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		<title>Restoration of electricity almost complete</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[News Service Of Florida]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Electric cooperatives]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Power was back as of midday Friday for all but 13,735 homes and businesses in Florida, primarily in four counties that were hit hardest by Hurricane Irma on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11, according to the state Division of Emergency Management. At the peak, Irma knocked out electricity to 6.7 million homes and businesses. In Monroe County 3,986 homes and businesses were still offline, 6 percent of the customers. Hardee County had 1,019 of homes and businesses without power, or&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tim Tebow plays cheerleader for Irma relief efforts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[News Service Of Florida]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A New York Mets minor leaguer with a Heisman Trophy from his time in The Swamp brought some star power to Gov. Rick Scott&#8216;s Hurricane Irma relief efforts Tuesday. After visiting a special-needs shelter together Monday night in Jacksonville, Scott teamed with former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow to thank volunteers and workers Tuesday at the state Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee and then left to do the same in Lee County. “In the midst of a really tough&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rick Scott: Irma&#8217;s &#8216;storm surge could kill you&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2017 23:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Koon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collier County]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[evacuations]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[With tropical storm-force winds less than 24 hours away, Hurricane Irma also is expected to bring storm surge of 6-12 feet to the state&#8217;s southern coasts, Gov. Rick Scott said Friday night. &#8220;Our state has never seen anything like this before,&#8221; he said. The governor spoke at an evening news briefing from the state&#8217;s Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee. &#8220;Think about that: It could cover your house,&#8221; Scott told reporters. &#8220;This storm surge will rush in; it could kill you.&#8221; The governor&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Florida couple arrested for fireworks theft</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 17:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Lyall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Naple]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Authorities say a Florida couple stole thousands of dollars in fireworks and tried to sell them online. News outlets report 25-year-old Michael Naple and 20-year-old Ashley Lyall were arrested Thursday. They face several charges including grand theft and dealing stolen property. The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a press release that they were asked to watch a fireworks tent overnight by an employee at the business. Naple told deputies the couple awoke, hearing a noise, and found that thousands&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Airbnb says county agreements should lead it to equal 2016 tax payments in first six months</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Powers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[State sales tax]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vacation home-rental marketing giant Airbnb said Tuesday its expanding list of tax agreements and its growing business should lead it to equal last year&#8217;s total sales and tourist tax payments just in the first six months of 2017. The company announced that its five-month totals in sales and tourist taxes paid to the state and individual counties surpassed $18 million through June 1, so it expects to clear $20 million by July 1. Last year the company&#8217;s combined total for&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In memory of Steve Carta, reporter&#8217;s lawyer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Florence Snyder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lee County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Melsek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Memorial Hospital]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Library patrons in North Tallahassee are competing this week for parking spaces with throngs of early voters. Signs in the makeshift precinct warn partisans and press people where, exactly, the “solicitation boundary” lies. For Florida First Amendment junkies, the signs are a melancholy hat tip to attorney Steve Carta, who died of cancer in September. The longtime lawyer for the Ft. Myers News-Press is remembered for a long list of groundbreaking media victories, including that time in the ’80s when Carta smacked down an&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gulf Coast scallop season&#8217;s here</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Devon Crumpacker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 21:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lee County]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Regulations and harvest areas have been set for the Florida Gulf Coast&#8217;s June 27 to Sept. 24 bay scallop season. Two gallons of whole bay scallops in their shell, or one pint of bay scallop meat per person is permitted for harvesting throughout the Gulf Coast&#8217;s four open harvest zones: St. Joseph Bay, St. Marks, Steinhatchee, and Homosassa. Collectively, these four harvest zones connect and run up from the Pasco-Hernando County line, just north of Tampa, to the west bank&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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