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Got a taste for international food? These places have that covered (PHOTOS)

Internationals in search of a taste of home or Americans wanting to expand their palates with ethnic flavors don't have to travel far.An array of international markets scattered throughout Northwest Florida act as small embassies for the cultures they serve.Destin Euro Market on Airport Road is just one of many international markets that have become fixtures in local communities.Owners Tony and Lana Daniel, both of European descent, said over the past 20 years the [...]
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Traffic stop becomes week-long jail ordeal

CRESTVIEW — A recent traffic stop became anything but routine for a Crestview man when it unearthed a warrant linking him to a recent South Carolina burglary.Christopher Shimeld, 34, spent last week in the Okaloosa County Jail after a license check turned up a warrant seeking him for the Feb. 28 burglary of a tobacco shop in Elgin, South Carolina. Shimeld was stopped by an Okaloosa County deputy shortly after 4:30 p.m. on April 6 for driving 68 mph in a 55 mph zone. [...]
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Alligator removed from construction site

PANAMA CITY — Florida State University Police Officer Freddy Kinard was called in to help escort an unwanted visitor off the Gulf Coast State College campus Monday who definitely didn’t have the proper student ID. Kinard, who patrols FSU PC and GCSC, said he received a call from across Collegiate Drive that morning about a three-foot-long alligator hanging out under some equipment from the construction site in the athletics building parking lot. Unfortunately the school [...]
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Diaz-Canel replaces Raul Castro as Cuba’s president

HAVANA (AP) — A 57-year-old bureaucrat replaced Raul Castro as the president of Cuba on Thursday, launching a new political era as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure the long-term survival of one of the world's last communist states.The National Assembly announced that Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez had been approved as the sole candidate for president.The 86-year-old Castro will remain head of the Communist Party, which is [...]
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