Florida loses best-beach title to N.C. (Florida Today) RALEIGH, N.C. -- Move over Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best. The nation's best place to get a tan and enjoy the ocean's waves in 2007 is North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, a place so remote that even people in the offices of "Dr. Beach" -- Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman -- didn't know where to find it on the map. "It's not the end of the world, ......more...Voted #1 Florida Press 2004 FIRST PLACE Best Web Site Florida Keys Keynoter (Keynoter.com) The word ?challenges? came up frequently as Everglades National Park Superintendent Dan Kimball outlined plans to rewrite rules covering most of Florida Bay Thursday....more... Too bad, Florida: North Carolina beach called best in the nation (Sun-Sentinel) RALEIGH, N.C. -- Move over Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best. ...more... Remote island aces Florida for best-beach title (Sun-Sentinel) A Volusia County beach is among three from Florida making a list of the nation's 10 best, but the Big Kahuna this year isn't in the tropics -- it's on the tip of the Outer Banks. ...more... N.C. beach tops on 'Dr. Beach's' list (The Charlotte Observer) Move over, Florida and Hawaii. Your beaches are no longer the best. The nation's best place to get a tan and enjoy the ocean's waves in 2007 is North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, a place so remote that even people in the offices of "Dr. Beach" - Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman - didn't know where to find it on the map. "It's not the end of the world, but you can see ......more... N.C. beach named tops in U.S. (ABC 15 Phoenix) RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The nation's best place to enjoy the ocean's waves in 2007 is North Carolina's Ocracoke Island. The place is so remote that even people in the offices of "Doctor Beach," Florida International University Professor Stephen Leatherman, didn't know where to find it on the map....more... Ocracoke Island Named Nation's Top Beach (WRAL-TV 5 Raleigh) The nation's best place to get a tan and enjoy the ocean's waves in 2007 is North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, a place so remote that even people in the offices of "Dr. Beach" -- Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman -- didn't know where to find it on the map....more... Donovan Apologizes to Magic and Florida (The San Francisco Examiner) (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) Florida coach Billy Donovan cuts down the net after his Gators defeated Ohio State 84-75 in the Final Four basketball championship at Georgia Dome in Atlanta, in this April 2, 2007 file photo....more... Florida State men, Arizona State women take aim at titles (The San Francisco Examiner) SACRAMENTO, Calif. ( Map , News ) - The Florida State men are fast, the Arizona State women powerful....more... |