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Pacers lead at half in game 2 at Miami
Roy Hibbert shoots the ball as Miami Heat center Chris Bosh defends during the first half of Game 2 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series. (AP Photo/Lynne ...
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FWC Promotes Boating Safety Ahead of Holiday Weekend
As boating season kicks off, the Coast Guard is encouraging people to stay safe. Officer Jorge Pino of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Joe Abeyta give their ...
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Noon kickoff with Gators shows how far Miami ACC have fallen
Wake Forest on Raycom? Can't say I really blame ESPN for sticking this game in the undesirable noon slot. Miami is, after all, the home team and this is the ACC's TV game. Quite frankly, both UM and the ACC haven't been relevant on a national level for years. It also doesn't help that the Gators, even though they won 11 games last season, aren't the sexiest of teams and ...
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Florida Staves Off Steals by Arizona
TALLAHASSEE | Florida has a new fiscal game plan to keep its spring training lineup of baseball teams from jumping to the Cactus League in ...
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Barber’s Honor a Highlight During Sneaker Soiree Event
Ronde Barber's record-breaking 200th consecutive start to open the 2012 NFL season was one of the moments recognized during the Tampa Bay Sports Commission's annual Sneaker Soiree ...
Movie Review
This Is 40
Hasnt Judd Apatow gotten the memo that 40 is the new 30? Apparently not, as This Is 40 continues the comedic writer/directors apparent obsession with the significance of the four-decade mark, which has become a familiar threshold in almost all of his films. There is, of course, the i ... ...
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Student Shot In The Leg At Redland Middle School Near Miami
A teenage student was shot in the leg at a middle school south of Miami Friday afternoon, sending the campus into lockdown. Miami-Dade Police said investigators were questioning a classmate who allegedly brought the firearm inside a backpack to Redland Middle School in Homestead. Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesman John Schuster told NBC6 ...
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Abortion pill cases link Tampa woman to stranger in Oklahoma
TAMPA -- Five years ago, an Air Force airman grudgingly married his pregnant girlfriend but began lacing her food with ground up abortion pills. She miscarried in her second trimester, after consuming a deviled egg. Caylinn Young, 25, of Oklahoma felt isolated in her experience until she read recently about a Lutz woman named Remee Lee, 26, who miscarried in March, reportedly under similar ...
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Communications satellite launched into space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, will serve ...
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Judge rejects request to exhume bodies at school
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A circuit judge is rejecting a request to exhume human remains on the site of a now-defunct Panhandle reform school.Judge William Wright, who is based in Jackson County, ruled Friday against the request made by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.Bondi's office filed the petition in March. There is believed to be unmarked graves on the school site. Wright in his ...
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Holiday weekend crowds way down from boom in Miami Beach
the place for Memorial Day weekend revelers, with hot acts, sold-out hotels and can’t-miss parties that cater to African-American crowds.Just two years ago, hotel occupancy averaged more than 85 percent over the weekend with daily rates about $260 — far higher than the month’s average of 74.4 percent occupancy at $195 a night and the holiday weekend’s highest numbers in ...