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| 7/6/2017

HSN acquired by rival retail giant QVC for $2.1 billion

Shopping network giant QVC Group is acquiring St. Petersburg-based HSN, the digital and TV retailer best known as the modern-day version of the iconic Home Shopping Network. Liberty Interactive Corp., the Englewood, Colo.-based parent company of QVC, announced the $2.1 billion deal Thursday morning. See the full announcement from Liberty Interactive, here. Also read more at the Tampa Bay Times.

Florida may drop ties to businesses linked to Venezuela

Amid an escalating political crisis in Venezuela, Florida may sever its connections to businesses that support the South American country's current government. More from the AP.

Feds probe Miami’s biggest developer over labor taxes

Federal investigators are seeking to learn if the Related Group, Miami’s biggest developer, lowered costs on an affordable-housing project by hiring subcontractors who failed to pay employment taxes. More from the Miami Herald.

Circus Sarasota helps the Smithsonian celebrate centuries of tradition

With some of the nation’s most prominent circus performers, promoters and historians taking part in the 50th Smithsonian Folklife Festival, it’s no surprise that the demise of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is a frequent and much-debated subject of conversation. More from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

When it's time to take the next step

There are moments in life when it is time to make a move. Whether it’s high school graduation, a potential promotion or feeling drawn to a new profession, students come to Saint Leo University to begin that journey. [Sponsored report]

Around the State
Miami finally gets its museum

florida Twenty years after it was conceived, five years after groundbreaking, after legal, political and financial woes, the long-awaited, 250,000-sq.-ft. Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science is finally opened in downtown Miami’s Museum Park.

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Marie’s Divine Desserts

florida originalsAs Marie Boone’s grandmother spent her last days in the hospital, she shared a deathbed wish with her granddaughter: Keep up the family baking tradition. Neither of them knew then just how far the dream would carry Boone.

» Read more from the Miami Herald.

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