April 28, 2024

Wednesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 3/11/2015

Boeing, SpaceX look to commercial crew flights after ISS
It will be two or three years before Boeing or SpaceX launches astronauts to the International Space Station, but they're already looking to what comes next.

› Teaching and petting zoos combine forces
Petting Zoo Ocala's ducks, peacocks, ponies and camels are making room for some endangered animals that will soon be moving into their neighborhood.

› Preserving the state's stake in steak
Got beef? Cattle producers do with a stampede of bad press about pink slime, changing tastes and dueling opinions about beef's healthy bona fides.

› Duke Energy proposes $146 million to settle Progress Energy merger lawsuit
Duke Energy says it proposed to settle for about $146 million a shareholder lawsuit tied to the company's controversial 2012 merger with Progress Energy. That $32 billion deal created the nation's largest power company and allowed Duke to enter the Florida electricity market as Duke Energy Florida.

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