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• Alligator hangs out on front porch on Mother's Day

  A large alligator found hanging out on the front porch on Mother's Day has been bagged and transported to Everglades Holiday Park.

• Politics

  Marc Caputo: Heritage Foundation’s immigration report a case study in gaffes

  The biggest mistakes in politics are often unforced errors that reinforce an opponent’s stereotypes.

• Education

  Recording: K12 Inc. struggled to comply with law

  The for-profit online educator knew of teacher certification problems in Florida for years, according to internal emails and a recording of a company meeting.
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  Politics

  Florida economy improves, but will it help Gov. Scott?

  The governor’s poll numbers remain weak, but Democrats have yet to agree on a candidate to take him on in 2014.
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  First person

  Bus rides and toboggan slides with mom

  How did my mother raise eight of us on $105 a week? Liver sausage sandwiches and unselfish love.
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  POLITICS

  Charlie Crist courts Democrats at fundraiser

  The lifelong Republican spoke at the annual Kennedy-King fundraising gala for the Hillsborough County Democratic Party.
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  Mother’s Day 2013 | adoption

  International adoptions: slow, expensive, rewarding

  It can take time, money and determination to adopt a child from a foreign country. The obstacles are plentiful, but the rewards are incalculable.

• State oversight

  Inside a nursing home: cartoons, tunes and tears

  A recent inspection at one nursing home caring for children found significant shortcomings.
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  Healthcare

  Abused, isolated: the hard life of little Anubis Day

  Anubis Day and more than 200 other Florida children are at the heart of a bitter fight over the state’s practice of putting frail children into nursing homes.
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  Drug addiction

  As pill mills fade away, heroin fills the void

  There are signs that heroin is returning as a cheap alternative to prescription pills, the by-product of Florida’s successful crackdown on pill mills.

• Caribbean

  Arrests of vacationing Americans in Turks and Caicos spark concern

  Two U.S. Senators demand a thorough investigation following the arrests of two of their constituents while visiting the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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  Agriculture

  Citrus disease with no cure is ravaging Florida groves

  Spread by a tiny insect, the citrus-greening bacteria causes fruit to turn bitter and drop from the trees.

• In My Opinion

  Fabiola Santiago: Many moms in this family, but Mami wears the crown

  When I’m work-weary, I stand in the hall where my mother displays the diplomas and certificates she has earned during a lifetime, and I quickly regain perspective and gratitude.

• Medicine

  Campaign fights newborn drug addiction

  Attorney General Pam Bondi and other state officials announced a public awareness campaign to fight newborn addiction.

• Assisted-living facilities

  Almost 200 ALFs accused of cheating on property taxes

  An industry already under fire for quality of care now stands accused of widespread finagling of tax breaks.
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  POLITICS

  Charlie Crist, reversing course, comes out for gay marriage

  Charlie Crist, a possible Democratic candidate for Florida governor, now says he supports gay marriage.
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  Campaign finance

  David Rivera caught on tape, but what did he say?

  Did the former congressman say anything on a recorded conversation that tied him to the campaign of a man later convicted of campaign-finance violations?

• Tallahassee

  Florida Supreme Court hears redistricting case

  State lawmakers and the League of Women voters tussled before the high court over the politics that led to the GOP’s 2012 remapping of legislative districts.

• Man attacked by alligator while fleeing deputies

  A Florida man is recovering after being attacked by an alligator while fleeing deputies during a traffic stop.
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  MEDICARE

  Florida Senate president’s former company sued for Medicare fraud

  Senate President Don Gaetz sold his ownership in Vitas Hospice Services in 2004 but federal officials say the company was engaged in Medicare fraud before that.

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