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| 3/22/2019

› Bucs become 1st NFL team with 2 female coaches on staff [AP News]
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have hired Maral Javadifar and Lori Locust as assistant coaches, becoming the first NFL team with two female coaches on their staff. Locust and Javadifar are also the first full-time female coaches in franchise history. Locust will be an assistant defensive line coach and Javadifar an assistant strength and conditioning coach. “I know how hard it can be to get that first opportunity to coach at the highest level of professional football,” Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said in a statement.

› New Baptist Health medical center to create 230 new jobs in Plantation [Sun Sentinel]
Baptist Health South Florida has broken ground on a new wellness and medical center in Plantation that officials say will create 230 new jobs. The 100,000-square-foot center, at 1228 S. Pine Island Road, north of Interstate 595, will offer primary care, diagnostic imaging, urgent care, multi-specialty surgery, medical oncology, physical therapy and a spine care clinic.

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