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Detectives say mosque fire suspect confessed

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The Latest on the arrest of a suspect in the arson of a Florida mosque (all times local): 10:30 a.m. Sheriff’s investigators say a man accused of setting fire to a Florida mosque confessed and said he was embarrassed. According to a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit released Thursday, 32-year-old Joseph Schreiber was developed as a suspect in the fire Sunday at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce in part because of a tip. Detectives say that after…

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Uber, AT&T to give Orlando football fans free rides this weekend

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Ride-sharing service Uber is delivering football fever to Orlando this weekend. In celebration of the start of college football season, Uber and AT&T have teamed up to provide free rides for sports fans in Orlando this weekend. On Saturday, Sept. 10 and Sunday, Sept. 11, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day, riders can open the Uber app and request an exclusive “football” option. This unlocks access to AT&T enabled cars, each equipped with AT&T LTE-enabled tablets. Fans will…

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Americans For Prosperity focusing on Florida Senate race and on grassroots efforts

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Americans For Prosperity, the conservative organization founded by the Koch brothers that deluged television with electioneering commercials the past two cycles is pushing its grassroots efforts now. At its annual “Defending the American Dream” summit in Orlando Friday, AFP leaders stressed their ground-level organization in states like Florida to push business-friendly candidates in U.S. Senate races like Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. An estimated 2,000 AFP activists, including about 750 from Orlando, turned out this weekend for the Summit at…

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In Orlando, unprecedented unity after nightclub shooting

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Two months after the massacre at a gay Orlando nightclub, residents say this city of newcomers is bonding in unprecedented solidarity, upending an old adage attributed to a former governor: “Florida isn’t so much a community as a crowd.” Elements that often unite communities — sports teams, food culture, generations of residents living in the same neighborhood — are young or nonexistent in Orlando, where nearly two-thirds of all residents were born out of state. Many say Orlando’s modern existence…

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Hillary Clinton sets out most efficient path to get to 270

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Hillary Clinton doesn’t appear all that interested in making scenic stops on her state-to-state quest to become president. The Democratic nominee is instead programming her GPS to take her on the quickest route to collect the 270 Electoral College votes she needs to win the White House. With three months until Election Day, Clinton’s campaign is focused on capturing the battleground states that have decided the most recent presidential elections, not so much on expanding the map. Clinton’s team doesn’t…

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Owners: Bogus Instagram report said Pulse was reopening

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A spokeswoman says the Pulse nightclub in Orlando will not reopen as a memorial to the dozens of people who died at the gay venue during an attack last month. Sara Brady of the OnePulseFoundation said in a statement Monday that a bogus Instagram posting from the day before that had announced the memorial has been taken down. The foundation was set up to help raise funds for the victims of the June 12 attack. Some 49 people were killed…

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Nightclub shooting police reports: hysteria, blood, bodies

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Authorities had just breached the wall to the Pulse nightclub, and patrons who had been trapped inside with gunman Omar Mateen started to flee. SWAT team members carried a man with four gunshots in his legs, hip and shoulder to Officer Luke Austin. The man was bleeding profusely. Austin grabbed him and said, “Stay with me, keep fighting!!! We will get you to safety, stay with us!” Moments later, Mateen started firing at SWAT team members who fired back, killing…

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