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  • Kerr suffers wardrobe malfunction

    Supermodel Miranda Kerr suffered a wardrobe malfunction at the Miami Beach while she was shooting an ad campaign. The 30-year-old was shooting a campaign for her KORA Organics make-up line when her top fell down accidentally, exposing her breasts, reports dailystar.co.uk. She laughed off the blunder after covering up her ...

  • Florida ahead of the curve on driverless auto testingS

    WASHINGTON — Cars that steer themselves through bumper-to-bumper traffic will hit the market by the end of this year, and self-parking vehicles aren’t far behind. Fully autonomous models that don’t need human drivers at all are less than a decade from dealerships. But laws lag behind the rise of the robo-car. Only three states — Nevada, California and Florida — have ...

  • Universal Orlando raises ticket prices

    ORLANDO, Fla. -- Universal Orlando has raised the price of a one-day, single-park ticket to $92.The price increase, up from $89, went into effect this past weekend.Single-day admission for both Universal parks - Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure - went from $124 to $128. Similar increases were applied to multiday passes. Universal spokesman Tom Schroder says ...

  • UFShands changes its name to University of Florida Health

    Timothy Goldfarb, CEO of Shands HealthCare, and Dr. Michael Good, dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine, leave a press conference held to announce the changing of the name "UF&Shands" to "UF Health" at the UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital Monday. Goldfarb left the press conference with a keepsake, a sign with the old logo on ...

  • Showdown over JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon comes to Tampa

    TAMPA-- The head of the country's biggest bank finds out Tuesday if he gets to keep both of his titles. And the drama will unfold right here in Tampa. Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, faces a growing shareholder push to relinquish the title of board chairman during the New York banking conglomerate's annual meeting. Slated to begin at 10 a.m. at the bank's ...

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Some Like It Hot [DVD]

Some Like It Hot [DVD]

In the annals of film comedy, there are a select few films that truly stand out as having withstood the test of time--that are just as funny now, if not funnier, than they were when first released--and Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot is right at the top. Named ... ...

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  • Universal Orlando raises one-day theme park admission to $92

    The cost of a one-day, one-park ticket to Universal Orlando has gone up three bucks to $92, plus tax. The increase made over the weekend makes Universal the first Orlando theme park to top the $90 threshold. Tickets for children ages 3 to 9 jumped to $86, plus tax. This is the second year in a row that Universal has rolled out price increases that put it ahead of Disney World. Universal has ...

  • Two drivers sought in connection with Lauderdale hit-and-run

    Fort Lauderdale Police are seeking the drivers of a red Volkswagen Beetle and a black pickup truck in connection with a hit-and-run crash that injured a toddler last ...

  • Florida waiting for Powerball winner to come forward

    Lottery officials in Florida are waiting for the person holding a winning Powerball ticket worth $590.5 million to come forward. The ticket was purchased at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills in the days before Saturday's winning numbers were called, ABC News reported. Monday was the earliest the ticket holder was able to come forward, as the Florida's lottery headquarters in ...

  • FedEx offers faster same-day service in Miami

    FedEx Corp. said its FedEx Express unit recently launched an upgraded version of its SameDay City service in Miami. The Memphis-based delivery giant has provided same-day delivery in Miami and 27 other U.S. cities since 2008, but now provides pickup and delivery in as short as three hours in the Miami area, the company said.Miami is among nine U.S. cities getting the faster service. Others are ...

  • Female officers settle suits against Miami-Dade schools and former police chief

    The Miami-Dade school district has settled two lawsuits by female officers who said the former chief of schools police sexually harassed them for years.An attorney representing Cmdr. Deanna Fox-Williams and Officer Yewande Gibson announced in court Friday that they’d reached a settlement and agreed to dismiss their cases. The women filed suit in January against former police chief Charles ...

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