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  • Miranda Kerr flashes bare boobs on Miami Beach

    Miranda Kerr bared her boobs while shooting an ad for her new make-up range 'Kora Organics' on Miami Beach, Florida. The Victoria's Secrets beauty, 30, was spotted giggling as she struck a pose, the Sun reported. However, an assistant covered the Aussie star, who is married to actor Orlando Bloom. ...

  • Biggest Burmese Python Ever Caught In Florida

    A Burmese python measuring nearly 19ft has been captured in South Florida. About 3ft of the 18ft 8in (569cm) snake was spotted sticking out of some roadside brush on May 11 by Jason Leon and some friends, as they drove late at night through a rural area of southeast Miami-Dade County. The 23-year-old got out of his car, grabbed the snake behind its head and dragged it into the open. ...

  • Last of FAMU suspects in court

    ORLANDO, Fla. -- The last of the suspects to be charged with the death of a Florida A & M University drum major during a hazing ritual has a date in court.Darryl Cearnel has an arraignment Tuesday in state court in Orlando.Cearnel was charged with manslaughter and felony hazing last March, almost a year and a half after drum major Robert Champion died. Most of the other dozen or so other ...

  • Fla. Gov. visit to Chile marks 8th overseas trip

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott is leaving the country for his eighth overseas trade-related trip in the last two-and-half years.The governor left late Monday for a trip to Chile in South America. He has previously visited far-flung places such as Brazil, Spain, Israel, and England. He heads to Paris next month.Scott has already taken more trips than former Gov. Charlie Crist. ...

  • Miami-Dade schools settle sex harass lawsuits

    MIAMI -- Two female police officers with the Miami-Dade County school system have settled lawsuits accusing the former police chief of sexually harassing them.Cmdr. Deanna Fox-Williams and Officer Yewande Gibson claimed in the lawsuits that former chief Charles Hurley asked them for dates and then retaliated against them when they refused his advances over several years.Hurley denied the claims ...

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Blow Out [Blu-Ray]

Blow Out [Blu-Ray]

Brian De Palmas engrossing political thriller Blow Out capped off the auteurs most consistently fertile artistic period, which arguably started with his first full dive into Hitchcockian horror with Sisters (1973). Between those two films, he made the campy rock musical Phantom ... ...

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  • Fla. foster youth head to DC to shadow lawmakers

    MIAMI -- Several Florida former foster youth are joining dozens of foster youth from around the country on Capitol Hill to shadow U.S. lawmakers.Members of Congress will be paired with the youth, who are 18-22 years old, on Tuesdays morning. The former foster youth will attend hearings, meetings and witness floor votes.They will also sit down with members of the Obama Administration at the ...

  • Face-chewing victim continues recovery in Miami

    A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami has learned to play guitar as he continues treatment for his ...

  • FHP Looks for Speeding Drivers From High Above

    As NBC 6’s cameras followed FHP troopers at ground level, Telemundo 51 flew with a FHP pilot 2,000 feet above Florida’s Turnpike – high enough where drivers had no idea the agency had an eye in the ...

  • New Photos of Ronald Poppo To Be Released Tuesday

    New photos will be released at the Tuesday press conference of Ronald Poppo, seen here in an image from before the attack on him last Memorial Day ...

  • Consumer Reports Oversold Testosterone Treatments

    Consumer Reports' medical experts say starting testosterone is a big deal. It should only be done after a long and careful conversation between doctor and ...

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