Florida celebrates 500-year birthday
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Florida background checks for gun purchases soaring
In the first three months of the year, the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement got nearly 300,000 requests for background checks for
potential gun owners statewide. That's more than 100,000 checks above
the same period last year and almost the total number of checks in 2004.
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Florida officials are rolling out a vast history lesson to
commemorate the first wave of Europeans to hit the state's beaches half a
millennium ago. A replica of a 16th-century Spanish galleon will make
port calls up a strip of the Florida coast in coming weeks, and a
three-day exhibit this week will feature rarely seen historical
documents. More from the AP.