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OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man says he’s got a problem with too many monkeys.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Historians, photographers and Florida archivists, rejoice: the city of Tampa is releasing some 30,000 photos of daily life to the public for the first time.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a married couple was rescued after their amphibious airplane crashed into a Florida lake.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A potential game changer in the struggle to eradicate lionfish from the Gulf of Mexico is brewing in Pensacola.

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A dog park in north Florida is temporarily closed due to concerns about H3N2 Canine Influenza Virus cases in the area.

PONCE INLET, Fla. (AP) — A sea turtle returned to the Atlantic Ocean off Florida following 2 ½ months of rehabilitation.

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for operating a sex trafficking ring involving women he lured from Cuba. The sentence was imposed by a Miami federal judge Friday on 31-year-old Silvio Clark Morales. Federal prosecutors said in a news release that Morales pleaded guilty in April to six counts of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy. Court documents show Morales promised six Cuban women work as dancers. Instead, they were forced under threats of violence to work in strip clubs and as prostitutes. Authorities say Morales drove one victim to an isolated bridge near the Everglades, beat her, and told her he would throw her into the swamp and let alligators eat her. She survived after he put her in his car trunk.

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) — A local radio station’s broadcast underwater in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary on Saturday attracted about 400 divers and snorkelers who listened to music and announcements advocating reef preservation.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A lone female fungus-farming beetle inadvertently imported to Georgia may have been the source of a disease that has killed some 300 million redbay trees and threatens Florida's avocado groves, researchers from Mississippi and Florida say.