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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...

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  The Real Story of South Florida Rapper XXXTentacion

  Tarpley Hitt | June 5 at 8:13 a.m.

  The corner house on a rich but unremarkable street in Parkland, about four miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, belongs to a scrawny 20-year-old with a tree tattoo in the middle of his forehead. He stands about five feet six inches...