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The Monroe County Tourist Development Council has launched an extensive public awareness campaign to educate locals and visitors on the two-day lobster mini-season, set for Wednesday and Thursday, July 28-29. The TDC created a dedicated website, http://www.keyslobsterseason.com, that includes interactive videos with need-to-know dive and boating safety tips, up-to-date rules, regulations for lobster hunting within the Keys, such as daily limits and correct harvesting techniques. The website also stresses avoiding prohibited no-take zones protected within Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary...

READERS stressed the importance of not taking dogs out in hot weather following a string of scorching days across the country. Emergency vets issued a plea to dog owners, asking them to avoid exercising their pets during the heatwave. According to vets, pet owners shouldn't take their dogs out on walks during the hottest part of the day (typically between 12pm and 4pm). The average survival rate of a dog diagnosed with heatstroke is only 50 per cent. Heatstroke can be fatal in as little as 15 minutes. Dave Leicester, who looks after a team of experienced video vets at Vets Now, said...

Despite a shutdown of the Florida Keys during the start of COVID-19 pandemic, the chain of islands appears to have done far better than many tourist destinations in the past

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“Concentrate on what cannot lie: the evidence.”  With that simple statement in the pilot episode of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” lead character Gil Grissom voices perhaps the greatest myth about forensic science: its certainty.  Since 1989, bad forensic science has contributed to as many as a quarter of the 2,700-plus exonerations nationwide. Tens of thousands of cases have been found to be tainted by faulty forensic analysis or testimony.  The Houston Police Department had one such lab – consumed by years of mismanagement, neglect, and corruption – out of which grew the�...