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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...

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  Marty Wolfson Was Broke and Homeless Until a Horse Saved His Life

  Mike Clary | November 13 at 8 a.m.

  Beneath live oaks draped with Spanish moss, the lush grasslands of Marion County roll on for miles, sectioned off by two-lane highways and black wooden fences. From more than 600 farms around here come thousands of equestrian champions, show...

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  Anti-Trump Fervor Is Driving Record Numbers of Florida Women to Run for Office

  Brittany Shammas | August 21 at 8 a.m.

  It was blindingly sunny and at least 90 degrees as Emma Collum made her way through an Oakland Park neighborhood of colorful ranch houses with manicured front lawns. Dressed in a T-shirt bearing her name, light-blue shorts, and a Dolphins hat,...

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  Florida's Post-Parkland "Red Flag" Law Has Taken Guns From Dozens of Dangerous People

  Jessica Lipscomb | August 7 at 8 a.m.

  On March 7, Lighthouse Point Police Officers Christopher Thompson and Joseph Valdes knocked on the door of a third-floor condo with a brick façade and waited for Dominic Signorile. The cops in the small coastal town in Broward County wanted to...

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  Andrew Pollack Is the Parkland Massacre's Conservative Darling

  Tarpley Hitt | July 24 at 8 a.m.

  It's mid-June in Lakeland, Florida, and Andrew Pollack is hunched over in a pitch-black trailer, gripping a nine-millimeter pistol with both hands, preparing to hunt a school shooter. He assumes what's known as an isosceles stance — feet square...

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  One of Florida's Only Female Python Hunters Risks It All for the Everglades

  Brittany Shammas | July 10 at 8 a.m.

  Donna Kalil steers her forest-green 1998 Ford Expedition down a narrow path through the vast expanse of the Everglades. Leaning far outside the open window, she scans the tall grasses. On the roof, her best friend, Renee Yousefi, perches on a...