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Only 38% of eligible FL seniors get food assistance through SNAP, report finds
More than 858,000 Florida seniors could get benefits through the largest federal food assistance program, but only 38% of those eligible participate, according to a report from the National Council on Aging and the Urban Institute. Still, Florida’s participation rate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, for people 65 and older is […]
Monday brings isolated showers and afternoon thunderstorms as the rainy pattern continues
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – We started Monday morning mostly dry except for a storm that moved through our very northern SE Georgia counties. Otherwise, a hot day with the heat index hovering around 100. Afternoon showers and potential thunderstorms will develop west of I-95 after lunchtime and stick around throughout the evening - possible gusty winds and heavy downpours can’t be ruled out as these storms develop along the sea breeze and mixed with the high heat.
'One pill can kill.' Brevard moms band together over Florida fentanyl deaths
Nancy Shine’s only child had just turned 26. And it was just one pill. But Keaton Alan Shine made a choice to use fentanyl one night. It cost Keaton his life — and changed the lives of his parents forever. ...
Phil Jones, former CBS News correspondent, dies at age 87
Phil Jones, a CBS News correspondent for more than 30 years, has died. He was 87.Jones died over the weekend at his home in Florida. He leaves behind a son, Paul, and a daughter, Pam. The tenacious reporter joined CBS News in 1967 — a time when Walter Cronkite anchored the CBS Evening News. Jones was considered one of "Cronkite's Kids." Soon after joining CBS, Jones won an Emmy for his coverage of the war in Vietnam. Jones was best known for reporting on the political battles in Washington. He started with Watergate, then served as White House correspondent during the Ford administration. Jones also covered the impeachment trial of then-President Bill Clinton. He was a tenacious reporter, following a story wherever it led. As a "48 Hours" correspondent, Jones rode a mule through Burma in pursuit of a drug kingpin. Colleague Eric Engberg described Jones' impact when he retired in 2001 after 32 years at CBS News."Every lying, conniving, thieving, sniveling politician in Washington is going to sleep better with you gone," Engberg said at the time.
On Honeymoon Island State Park, urgency grows to defend ‘the real Florida’
DUNEDIN — For Terry Fortner, the fight to save Honeymoon Island State Park from a proposed development plan is personal. Nearly 130 years ago, just offshore from here, her grandmother Myrtle Scharrer was born in a pioneer home on Caladesi Island. She lived for decades in the tranquility of the untouched island chains that today include Florida’s most-visited state park.
Central Florida Man Wins $1 Million Playing $5 Scratch-Off Game
A Central Florida man won a $1 million prize playing a $5 scratch-off game from the Florida Lottery. The Florida Lottery recently announced that 53-year-old Charles Kelly, Jr., of St. Petersburg, claimed a $1 million top prize from the $5 Gold Rush Doubler scratch-off game at Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.
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