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How Florida Entrepreneur Wayne Huizenga Turned a Borrowed $5,000 Into Waste Management and Two Other Fortune 500 Companies Over Four Decades |

Florida Small Businesses Back Retirement Savings Push as Lawmakers Prepare to Consider New Option for Workers in 2027 |

Pinellas County Resident Dies After Rare Vibrio Vulnificus Infection, Florida Health Officials Confirm, as State Totals Rise This Year |

Clark Howard Says Rising Hospital Market Power Is Helping Drive Bigger Health Insurance Premium Increases for Americans During 2026 Open Enrollment |

Coppell Filipino Heritage Month Festival Returns Sunday With Food, Music and Community Goals for North Texas Families |

Florida Minimum Wage Rises to $15 an Hour, Giving Workers and Tipped Employees a Final Boost Under 2020 Amendment |

South Florida Entrepreneur Turns Invasive Everglades Burmese Python Skins Into Luxury Handbags With Women Leading the Hunt, Design and Production |

Line of Storms Pushes Across Oklahoma Overnight With 50 to 60 MPH Wind Gusts Possible, Reaching the OKC Metro Around Midnight |

Rare Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds Light Up the Sunset Sky Over Centennial, Colorado, Creating a Stunning Wave-Like Display |

Forecasters Watch the Gulf for Possible Tropical Development During the Second Week of October as Several Ingredients Begin to Line Up |

North Carolina Heads Toward Near-Record Heat Before a Weekend Cold Front Brings Rain, Cooler Air, and Possible Trouble for Outdoor Weddings |

Remnants of Hurricane Polo Spread a Wide Shield of Rain Across the Central Plains and Midwest, a Setup That Would Have Meant a Major Winter Storm in January |

Southern California Kicks Off October With a Major Heat Wave as Inland Valleys Top 100 Degrees and the Inland Empire Nears 105 |

Sunday Soaker Possible for Maryland as Polo’s Leftover Moisture Could Ride Along a Stalled Front, Threatening Ravens Tailgates and Weekend Plans |

New Level 3 GO NOW Evacuations Ordered in Walla Walla County as Wind-Driven Hatch Grade Fire Spreads Near Wallula, Washington |

Remnants of Polo and a Low Near Phoenix Set to Wrap Heavy Moisture Into Colorado, With the Biggest Totals Favored From Denver and I-70 South |

South Central Texas Faces a Multi-Day Flood Threat as Level 3 of 4 Risk Covers San Antonio and the Hill Country With 2 to 8 Inches of Rain Possible |

Flash Flood Warning Issued for the Aspen Acres Burn Scar as Heavy Rain Targets Beulah Valley With a Considerable Damage Threat |

Miami Valley Wakes Up to Mild and Comfortable Low to Mid 50s Under Clear Skies Before Temperatures Rebound Nicely on Wednesday |

Memorial Bench Swept Away by Hurricane Helene From the Dunedin Causeway Found More Than 1,100 Miles Away in Bermuda Two Years Later |

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October 2, 2026

Florida health officials warning about Vibrio vulnificus risks near warm coastal waters

Pinellas County Resident Dies After Rare Vibrio Vulnificus Infection, Florida Health Officials Confirm, as State Totals Rise This Year

October 2, 2026 Bethany Byles

Florida recorded its first Pinellas County Vibrio death of 2026, prompting renewed attention to how the bacteria spreads and who is most at risk.

A health insurance statement and calculator used during open enrollment

Clark Howard Says Rising Hospital Market Power Is Helping Drive Bigger Health Insurance Premium Increases for Americans During 2026 Open Enrollment

October 2, 2026 Bethany Byles

Consumers may see sharper renewal prices as insurer costs rise and hospital systems with strong local leverage push up what care costs.