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Ponce Inlet cops: Elderly female resident of Links at Harbor Village condos shot & killed

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PONCE INLET, Fla. -- An elderly woman was shot and killed in her home early on this Wednesday morning, Ponce Inlet police said, adding it id being treated as a homicide and that two suspects who were known to the victim were in custody.

SCSO: Woman charged with manslaughter in shooting death of boyfriend on Muddy Lane in Sanford

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SANFORD, Fla -- Residents were wakened shortly after 1:30 in the morning to an argument between two people and then a gunshot sound on tiny dead-end Muddy Lane leading to the arrest of a 26-year old woman whose older boyfriend lay dead in a pool of his own blood from a gunshot wound to the neck.

Daytona Beach cops: Two Winter Park men arrested in armed robbery of gas station near Daytona International Speedway

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Two Winter Park men were arrested before dawn on this Tuesday morning in an early-morning gas station robbery near Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach cops said. 

72. FWC: Lake Helen man arrested on felony charges for allegedly forcing a lawn cutting blade into an alligator that had to be euthanized & destroying a gator egg nest with his mower

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A Lake Helen man was arrested back in late August on felony charges after wildlife officers investigated an incident two months earlier during which he intentionally struck and mortally wounded an alligator with a lawn cutting tool.

73. Winter Springs Woman gets 8 years in federal pen for embezzling $1.16 million from her employer; using the dough to buy a BMW & a Porsche

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- When taking into account the cost of living, it would take the average American worker 65 years to earn a million dollars over a lifetime, based on an annual salary of $35,000 a year.

74. Port Orange cops: Man arrested on a warrant in December accusing him of sexually abusing 2 girls, ages 14 & 11; jailed on bonds totaling $1M

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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- A 24-year-old Port Orange man was arrested in mid-December on a warrant at his apartment on Orange Boulevard charging him with two counts of sexual battery of a child and has been held at the Volusia County Branch Jail on bonds totaling $1 million. 

75. Remembering late 4-time Indy 500 champ Al Unser's crash in '78 race at Daytona where his airborne car just missed bellyflopping into Lake Lloyd 

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- "Go jump in a lake" certainly wasn't what car racing legend Al Unser Sr. was thinking after he skidded off the track at Daytona International Speedway during a 1978 IROC race, hit a berm, and went airborne before a belly-flop landing that destroyed the car.