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Indonesia asks Obama to stop Koran burningThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 3:27AMINDONESIA'S president today urged Barack Obama to intervene and stop a Florida church carrying out a planned Koran burning.

Project aims to promote beachesThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 3:12AMLocal businesses are mounting a campaign to let the rest of the world know that Southwest Florida beaches are pristine.

[cover] Gulf Stream : The impacts of BP’s oil spill still linger in the Southeast – and Monterey County. - Monterey ...Thursday, September 9, 2010 @ 2:24AMWater is ubiquitous in southern Louisiana. The air itself is wet, thick with palpable humidity. Highways run inches above swamps; bayous descend into channels that flow into the Gulf of Mexico. On the GPS, I watch the land break off and disappear into the water like ice cubes melting in a glass. Like most people, my first instinct was to recoil from images of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. But ...

South Florida fishing reportWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 11:51PMCaptain Roan zumFelde of Rz's Fishing Extremes out of Naples reported snapper were almost a nuisance when fishing offshore for grouper, and a lot of Spanish and king mackerel are available offshore.

Wrestlers mourn tough colleague Luna VachonWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 11:14PMThe bartender poured 21 shots of Sex on the Beach, three of them virgin. The burly arms raising the plastic cups belonged to middle-aged men with strange stories of the good ol' days of being spat on, punched out or clobbered with a folding chair. Their toast was to a complicated woman, who was smaller and tougher than them all. They called her Angel. The world knew her as a lunatic.

BP impressed with Horn cleanupWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 11:13PMHORN ISLAND — On the sugary white beach on the south side of the barrier island, between crashing waves and sifting beach workers, BP’s top man for the Gulf Coast Restoration Organization inspected the progress and proclaimed it good.

Beach cleanup a murky job in South FloridaWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 10:46PMLiliana Ibañez and Karina Añez found themselves Wednesday about 50 yards on the wrong side of Crandon Park's safe-swimming zone Wednesday.

Regulations fly by Florida's parasail industryWednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 5:00AMEvery so often, parasailers soaring above the Gulf of Mexico off Florida's west coast tumble from the sky and plummet into the water or onto the beach.

Go to the Gulf and get $250Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 4:17AMBook a three-night stay through Sept. 30 at northwest Florida's Beaches of South Walton and you'll get a $250 gift card good at Silver Sands Factory Stores or for future travel on Southwest Airlines . The 15 Gulf Coast communities that make up Beaches of South Walton also are hosting a free Vince Gill concert Sept. 25 in an effort to lure tourists back in the wake of the BP oil spill ...