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  Conservationists Say Scientists Removed Wildlife Specimens From Red Tide Waters Near Blue Heron Bridge

  October 17 at 12:21 p.m.

  Local conservationists are upset that biologists from Texas took an excessive number of fish from Phil Foster State Park in Riviera Beach last weekend.

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  Sandy Hook Dad Suing Alex Jones Says South Florida Cop Illegally Accessed His Personal Info

  October 12 at 10:21 a.m.

  Leonard Pozner has lived through unimaginable pain. His son Noah was shot to death during the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, in which six adults and 20 children were murdered in Newtown, Connecticut. Then, after that incomprehensible tragedy, conspiracy theorists and gun-rights advocates have continued to harass him. Pozner is suing InfoWars' Alex Jones for defamation after Jones repeatedly claimed Pozner was a fake "crisis actor."

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  Palm Beach Seeks $3 Million for Red Tide Cleanup as Broward Beaches Remain Open Pending County Test Results

  October 4 at 5:27 p.m.

  Palm Beach county seeks $3 million for red tide cleanup efforts. Broward County results are not yet public, but wildlife has started to wash up on the shores of Deerfield Beach and Fort Lauderdale.

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  Burt Reynolds, Dead at 82, Had Deep Ties to South Florida

  September 6 at 4:24 p.m.

  He was known for his iconic film roles in Deliverance and Boogie Nights, as well as that unmistakable '70s porn stache. Burt Reynolds' agent announced today that the iconic film star and onetime Hollywood sex symbol died of a heart attack earlier today in Jupiter.

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  ACLU Slams ICE's Private Prison Company Threatening Florida Activists With Lawsuit

  August 13 at 10:38 a.m.

  The Dream Defenders, a Florida civil rights group formed near the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, has helped turn the GEO Group, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's single largest contractor, from a largely unknown private prison firm hated by justice-reform activists into a toxic company from which even some Republican politicians are now refusing donations.

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  Another Black South Floridian Says Wells Fargo Refused to Cash His Check, Called Cops

  August 9 at 9:37 a.m.

  After a long day of work, Jean Romane Elie headed to a Wells Fargo branch in West Palm Beach to withdraw money for rent. But when he handed over his driver's license and Visa card, the bank teller told the Haitian man to wait while she consulted with another...