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• Confrontation about loud music ends with fatal shooting

  A pre-dawn confrontation about loud music playing from a car led to a man's shooting death in an apartment complex parking lot, officials said. [...]
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• Evacuation was never possible for passengers on crippled Carnival ship

  Evacuation was never a possibility for the thousands of people making slow passage across the Gulf of Mexico aboard the increasingly foul Carnival Triumph. [...]
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• Even amid success, LeBron does not stand alone

  Even though it seems that way, it's not just LeBron James. [...]
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• Rubio spars with administration on immigration reform

  Toughening his stand on immigration reform, Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday accused the Obama administration of trying to scuttle a bipartisan Senate plan to overhaul the system.

  The Florida Republican reiterated his demand for “security triggers” to secure the border before moving to legalize millions of illegal immigrants. He lashed [...]

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• Will Rubio's big sip have shelf life?

  “I am now the proud owner of the most famous bottle of water in American politics,” Todd Harris, Marco Rubio’s political adviser and spinmeister tweeted in the early morning hours of Wednesday.

  It was the Rubio camp's spin on an avalanche of tweets in response to Rubio’s response to [...]

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• House Democrats want wider elections reform

  TALLAHASSEE -- A House committee on Wednesday advanced an election reform designed to combat the long lines than plagued Florida's 2012 elections, but not before Democrats offered and then quietly withdrew amendments expanding locations for early voting and making it easier for people who move to update their addresses at [...]

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• Wednesday Morning Reads: Rubio, convict tutors and the PSC

  TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Wednesday.

  Here's what we're reading this morning.

  
  * The Sun-Sentinel looks at Sen. Marco Rubio's,R-Miami, rebuttal to the State of the Union last night.

  * The new Orange-Osceola state attorney killed the corruption unit in his office, the Orlando Sentinel [...]

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• Rubio spars with administration on immigration reform

  Toughening his stand on immigration reform, Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday accused the Obama administration of trying to scuttle a bipartisan Senate plan to overhaul the system. [...]
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• Florida voter, age 102, invited to State of the Union

  Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old resident of North Miami, will be watching the State of the Union address from the first lady's box in the House gallery as a representative of voters who waited many hours to vote.
  
  Victor, a naturalized citizen from Haiti and a retired farmworker, [...]

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• Battling for lots more taxpayer cash, Enterprise Florida goes on the offensive

  TALLAHASSEE -- The fledgling government watchdog group Integrity Florida came out swinging last week with a scathing report accusing public-private jobs agency Enterprise Florida of "pay-to-play" tactics with vendors and failing to create promised jobs.

  In response, Enterprise Florida CEO Gray Swoope blasted the group for not including his response [...]

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