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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 ...

  • FedEx offers faster same-day service in Miami

    FedEx Corp. said its FedEx Express unit recently launched an upgraded version of its SameDay City service in Miami. The Memphis-based delivery giant has provided same-day delivery in Miami and 27 other U.S. cities since 2008, but now provides pickup and delivery in as short as three hours in the Miami area, the company said.Miami is among nine U.S. cities getting the faster service. Others are ...

  • Female officers settle suits against Miami-Dade schools and former police chief

    The Miami-Dade school district has settled two lawsuits by female officers who said the former chief of schools police sexually harassed them for years.An attorney representing Cmdr. Deanna Fox-Williams and Officer Yewande Gibson announced in court Friday that they’d reached a settlement and agreed to dismiss their cases. The women filed suit in January against former police chief Charles ...

  • 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 Monday.About 3 feet of the snake was spotted sticking out of some roadside brush May 11 by Jason Leon of Miami and some friends as they drove late at night through a rural area of southeast Miami-Dade County, according to ...

  • Man catches largest python ever found in Florida

    The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission said Jason Leon, of Hialeah, found the 18-foot, 8-inch beast while riding in a rural area in southeast Miami-Dade County on May 11. About 3 feet of the snake was spotted sticking out of some roadside ...

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Some Like It Hot [DVD]

Some Like It Hot [DVD]

In the annals of film comedy, there are a select few films that truly stand out as having withstood the test of time--that are just as funny now, if not funnier, than they were when first released--and Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot is right at the top. Named ... ...

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  • Governor Rick Scott signs Florida budget

    Governor Rick Scott today highlighted the Florida Families First budget that includes $20.3 billion in total funding for K-12 education, an increase of $1.08 billion over last year's ...

  • Josh Freeman Not Bothered by Competition

    Head Coach Greg Schiano repeated on Monday that Josh Freeman is the Bucs' starter, and both he and his quarterback dismissed the notion that Mike Glennon's arrival has Freeman looking over his ...

  • Teen Run Over By Broward County Bus In Stable Condition

    A 14-year-old boy who jumped onto the outside of a Broward County bus was hospitalized after he was run over by the bus in Pompano Beach Friday morning, officials said. Bus rider Brian Clark and Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Dani Moschella spoke about the ...

  • Monster python killed in South Florida

    Miami-Dade County , after it wrapped itself around the leg of the man trying to capture it. The monster python was 18 feet, eight inches long, beating the previous record for Florida by more than a foot, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Jason Leon, an experienced snake handler ...

  • Burglar trashes home grabs a beer during chase police say

    Stopping to steal beer while running away from cops may sound silly, but this is South Florida. The illegal beer run occurred early Sunday morning after a burglary suspect was allegedly caught in the middle of looting ...

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