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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...

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  Florida Cops Tell Conflicting Stories After Fatally Shooting Unarmed Ex-Football Star in the Back

  Brittany Shammas | May 31 at 2:40 p.m.

  By the time Demarcus Semer's headlights flashed through the living-room window of the Fort Pierce house, the rest of the guys were already inside. Most nights, the group of childhood friends got together to rap and play videogames at 20-year-old...

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  Years After His WWE Glory Days, Gangrel the Vampire Warrior Is Still Chasing His Wrestling Dreams

  Jessica Lipscomb | May 15 at 2:12 p.m.

  For a guy who once had fangs permanently bonded onto his teeth, who rose from a ring of fire for a televised audience of millions, who made the tabloids after spitting a goblet of blood in Donald Trump's face, David Heath is actually kind of a...