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New partnership to help Orlando fintech firm Fattmerchant grow
Orlando-based fintech company Fattmerchant is partnering with eConduit, a Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based provider of cloud-based single source global credit card terminal connections, in a move designed...
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Marco Rubio on gun control: It depends who he's talking to
WASHINGTON — It was one week after the fatal shootings in Parkland, and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was looking to show solidarity with an angry crowd of parents and students in his home state. He...
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Florida appeals order to change felon voting rights system
TALLAHASSEE — Florida is challenging a federal judge's order that it must devise a new way of deciding how and when former prisoners can get their voting rights restored. Attorney General Pam Bondi on...
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Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz sets up her 'Pietà' project at the UCF Student Union today
In Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz’s powerful durational performance Pietà, the artist opens her arms and invites those in pain to lay down their burdens. “We live in a world where we’re [people of color] told...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar speaks about his latest book at Rollins College
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA all-time leading scorer and both a six-time NBA champion and six-time league MVP, yes, but he’s also one of the most powerful black intellectuals in America, and he’s...
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Local composer Charlie Griffin will premiere a new work at the Orlando...
I first heard music by Orlando-based composer Charlie Griffin at the 2014 Central Florida Composers Salon, an annual event that showcases music by members of the Central Florida Composers Forum, which...
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Infowars, Alex Jones sued for falsely identifying man as Parkland shooter
On one day, Marcel Fontaine was "just a guy in his 20s from Massachusetts minding his own business," said his attorney, Bill Ogden. On the next, he was wrongly labeled as the mass shooter who killed...
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Health advocates blast $98 million Medicaid cut proposed by Florida lawmakers
A push by the Florida Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott to trim nearly $100 million from the state’s main safety-net health care program for the poor is coming under fire by health-care providers and...
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Calls for curbing gun violence continue at South Florida town hall
With students, teachers and family members of victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in attendance, Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch hosted a town-hall meeting Tuesday...
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9 fun facts about Central Florida's largest banks, including why 13 is a...
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Woman, 63, accused of exposing herself along busy Florida highway
A 63-year-old woman was arrested after reports that she stood baring her breasts and sticking her tongue out at traffic, TCPalm reports. Johanne Linda Eden covered herself up when she saw a patrol...
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Car thief steals precious cargo: A baby girl, police say
A car thief got more than a free ride when he stole a Toyota Wednesday: Inside was a toddler girl, Fort Lauderdale police say. The theft happened around 11 a.m. in the 2400 block of Northwest 26th...
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How this prominent Orlando attorney's lakefront estate sold for top dollar
This St. Cloud property went on and off the market over the years until the listing in 2016 found its way to Premier Sotheby’s International Realty.
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Seminole teacher accidentally hits 'active shooter' app on phone, sends...
A teacher at Evans Elementary School accidentally hit an “active shooter” panic-button app on her cell phone Wednesday morning, locking down the school and sending police speeding to the campus,...
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Police: YouTube shooter was upset with policies and practices of the company,...
A day before a woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters, her father said he warned police that his daughter was upset with the company's handling of her videos and might be planning to go to its...
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Sinkholes at The Villages spark worries as prospect for more ground shifts...
THE VILLAGES — Doris Morrill, a retired widow who lives on a lakeside home, woke up in the middle of the night to a loud and ominous creaking that others called “thunder.” She went to go outside to...
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Work starting on downtown Winter Garden mixed-use building
Work will start this month on a new mixed-use building in downtown Winter Garden that will bring apartments, retail and restaurants to the eastern Orange County city. Developers of the project say...
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Florida on a Tankful: Wander through history at the Dinosaur Store
Just steps from Cocoa Beach and it iconic pier, you will find a museum unlike any in the area. Expl
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Florida leaders push feds to release hurricane disaster aid to farmers
TALLAHASSEE — Pressure is growing from Florida and other states as the U.S. Department of Agriculture continues to determine how to move forward with a disaster-relief package President Donald Trump...
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Tallahassee judge rules against 14 schools districts in lawsuit
Fourteen Florida school districts that had challenged a sweeping education law passed by the Florida Legislature last year lost their case in a Tallahassee court Wednesday, though they could decide to...
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