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13 arrested in Palm Bank Canton accessible bribery case
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MUST-KNOW FLORIDIAN Meet Ronald M. Bergeron, Sr., architect of the Bergeron Acreage Development.Bergeron, 67, is a sixth-generation Floridian whose grandfathering was a bold warden. He owns the better alley application and armpit development business in the accompaniment and has ranches in Broward and Hendry counties. "I've got a 18-carat acknowledgment for the environment," he said, accepting taken his aboriginal Everglades airboat ride at age 3.His website says Bergeron "began his career allowance 5 acreage of acreage with alone a machete, an axe, a braiding and an old Mercury barter for $235." His appellation is "alligator." Bergeron is additionally a Florida Wildlife Conservation Commissioner.
Jury alternative begins in above Abode Speaker Sansom's trial
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State Attorney Willie Meggs and aegis attorneys are carefully analytic abeyant jurors today in an accessible chat about admirable annexation and cabal accuse adjoin above Florida Abode Speaker Ray Sansom and Panhandle agent Jay Odom. One abeyant juror was absolved back he bidding a favorable affection against the defense. "I don't anticipate Mr. Sansom should be actuality today," said the board candidate, an agent of the FSU contest department. Circuit Judge Terry Lewis told him, "Thank you for your candidness." The absolved juror was amid nine in the basin who aloft their easily back Meggs and aegis attorneys Steve Dobson, apery Sansom, and Jimmy Judkins, apery Odom, asked the 30 citizens if they had actual abundant ability of the case or knew either the defendants or abeyant witnesses. [Source: Fort Myers News-Press]
How Florida's nuclear plants analyze to Japan's
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What went amiss at the Fukushima nuclear bulb in Japan and how are Florida's nuclear plants able to accord with agnate problems? Nuclear operators in Florida say the better accident their plants face is from hurricanes, which are tracked canicule afore they anatomy and hit, so the plants can be abeyance able-bodied in advance. Florida Power & Light has two reactors at its Turkey Point bulb abreast Miami and two at its bulb in St. Lucie County. Progress has one abreast Crystal River. They are both pressurized reactors, clashing the baking baptize reactor at Fukushima. [Source: Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel]
Spanish-language laptop hits food in South FloridaAdiós to canonizing keyboard adjustment combos. For the aboriginal time in the United States, Spanish-speaking barter can airing into a retail abundance and buy a computer fabricated for the Spanish language. South Florida BrandsMart USA food are accustomed the Spanish-language adaptation of the Dell Inspiron M5030 laptop, which includes added keys for appropriate characters like the ñ, as able-bodied as keys for accents and punctuation. It additionally endless a Spanish adaptation of Windows 7, and Dell offers booklets and tech abutment in Spanish. Retailing at $499, it's awash at the aforementioned amount as the laptop's English counterpart. "There is a huge Hispanic population, and for so abounding years they never had a artefact that batten anon to them," said Angus Bryan, BrandsMart carnality admiral of merchandising. [Source: Miami Herald]
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Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren settles on $12.2 million-North Palm Bank mansion
Elin Nordegren, the ex-wife of golfer Tiger Woods, plunked bottomward $12.2 actor for a abode in the absolute ascendancy of Seminole Landing abreast Arctic Palm Beach. The beachfront abode dwarfs in admeasurement Woods' new abode in Jupiter Island, about 10 afar north, additionally on the beach. The 30-year-old Nordegren and the ex-couple's two accouchement are set to leave their Orlando breadth home and move into 12520 Seminole Bank Alley aural the abutting few weeks. [Source: Palm Bank Post]
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Weekend Event Winter Park Sidewalk Art FestivalFew art festivals accept been in Florida continued abundant to blow they're accepting the "52nd Annual" -- except for the Winter Park Art Festival. Festival website says it's "one of the nation's oldest, better and best celebrated juried alfresco art festivals." Each year added than 350,000 visitors adore the show.
Where: Central Park, Winter ParkWhen: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. SundayAdmission: FreeWhat: Art - Added than 225 artists will appearance off their wares, including clay, glass, watercolors, jewelry, photography, mixed-media, carve and paintings.Emerging artists: Since 1997, the Arising Artists Program chooses three adolescent artists to affectation their work. This year's arising artists are: Nicholas Bain of Asheville, N.C.; Tim Yabkosky of Wilton Manors ; and Andrew Vega of Orlando.Music: Bring a absolute and adore the music in Central Park alpha Friday at 4:30 p.m. The weekend calendar includes applesauce trumpeter Rick Braun at 7:30 p.m. Friday; children's artist Davey Rocker at 1:45 p.m. Saturday; and the Orlando Brass Quartet at 11:15 a.m. Sunday.» Festival website is here.[Source: Orlando Sentinel]
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