Winning ticket for huge Powerball jackpot sold in Florida
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Do you have the lucky ticket? A winner for the huge Powerball jackpot was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., a Florida Lottery official confirmed to NBC News early Sunday.
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Barbie’s Dreamhouse now life-size reality in Florida
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Barbie has opened her new dream house to visitors, and it’s not just young girls who are excited about checking it out.
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Oops! Woman accidentally swallows $5,000 diamond at charity event
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The idea behind the Tampa Women’s Club charity event was simple. For $20, you could buy a flute of champagne and a chance to win a one-carat, $5,000 diamond.
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‘A slick mess’: Slimy, giant snails invade South Florida
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ORLANDO — South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world’s most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster.
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2-year-old loses feet when dad runs over her with lawnmower
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A 2-year-old Florida girl’s feet were severed when her father accidentally ran over her with a riding lawn mower in a tragic mixup, officials said.
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Florida man accused of stealing $75,000 worth of soup
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A 51-year-old Orlando man was arrested on charges that he stole a tractor trailer containing $75,000 worth of soup, authorities said.
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Michigan blows out Florida, headed to first Final Four in 20 years
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The outcome of the South Region final between 3-seed Florida and 4-seed Michigan was decided in the game’s first four minutes.
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Woman sits out office Powerball pool — and coworkers win
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It’s a lottery nightmare: You decide not to kick in for the office Powerball pool — and your coworkers strike it rich.
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Fourth sinkhole opens near Tampa; homes evacuated
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Another sinkhole has opened up in the Seffner area near Tampa, Fla. The newest sinkhole opened just three miles away from one that killed a man in his home less than a month ago.
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BREAKING: Student found dead in Florida dorm room planned campus attack, police say
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A former student found dead in a University of Central Florida dorm room along with makeshift explosives and weapons was planning an attack on the Orlando campus, the university police chief said on Monday.
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Homemade explosives found in Florida dorm room where student died
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Makeshift explosives were discovered in a dorm room where a student apparently shot himself to death Monday, prompting officials to close the University of Central Florida in Orlando for several hours.
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Good heavens! ‘Cloud angel’ marking pope’s selection is no miracle
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A “cloud angel” rose over South Florida on the day that a new pope was named at the Vatican — resulting in snapshots and comments that multiplied like the biblical loaves and fishes. But experts say Wednesday evening’s apparition is no supernatural miracle. Rather, it’s a perfectly natural phenomenon that took on special meaning because of Pope Francis’ selection.
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Thousands of swarming sharks empty Florida beaches
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Several beaches along South Florida’s Atlantic coast line were closed after thousands of sharks were seen migrating in the waters.
The sharks were migrating from Boca Raton to Jupiter since the beginning of March, marine biologists told NBC Miami.
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Brother of man swallowed by sinkhole: Family is ‘going through hell’
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As a demolition crew picked away at a house where a sinkhole opened and swallowed a man, the brother who jumped into the chasm and tried to save him said Monday he was frustrated that authorities haven’t done more to retrieve the body.
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Demolition begins for home in Florida sinkhole tragedy
Crews began demolishing a Florida home Sunday that is perched over a huge sinkhole, after deeming it too dangerous to keep searching for the man swallowed up from his bedroom.
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