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Fresh from entering the medical marijuana market, Florida now envisions taking a healthy slice of the anticipated $22 billion market in hemp. The “no-high” variety of cannabis used to make “CBD,” oil and other products derived from hemp, became legal in the U.S. in December. Demand for CBD products — thought to help with anxiety, insomnia and chronic pain — has been swelling nationwide. The newly passed 2018 Farm Bill made hemp legal on a federal level and removed hemp from the... Read More

In Florida’s ongoing alligator versus python battle for the top spot in the Everglades the food chain, sometimes you’re the predator, sometimes you’re the prey. In this round, the alligator is the clear victor. Rich Kruger was deep in the Everglades on the Shark Valley bike trail, according to DailyMail.com, when he captured remarkable video of a python estimated at ten feet in length, meeting his demise in the jaw of a gator. Kruger told Fox News that “every day you go here, you... Read More

A little more than a hundred years ago, people from up and down the East Coast would journey to a small island in Lake Worth Lagoon to down “Dr. Munyon’s Paw-Paw Elixir,” a cure-all said to heal rheumatism, nervousness, sleeplessness and a whole host of other maladies. There were several problems. James M. Munyon was not a doctor. His elixir was little more than fermented papaya juice. And the resort from which he sold it, the Hygeia Hotel on Munyon Island, also offered a “fountain... Read More

“Be respectful and never lie are the only rules in my classroom,” Nova Middle School teacher Kristin Murphy said in posted remarks after being named Broward County’s top teacher on Thursday night. At the Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center, Broward County Public Schools held its annual Caliber Awards Ceremony to recognize the district’s top educators. Murphy teaches world history and pre-law at Nova Middle and has been an educator for more than 20 years. A colorful... Read More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Nearly a decade after three Israeli engineers walked into a bar in Tel-Aviv and concocted a plan to build a lunar lander, they watched their creation barrel toward the sky on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday evening. Destination: The moon. The lander, Beresheet — Hebrew for “in the beginning,” — joined two more satellites on the SpaceX launch Thursday, which took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s launch complex 40 at 8:45 p.m. As the rocket... Read More

Construction is underway for a $30 million apartment project in Hollywood benefiting low-income seniors. Pinnacle at Peacefield, which will be on Adams Street, west of South Dixie Highway, will have 120 rental apartments for people age 62 and older. Construction will be complete early next year, said Pinnacle Housing Group, the developer. The developer will start accepting applications sometime this fall. There will be income eligibility requirements. (A family of two, for example,... Read More

A Cuban national living in South Florida has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for transporting three women into the U.S. from his home country and then forcing them to dance in local strip clubs to pay off their smuggling debts, federal authorities said. Ivan Madrigal Zamora, 46, was facing up to 60 years when he pleaded guilty Oct. 22 to federal charges that included forced labor trafficking and inducing an illegal alien to live in the U.S., prosecutors said. According to court records,... Read More

The Winn-Dixie in Pompano Beach will be closing in March. The store, at 3435 N. Federal Highway, will shut on or before March 25 because it has been under performing, according to Southeastern Grocers. The company will later share details about liquidating merchandise before the closing. “We have made the difficult decision to close this Winn-Dixie store,” Joe Caldwell, senior manager of corporate communications, said in a news release. “We do not take these decisions... Read More

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Expect some traffic delays and detours in parts of Fort Lauderdale as two separate parades wind their way through city streets, Saturday. The Sistrunk Parade and Festival will be closing Sistrunk Boulevard from 7 p.m. Friday through 11 p.m. Saturday between Northwest 9th and 27th avenues at different times that include: — NW 14th Ave. to NW 27th Ave. from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday — NW 14th Ave. to NW 21st Ave. from 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday — NW 9th Ave. to NW 14th... Read More