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  • Incumbent Nelson defeats Harris for Senate

    11/07/2006 7:47:28 PM PST · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 39 replies · 1,384+ views
    MIAMI HERALD ^ | 07 NOVEMBER 2006 | MIAMI HERALD
    ORLANDO - Katherine Harris ended her bid to unseat Sen. Bill Nelson the way she started: badly down at the polls, snubbed by GOP leaders and defiantly refusing to give in. ''We don't believe in the polls. We believe in the people. Only votes count,'' said Harris, predicting victory as she waved to passersby at the corner of 26th Street and Manatee Boulevard in Bradenton on a drizzly Election Day afternoon. By then, it was too late. Nelson jumped to a commanding, double-digit lead early and never let up, indicating that Harris -- contrary to her repeated claims -- had...
  • 1,500-gallon whiskey spill prompts facility's evacuation

    07/15/2002 8:21:10 AM PDT · by 2Trievers · 78 replies · 262+ views
    The Courier-Journal ^ | July 15 2002 | Andrea Lee Fanta
    <p>The whiskey flowed more freely than anyone wanted yesterday morning when 1,500 gallons of Southern Comfort flooded a portion of the Brown-Forman Corp.'s bottling-supplies warehouse on Garland Avenue, forcing the facility's evacuation.</p> <p>''There are going to be some happy rats tonight,'' said Bud Schardein, executive director of Metropolitan Sewer District, which reported no problems with the water supply downstream of the warehouse after the liquor was washed into the sewers.</p>