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  • After 12 Miranda Kerr feels good in husbands clothes

    Supermodel Miranda Kerr likes to wear her husband Orlando Bloom's clothes because it makes her feel closer to him. The 30-year-old steals items from her husband's wardrobe also because she likes his relaxed rock 'n' roll style. "Sometimes I wear my husband's jacket or T-shirt. It feels good because it's his and it's fun to mix it up," contactmusic.com quoted Kerr as saying. Kerr, who is known ...

  • FBI Shooting in Florida May Be Related to Boston Bombings

    The incident occurred in the city of Orlando. A local newspaper, The Orlando Sentinel, said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev. The friend told local media Todashev was being investigated as part of the Boston bombings and knew suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were martial-arts fighters. The FBI said only that one of its agents was involved in a ...

  • FBI kills Florida man questioned in Boston bombing probe

    The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation.The shooting incident early Wednesday took place in Orlando, Florida, where an FBI agent along with other law enforcement personnel were interviewing the man.In a statement, FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said the FBI agent acted on an imminent threat and shot the ...

  • Florida man with links to Boston bombings killed

    An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings. NBC News said the suspect was being questioned and was originally cooperative, but was fatally shot after attacking the agent. The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. The newspaper quoted the friend as saying Mr Todashev was being ...

  • Homes next to Florida house swallowed by sinkhole killing man to be demolished

    SEFFNER, Fla. - The homes on either side of the Tampa area house where a sinkhole opened under a man's bedroom are being demolished.Officials say the demolition will take place Wednesday in Seffner, Fla. The homes were condemned April 1, a month after the sinkhole opened under the house next door, killing 37-year-old Jeffrey Bush.The Tampa Bay Times reports that engineering consultants ...

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When we look back at 2009, it may very well be characterized at least in part as the year that bizarro animation went mainstream. The year opened with Henry Selicks magnificently creepy and evocative 3-D stop-motion gem Coraline, then we got the strange environmentalist sci-fi parable The Battle ... ...

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  • Man Killed By FBI In Florida Was Linked To Boston Suspect

    NBC News is reporting . A man who was being questioned by the agent is dead. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston and Carrie Johnson have also confirmed the news. Just how firm the man's alleged connection to the marathon case is, though, remains unclear. The dead man has been identified by ...

  • Woods Garcia comment hurtful time to move on

    VIRGINIA WATER, England -- Sergio Garcia apologized to Tiger Woods on Wednesday for saying he would have "fried chicken" at dinner with his rival, a comment that Woods described as hurtful and inappropriate."I want to send an unreserved apology. I did not want to offend anyone," Garcia said Wednesday. "My answer was totally stupid and out of place."Garcia was at a ...

  • Art Basel Miami Workshop at Arts and Business Council of Miami

    As part of the 2013 Miami Arts Marketing Project Workshop Series, the Arts and Business Council of Miami will present The Art Basel Effect: Partnerships and ...

  • ACLU condemns prosecution of Fla. teen

    INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. - The Florida American Civil Liberties Union is condemning the prosecution of 18-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt for allegedly having intimate sexual relations with her younger girlfriend. The Sebastian resident's behavior is "both fairly innocuous and extremely common," according to a statement issued by the Miami-based group. She is charged with lewd and ...

  • Man killed in FBI shooting in Orlando may have ties to Boston Marathon bombing suspect

    Khusen Taramov says the day that federal agents identified the Tsarnaev brothers as the Boston bombing suspects, FBI agents came to his apartment complex and started questioning a few people of Chechnyan ...

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