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07/11/11 Hygiene Fire Protection Chief Bill Nelson has been suspended from that position following Saturday night's arrest on suspicion of impersonating an police officer and drunken driving, according to a press release from the district's board of directors.
07/06/11 John and Patti MacDonald, Bill Nelson and Christina Torrissi took low gross honors in the East Flight with a 34 at the June 28 Nine and Dine scramble at the Cypress Course.
06/28/11 U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson 's office on the 20th floor of a Southbank building was evacuated Monday after discover of a white, powdery substance.
06/06/11 Winner of the week: Bill Nelson . The Democratic U.S. Senate incumbent is sitting on a 20-point lead in the polls, while the major Republican rivals for his seat are either competing to be the candidate most eager to slash Medicare benefits or getting humiliated on a local talk radio show for trying to dodge a basic question on Medicare. Runner up: Ray Junior . The drive time St Augustine radio ...
05/26/11 The Miami Heat just beat the Chicago Bulls to advance to the NBA finals. Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson won, too, in a bet with their counterparts from Illinois. Sens. Mark Kirk and Dick Durbin owe Chicago-style deep dish pizza. (If Miami lost, Rubio and Nelson would've had to serve up key lime pie and pastelitos.) The Heat will face the Dallas Mavericks, beginning Tuesday in Miami ...
05/21/11 Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2011, during the committee's hearing into high gasoline prices and high profits.
05/14/11 LAKELAND -- The man killed in Pakistan by U.S. Navy SEALs was definitely Osama bin Laden, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said during a stop in Lakeland on Friday.
05/05/11 Adam Hasner pulled no punches during a Jacksonville visit Thursday. Speaking at the inaugural luncheon of the Conservative Republican Forum, the former majority leader took aim at the man he wants to replace in the U.S. Senate. "[Bill Nelson] likes to tell people he's gone into outer space," Hasner said. "We're going to remind people what he's done while here on earth." The Boca Raton Republican ...
04/27/11 Florida Today : More than five years after suffering a debilitating stroke, former state Sen. Patsy Kurth has passed away. The 70-year-old died early Wednesday, according to family and friends. Kurth, of Malabar, served as state senator from 1992 to 2000. She then ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for a congressional seat, losing to Dave Weldon. Sen. Bill Nelson wrote on Twitter, "Today we lost ...
04/26/11 Something peculiar is going on with the Republican Party, nationally and in Florida. After a phenomenally successful 2010, Republicans can't seem to find any giant-killers to take on Barack Obama or Bill Nelson.
04/26/11 By Adam C. Smith, Times Political Editor Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Something peculiar is going on with the Republican party, nationally and in Florida. After a phenomenally successful 2010, Republicans can't seem to find any giant killers to take on Barack Obama or Bill Nelson. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's surprise decision this week not to run for president was just the latest reminder of how ...
04/18/11 The creation of about 225 jobs in Brevard County is celebrated as officials, including U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, turned out for the grand opening of AAR Corp.s Airlift Group operations at Melbourne International Airport.
03/31/11 George LeMieux is set to enter the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, a possibly contentious contest in which the winner will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. The Buzz is LeMieux will make the announcement next week. He served 16 months in the Senate after being appointed by then-Gov. Charlie Crist to fill a vacancy created when Mel Matinez quit his term early. LeMieux never ...
03/26/11 Vice President Joe Biden, center, and Sen. Bill Nelson, right, visit with Yankees manager Joe Girardi at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa on Wednesday before attending a fundraiser for Nelson.
03/24/11 A key element of the Democratic battleplan to win Florida for Barack Obama and Bill Nelson are Democratic-leaning Hispanics who went overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008 and then barely turned out in 2010. Last cycle, when exit polls showed Marco Rubio won 55 percent of the Hispanic vote in Florida, it represented 12 percent of the electorate. It was 14 percent of the electorate in 2008, when Obama ...
03/24/11 Vice President Joe Biden was in Tampa on Wednesday to raise money for Sen. Bill Nelson 's re-election campaign, but that didn't mean the day was all business for the two politicians.
03/20/11 Florida holds the distinction of having the highest amount of prisoner tax fraud in the nation, according to U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. North Florida, especially, is a hot bed for this type of tax fraud. In 2009 there were 2,407 false returns filed by prison inmates in Northeast Florida alone, Nelson's office said. Nelson, D-Fla., was in Jacksonville Friday morning as part of a larger trip through ...
03/18/11 U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson conceded Friday his "Hail Mary pass" to save the high-speed train from Orlando to Tampa has fallen short, ending his quest to revive the $2.7 billion project that Gov. Rick Scott has repeatedly derailed.
03/15/11 The St. Petersburg Times reports that former Florida state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner (R) has formed an exploratory committee for a now-inevitable run for U.S. Senate against Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL). Hasner will join Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos (R), who has already announced a bid and begun fundraising in earnest. Former Sen. George LeMieux (R-FL) is also expected to jump ...
03/08/11 A few questions for St. Petersburg Times political editor Adam Smith : What do you think about Sen. Bill Nelson's (D-FL) re-election chances heading in 2012? Who has the edge to be his GOP challenger? Bill Nelson, the last remaining statewide Democratic political figure in Florida, clearly is vulnerable in 2012 though not nearly as much as many Republicans think. We're likely to see Barack ...
03/06/11 MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. Five U.S. senators are calling for a federal crackdown on what they say are phony colleges handing out student visas to potential criminals and terrorists. Sens. Diane Feinstein (FINE-stine) of California, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Jon Tester of Montana, Bill Nelson of Florida and Charles Schumer (SHOO-mer) of New York say the colleges are fronts ... | 
