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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Jennifer Sangalang |Rick Neale |Kimberly Miller |Lianna Norman
A “so Florida” thing to do is coming up: a potential SpaceX rocket launch. SpaceX plans to send a Falcon 9 rocket with several Starlink satellites into orbit. And depending on weather and visibility, there could be a show in the sky above Palm Beach County. Liftoff is tentatively set late Saturday, April 5, if things go according to plan for the space agency. Rockets launch from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, Florida, in Brevard County, which is an hour east of the Orlando theme parks.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kimberly Miller |Julius Whigham II |Alexandra Clough
(This story was updated to add new information.)District 87: Mike Caruso (R) leads Sienna Osta (D)In a rematch in the race for Florida House District 87, incumbent state Rep. Mike Caruso, a Republican, is leading Sienna Osta, a Democrat, with 90 of 154 precincts reporting as of 7:30 p.m. Caruso ahead with 59% of the vote. Osta had 41%.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kimberly Miller |Ashley Ferrer
More than 850 people participated in the 2024 Python Challenge, a 10-day hunt aimed at raising awareness of destruction caused by the invasive species in the fragile Florida Everglades. But there could be just one winner of the $10,000 grand prize, and that was Ronald Kiger of Marion County, who brought in 20 Burmese pythons during the contest. Kiger's triumph was announced at Tuesday's Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission meeting in Duck Key.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kimberly Miller |Ashley Ferrer
Kimberly Miller and Ashley Ferrer, Palm Beach PostSeptember 17, 2024 at 1:34 PM·1 min readA show-stopping West Palm Beach home painted in bold black and white swirls, circles and diamond patterns is up for sale south of the city's bustling downtown for $725,000. The 1,340-square-foot house has served as a short-term rental since its 2019 purchase by Gene Maltsev, who as an admirer of modern art wanted to do more with the home than paint it a bland taupe, beige or cream color.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
usatoday.com | Saleen Martin |Kimberly Miller |Laura Lordi
For the first time ever, researchers have found evidence of a top-of-the-food chain shark being killed by a predator, according to a study published recently in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Marine Science. The team of scientists who wrote the study had set out to research pregnant porbeagle sharks and track their movements because they're endangered in many parts of the world.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Ashley Ferrer |Laura Lordi |Kimberly Miller
Ashley Ferrer, Laura Lordi and Kimberly Miller, Palm Beach PostAugust 15, 2024 at 3:06 PM·3 min readNone for me, thank you. In 2022, Florida scientist and internet personality Rosie Moore posted a video on Instagram of herself and her colleagues performing a necropsy on an 18-foot Burmese python. The video, which currently has over 440,000 likes, revealed that the large snake had swallowed an entire alligator.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kimberly Miller |Laura Lordi |Eddie Ritz
Kimberly Miller, Laura Lordi and Eddie Ritz, Palm Beach PostAugust 11, 2024 at 11:07 AM·2 min readEditor's note: This story, from the Palm Beach Post archives, was originally published in 2017. The 2024 Florida Python Challenge is going on now through Aug. 18. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay joined the fight against Florida’s invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Python Challenge.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Laura Lordi |Kimberly Miller
Laura Lordi and Kimberly Miller, Palm Beach PostAugust 10, 2024 at 5:54 PM·2 min readThe Florida Python Challenge 2024 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started Friday, August 9, and runs through August 18. Participants have until August 18 to kill as many Burmese pythons as possible from several locations in South Florida, including the Florida Everglades.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kimberly Miller |Victor Hull
Swampy hot air drowned Florida last week in temperatures that briefly felt as warm or warmer than areas in the oven-baked desert U.S. Southwest, and although the dust in Sarasota-Manatee skies that came all the way from the Saharan Desert that helped boost the hot weather has moved out, this week is shaping up as another hot one. The heat index, or “feels like” temperature in Sarasota-Bradenton last Wednesday topped out at 105, just one notch below the record set for July 10 in 2020.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kimberly Miller |Grace Pateras |Anthony Robledo
Kimberly Miller, Grace Pateras and Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY NETWORKJune 24, 2024 at 10:49 PM·3 min readA Saharan dust plume off Africa's west coast is expected to gust into the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico this week, suppressing the development of storms. For now. The plume in the Atlantic, the largest of the 2024 hurricane season, will throttle tropical development from Africa to the Caribbean.
