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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 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 ...

  • Small Florida town wonders who among them won $590.5 million Powerball jackpot

    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?" ...

  • 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 ...

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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  • 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 ...

  • Budget cuts are affecting convention business in Central Florida

    Orange County Convention Center that - although not among Orlando's biggest shows - still would have brought a $13 million economic boost to the Orlando area. But thanks to cutbacks in government travel, officials at the General Services Administration scrapped the training forum, scheduled for this past week, and instead told its government and industry partners to save money by doing ...

  • ERBA Diagnostics Rooted in Mumbai growing in Miami

    Business : ERBA and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and sell diagnostic test kits, automated medical testing equipment and a range of reagents and other chemical products used in medical research and commercial laboratories, hospitals and doctors’ offices. ERBA products are employed in tests and analyses related to autoimmune and infectious diseases, diabetes and blood ...

  • Surrendered dogs up for adoption in Sumter County

    The Humane Society/SPCA of Sumter County shared this picture of an adoptable dog in a post on their Facebook page. (IMAGE/HSSPCA of Sumter ...

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