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Miami Heat Star Scores Off Court
Miami Heat basketball star, Dwyane Wade, who is the leading NBA scorer, heard the plight of a South Florida woman whose nephew accidentally burned...
Hybrid Solar Plants to Reduce Need for Fossil Fuel
Proclaiming green the new gold, Florida Power & Light executives on Tuesday marked the groundbreaking of the first of three new solar power projects...
College Football Star Wins Rhodes Scholarship (UPDATED w/ Video)
Successfully balancing sports and books, Myron Rolle, the starting strong safety for the Florida State Seminoles, has been awarded the Rhodes scholarship to...
Tiny Solar Cells Show Promise
Researchers have developed some of the tiniest solar cells ever made – that could potentially be painted on surfaces, and even clothing. So far,...
Free Beer For Those Who Vote in Pensacola
The HandleBar in Pensacola, Florida is offering a free beer to anyone who votes. Customers must trade their "I Voted" stickers for the...
Dunkin’ Donuts Opens Its First LEED Certified Green Restaurant
Dunkin’ Donuts unveiled its first LEED certified restaurant in Florida. The St. Petersburg LEED certified store broke ground in May 2008, and will serve...
Sale of Sugar Company Land Turning Point for Everglades Restoration
Florida's governor last week announced the details of the largest environmental acquisition in state history, a $1.7 billion buyout of 187,000 acres of farmland...
My Hero Calls Me Mama
Chance was named before his birth, not knowing how fitting it would be. Born after only 28 weeks of gestation, the baby -- and...
Solid Signs of Progress for New Orleans Since Storm
As the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina nears, it is beneficial to search for signs of recovery and progress. What can be found...
WWII Vets Finally Get to See the Memorial Built in Their Honor
They last donned uniforms nearly 70 years ago, but thanks to volunteers and donations to the Honor Flight network, World War II veterans finally...
Top Tailpipe Polluters Clean Up Their Act
With current fuel prices high, alternative fuel use is surging among businesses and governments that depend on vehicle fleets to transport their products and...
Silver Alert Helps Rescue Lost Seniors
When 83-year-old Helen Long left her North Carolina home without notice last January, her daughter called state police. The police alerted the...
EARTH ALERT ’08: Top Ten Good News for the Earth
Happy Earth Day! Here are the top ten good news stories for the environment... Since the first Earth Day in 1970, air quality has...
Breakthrough Cancer Surgery Saves Terminal Patient
"A Florida woman with a golf ball-size tumor buried so deep in her abdomen that it was first called inoperable and terminal, risked a...
Cuba Throws Lifeline to Sea Turtles
Cuba has thrown a lifeline to the Caribbean’s endangered and critically endangered marine turtles with a government resolution ending all harvesting of marine turtles.
Such...
Dolls for World Peace
Elderly women in an assisted living center are recapturing life by making dolls for children in Darfur. Two thousand dolls have been made, each...
Honest New Yorkers Follow Clues to Find Camera Owner
Alan Murphy had been planning a trip to America for years. After visiting Florida and New York City, before heading home to Australia, Murphy...
Observant Teacher Likely Saves Student’s Life (Video)
A Florida kindergarten teacher is credited with saving a student's life after she noticed the 5-year-old girl wasn't making eye contact and walked with...
11-Year-Old’s Idea to Become Law
Florida restaurants usually throw out perfectly good food that 11 year-old Jack Davis figures can feed the hungry and the homeless. To make that...
Diners Find Rare Pearl in Plate of Clams
"A Florida man was halfway through a plate of steamed clams when he chomped down on something hard — a rare, iridescent purple pearl....