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What you need to know about Florida today
› Office Depot purchases its headquarters building in Boca Raton for $132 million
The building, which has more than 625,000 square feet and houses about 2,000 Office Depot employees, was last sold for $171 million in 2011 to Equity Commonwealth, a real estate investment trust chaired by Sam Zell.
› Plan to save Apopka's Errol Estate golf course includes water park, assisted-living facility
What can happen when a golf course fails in a community built around one? Weeds overrun greens. Snakes, dirt-bike joyriders and other trespassers take over the fairways. Home values plunge.
› ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ comes home for Opera House screening
The “Greatest Show On Earth” refers, of course, to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which wintered in Sarasota from 1927 until 1960 when it moved to Venice. But it also refers to an Academy Award-winning movie, much of it filmed in Sarasota.
› Florida congressman helps kill 5 pythons in Everglades
A Florida congressman helped catch and kill five invasive Burmese pythons during a nighttime hunt in the Everglades. U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney joined hunters hired by the South Florida Water Management District in the wetlands last week.
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