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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 ...

  • 18-Foot 8-Inch Python Caught in South Florida

    MIAMI | The longest Burmese python ever caught in the state -- 18 feet, 8 inches long and 128 pounds -- was found alongside a rural South Florida road, wildlife officials said ...

  • Florida Youth Library Programs Are Ready for Summer

    Youth librarians throughout the county are preparing for the annual Florida Youth Library Program Summer Reading promotion "Dig into Reading" for kids and "Beneath the Surface" for teens. The idea is to keep young people reading and learning through the summer break. This is a "home-grown" program; librarians around the state contribute ideas for the programs, ...

  • MacDill Medical Ops Member Killed in Crash on I-75

    Staff Sgt. Cheryl Westbrook was driving in the center lane on Interstate 75 near Riverview on Saturday when another car tried to change lanes and the two collided. Florida Highway Patrol officials said she lost control of the vehicle, hit a Florida Department of Transportation sign and flipped over. Westbook, 35, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver in the other car, Candelaria M. Perez, ...

  • South Florida Woman Charged With Visa Fraud

    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 ...

Movie Review

Head-On (Gegen die Wand)

Head-On (Gegen die Wand)

Fatih Akins blistering Head-On (Gegen die Wand) isnt your typical love story. It has plenty of passion and even a warped sense of the romantic divine, but Akins main goal seems to be turning the pretensions of movie-style love on their head. The film has the same basic concept as Pet ... ...

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  • Price of Admission At Universal Orlando Increases by $3

    The price of admission keeps rising at Universal Orlando. Both Universal theme parks — Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure — announced a $3 increase for a single-day ticket to $92, plus tax. This move makes Universal tickets more expensive than its rival Walt Disney World, which hasn't announced a price increase. Universal Studios has seen a ...

  • Lesbian 18 faces 15 years in prison for sex with classmate 14

    Nearly 80,000 supporters since Friday have signed an Internet petition demanding felony sex charges be dropped against an 18-year-old lesbian who dated a 14-year-old high-school basketball teammate.Kaitlyn Hunt of Indian River County is charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 to 16 years old. If convicted, she would be given a sentence ranging from probation ...

  • Gov. Scott vetoes 3 tuition hike $368M in projects

    Rick Scott vetoed $368 million in lawmaker pet projects Monday and blocked a 3 percent tuition hike for Florida colleges and universities.The tuition increase passed earlier this month was a small piece of the overall $74.1 billion budget, which includes restoring $300 million in cuts to universities from last year, $50 million in incentive awards for faculty and another $85 million in campus ...

  • 19-foot python killed Florida man captures kills record-setting Burmese python

    A Florida man with experience handling snakes captured and killed a 128-pound Burmese python he discovered on the side of the road in Miami-Dade County, ...

  • FHP identifies cyclist who died in crash as Miami man

    Authorities have identified the man who died Sunday afternoon after he lost control of his motorbike.Florida Highways Patrol said Gardy Louissaint, 31, of Miami was driving an Honda 1000 on Ives Dairy Road east of Northeast 10th Avenue at 1.50 PM when he attempted to change lanes to overtake another vehicle and lost control.He slammed into a utility pole and was pronounced dead at the scene, ...

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