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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. woman charged with Haitian visa fraud

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A South Florida woman has been charged with visa fraud after authorities say she falsely promised 143 Haitians and told the federal government there were jobs waiting for them in the U.S.Prosecutors say 59-year-old Jetta McPhee of Tamarac prepared a fake contract claiming a U.S. company needed construction workers under the H-2B guest worker visa program. The workers ...

  • Long-term care Medicaid patients start enrolling

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Phone counselors are now available to help long-term care Medicaid recipients choose their health plans.State health officials say the call centers went live Monday. Long-term care Medicaid recipients can call the hotline and ask questions about what doctors and medications are covered in different plans.The counselor can also enroll them in a plan. Recipients have until ...

  • Do the Indiana Pacers have what it takes to beat the Miami Heat

    San Antonio's blowout Game One win on Sunday , the Eastern Conference Finals will start Wednesday night with the Pacers acting as huge underdogs compared to the Heat.Wait, hold up, this series isn't starting until Wednesday? This seems a tad unnecessary. Are the Eastern Conference Finals being scheduled by the same people who determine how long the hiatus in between "Breaking ...

  • Florida City Wonders Who Won Powerball

    Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million--the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn't Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his car after shopping at the Publix. He shook his head when asked about the jackpot. "It's crazy, isn't it?" he ...

Movie Review

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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  • Woman Bit Boyfriends Penis After He Refused Sex Authorities

    According to the affidavit, Harrison and her boyfriend, who have been together for three years and have an infant together, were in bed when Harrison wanted to have sex and started touching her mate, who ...

  • Orlando gas prices remaining stable before Memorial Day weekend

    Gas prices remained relatively stable in Orlando last week. Gas prices throughout the Southeast remained relatively stable, with averages for a gallon of regular gasoline in Orlando and statewide falling 1 cent, AAA reports. Local pump prices average $3.39 per gallon while the average price for a gallon of gas in Florida is $3.46. However, nationwide, the average price for a gallon of gasoline ...

  • Alabama mans class ring found decades later

    FLORENCE, Ala. -- Rick Shayne Fossett loved wearing his wife's class ring."When Rick and I started dating, he always wore my class ring," his widow, Lola Fossett, said. "He'd say, 'I had a class ring in high school and I loved it, but I lost it.' So I said 'you can have mine,' and he wore it on his pinky. He always kept it on, all the way until he ...

  • Deputies Bartender 3 patrons sliced by angry man

    INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. -- A 50-year-old man is accused of attacking four people with a fillet knife in an Indian Rocks Beach bar.The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/YUnQ0o) reports James Klingbeil was at the Red Lion Pub at closing time Sunday when the bartender refused to sell him alcohol because he was intoxicated.Pinellas County deputies say Klingbeil walked to a nearby store, bought a ...

  • 1 dead another hurt in Brevard crash

    BREVARD COUNTY -- One person was killed and another seriously injured in a single car crash in Brevard County Sunday night. The crash happened around 9:30 pm. on Babcock Street near the intersection of Buffer Preserve Drive in Palm Bay. The Florida Highway Patrol said a car driven by 56-year-old Michael Hill of Palm Bay was traveling north on Babcock Street and got distracted by his ...

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