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What you need to know about Florida today
› Pizza Hut is giving away 30,000 pizzas in Miami during Super Bowl Week
Want free pizza? Look for a Pizza Hut-themed Ford F250 truck, scooter or bike this week in Miami. The pizza chain says it’s giving away nearly 30,000 free pizza slices Thursday through Sunday in more than a dozen popular areas in Miami including Wynwood Walls, Little Havana and the University of Miami.
› Sarasota lawyer launches own firm after 94-year-old practice shuts down
Like any good lawyer, Bill Robertson knows how to turn a problem into an opportunity. That’s how Robertson, 60, ended up opening his own law firm earlier this month, The Robertson Law Firm PA, after spending his entire career at one practice, Kirk-Pinkerton.
› Climate change is threatening sports stadiums and arenas, and teams like the Miami Dolphins are battling back
Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium will host about 65,000 fans on Super Bowl Sunday. While the biggest battle in football will last just one evening, the fight that stadium faces from the effects of climate change will go on indefinitely. It is not alone. Teams and stadiums across country are dealing with flooding, extreme storms, excessive heat and smoke from wildfires.
› Phone passcode dispute goes to Florida Supreme Court
Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office has gone to the Florida Supreme Court in a dispute about authorities seeking to force a criminal defendant to turn over a passcode to a cell phone. Moody’s office filed a notice this week that is a first step in asking the Supreme Court to take up the issue, after a panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal sided with a defendant in an Alachua County robbery case.
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