Balloon boy family moves to Florida from Colorado

The family at the center of the balloon boy hoax has moved out of the house where the fateful trip began, leaving Colorado for Florida.

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Do It This Labor Day Weekend: Florida’s Largest Home Show, Look Tonight, Gecko Fest and much more

Do It This Labor Day Weekend: Florida’s Largest Home Show, Look Tonight , Gecko Fest and much more September 3, 2010 at 12:00 am by Julie Garisto When it comes to the depressing real estate market, you gotta think like Crosby, Stills and Nash: If you can’t live in the house you love, Read More

Taco Bell sells 16 Central Florida restaurants

Bravo Food Group LLC took over 16 Taco Bells in Central Florida. Shown: Taco Bell employee Jason Sanders A Michigan franchisee bought 16 Taco Bell restaurants in Central Florida with plans to start renovating older stores and adding new ones here in the next 18 months.

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Woman who lived with dead mom for 14 months trying to save home

Gail Andrews admits she lived with her dead mother’s skeleton for 14 months in a run-down home, but contends that’s no reason for Lee County Code Enforcement officials to raze her Fort Myers home and leave her homeless, reports the Naples Daily News . She left her mother in her home Read More

FloriDUH: A lawyer’s unrequited love — bar none

The jail staff sensed there was something going on between the lawyer and the inmate whom he represented in a drunken driving case. One tipoff was the novice public defender’s frequent visits to the Lee County jail to see this inmate. The jail staff also discovered the assistant public Read More

Florida primary yields mixed results for LGBT candidates

Florida House candidate and Wilton Manors Commissioner Justin Flippen was among the gay and lesbian candidates who lost their races in Florida’s Aug.

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Florida Supremes drop-kick redistricting, health-care, and property-tax amendments

The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld lower-court decisions to remove three legislatively drafted constitutional amendments dealing with property tax breaks, redistricting and the federal health-care reform from the Nov. 2 ballot. Leon County judges had removed Amendments 3, 7 and 9 from Read More

Robber reaches into woman’s bra to steal $70

At 11:52 p.m.on Wednesday, a woman was sitting in her car in Vero Beach when two men approached her demanding money. The men opened her unlocked door car door and, pointing two guns at her, demanded her purse. When she told him her purse was in her house, one of the men reached inside her bra and Read More