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Homes Deemed ‘unlivable’ As Cleanup Efforts Continue In Florida

Florida's residents are only beginning to pick up the pieces after the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Ian

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Men charged with defrauding Florida school shooter's brother

The head of a Virginia company accused of exploiting immigration detainees seeking bail has now been charged with defrauding the brother of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz

The Independent UK

Florida officials are scrambling to limit Hurricane Ian's impact on the election

Election officials in Florida say they are meeting a Thursday deadline to send out mail ballots, despite the hurricane. But in-person voting sites remain a concern.

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After Ian, Florida island residents return to assess damage

Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast barrier islands are returning to assess the damage from Hurricane Ian, despite limited access to some areas

The Independent UK

Girl stolen aged 4 with fake Disney offer miraculously reunited with UK family 53 years on

Susan Gervaise vanished in 1969 when a traveller family offered to take her on holiday to Disney World in Florida, US, with their children and never brought her back

Daily Mirror

Hurricane Ian: residents return to battered homes as death toll rises

Ian is the second-deadliest storm to strike the US in the 21st century

The Guardian - US

School shooter chose Valentine's Day to ruin it forever

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz calmly told a psychologist he picked Valentine’s Day for his massacre to ruin the holiday for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students forever

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Florida drop tower will be taken down after teen's death

A towering amusement ride in central Florida’s tourism district where a Missouri teen fell to his death will be taken down because of the accident

The Independent UK

Florida theme park to demolish 430ft high ride after teenager fell to death

The FreeFall ride at Orlando’s ICON Park has been closed since March accident

The Independent UK

Sasse expected to leave Senate to run University of Florida - Roll Call

Two-term Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska is expected to resign to become president of the University of Florida.

Roll Call

When flooding from Ian trapped one Florida town, an airboat navy came to the rescue

After Hurricane Ian dumped record levels of rain across Florida, rivers flooded, leaving thousands stranded on newly created islands.

WEKU

Ian shakes up election preparations, could hurt Florida turnout

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Running an election in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian is going to be a monumental challenge for elections officials in the Florida counties hit hardest by the storm as they face poll worker shortages, damaged polling places and voters who lost their homes.

Orlando Sentinel

Will Hurricane Ian cut Florida’s Gulf Coast real estate boom short?

Hurricanes have always posed an inevitable threat to Florida. But the risk hasn’t detered the droves of people who have flocked to the state since the start of the pandemic.

Tribune News Service

Clyde DJ Cassi Gillespie surprises Scots broadcaster Diane Knox at Florida baby shower

After sending her pal an unlikely invitation to her baby shower, Diane was stunned when Cassi turned up at her door alongside her parents earlier this week.

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The Independent UK

Photo of Gov Ron DeSantis behind presidential seal in Florida goes viral

Mr DeSantis is considered one of the top rivals for Trump in the upcoming fight for the 2024 GOP nomination

Los Angeles Times

Border chief says GOP governors’ migrant relocation campaign is stoking migration to US

WASHINGTON — A few days after Daniel got off a plane in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachuseetts, where he had been flown from San Antonio with other migrants by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his phone buzzed.

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Big Ten bowl projections from College Football News after Week 5

Big Ten football bowl projections from College Football News after Week 5 #GoBucks #B1G

The Guardian - US

Florida mayor not offended by Biden’s ‘salty language’ on live microphone

Ray Murphy, mayor of Fort Myers Beach, says: ‘It was not directed at anybody. It was just two guys talking. It didn’t faze me one bit’

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JAXA's Wakata embarks on record 5th space mission

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Koichi Wakata and three other astronauts entered their scheduled orbit on Wednesday after a successful launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Orlando Sentinel

Scott Maxwell: Florida knew the insurance crisis was coming. Lawmakers waged culture wars instead

Thanks to Hurricane Ian, Florida is about to experience an insurance crisis that could send your already-high rates even higher, limit your insurer choices even more and cost taxpayers billions.

WEKU

Florida's property insurance market was already under stress. Ian could make it worse

Rampant litigation, costlier storms and rising reinsurance costs have all combined to make chaos in Florida's home insurance market. Now, some worry Ian could send even more insurers out of the state.

WEKU

One Florida community built to weather hurricanes endured Ian with barely a scratch

Hundreds of thousands of people in Southwest Florida still don't have electricity or water. But Babcock Ranch, north of Fort Myers, was designed and built to withstand the most powerful storms.

Evening Standard

The lineman, linewives, and bucket bunnies: TikTok drama explained

Linemen, linewives, and bucket bunnies are the main characters in the latest niche drama taking over TikTok

Tribune News Service

Eduardo Porter: Immigration’s burden doesn’t fall on a ‘handful of red states’

Who bears the burden of immigration? Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida have made much of their claim that their jurisdictions do so disproportionately, and those run by Democrats obviously do not.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: How the GOP counts on Democrats' goodwill to conceal its own cruelty

In a world where Republicans set political standards, one could expect that migrants would be abandoned in remote places without hope of succor and that funding for infrastructure construction and disaster relief would be provided only to GOP-led communities.

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