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This recent but undated file photo taken from the Orlando Sentinel’s website shows George Zimmerman, according to the paper. Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, will be charged in the 17-year-old’s death, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, April 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, File)

Murder charge in Trayvon Martin case

Last updated Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 2:25pm

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A law enforcement official says that the shooter in the Trayvon Martin case will be charged with second-degree murder and is in custody.

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Barrel race betting begins in Florida

Brendan Farrington The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 5:52pm

GRETNA, Fla. -- After Dixie Wonder Bugs circled three barrels and crossed the finish line a half second ahead of Jack's Eliminator on Thursday, Brenda Wolfran jumped up off the metal bleachers with her ticket and headed to the betting window.

"I'm going to be rich!" said Wolfran, 63, of Kinard, with more than a hint of exaggeration. She'd put $10 down on the horse and rider Dallas Dewees. The bet paid $15. As she walked back to the bleachers, she yelled to her friends, "I can't carry it all!"

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(REINHOLD MATAY/The Associated Press) Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a town hall meeting in The Villages, Fla. While others focus on Iowa’s caucuses or New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, Mitt Romney is set to spend the day in Florida _ and it’s the only early voting state he’s visiting this week, just five weeks before voting begins.

Romney the 1st GOP candidate to plant flag in Fla.

Brendan Farrington, Kasie Hunt The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 10:36am

MEDLEY, Fla. — If there’s any Republican presidential candidate who can afford to spend precious time and money focusing on winning in Florida, it’s the one campaigning here Tuesday.

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Jim Morrison pardon called cheap, political ploy

Brendan Farrington, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 1:01pm

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A woman who said she was married to The Doors singer Jim Morrison said Thursday that Florida's intention to pardon him for a 1969 indecent exposure conviction is a cheap political ploy.

Patricia Kennealy Morrison told The Associated Press she's not pleased with the pardon and doesn't think the late singer would be either because he didn't expose himself on stage as some claim. The conviction should be expunged or the verdict overturned as fraud rather than just pardoned, she said.

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Morrison pardon papers paint picture of wild night

Brendan Farrington, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 3, 2010 - 10:25am

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- It's a strange sheaf of documents for Florida's governor to have. The thick notebook describes how Jim Morrison discussed sex with a lamb he held on stage, ordered fans to "love your neighbor 'til it hurts" and later, at trial, defended his boozy singing to a prosecutor.

But did the lead singer of The Doors show his genitals to the crowd at the 1969 concert in Miami, a charge on which he was famously convicted? Gov. Charlie Crist wants to posthumously pardon him of indecent exposure and profanity convictions, and the governor's last chance is coming up at a Clemency Board meeting next Thursday. Crist leaves office in January.

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13 attorneys general sue over health care overhaul

Brendan Farrington The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 12:32pm

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Attorneys general from 13 states sued the federal government Tuesday, claiming the landmark health care overhaul is unconstitutional just seven minutes after President Barack Obama signed it into law.

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