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    News Large great white shark swims very close to Florida Keys fishermen

    Neighbors Don Gates and Angie Gonder, who are used to deep sea fishing and tagging Mahi for research, were about 23 miles offshore Cudjoe Key on Monday. They first spotted a log in the water, which was likely to attract fish and bait. But then they saw something else close to the surface: what...
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    News Ruling clears Biden's 2021 pause on new oil, gas leases

    A judge’s order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil and gas leases on federal land and waters was vacated Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. It was at least a temporary victory for President Joe Biden but the immediate effect was unclear. The...
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    News Brad Pitt foundation reaches settlement over Louisiana homes

    Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation and homeowners of the houses built by the program, in an area of New Orleans among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina, have reached a $20.5 million settlement. The Times-Picayune ' The New Orleans Advocate reported Wednesday that, pending approval by a...
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    News As extreme heat continues impacting South Florida, officials and advocates are taking steps to mitigate rising power costs

    The heat is on. We’re talking about all-time records, like we have never experienced in recorded history. This week, headlines screamed that extreme heat will be a fact of life for over 100 million Americans in the next 30 years. It’s already hot here in South Florida, but according to a new...
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    News As wounded officer clings to life after shooting, new details shed light on suspects

    As a Miami-Dade police officer remained in critical condition after he was shot in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood Monday night, Local 10 News is learned more information Wednesday about the suspects connected to the incident, both of whom were killed by police. The Florida Department of Law...
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    News Miramar pharmacy raided by federal agents, suspected of being pill mill

    Federal agents raided a Broward County pharmacy on Tuesday that is suspected of being a pill mill. Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) deputies were involved in the raid at Healthplus Pharmacy in...
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    News Fatal crash shuts down southbound lanes of I-95 in Dania Beach

    A fatal crash Wednesday afternoon led the Florida Highway Patrol to shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 near the Griffin Road exit in Dania Beach. According to FHP, an Apopka man was driving his white hatchback and left the roadway just before 2:25 p.m., traveling down the grass...
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    News Bombing at Kabul mosque kills 10, including prominent cleric

    A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27, an eyewitness and police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest to strike the...
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    News Man arrested for setting Hialeah property on fire after being evicted

    This morning, Bret Berlant was arrested after setting a property on fire after being evicted on June 15. On that same day in June, a fire was reported at 6045 W 10th Ave in Hialeah. After paramedics arrived at the scene, officers conducted a search of the area for possible video surveillance...
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    News A$AP Rocky pleads not guilty to firearm assault charges

    Rapper A$AP Rocky has pleaded not guilty to felony assault with a firearm charges stemming from a 2021 confrontation in Hollywood. He is accused of drawing a gun and firing it twice in the direction of a former friend during an argument in Hollywood in November 2021. He pleaded not guilty...
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    News BofA CEO: Struggling Americans feel they are in a recession

    The CEO of Bank of America said the recent debate over whether the U.S. economy is technically in a recession or not is missing the point. What matters is that current economic conditions are negatively impacting those who are most vulnerable. “Recession is a word. Whether we are in a recession...
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    News Video captures theft of thousands of dollars’ worth of allergy medications at CVS in Coral Springs

    New surveillance video released Tuesday by the Broward Sheriff’s Office appears to show a man stealing allergy products from a CVS on Coral Ridge Drive. On Aug. 5 at approximately 11:15 am, BSO deputies responded to the CVS located on 11375 West Atlantic Boulevard, in reference to a retail...
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    News Giant sharks once roamed the seas, feasting on huge meals

    Today's sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the oceans millions of years ago could have devoured a creature the size of a killer whale in just five bites, new research suggests. For their study published Wednesday, researchers used fossil evidence to create a...
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    News Return of the meme stock: Bed Bath & Beyond shares skyrocket

    After a quiet first half of 2022, the meme stock is back. Beyond and back, in fact. Shares in Bed Bath & Beyond jumped 25% Wednesday on huge trading volume, and the mall-based home goods retailer’s stock has nearly quintupled in a little more than two weeks. If the stock's price holds until the...
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    News WILD FLORIDA: Massive gator devours smaller gator

    Survival of the fittest was taken to another level at a Florida state park last week. Tammy Shaw was at Silver Springs State Park near Ocala, when she came across a massive alligator with another smaller gator in its jaws. Shaw would not believe what she was seeing and said she started the...
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    News Russian spacewalk cut short by bad battery in cosmonaut suit

    A Russian spacewalker had to rush back inside the International Space Station on Wednesday when the battery voltage in his spacesuit suddenly dropped. Russian Mission Control ordered Oleg Artemyev, the station commander, to quickly return to the airlock so he could hook his suit to station...
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    News Fed saw evidence of a slowing economy at its last meeting

    Federal Reserve officials saw signs that the U.S. economy was weakening at their last meeting but still called inflation “unacceptably high’’ before raising their benchmark interest rate by a sizable three-quarters of a point in their drive to slow spiking prices. In minutes from their July...
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    News Ohio counties awarded $650M in CVS, Walmart, Walgreens suit

    A federal judge in Cleveland awarded $650 million in damages Wednesday to two Ohio counties that won a landmark lawsuit against national pharmacy chains CVS, Walgreens and Walmart, claiming the way they distributed opioids to customers caused severe harm to communities. U.S. District Judge Dan...
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    News Feds report an increase of U.S. black market weapons smuggling to Haiti

    There has been a recent increase in firearm and ammunition smuggling from the United States to Haiti, federal officials reported on Wednesday during a news conference in Miami-Dade County. Anthony Salisbury, the special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations Miami, met with...
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    News Bank of America's overdraft fees down 90% under new policy

    Bank of America says the revenue it gets from overdrafts has dropped 90% from a year ago, after the bank reduced overdraft fees to $10 from $35 and eliminated fees for bounced checks. The nation’s largest banks are moving away from the practice of charging exorbitant fees on what are mostly...
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