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AROUND FLORIDA (4#) -

# "JUDICIAL HELLHOLE" - A legal group engaged in attempts to reform the civil law system has described South Florida as an "area of the country where the scales of justice are radically out of balance."

# THE POSH CAR JEWEL THIEVES - "They travel together in fancy rental cars: Mercedes, BMWs, Infinitis and Chryslers. But they hide their license plate numbers under duct tape."

A string of burglaries hits the St Pete/Tampa
area, believed to be of Caribbean origin.

# VERY GONE - Hollywood: A friend found Oliver Windell Bar, 69, on Saturday inside Bar's home but in a state of advanced decomposition.

The Medical Examiner's Office confirms that according to its tests, Bar had been dead for at least five days, but the cause of death has not been disclosed. His death has been characterized as a homicide.

# Winter Springs: Man arrested on charges involving
an escort service allegedly advertising in Orlando Weekly.

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