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| 11/8/2018

› Whole Foods hysteria in Fort Myers: Crowds pile in for first look and freebies
Hordes of Whole Foods Market fans swarmed Daniels Marketplace Wednesday to get a first look at the new south Fort Myers store. The plaza's parking lot was jam-packed all morning, with overflow parking stretching along Six Mile Cypress Parkway.

› Boca Raton-based prison operator Geo increased revenue, profits in third quarter
Prison and detention center operator The Geo Group saw its third-quarter profits increase to $39.3 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with $38.5 million, or 31 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter, according to earnings released Wednesday.

› Florida study finds monarch butterflies declined 80 percent since 2005
Every year thousands of monarch butterflies dance through the air over North Florida, migrating between their breeding ground in Mexico and their regular homes along the U.S. Atlantic coastline. Every year, there have been fewer and fewer of them.

› Miami Yacht Show cruising across bay from Miami Beach
Producers plan to move the Miami Yacht Show from Miami Beach to the City of Miami’s Omni area beginning in 2019. Yachting Promotions Inc. is asking the city for a revocable license to stage the annual yacht show offshore of the former Miami Herald site, between the MacArthur and Venetian causeways.

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