WLRN WEEKEND: A collection of this week’s feature stories for your weekend reading
FEATURED NEWS
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The proposal to restore the Harriet Himmel Theater in CityPlace, in West Palm Beach, calls for wiping out one of the most prominent characteristics of the 1926 church: the entry stairway on the building’s north end.
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The sheriff's office in Leon County, Florida, said a falling tree killed a woman inside her family's home in the Tallahassee area. Some of the strongest storms early Friday rolled through Tallahassee, toppling trees across the state's capital city.
- Student protests caused mostly minor disruptions at several graduation ceremonies
- A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat lodge to treat addiction
- In honor of Mother's Day, here's 'Mother Play' — which gestated for 40 years
- Roger Corman, the B-movie legend who launched A-list careers, dies at 98
FLORIDA NEWS
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The Pabón family is among the nearly 8 million Venezuelans who have left their country in the last decade, fleeing an authoritarian regime and a collapsed economy — one of the largest population displacements in the world.
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Despite immigrating to the United States with advanced degrees, immigrants struggle to find jobs that match their education level.
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In response to the report, a DCF official says the state's outreach strategy went "above and beyond" federal requirements and "any notion that Florida has failed in this process is false."
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