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Florida’s marijuana law: entrepreneurs are waiting to exhale
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Retired real estate agent Wanda Hurt, 58, is learning how to grow peppers and tomatoes, but when she graduates from Florida's own version of Pot U...
Florida’s marijuana law: entrepreneurs are waiting to exhale
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Retired real estate agent Wanda Hurt, 58, is learning how to grow peppers and tomatoes, but when she graduates from Florida's own version of Pot U...
Genetic yacht lab maps sea life off Florida looking for cures
By Barbara Liston ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) - A team of scientists has begun collecting the genomes of sea creatures off the Florida coast in the hopes that unmapped species, some...
No Mountain Dew: Florida students face big test without caffeine
ORLANDO (Reuters) - Students in one Central Florida school this year will try to ace high-stakes standardized tests without their usual shot of Mountain Dew. The change came after a...
Florida man charged with murdering son so he could play video games
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida man annoyed that his 16-month-old crying son was preventing him from playing video games suffocated the toddler and left him to die in a...
Racist online forums linked to deadly U.S. hate crimes: rights group
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A white supremacist charged with killing three people near two Jewish community facilities in suburban Kansas City this week posted more than 12,000 messages on a...
New hurricane forecast maps to show flood risk from storm surge
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - When the Atlantic hurricane season opens June 1, national forecasters will roll out a new feature: color-coded and broadcast-ready maps to graphically show the potential for...
Florida woman survives bear mauling; clamped its jaws on her head
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Central Florida woman was recovering at home on Monday after a bear knocked her down outside her house, clamped its jaw on her head and...
Judge sets bond for suspect in deadly Florida day care car crash
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A judge reinstated a $100,000 bond on Monday for a Florida man charged with leaving the scene of a car crash at an Orlando-area day care...
Florida woman survives bear mauling; clamped its jaws on her head
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Central Florida woman was recovering at home on Monday after a bear knocked her down outside her house, clamped its jaw on her head and...