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Ian’s nasty swipe at Sanibel cuts deep for many Floridians. Here’s why

TAMPA, Fla. — The images of Hurricane Ian’s aftermath show evidence of Florida’s increasingly dense development — flattened beach communities, boats heaved into piles, mobile homes scattered like toys.

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‘Bleisure’ travelers give some South Florida hotels a lift by lingering for longer stays

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — For years, Fort Lauderdale has been known as a hot spot for college spring breakers, family vacationers, conventioneers and cruise line passengers.

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Fort Lauderdale embraces smoking ban at beach and parks

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Not one soul stormed City Hall to protest a ban on smoking at Fort Lauderdale’s beach and city parks.

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It’s a monster of a party this Halloween season at Legoland

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Halloween season has settled in at Legoland Florida. Its Brick-or-Treat event, much like the theme park itself, is geared to the 2-to-12-year-old crowd, but there’s ample lighthearted spooky stuff to entertain the adult crowd, too, including shows, Lego group builds, specialty foods and distinctive character interactions.

Orlando Sentinel

Timber tour: Discover 7 of Orlando’s significant trees

ORLANDO, Fla. — Amid Orlando’s exponential growth, The City Beautiful has maintained formidable foliage in the form of trees, mostly of the southern live oak variety.

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Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs get sweet revenge on Bucs

TAMPA, Fla. — For more than 19 ½ months, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs endured the bitter memory of their loss to the Bucs in Super Bowl 55.

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Residents at Florida retirement community struggle with massive flooding

ORLANDO, Fla. — Residents at Hacienda Village, a 55-plus manufactured housing community in Winter Springs, have not had power for days and are struggling to live in the heat with a boil water notice.

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Central Florida struggles with Ian’s ongoing sewage crisis

ORLANDO, Fla. — Days after Ian’s last gusts, the Orlando region’s sewage systems are fighting to recover and losing ground in many cases, swamping homes with wastewater, sending streams across roads without warning and pouring untold thousands of gallons into lakes.

Orlando Sentinel

‘Like the Gulf of Mexico came in’: Hurricane Ian flooded this historically Black Naples neighborhood

NAPLES, Fla. — Piles of damaged furniture, damp mattresses and broken electronics sat Saturday in front of most houses on the east side of Naples’ only historically Black neighborhood.

Miami Herald

Thousands of Tampa Bay homes remain without power after Ian

TAMPA, Fla. — Four days since Hurricane Ian smashed into Southwest Florida, about 26,000 customers remain without power across the Tampa Bay region.

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Mike Bianchi: In the wake of Hurricane Ian, here’s another million reasons DeVos family is good for the Orlando community

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando Magic chairman Dan DeVos and his family started implementing a plan about how they could help even before Hurricane Ian crashed ashore days ago.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida State takes step back in top-25 loss to Wake Forest

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — After four games of undeniable progress, No. 23 Florida State ran into a harsh reality Saturday at Doak Campbell Stadium.

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Hurricane Ian: Damage will drive insurance rates even higher, cripple industry

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With early predictions of $50 billion in damage from Hurricane Ian, experts worry whether the state’s struggling property insurance system will become another casualty of the storm and lead to even higher premiums.

Orlando Sentinel

As Ian’s aftermath is felt across Florida, its destruction comes into view

TAMPA, Fla. — It wasn’t just the coastline, though it took most of the blow.

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Judge favors free speech arguments in prosecutor's case against Gov. Ron DeSantis

TAMPA, Fla. — The federal judge considering Andrew Warren’s challenge to his suspension by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declined in a written order Thursday to immediately reinstate the ousted state attorney, but appeared to favor Warren’s arguments that his removal violated his free speech rights.

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Teddy Bridgewater to start while Tua Tagovailoa misses time with concussion

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — While starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is out indefinitely with a concussion, veteran Teddy Bridgewater will start for the Dolphins, coach Mike McDaniel said Friday.

Miami Herald

Ian leaves destruction, and death, in Matlacha. Colorful village flattened, isolated

MATLACHA, Fla. — Many of the colorful cottages, boutiques and restaurants that made this artsy little fishing village famous and fun are gone or battered now, swallowed by surge or broken by wind. Boats have been flung into yards, homes flung into water.

Miami Herald

Coast Guard sees human remains in flooded home as search and rescue continues

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida officials on Friday gave a glimpse into the death toll following Hurricane Ian: 20 unconfirmed deaths, 1 confirmed fatality and an unknown number of drownings in one house.

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After Ian slammed into Port Charlotte, Scooby’s food truck sprung to action

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The line grew longer and longer in the empty lot off Tamiami Trail.

Miami Herald

Florida begins to assess devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian

FORT MYERS, Fla. — On the vacation island resorts of Sanibel and Captiva, rescuers flew in on helicopters because the roads from the mainland of Southwest Florida had collapsed into San Carlos Bay. To the south, Fort Myers Beach, once a lively town center of fish restaurants and bars, was…

Miami Herald

Key Largo is so flooded that crocs swim in streets — and you can’t even flush the toilet?

KEY LARGO, Fla. — For years, American crocodiles have be seen lounging, mouths agape, on boat ramps in the Key Largo neighborhood of Stillwright Point.

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Rays’ Port Charlotte complex damaged by Hurricane Ian

CLEVELAND — Rays officials are in the process of assessing the extent of the damage to their Port Charlotte training facility in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

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‘Absolute devastation’: Hurricane Ian decimates Fort Myers Beach

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — They thought second floors would be safe.

Miami Herald

Ian’s path of ruin: Sanibel bridge severed, Gulf Coast cities flooded, at least 12 dead

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World Central Kitchen starts delivering meals to communities impacted by Hurricane Ian

TAMPA, Fla. — Early Thursday morning, just as first responders began to assess the catastrophic damage inflicted by Hurricane Ian, a team of chefs packed 5,000 meals to go and hit the road, driving south.

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