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All the Ways to Enjoy Florida, in or on the Water
If any state can claim to have just as much water to enjoy as land, it’s Florida. Visiting the state without enjoying its waters from rivers to springs to swamps to the sparkling Atlantic Ocean would be missing the point entirely. Here, we take a look into a few of the main ways to enjoy Florida by water, no matter whether you’re a thrill-seeker or happy to just float.
Beaches A view of sunset over Clearwater Beach’s sugar sands. (Channaly Philipp/The Epoch Times)
Florida has 663 miles of beaches, so visitors can take their pick from crowded and commercialized to hidden, wild places tucked away in preserves and parks. Thanks to the state’s peninsular shape, no matter where you are in Florida, you’re never more than a couple hours from the nearest beach.
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ATLANTA A former Atlanta police officer s attorney said Thursday that his client didn t get a chance to defend himself before he was fired for fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks, a Black man who had been running away from two white officers after he resisted arrest and fired a stun gun at one of them.
Officer Garrett Rolfe was dismissed without a proper investigation by the city on June 13, one day after Brooks death, Rolfe s attorney, Lance LoRusso, told the city s civil service board as he argued for his client s reinstatement to the force, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The encounter outside a Wendy s restaurant last year started calmly but rapidly spun out of control when Atlanta police tried to handcuff and arrest Brooks, 27, for suspected DUI.
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In Pics: New Year s Eve Celebrations Around the World
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the globe, making 2020 one of the worst years, here s how the world ushered in the new year. India | News18 | January 1, 2021, 10:24 am
1/ 54 This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other in most of the world, with many bidding farewells to a year they’d prefer to forget. From the South Pacific to New York City, pandemic restrictions on open-air gatherings saw people turning to made-for-TV fireworks displays or packing it in early since they could not toast the end of 2020 in the presence of friends or carousing strangers. As midnight rolled from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas, the New Year’s experience mirrored national responses to the virus itself. Some countries and cities cancelled or scaled back their festivities, while others without active outbreaks carried on like any other year.
Jose Gabriel Martinez, who died of the coronavirus in April, was at the heart of his family’s New Year’s Eve celebrations every year. “I’m going to seal 2020 for life,” his son said. “I don’t want to come back to it.”