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Florida leads US in shark attacks

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 6:55pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Even though it had fewer shark bites reported in 2011 than any year since 2004, Volusia County, Fla., continues to be saddled with the nickname of shark-bite capital of the world.

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A Seminole County firefighter foams down what is left of "The Senator," a 3,500-year-old cypress tree that burned in Big Tree Park in Longwood, Fla., Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. Seminole County Fire Rescue spokesman Steve Wright told the Orlando Sentinel that the tree burned for several hours from the inside out. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank)

Arsonist burns world's oldest cypress tree

Amy Pavuk, Gary Taylor The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 3:13pm

LONGWOOD, Fla. -- An early morning fire -- suspected to be the work of an arsonist -- on Monday destroyed one of the world's oldest cypress trees and a Seminole County landmark that sprouted some 3,400 years before there was a Seminole County.

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More pilots being blinded by lasers

Gary Taylor The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Monday, September 26, 2011 - 9:44am

ORLANDO, Fla. -- There's a laser light show taking place in the skies over America. It's cheap. It's easy. But most of all, authorities say, it's dangerous.

That's because those laser beams are being aimed at planes and helicopters in record numbers.

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Instructor, student presumed dead after plane crash in Fla.

Anika Myers Palm, Gary Taylor, The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 2:26pm

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A flight instructor and his student are presumed dead in the wreckage of a small plane in the Atlantic Ocean, but searches have yet to locate their bodies, an official with the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday afternoon.

Divers have found what they believe to be pieces of the wreckage of the plane that crashed Wednesday evening, but the parts have not been identified, said Butch Wilson, an NTSB air safety investigator.

Radar is being used to search for the plane's wreckage as searchers concentrate their efforts on recovering the bodies, Wilson said.

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Louisiana convict confesses to 1993 spring break murder

Gary Taylor The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 9:49pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- More than 17 years after the body of a 20-year-old spring breaker was dumped along a roadway in Volusia County, Fla., a convict in Louisiana has claimed responsibility for her death.

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