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- Deputies: Lakeland mom kills son in self-defense
- Haines City Commission votes out city manager
- Winter Haven commission grapples with budget
- Dozens busted in retail theft ring
- Smoke from wildfire affecting drivers in Lakeland
- Polk school board to decide on new superintendent
- Student on fight allegedly staged by bus driver
- Legoland's The World of Chima opens July 3
- Polk man charged in Christmas Eve fatal crash
- Case against teen explosion suspect dismissed
- Mulberry man arrested for running chop shop
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- Chinese premier visits India to boost ties
- Syrian activists: Shelling near Lebanon kills 16
- Obama to address Morehouse College commencement
- Medical emergency eyed in Va. parade crash
- Probe into Conn. train crash giving way to cleanup
- Hofstra student killed by police during break-in
- Cannes helps actors Bejo and Rahim cross borders
- $590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla
- 1 winning ticket sold in Fla. on Powerball
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- Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines
- Pakistan repeats vote in Karachi despite killing
- Pakistan holds re-vote in Karachi despite killing
- North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters
- Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
- Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina
- Syria state TV: Powerful blast rattles Damascus
- Syria's Assad says he won't step down
- Plane catches fire landing in Moscow; no injuries
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