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Female vervet monkeys Bella, left, Snow White, center, and Olivia groom each other in the Park 'N Fly airport lot adjacent to the mangrove preserve where the vervet monkey colony lives, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Dania Beach, Fla. For 70 years, a group of non-native monkeys has made their home next to a South Florida airport, delighting visitors and becoming local celebrities. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Celebrities: Monkeys near Florida airport delight visitors
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Wed,03/30/22-12:09AM , 234 Reads
DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As departing jetliners roared overhead, an aging vervet monkey moped on a mangrove branch one recent afternoon in the woods he inhabits near a South Florida airport, his ego bruised.
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In this Aug 25, 2019 file photo, Broward Sheriff's Deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue work the scene of a fatal accident on North Dixie Highway in Pompano Beach, Fla. South Florida's higher-speed railroad, other train lines and local officials met with federal safety officials Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 to begin working out plans that they hope will decrease the number of fatal strikes between locomotives, cars and pedestrians. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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Higher-speed train safety on agenda of Florida officials
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Wed,02/23/22-2:55PM , 310 Reads
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Representatives of South Florida's higher-speed railroad, other train lines and local governments met with federal safety officials Wednesday to begin working out plans that they hope will decrease the number of fatal collisions between locomotives, cars and pedestrians.
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Sarah Horton, left, and Shackeem Frankson exchange rings as they get married during a Valentine's Day group wedding ceremony, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, outside the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Fla. The pair were one of nine couples married by the Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller for Palm Beach County during the annual event. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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I do, I do, I do: Mass Valentine's wedding at Florida museum
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Mon,02/14/22-1:31PM , 339 Reads
PALM BEACH, Fla,. (AP) — Shackeem Frankson is the quintessential burly prison guard, but when he turned Monday to exchange wedding vows with his longtime girlfriend, Sarah Horton, he had to pause to wipe away the tear that trickled down his cheek.
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Florida clears Groveland Four of 1949 rape of white woman
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Mon,11/22/21-11:58AM , 229 Reads
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago, making partial and belated amends for one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of Florida's Jim Crow era.
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75°F

Mostly Cloudy

Chance of Rain: 30%
Max Temp: 84°F
Min Temp: 62°F
Feels Like: 83°F
Dew Point: 60°F
Humidity: 93%
Sunrise: 6:21 AM
Sunset: 5:59 PM

Wind Speed: 5 to 10 mph
Wind Direction: S
Wind Gust: 5 mph
Sky Cover: 21%
Visibility: 10 mi
Dew Point: 60°F
Moon Rise: 9:26 PM
Moon Set: 7:46 AM

A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

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