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FloridaORLANDOTampa teacher named Teacher of the Year
A Tampa elementary school teacher was named Florida's 2010 Teacher of the Year at a ceremony in Orlando Thursday.Megan Allen, who teaches at Cleveland Elementary School, was chosen from more than 180,000 teachers statewide.
ISLAMORADAGallops, Raskob win at Keys fishing tournament
Mike Gallops and Jared Raskob won top honors in spin and fly tackle divisions respectively Thursday at the International Game Fish Association Inshore World Championship in the Florida Keys.Gallops, a Naples family physician, won the event in 2003, but hadn't been back to the three-day tournament since then because of business and family conflicts.
MIAMILawyers spar in Paris Hilton film contract dispute
Paris Hilton hated her 2006 movie "Pledge This!" and refused for months to make promotional appearances for it despite a contract requiring her to do so, lawyers for the film's investors said as trial opened Thursday in an $8 million lawsuit against her."During the six-month period, at no time would she take 10 minutes to do a phone interview," attorney Bryan West, who represents the investors, said in opening statements.
PORT RICHEYCoast Guard ends search for plane crash survivors
The Coast Guard ended its search Thursday for five people aboard a small plane that crashed off Florida's Gulf Coast, saying it believes all are dead.The search ended 24 hours after the Coast Guard began looking for a twin-engine Cessna that dropped off the radar en route to Tampa on Wednesday afternoon. Rescuers had searched throughout the night for survivors, finding human remains among a two-mile debris field. Petty Officer Rob Simpson described it as a "fairly catastrophic wreck."
TALLAHASSEEHigh court throws out conviction, orders acquittal
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the conviction and death sentence in a 1994 Broward County robbery-slaying, meaning the defendant will go free.The justices ruled that evidence presented at the trial of Herman Lindsey was legally insufficient to support his conviction and that the case was totally based on circumstantial evidence.
STUARTFla. hospital accused of deporting patient
The guardian of a Guatemalan man with serious brain damage is suing a South Florida hospital, alleging that the facility illegally deported the uninsured patient to his native country after he racked up more than $2 million in medical bills.The hospital says Luis Alberto Jimenez, an illegal immigrant who suffered severe brain trauma after a February 2000 accident caused by a drunk driver, repeatedly said he wanted to go home to Guatemala. The guardian says Jimenez objected to being sent back.
TALLAHASSEEFla. Supreme Court: Amendment wording approved
The Florida Supreme Court says a revised financial impact statement on how much a proposed growth management amendment could cost taxpayers now complies with state law.That decision came in an advisory opinion Thursday to Attorney General Bill McCollum.
ST PETERSBURGPrice, Rays complete sweep of Halladay, Blue Jays
The Tampa Bay Rays offer a simple explanation for their success against Roy Halladay.Some pretty good pitching of their own.
TALLAHASSEEFla. warden demoted in stun gun incident
The Florida Department of Corrections has demoted a warden who headed a prison where children were shocked with stun guns during an event.The prison is one of three where children were shocked with stun guns during demonstrations for "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" in April. Officials had already fired two people after the incidents; two others resigned. More than a dozen others were disciplined.
FORT LAUDERDALEHearing for ex-Yankee Jim Leyritz postponed
Former Yankees star Jim Leyritz burst into tears during a court hearing after learning a postponement would keep him in jail for at least another weekend.A judge delayed a decision until Monday on whether Leyritz will be released on bond or await his upcoming DUI manslaughter trial in jail.
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