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Mingling during Halloween weekend could lead to a greater chance of getting a sinus infection

By Karen Kidd | Nov 3, 2022

An overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Halloween.

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West Palm Beach doctor says facial pain and headaches can be caused by sinus problems

By Karen Kidd | Aug 22, 2022

Sinus headache symptoms include facial swelling, feeling of fullness in the ears, fever and persistent facial pain.

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Medical examiner confirms body found near Orlando apartment complex that of missing college sophomore

By Karen Kidd | Oct 8, 2021

A medical examiner earlier this week confirmed that a body at an Orlando apartment complex last weekend is that of college student Miya Marcano.

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NHC not expecting much from system east of Florida after Tropical Storm Victor, Hurricane Sam weaken

By Karen Kidd | Oct 8, 2021

The National Hurricane Center has turned its attention to a trough now off Florida's east coast after a hurricane and tropical depression that approached the state earlier this week petered out.

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Bipartisan support surges for Florida first lady after her breast cancer announced

By Karen Kidd | Oct 8, 2021

Support is pouring in for Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, whose breast cancer diagnosis was announced earlier this week.

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Highway funding extension staves off congressional delays ‘impacting the lives of Floridians’

By Karen Kidd | Oct 8, 2021

The 30-day extension Congress approved last weekend to fund the federal highway program is staving off — for now — what Gov. Ron DeSantis called "the impacts congressional inaction and dysfunction" were starting to have on Florida transportation projects.

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Separate studies: UF researchers studying COVID lung tissue, UK studies depression

By Karen Kidd | Oct 8, 2021

University of Florida researchers have been examining human lung tissue since last summer to get a better idea about COVID-19 and its differing effects on suffers of the disease, according to news reports in South Florida.

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Florida Wildlife Corridor Act 'will set a global example,' National Geographic Explorer declares

By Karen Kidd | Jul 27, 2021

The Florida Wildlife Corridor Act, wide ranging legislation to spend $400 million to help protect the state’s natural areas that was signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this month, is an example to the world, a renown naturalist said.

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Some wobbly signs suggest COVID-unemployed returning to work in states ending $300 extra UI benefits, experts and polls say

By Karen Kidd | Jun 21, 2021

Removing the extra $300-per-week in additional unemployment insurance (UI) benefits provided by the federal government is showing some early signs of motivating the COVID-driven unemployed into returning to work at pre-pandemic low wages.

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GOP lawmakers defend Florida's new voting measure, call it fairer than Northeastern states

By Karen Kidd | Jun 14, 2021

Florida is catching much criticism over its controversial new voting reform law that many argue amounts to voter suppression, a revival of Jim Crow laws and is generally aimed at disenfranchising many voters.

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Florida public sector employees should feel free to join a union or not, James Madison Institute policy VP says

By Karen Kidd | Feb 5, 2020

Florida public sector workers should not feel compelled to join a union and pay dues, a free-market activist with a group that recently announced its support for legislation in the Florida Legislature regarding union membership, said during a recent interview.