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  • Teacher-training programs’ success under scrutiny

    Teacher-training programs’ success under scrutiny Florida and several other states are creating accountability systems so education schools will develop quantitative ways to measure their programs’ ...

  • Teen arrested after cops say she bit mans penis

    BRADENTON, Fla. -- A 19-year-old high school student has been arrested after authorities say she bit her boyfriend's penis when he refused to have sex with her.Manatee Sheriff's Office said Krystle Harrison made several advances toward her boyfriend of three years and he rebuffed her. According to an arrest report, she grabbed him and bit his genitals.He left the house, but the arrest ...

  • Powerball Winner May 18 Bought Ticket In Florida Supermarket

    May 19, 2013 1:39 pm A Powerball winning ticket has been sold in Florida, meaning that one lucky person has claimed the biggest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million on May 18, 2013, lottery officials said ...

  • Same-Sex High School Relationship Leads To Expulsion Arrest Of Florida Teen

    @MSN High school is a time for humans to make lots of mistakes. It’s when we find out who we are. It’s when we develop our personalities, our attitudes, and we do it all by making lots, and lots, and lots of mistakes. There is study after study that shows that the biology of the teenage brain is such that it takes longer to calculate risks associated with their decisions and ...

  • Small Fla. city wonders who won $590.5 million Powerball jackpot

    View Photo Associated Press/Ben Margot - A woman prepares to choose her numbers on a lottery ticket Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Chinatown district in Oakland, Calif. A record Powerball jackpot has climbed to $600 ...

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Summer of Sam [DVD]

Summer of Sam [DVD]

"Summer of Sam" finally lost me about two-thirds of the way through. As everyone probably knows, the "Sam" of the title refers to "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, the serial killer who terrorized New York for more than a year in the late 1970s, stalking people and shooting them with a .44-caliber handgun because, as he claimed at the time, his neighbor's dog told him to. ...

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  • Miamis Stadium Issues Cloud Its Bid to Host Super Bowl

    Perhaps the most telling handicapping of the contest to host the 50th Super Bowl came in a grammatical Freudian slip from one of the bidders less than two weeks ago. When Rodney Barreto, the South Florida businessman who is leading that ...

  • One Ticket Hits Powerball Florida Lottery Rolls Over

    TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami) - Florida has a new multi-millionaire. Someone who bought a ticket in Zephyrhills, outside of Tampa, won the Powerball jackpot of $590 million. The winning numbers drawn Saturday night were 10-13-14-22-52; the Powerball number was ...

  • Video Winning $590-million lottery ticket sold in Florida

    It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket sold in a Florida grocery store has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said ...

  • Palmetto couples beloved barbecue sauce becomes a business

    Palmetto couple Jan and Elmer Hiker were accustomed to getting compliments on their homemade barbecue sauce. A year ago, on the advice of friends, they began bottling and selling their ...

  • NASA seeking launch pad proposals

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- NASA is offering companies some prime real estate at the Kennedy Space Center. The space agency is going to seek proposals for commercial use of Launch Pad 39A, which is the pad that sent astronauts to the moon aboard Apollo and the space station via space shuttles. NASA wants companies, such as United Launch Alliance and SpaceX, to use the historic pad. The agency ...

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