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| 3/26/2018

› As Ultra celebrates electronic dance music, some wonder if its heyday is past
For seasoned Miamians, the arrival of Ultra –– a notorious annual music festival that pulls in 175 acts and 165,000 fans for three days and eight stages of nonstop dance tracks –– is almost routine.

› Arthrex Inc. begins Anderson expansion that will add 1,000 jobs
Six months after the announcement that Florida-based Arthrex Inc. would expand its medical device production operation to Anderson County, South Carolina, the $74 million project has taken a major step toward becoming a reality.

› Drones Delivering Contraband To Florida Prisons A Budding Problem
The days of baking nail files into cakes are long gone. A package of contraband covered in grass clippings that was dropped by a drone at a Panhandle prison is one of the most recent examples of inmates using advanced technology to smuggle illegal items behind prison walls.

› 20,000 march by Stoneman Douglas High to support gun laws
The march approaching Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, snaked for two miles Saturday, with thousands of students, teachers, parents and supporters chanting in favor of tighter gun laws they believe would have prevented last month's massacre there.

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