FLORIDA DIGEST - September 01, 2008

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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Dem. veep Joe Biden hits town Tuesday
Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, plans a Florida campaign swing this week that will bring him to Broward County. Leaders of the Deerfield Beach Democratic Club got word over the weekend that the U.S. senator from Delaware will be there. The plan is for a rally at the main clubhouse at Century Village at noon Tuesday. Tickets, they've been told, will likely be distributed via the internet. That's the favored method of the Obama campaign, which uses Internet sign-ups as a way to build its database of e-mail addresses for campaign updates and fundraising pitches.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbcndig09010sbsep01,0,7403564.story

-Florida back in Hanna's cone
Florida may have a brush with Tropical Storm Hanna later this week. At 8 a.m. Monday Hanna was located about 90 miles north-northeast of the southeastern Bahamas and is drifting slowly westward near 2 mph. Still, forecasters are not totally confident in their long-range predictions for Hanna. The storm is expected to move west and then west-southwest and slow down over the next 24-48 hours. The center of Hanna will move near the southeastern Bahamas during the next day or two. "Given the high spread among the various models...there is considerable uncertainty regarding Hanna's eventual track and intensity," hurricane specialist Jamie Rhome wrote in an advisory Sunday
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/sfl-hurricane-hanna,0,5749270.story

-Commercial Boulevard bridge demolition to close Florida's turnpike
The remaining portion of the old Commercial Boulevard bridge over Florida's Turnpike will be removed this week. The demolition will force workers to close the turnpike in both directions between Commercial and Sunrise boulevards for up to three nights starting Tuesday night. The closures will last from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. If the work is postponed on one or more of the dates because of bad weather, it will be rescheduled to Sept. 7 and 8. Southbound turnpike drivers will be detoured off the turnpike at Commercial, east on Commercial, south on State Road 7 and west on Sunrise back to the turnpike.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbdigcommercial0901sbsep01,0,4668356.story

-Two Broward legislators stuck with John McCain, their early choice
Reps. Bogdanoff and Hasner set to join candidate at conventionAs Republican after Republican in Broward County was lining up last year with Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign, Ellyn Bogdanoff and Adam Hasner signed on with John McCain - and never looked back. Bogdanoff and Hasner, both of whom are state legislators who represent parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties, are in Minneapolis-St. Paul as delegates to the Republican National Convention this week, so their decision was proved right.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbearlymccain0901sbsep01,0,3017301.story


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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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-BROWARD COUNTY: Case puts Broward's jail on trial
Former Sheriff Ken Jenne is to testify in a civil case regarding allegations that BSO has covered up overcrowding and guard misconduct at the Broward County Jail. Broward's jail system goes on trial Tuesday in Miami federal court in a civil rights case involving an inmate who suffered severe brain injury allegedly inflicted during a beating arranged by guards.
http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/667114.html

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