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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida man is accused of wounding another man during a shooting at a South Florida convenience store on Thursday, authorities said. According to the West Palm Beach Police Department, the shooting occurred at 4:41 p.m. EDT at a convenience store that formerly doubled as a gas station, WPEC-TV reported. According to the victim, Brown pulled out a handgun and approached the vehicle, WPLG-TV reported. Brown was later arrested at an apartment complex in West Palm Beach, according to the television station. He remains in the Palm Beach County Jail, online records show.

Michael Troy Hutto, noted for the Jacksonville Beach-based clothing brand, was sentenced to 12 years in the 2020 death of Lora Grace Duncan, 18.

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From small business owners like Condos to the operators of resorts and water parks with multi-million dollar budgets, pent-up demand from Chicago-area travelers who paused their vacation plans during the first two summers of the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to lead to a stellar summer of 2022 for the Wisconsin tourism industry.

An unprecedented, experimental attempt to feed manatees facing starvation in Florida has started slowly but wildlife officials expressed optimism it will work as cold weather drives the marine mammals toward warmer waters. That brought about the lettuce feeding program, part of a joint manatee death response group led by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the U.S. “We expect that to happen.”In addition to the feeding experiment, officials are working with a number of facilities to rehabilitate distressed manatees that are found alive. It's been a huge amount of work to date.”There are a minimum of 7,520 manatees in Florida waters currently, according to state statistics. That's better than feeding manatees personally, which does more harm than good because the animals will associate humans with food, according to officials.

Dying Manatees Florida FILE - Manatees crowd together near the warm-water outflows from Florida Power & Light's plant in Riviera Beach, Fla., on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. On Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, state wildlife officials say a test feeding plan will save many threatened manatees from starvation, as winter approaches Florida. But they say the manatees will still face the threat of manmade water pollution stifling their food supply. There are between 7,000 and 8,000 manatees — also known as sea cows — in Florida, according to state estimates. “We all know the underlying problem is water quality,” said Larry Williams, Florida state supervisor with the U.S.

The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission reported that 841 manatee deaths were recorded between Jan. 1 and July 2, breaking the previous record of 830 that died in 2013 because of an outbreak of toxic red tide. The TCPalm website reports that more than half the deaths have died in the Indian River Lagoon and its surrounding areas in Volusia, Brevard, Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin counties. “Unprecedented manatee mortality due to starvation was documented on the Atlantic coast this past winter and spring,” Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute wrote as it announced the record Friday. The manatee was once classified as endangered by the federal government, but it was reclassified as threatened in 2017. The federal government says approximately 6,300 manatees live in Florida waters, up from about 1,300 in the early 1990s.

A Florida diver spent 45 minutes with a pregnant bull shark hovering nearby and not only did he survive the up-close encounter unscathed -- he’s got the now-viral photos to prove it.

Police are searching for the person who shot into an apartment and killed a 7-year-old boy who was sleeping inside.

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. – The founder of the popular beach clothing brand Salt Life is being held in a Florida jail as a “flight risk" after being charged with fatally shooting an 18-year-old woman in a hotel room last month. He told investigators Hutto and his daughter were in a relationship and that she “sounded out of character” when they last spoke, police wrote in the documents. Hutto's belongings, including his wallet and an ID card, were in the hotel room, investigators said in an arrest report. Prosecutors and police said Hutto admitted to accidentally shooting Duncan while the two were “playing” with a gun inside the hotel room. Salt Life issued a statement last week saying Hutto had not been involved with the company since he and his partners sold the business in 2013 for nearly $40 million.

Tuesday, during a trip on Walker's Dive Charters out of Riviera Beach, Florida, a group of scuba divers encountered a once-in-a-lifetime experience a great white shark. On average, female great white sharks measure 15-16 feet in length, and males grow to 11-13 feet, according to the Smithsonian. Great white sharks are observed by divers once or twice a year off the coast of South Florida. "Today all of my dreams came true and I got to hang out on the reef with a Great White Shark!!! Bill Walker of Walker's Dive Charters said the great white shark sighting was the first for one of his charters in 27 years of operation.

Tuesday, during a trip on Walker's Dive Charters out of Riviera Beach, Florida, a group of scuba divers encountered a once-in-a-lifetime experience a great white shark. On average, female great white sharks measure 15-16 feet in length, and males grow to 11-13 feet, according to the Smithsonian. Great white sharks are observed by divers once or twice a year off the coast of South Florida. "Today all of my dreams came true and I got to hang out on the reef with a Great White Shark!!! Bill Walker of Walker's Dive Charters said the great white shark sighting was the first for one of his charters in 27 years of operation.

Tuesday, during a trip on Walker's Dive Charters out of Riviera Beach, Florida, a group of scuba divers encountered a once-in-a-lifetime experience a great white shark. On average, female great white sharks measure 15-16 feet in length, and males grow to 11-13 feet, according to the Smithsonian. Great white sharks are observed by divers once or twice a year off the coast of South Florida. "Today all of my dreams came true and I got to hang out on the reef with a Great White Shark!!! Bill Walker of Walker's Dive Charters said the great white shark sighting was the first for one of his charters in 27 years of operation.

Lake City and Riviera Beach Florida agreed to pay a combined total of roughly $1 million within the last eight days after international cyberhackers encrypted and froze the computer files of both city governments. In May, another small Florida town, Riviera Beach, with 34,000 residents, was hacked after a police department employee opened an email attachment. On June 17, the city council voted unanimously to pay a ransom of 65 Bitcoins, valued at just under $600,000. No Central Florida cities have reported a ransomware attack. It puts a target on the back of Florida cities, he said.

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