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Surfers Deal a Blow to a Beach Dredging Project

Mar. 8, 2009
Surfers succeeded in temporarily blocking the Palm Beach project on environmental grounds, a strategy widely used against beach erosion.
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Crew okay after Fla. TV chopper crashes

BOYTON BEACH , Fla., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- No injuries are reported in the crash of a television news helicopter in Florida Tuesday morning.

Two shark attacks at Florida beach

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Two surfers at a beach in Ponce Inlet, Fla., say they were bitten by a shark within minutes of one another.
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Surfers, photographers fight for beach

MALIBU, Calif., June 28 (UPI) -- Paparazzi stalking celebrities and surfers trying to get the photographers off the beach went another round in a war of words Saturday in Malibu, Calif.

Surfing at risk at British beach

TRURO, England, June 14 (UPI) -- Britain's popular Fistral Beach may soon be a risky destination for the world's surfers as sand vanishes in bulk from the tourist site, area officials say.

Shark-bite outbreak plagues Florida beach

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla., April 29 (UPI) -- Lifeguards ordered a Florida beach cleared Monday after the third reported shark bite in three days.

Two men stabbed after Brad Paisley concert

PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- A confrontation after the Brad Paisley concert at the Sound Advice Amphitheatre in Palm Beach, Fla., ended in two men being stabbed.

Andrea battered Florida beaches

PALM BEACH, Fla., May 12 (UPI) -- Subtropical Storm Andrea mercilessly trashed the eastern Florida shore, doing millions of dollars of erosion damage before the hurricane season even started.

Sun American buys Beach Bank

MIAMI, May 17 (UPI) -- Sun American Bancorp is buying privately-held Beach Bank, which operates two branches in Miami County, Fla. The deal for Beach Bank, which has $120 million in assets, will be completed by year's end, Sun American said Wednesday.

44 ride giant surfboard into record book

SNAPPER ROCKS, Australia, March 7 (UPI) -- More than 5,000 people gathered on an Australian beach during the weekend to watch 44 surfers ride a giant surfboard into the record books.

Surfers swim with the sharks

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Surfers may be blase' about the trio of sharks in their midst, but state beach officials are growing increasingly concerned.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler