaders say this will strengthen marriages, and give unmarried couples the opportunity to discover how well they get along with their clothes on. More »

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      Florida  • religion  • marriage  • sex  • church

    • Howard Dean, Shadow of His Former Self

      New Republic  |  Feb 18, 08 9:20 PM CST

      Howard Dean, Shadow of His Former Self

      (Newser) - The Howard Dean who once shocked Washington is now a model of docility, “unwilling or afraid to confront the establishment that was once so afraid of him," the New Republic ’s Eve Fairbanks argues. The Democratic National Committee chair is also the wrong man for a bitter primary season, refusing to intervene when the party needs a strong hand. More »

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      Florida  • Michigan  • Howard Dean  • Democratic National Committee  • Washington

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