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“Daddy Quit Crying,” Girl Says To Dad Following Dog Bite By Eddie Farah on July 10, 2008 Last Saturday, over the July 4th holiday, 9-year-old Miranda Miller spent the day at a family friend’s...

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Florida Man Guilty of Mortgage Scam By Eddie Farah on June 21, 2008 A Florida man, Robert Guest, 44, of Orlando pled guilty in Alabama to one felony count of conspiracy in the scheme that...

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Prescriptions Killed More Than Street Drugs In 2007 By Eddie Farah on June 14, 2008 A report released this week by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Medical Examiner’s...

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State Farm Insurance is Florida's largest private insurer writing policies to cover homeowners in case of loss.State Farm has decided to stop writing policies in Florida. Don't expect that to hurt the 1 million currently with a homeowner's policy covered by State Farm, but the state run insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance will be expected to pick up the slack. If you want an...

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Luckily no children were hurt on a school bus when it collided with an SUV on Thursday.But the passenger in the SUV was killed. 73-year-old John Robert Ryder of Zephyrhills, Florida was riding with driver, 70-year-old Carole Jean Ryder in Yulee Thursday afternoon.Her SUV turned in the path of an oncoming Nassau County school bus.It happened at the intersection of I-95 and SR A!A.Ryder was...

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He says he still can't feel his face. Jacksonville police officer James Brunet and another officer were injured the night of the Super Bown XXX!X when they were patrolling the St. Johns River working security. That dark February night three years ago, the boat they were in crashed into pilings from the old Fuller Warren Bridge.Brunet, 44, had seven surgeries, facial reconstruction and a...

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If you live within a mile of the Atlantic, you can say goodbye to your State Farm homeowner's insurance coverage.The insurer will stop writing policies in March 2008, despite the fact that we haven't had a direct hit from a hurricane since 1964! State Farm is one of the last companies to pull out after billions have been lost in Florida. But let's not forget, State Farm has collected far more...

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A man is still hospitalized after falling five stories of a cruise ship.The unidentified man was on a Norweigan cruise ship coming from Key West to Charleston, South Carolina. He reportedly fell from the eighth story and onto the lower deck of the ship. He was airlifted about ten miles off shore and taken to the trauma center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.The man's alcohol consumption...

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It is a great business model if you can achieve it. Keep your profits up and keep your costs down.And that is apparently what Florida's largest medical malpractice insurance companies have been doing. They have been paying out less in claims. With a cap of $500,000 and medical malpractice lawsuits expensive to bring, many just aren't filed. And many patients who are hurt by hospitals and...

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Be sure your little ones and teens have a safe Halloween. It is not the time you want to end up in the emergency room and unfortunately all of the excitement of the night often ends up there.Here are some tips for parents and kids:*Tripping and falling in the dark of Halloween night is a danger. Make sure costumes don't obscure eyes and kids have flashlights that securely fit in their smaller...

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Allstate Insurance Company has been asked by the governor to turn over internal documents to determine if it and other property insurors are conspiring to keep prices high.Allstate and its subsidiary, Allstate Floridian Insurance, have been served subpoenas. Just three weeks ago, Allstate Floridian, the fourth-largest insurance company in Florida, proposed raising homeowners rates by 41.9...

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You pay your insurance bill and you expect to be covered when you need it.You experience a hurricane and hopefully you avoid wind and water damage to your home. But you don't. So you call your insurance company right away to check on your coverage.That's what Eugene and Debra Cox did after their Blackwater Bay home was destroyed three years ago by water that surged into their home after...

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Police have now identified the body of a young man pulled from a pickup truck that sank in a neighborhood pond.23-year-old Stephen Stiffler was in the vehicle that apparently rolled into a pond in the Bartram Springs subdivision. His family thinks he was sleeping in the truck when it rolled in the pond.Stiffler had been missing for 36 hours on Saturday afternoon when his family called police...

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Tim Hardy thought he was doing a good deed.The dog he found on the side of the road eight years ago had been abandoned and was in ill health. Hardy nursed the dog back to health, named him Max and Max turned out to be a great family pet. Now Hardy's insurance company has cancelled his homeowner's policy because it believes Max is potentially an aggressive breed of dog. Max is a mutt who has...

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It is a scene that is not often seen.A dog bites a toddler in the face. The child is rushed to the hospital and needs extensive reconstructivesurgery. Usually the dog is put to sleep. Not this time. This time the dog, a 100 lb. bull mastiff, will be returned to his St. Johns County family.It's an unusual turn of events, to say the least.Law enforcement reports that last Friday, the 2-year-old...

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