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First-time unemployment claims in Florida last week came in at the lowest number since the start of the year. During the past four weeks, the state has averaged 5,065 new claims a week.

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It’s called the Asian swamp eel. And while Floridians may be more used to seeing it grilled and doused in a sweet sticky sauce in sushi rolls, the slippery beasts have become an increasingly problematic invasive species in the delicate Everglades ecosystem.

Since the current storm-naming system was adopted in 1953, 96 names have been retired from the Atlantic basin list.

Through March 10, only 163 manatees have died statewide. That's about a third of the number found dead by that point last year and less than a fifth of 2021, when a record 1,101 manatees died.