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  Sexual Assault Is the Most Publicly Reported Crime on Cruises, but Companies Say It's Rare

  Meg O'Connor | April 9 at 12:33 p.m.

  Jane woke up early. It was five days into the cruise, and the Celebrity Summit would be docked in Bermuda for the rest of the day before setting sail for New Jersey. The night before, the 19-year-old had gone to a show with her parents and her...

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  How the Murder of a Palm Beach Doctor Brought the United States and Cuba Together

  Mike Clary | April 2 at 8:08 a.m.

  On July 19, 2015, detectives arrived at Ronald O. Schwartz's secluded Jupiter Farms home and found him lying on his bedroom floor, his head haloed by a pool of blood. Two back doors were open, and the entire house had been ransacked. A...

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  Brightline and Tri-Rail Have Killed Dozens

  Meg O'Connor | February 19 at 8:08 a.m.

  The patchy morning clouds had just begun to dissipate when the Tri-Rail train pulled out of the Pompano Beach station, heading south through the fading twilight of dawn. Thick bushes, tall green grass, and squat tan buildings littered with...

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  Brenda Snipes Became a National Curiosity After a Puzzling Midterm Election

  Jessica Lipscomb | January 29 at 8:13 a.m.

  On a Saturday morning in November 2003, Dorsey Miller called his old friend Brenda Snipes and asked if he could drop by. Miller, an adviser to then-Gov. Jeb Bush, didn't explain his motivations over the phone. He knew he'd have a better chance...

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  Is a West Palm Beach Doctor Heir to the Indian Throne?

  Terence Cantarella | January 22 at 9:07 a.m.

  Dr. Lord Lee-Benner has seen the dark side of the Sunshine State: its schizophrenics, neurotics, addicts, depressives, illiterate bipolars, disturbed teens, even psychotic ex-ministers. Many of the indigent patients who come to see him at...

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  Florida Greyhound Racing Has a Complicated Legacy

  Brittany Shammas | January 2 at 11:22 a.m.

  Except for a scattering of white-haired regulars, the grandstand overlooking the old dog track at the Palm Beach Kennel Club is almost empty on a cold-for-Florida December day. Wearing hearing aids and World War II veterans' hats, a group of four...