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Political change: Mayor forced to count pennies to pay fine

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A Miami-area mayor won his bid to pay a $4,000 ethics fine with pennies and nickels, but only after he agreed to count and box the coins himself. El Nuevo HeraldĀ reports that Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez on Wednesday deposited 140 boxes of pennies, totaling $3,500, and five boxes of nickels, totaling $500, at a South Florida bank where the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust has an account. Hernandez tried to pay the fine in November with 28 buckets…

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Street drug flakka ravaged South Florida, then disappeared

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A year after it ravaged South Florida, flakka – the synthetic street drug known for causing psychotic outbursts – is virtually gone. The deaths. The hallucinating users. The arrests. All of it. Broward County became infamous as the epicenter for the amphetamine, making national headlines in April 2015 after slowly building on the scene for several months. Users tore off clothes as their body temperatures spiked to 105 degrees. Some hallucinated that they were gods or that they were being…

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Tim Canova says campaign nearing $100K in first week of April fundraising

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Florida Congressional candidateĀ Tim CanovaĀ said in an appeal to supporters his underdog campaign to oust DNC Chairwoman U.S. Rep.Ā Debbie Wasserman SchultzĀ is continuing to “shock the political establishment” with its fundraising. The law professor and former aide to U.S. Sen.Ā Paul TsongasĀ raised a whopping $557,000 during the first quarter of 2016, and said Thursday his campaign is nearing six figures in the opening week of Q2. “Itā€™s been four days since we shocked the political establishment byĀ almostĀ out-raising an incumbent as powerful as Debbie…

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2 more Florida men face prison in $100 million tax fraud case

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Two more South Florida men are facing prison time for their roles in an estimated $100 million federal income tax fraud scheme that prosecutors are calling one of the nation’s largest. A Fort Lauderdale federal judge is scheduled Wednesday to sentence 27-year-old Harlan Decoste and 25-year-old Andy Cherrelus. Both face a decade or more in prison after pleading guilty to fraud, identity theft and other charges. Three other men were sent to prison Tuesday. The ring was based in a…

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Florida election officials: Donald Trump’s name not left off ballot

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Florida election officials said Tuesday that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump‘s name was not left off ballots in a town in South Florida, despite a small number of voter complaints. Florida is a closed-primary state, which means only registered Republicans would get a ballot listing Trump and the other GOP candidates. Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher said that independent voters can’t vote in the primary. Bucher said Tuesday that some residents in Jupiter, Florida who were voting…

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As Florida votes, there’s a difference between north, south

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There’s a big difference between north Florida and South Florida. As different as Alabama and New England. And on Tuesday, those distinctions will likely play out as Florida voters decide who to give 99 Republican delegates to in the race for president. The Florida GOP primary is considered a pivotal moment in the campaign: The winner-takes-all contest could mean a huge boost for Donald Trump, or the death of Marco Rubio‘s campaign in his home state. But the Florida primary…

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Jac VerSteeg: Sen. Joe Abruzzoā€™s ā€˜wide openā€™ alternative to the Seminole Compact

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What happens if the Florida Legislature refuses to ratify the Seminole Compact that Gov. Rick Scott negotiated with the Tribe? No one really knows, of course, but state Sen. Joe Abruzzo, a Boynton Beach Democrat, offered a tantalizing hint toward the end of a recent workshop by the Senateā€™s Regulated Industries Committee. Addressing Jim Allen, the CEO of Seminole Gaming, Sen. Abruzzo said: ā€œIn looking at this and all the moving parts and how difficult this issue is, we hear…

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