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Builders developing in outlying areas
Lennar Homes paid about $14 million for more than 260 lots in the Providence development, in partnership with ABD Development. The gated community, which has about 700 homes, was developed in 2005 in Polk County about 25 miles southwest of Orlando....
Tags: Windermere, Lady Lake, Winter Garden, Winter Springs, Narcoossee
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Amazon to bring 3,000 jobs to Florida in deal with state
TALLAHASSEE — Amazon will bring 3,000 jobs to the state in a deal that also means Floridians will have to start paying taxes on purchases from the online retailer. Gov. Rick Scott's office announced Thursday that Florida had landed the deal with...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, E-Commerce Industry, Rick Scott, U.S. Congress
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More aquatic plants seen as vital to helping Lake Apopka thrive again
Below the surface of the vast waters of Lake Apopka is a landscape akin to a desert. Only a hardy smattering of grasses, lily pads and other native plants cling to 1 percent of its lake bottom. As part of the vast, multimillion-dollar plan to restore...
Tags: Winter Garden, Conservation, Lake Apopka, Lakes and Ponds, Agriculture
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Orlando foreclosures dip - still in Top 10
Florida led the nation in foreclosure activity during May, though in Metropolitan Orlando the number of legal filings was down from both a year ago and a month earlier, a new report shows. One in every 336 Orlando houses got a foreclosure-related...
Tags: Volusia County, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Real Estate, Services and Shopping, International Law
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Obituary: Imogene Neal Rowley
Imogene Neal Rowley 1915-2013 Imogene Neal Rowley, widow of Joe C. Rowley, died June 10, 2013, at Charleston Health Care Center. Born Nov. 27, 1915, in Lincoln County, Ky., she was a daughter of Ola Williams and Harry Lou Neal of Dade City, Fla....Tags: Elementary Schools, Schools
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Osceola grow-house investigation seizes more than 200 pot plants
KISSIMMEE – The smell of marijuana Friday led to another grow house bust in Poinciana, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office. The smell came from 600 Regency Way, where Misael Delgado-Sanchez opened the door after deputies knocked,...
Tags: Drug Trafficking, Poinciana, Hialeah, Rentals, Cuba
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Front & Center: Putnam: Water is state's top issue
Republican Adam Putnam was already a political veteran when he was elected Florida's agriculture commissioner in 2010. He had represented a U.S. House district that included his hometown of Bartow in Polk County for a decade, and had served four years...
Tags: Conservation, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Immigration, Florida Legislature, Everglades
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Healthful cooking on menu for Kissimmee kids in after-school club
Wearing pint-sized chef hats and aprons, a gaggle of elementary-schoolers looks up expectantly from picked-clean plates. "Did you guys enjoy?" their instructor asks. "Yes!" comes back a chorus of voices. "Who wants seconds?" Eyes widen and...
Tags: Salads, Lifestyle and Leisure, Weight, Health, Healthy Diet
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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: Teaching and Learning, Students, New York City, Justice System, Lawyers
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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, Teaching and Learning, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Students
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High court case may affect prayer at government meetings
In Deltona, as in most towns, cities and counties across Florida and across the country, City Commission meetings start with God, flag and country. There is prayer — sometimes silent reflection, sometimes words from a commissioner or local...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Separation of Church and State, Lady Lake, Arts and Culture, Deltona
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Orange, Central Florida counties see money from state drop
TALLAHASSEE — Despite state coffers flush with cash, Central Florida taxpayers might be justified to feel short-changed in the final state budget signed by Gov. Rick Scott. That's because Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Lake, Volusia and Brevard all...
Tags: University of Central Florida, Republican Party, Lobbying, Orange County (Florida), Budgets and Budgeting
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May 26, 2013
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May 27, 2013
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