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Construction worker dies after accident at Disney resort
Scott Powers and Susan Jacobson 5:15 PM EDT, June 27, 2008 Sentinel Staff Writer
A 52-year-old construction worker injured in a June 13 accident at Disney's All-Star Resort died Thursday night, a Walt Disney World official said this afternoon. The man was identified this afternoon as John Swearingen, 52, of Davenport. Read more at http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/custom/tourism/orl-bk-disney-death-062708,0,4161193.story

Cars hit with anti-Obama messages
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS • June 29, 2008 Florida Today
ORLANDO -- Police today are investigating vandals' spray-painting of dozens of city vehicles here, some with disparaging messages about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.Authorities think the vandalism to about 60 vehicles, estimated at $10,000 in damage, was done Saturday afternoon, police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones said Read more at http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080629/BREAKINGNEWS/80629010/1086/rss07

Presidential race could cost down-ballot campaigns
posted by Aaron Deslatte on Jun 29, 2008 10:31:53 AM Orlando Sentinel
With the political fundraising season in high gear, Florida is once again poised to pump some serious money into an inordinately deep and wide field of competitive local, state and national races.Already, political givers had contributed in excess of $135 million to state campaigns and the presidential contenders through last spring -- not including money that went to special elections and the Amendment 1 property-tax campaign last January Read more at http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2008/06/presidential-ra.html

Deal could restore the Everglades
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 25, 2008
LOXAHATCHEE, FLA -- . -- It was a strategy so bold no environmentalist or state bureaucrat dared dream it could happen: Buy out Big Sugar's polluted fields, railroad and refinery within the Everglades so the wounded "river of grass" could heal after more than a century of man's industrial intrusions.Read more at http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-everglades25-2008jun25,0,3721951.story