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Administrator acquitted of nursing home deaths during Hurricane Irma

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida judge on Monday dismissed a prosecutor’s impassioned appeal, saying he would not reconsider his acquittal of a nursing home administrator in the overheating deaths of nine patients after the Hurricane Irma destroyed the facility’s air conditioning in 2017. Circuit Judge John J. Murphy III listened impassively to prosecutor Charles …

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Judge Upholds Acquittal of 9 Hurricane Deaths at Nursing Home

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — A Florida judge on Monday rejected a prosecutor’s impassioned appeal, saying he would not reconsider his acquittal of a nursing home administrator in the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma destroyed the air conditioning of the establishment in 2017. Circuit Judge John J. Murphy III listened impassively to prosecutor …

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Hurricane Gabriel: Pig floats in bedroom of flood-hit Hawke’s Bay home, sleeps on muddy mattress

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Emergency Management Minister Kieran McCanulty surveyed the devastated rural areas of the Tararoa and Central Hawke’s Bay regions today. Video/Mark Mitchell Among the broken furniture and inedible grain of their mud-soaked home in Fernhill, the Smiths heard noises coming from the bedroom. Here this flood tale gets mixed up somewhat. Because when Michael Smith opened …

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