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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 ...

  • Cargo ship worker rescued after injury at Fla port

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A worker on a cargo ship docked in South Florida is recovering from injuries after officials say he was struck by a cargo container.Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue officials said the 52-year-old man was working on the upper deck of a ship at Port Everglades when he injured his leg in Sunday's accident. Officials had to stabilize him on the upper deck before carefully ...

  • 2 bodies found in Chassahowitzka Forest in Fla.

    BROOKSVILLE, Fla. -- Authorities are investigating after two people were found dead in the woods in southwest Florida.Hernando County Sheriff's detectives combed for evidence Sunday in a heavily wooded area of the Chassahowitzka Forest where the bodies were discovered.The victims were not identified and authorities did not say how they died. Deputies said preliminary evidence shows the ...

  • Floridas identity-theft rate dwarfs others

    Network World - Sure, the headline gives away the answer, but if you had been asked to guess which state has the highest rate of reported identity theft you'd likely have chosen Florida: A large population of vulnerable retirees and a generally high crime rate all but guarantee the distinction. What might surprise you, however, is the magnitude of Florida's "lead" over the ...

  • The hunt is on in small Florida town for winner of $590 million Powerball jackpot

    From breakfast tables to churches to the touchlines of sports pitches, one question dominated conversation in Zephyrhills, Florida: who among them had won the lottery?The single winning ticket for Saturday's record-breaking $590.5 million U.S. Powerball draw was bought at a Publix supermarket in the 13,000-resident suburb of Tampa, lottery officials confirmed.They declined to identify the ...

Movie Review

American Pie 2

Alas, no pastries are violated in any way in American Pie 2, but the movie does feature its own share of new sexual misadventures and embarrassing situations in which to entrap its now-college-age protagonists. ...

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  • Florida ticket wins $590.5m jackpot in multi-state lottery

    A SINGLE winning ticket for a record US Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million (R5.3 billion) was sold in Florida, organisers said on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was ...

  • Tampa Bay Gets 1st Look at New Players as OTAs Begin

    TAMPA | When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers start offseason training activities (OTAs) this week, there will be a lot of new faces on defense. That is expected when a team goes 7-9 and has the worst passing defense in the ...

  • Glitch in widely used polygraph can skew results

     Several police departments across the country said they were not disturbed by the news of the LX4000 polygraph because they had not noticed inaccurate measurements. In South Florida, the use of the LX4000 is ...

  • U.S. suburban poverty growing but trend mixed in Miami-Dade Broward

    Across the country, the poverty rate is surging in the suburbs, where the number of poor people is growing much faster than in central cities — a largely unrecognized reversal that calls for a retooling of federal anti-poverty, economic development and transit funding, the Brookings Institution has found. In a book released Monday, researchers at the non-partisan think tank’s ...

  • Police find missing 10-month-old girl from Miami Gardens

    A Miami Gardens police officer was on patrol when police said he was approached by a citizen who gave the officer information that Arianna Willis and her 42-year-old father, Dexter Jones, were both seen in an establishment at Northwest 199th Street and Northwest 2nd ...

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