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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 ...

  • Fla. Gov. oks sales tax holiday for August

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida shoppers this August will get to buy computers without having to pay sales taxes.Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed into law a bill reauthorizing the state's popular back-to-school sales tax holiday. This year's sales tax holiday will take place from Aug. 2 to Aug. 4.Shoppers will not have to pay the state's 6 percent sales tax on clothes worth $75 or ...

  • Oil gas prices remain steady as Memorial Day nears

    Drivers in the Southeast will see little change, if any, in pump prices this week. State averages for a gallon of regular retail gasoline moved less than a penny in ...

  • 18-foot python caught near Miami

    A Miami man caught a record-setting 18-foot, 8-inch Burmese python, larger than the one in this photo, in a rural area of southeast Miami-Dade County. (PHOTO: National Park ...

  • Universal Orlando raises tickets to $92 new all-time high

    This video still provided by Universal Orlando Resort shows the outside of Transformers: The Ride 3-D, set to open June 20, 2013. Universal has raised its single-day, single-park ticket price to $92, becoming the first theme park ticket to top the $90 mark. (VIDEO STILL/Universal Orlando ...

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End of Watch

David Ayers End of Watch is a potentially powerful story about the lethal daily grind of patrolling South Central Los Angeles that is wrecked by misguided aesthetics. Ayer, who grew up in South Central and is best known as the screenwriter of The Fast and the Furious (2001) ... ...

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  • Pedestrian hit killed on S. Semoran

    Orlando Police responded to the intersection of S. Semoran Boulevard and Yew Drive just before 11 a.m. after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a ...

  • Missing DeBary teen found safe at bus station

    Martin Medlong was reported missing Saturday by his mother and was last seen Sunday at the Daytona Beach Salvation Army. (PHOTO/Volusia County Sheriff's ...

  • Health Care Charges Show High Prices Across South Florida

    MIAMI (CBSMiami) - As President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act begins to take effect, the costs of health care are finally being revealed to customers. The numbers show wildly different charges for similar procedures across the country and no real explanation of why the prices vary so much. ...

  • Focus on South Florida School for Advanced Studies

    Dr. Omar Monteagudo, SAS Principal (Source: CBS4) South Florida’s School for Advanced Studies is honored by Newsweek magazine as the sixth best in the nation. We take you inside SAS to see what makes it so special and talk with the school’s principal and two of its students. Click on above picture to watch entire ...

  • Focus on South Florida “Independence on the Runway-No Limits”

    Tia Frost, Ms. Florida Plus America 2011 (Source: CBS4) The second annual event presented by the Center for Independent Living Broward supports the 20-year mission of the center: to empower and offer asistance to people with disabilities. We focus on how the unique fashion show changes lives. Click on above picture to watch entire ...

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