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Healthful cooking on menu for Kissimmee kids in after-school club
Wearing pint-sized chef hats and aprons, a gaggle of elementary-schoolers looks up expectantly from picked-clean plates. "Did you guys enjoy?" their instructor asks. "Yes!" comes back a chorus of voices. "Who wants seconds?" Eyes widen and...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Seminole County, Molina Healthcare Incorporated, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Presidential speculation around Scott Walker heats up as he heads to Iowa this week
The Wisconsin State JournalIn just a few days, Gov. Scott Walker will head to the heart of Iowa -- where the 2016 presidential race will likely begin -- and take center stage before that key state's Republican party faithful. But Walker, who developed a national conservative cult...Tags: Polls, Government, Political Fundraising, Political Candidates, Terry Branstad
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Letters to the editor: compassionate cruise line, student debt, and Kiera Wilmot
At a time when so many cruise lines are being villified — some deservedly — I would like to voice my experience with the Royal Caribbean International Cruise Lines. On April 28, on the first day of our planned cruise on the Caribbean, my...Tags: Jamaica, Tour Operations Industry, Medical Procedures and Tests, Holidays, Cape Canaveral
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Zero-tolerance policies are needlessly criminalizing kids
When Kiera Wilmot curiously mixed toilet-bowl cleaner with aluminum foil near her school gazebo last month, she did not imagine the experiment would end in adult felony charges. The 16-year old Polk County girl was a good student with an exemplary...Tags: Police Arrests, Florida State University, Science and Technology, Students, Benedict College
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Polk's Unemployment Rate Falls
The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.The local unemployment rate fell in April, but it was a lackluster month for the job market. Polk County's jobless rate was 7.4 percent last month, down from 9.3 percent the year before and 7.7 percent in March, according to state workforce data...Tags: Machine Manufacturing, Employment Opportunities, Unemployment, Labor Markets, Tampa
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Florida jobless rate dips to 7.2 percent in April
Florida's unemployment rate continues to fall, dipping from 7.5 percent in March to 7.2 percent in April — the lowest level in five years. Metro Orlando's jobless rate also improved, falling to 6.4 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage...
Tags: Government, Unemployment, Seminole County, Rollins College, Executive Branch
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BRIEF: Polk Jobless Rate Fell in April
The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.The local unemployment rate fell in April but it was a lackluster month for the job market. Polk County's jobless rate was 7.4 percent last month, down from 9.3 percent the year before and 7.7 percent in March, according to state workforce data released...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Unemployment, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace, Employment
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Polk Home Construction Booming; Decline in Foreclosure Properties in April
The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.If April was any indication, Polk County home builders are going to have a busy summer. A total 182 permits for new single-family homes were recorded in Polk last month, marking the area's highest total in nearly five years, according to county and city...Tags: Inventories, Homes, Foreclosures, Land Price, House Building
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Kiera Wilmot already paid too high price for science experiment
Kiera Wilmot was handcuffed at her high school, hustled into the back of a police car and taken to jail for something that should have sent her to a few days of after-school detention. If common sense prevailed over draconian codes of conduct in Florida...
Tags: Police Arrests, Lawyers, Justice System, Students, Crime, Law and Justice
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Free Kiera Wilmot as Florida confuses scientific aspirations with criminal intent
“Free Kiera Wilmot.” Let me get this straight: A 16 year-old girl participating in her school’s science project gets arrested after she mixes toilet bowl cleaner and pieces of aluminum foil in a water bottle that explodes. Nothing...
Tags: Laws, Criminal Laws, Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals
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Armed prostitution suspects arrested after posting photos with attack weapons on Facebook
Two Central Florida women who were snared in a January prostitution sting were arrested Monday after bragging about guns on their social-media accounts, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Felons Brittany Dodd, 25, of Lakeland and Maylee...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Police Arrests, Prostitution, Firearms, Adam Lanza
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Cops: Prostitutes arrested after bragging about guns on social media
Two women who were arrested in a January prostitution sting were arrested Monday after bragging about guns on their social media accounts, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Brittany Dodd, 25, of Lakeland and Maylee Rossi, 27, of Davenport...Tags: Police Arrests, Prostitution, Polk County Sheriff's Office, Sex Crimes, Grady Judd
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