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Video shows Florida black bear chasing family back into their house
A black bear appears in the clip and charges up to the home’s bushes before turning back.
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‘Couldn’t agree more’: Tampa Bay Rays’ Taylor Walls supports DeSantis’ anti-transgender declaration
“In my opinion, I don’t think I did anything wrong,” he said.
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Florida cop who took part in Capitol riots shown in viral TikTok violently arresting Black man
“They didn’t see the medical situation at hand and jumped the gun.”
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Live stream shows record number of manatees at Florida’s Blue Spring State Park
The park counted 663 manatees Tuesday.
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After reports of rift between DeSantis and Trump, Roger Stone calls Florida Gov. a ‘Yale Harvard fat boy’
“Ron DeSantis Yale Harvard fat boy can’t get out of his own way. Not smart. Not honest and not going to be president.”
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UF researchers predict 80% of Floridians will contract COVID-19 by end of omicron surge
“Probably 70 to 80% of the state will either get infected in this wave or have been infected in a prior wave.”
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Republican retirees in The Villages arrested for allegedly voting multiple times in 2020 election
All three are accused of casting ballots in Florida and absentee ballots in their home state.
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Following record die-off, wildlife officials share unprecedented plan to feed Florida manatees
While federal officials have to share the scope of their feeding plan, they did remind the public that feeding wild manatees is illegal.
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Florida Gov. DeSantis vows to fight climate change without doing any ‘left-wing stuff’
The projects are almost entirely focused on moving the encroaching water we’re already dealing with more efficiently.
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You can use Metallica’s Lars Ulrich as a toilet at Tampa’s Brass Mug this weekend
The unsettling design comes courtesy of Prince Midnight, a musician and sculptor who famously claims to have made a guitar out of his uncle’s bones.
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Florida officials rescue black bear after it spent a month with its head stuck in a jug
FWC officials say they think the plastic jug was part of an animal feeder and a hole on the opposite end allowed the bear to keep eating and drinking for the month it was trapped.
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High school quiz refers to Florida as ‘a group of complete idiots’
The inclusion of these Florida, Texas and Fox News is telling, as all three are hotbeds of COVID-19 denialism.
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Florida man applies to 60 entry-level jobs in a month to prove the so-called ‘labor shortage’ is a myth
After hearing several local business owners complain that they can’t find employees for hourly work, Holz set about his experiment, documenting the results in a spreadsheet.
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Florida congressional hopeful and racist troll Laura Loomer raised over $100k, none of it from her district
A woman in Eustis and a man in Davenport both gave to Loomer, though they fall just outside of the confines of CD 11.
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Video shows alt-right, anti-vaxxer Laura Loomer being thrown out of Florida restaurant
The huffing and pouting anti-vax crowd said that a server called them the r-word, though that’s not captured on tape.
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Netflix will put Tampa cat rescue back in the spotlight with ‘Tiger King’ sequel
The specific release date is TBD.
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Central Florida police officer resigns after being pulled over drunk and pantsless
Deputies report that Ruiz was pantsless when he was pulled over and asked to put on shorts before getting out of his truck.
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Orlando Museum of Art’s downtown location will have a rooftop Chihuly garden
It’ll be Chihuly’s first rooftop garden.
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Nikki Fried says she would not support statewide mask mandate as Florida governor
“Every county needs to make their own decisions,” she said.
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‘I got the Florida variant’: Matt Gaetz downplays surging cases as state sets new COVID records
At the same time that Gaetz was holding his rally, Florida was sharing record-breaking COVID-19 numbers.