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Not one local Okeechobee County race will be determined at the close of polls on Tuesday.
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Strong wind shear and dry air are keeping hurricane activity unusually quiet across the Atlantic basin as the statistical peak of the season approaches.
- Coyotes thwarting sea turtle nest decoy effort on Sanibel and Captiva islands
- Corkscrew Swamp, Kingston, settle lawsuit. Evacuation route through sanctuary no longer in play
- Fort Myers Beach seeks input from public on creating long-term resiliency
- DeSantis says infusion of major federal dollars will speed key aspect of Everglades Restoration
- Captiva residents urged to allow free removal of Australian pines, green iguanas
- NOAA's more informative hurricane cone a permanent part of the agency's warnings
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In 2024, Annette Trossbach retired as the Laboratory Theater of Florida’s first and only Artistic Director. She was succeeded by Todd Lyman, but he soon departed for health reasons. So, co-founder, Nykkie Rizley, filled the void with Waner Del Rosario stepping in as Board President. And the Southwest Florida theater community held its breath, waiting to see if The Lab would survive intact or have to compromise its reputation to fill seats and attract donors and sponsors. -
"Ladies Night" will premiere August 23rd as part of Arts Center Theatre’s Readers Theatre program, which gives local audiences the opportunity to experience a new work before it reaches the stage as a fully produced production. -
A major new public art project is getting underway in Sarasota. The city is inviting artists to apply for a $100,000 public art commission for its One Stop Shop building. The application deadline is Aug. 31.
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Some parts of Indiana received more than 11 inches of rainfall over three days, beginning Aug. 11, causing record floods. Several suburbs of Indianapolis also underwater. -
Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, held a rare meeting with Hamas leadership Sunday in Egypt, in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire. -
The left-handed MLB pitcher was 31 years old when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974, an injury that had been a death knell for pitchers' careers up to that point. -
On Friday, Italian police said they'd recovered three paintings stolen from a museum near the city of Parma. By Saturday night, thieves in Sicily had made off with four more masterpieces. -
Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm Sunday after skirting Hawaii without making landfall, but it wasn't done punishing the Big Island with hurricane-force gusts.
