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Friday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Orlando gas prices jump in middle of summer-travel season
Central Florida’s yo-yoing gasoline prices have snapped back up 11 cents during the last week after falling to seasonal lows in early July.
› Superior Uniform Group reports $65.6 million in sales for second quarter
Superior Uniform Group Inc. reported sales of $65.6 million in net sales for the second quarter, up a percentage point from the same quarter last year, the Seminole-based company reported Thursday. Also read more at the Tampa Bay Times.
› UPS to hire 1,600 part-time employees in Jacksonville for holidays
UPS plans to fill 1,600 part-time, seasonal jobs in the next few months to staff its Westside facility over the holidays. The positions will be for all four shifts, and the company hopes to have all the new employees on the job and trained by Nov. 1.
› New Opa-locka boss says he wasn’t a witness in kickback case. Records say otherwise.
Ed Brown, the newly appointed city manager in Opa-locka, vehemently denies he was ever involved in a government kickback case more than a decade ago that led to convictions of a commissioner, an unregistered lobbyist, a city engineer and a public works contractor.
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