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  • Dwyane Wade surprises Miami teen at prom

    Dwyane Wade would have been in Chicago for a Heat playoff game Friday night if he hadn’t helped eliminate the Bulls with a big fourth quarter two nights early.So how did Wade fill the opening on his schedule?By attending the senior prom of an Archbishop Coleman Carroll student who had asked Wade multiple times to attend school events with her. Wade surprised Nicole Muxo and her classmates at ...

  • FHP Orlando man struck killed by car in Hernando County

    Spring Hill just before 3:30 a.m. when he was struck by a 2001 Volkswagen Jetta driven by Robbie Leanus Robinson, 25, of New Port Richey. Davila died at the scene. Robinson and a passenger were not ...

  • Winning $600m Powerball lottery ticket sold in Florida

    Florida 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 Sunday.The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told the Associated Press by telephone that more details would be released later."This ...

  • Greg Cote Knicks would have been spicier matchup for Miami Heat

    Miami Heat players have been steadfastly neutral in claiming no preference as they waited for Indiana and New York to figure out which would play the underdog in the NBA’s upcoming Eastern Conference finals. Confident champions do not deign to worry about who’s next; they leave the worrying to opponents. The lion who runs the jungle does not much care if he is feasting on zebra or ...

  • Lightning sparks fire that destroys home in The Villages

    THE VILLAGES -- A house was destroyed after lightning struck the County home and ignited a fire. Marion County Fire Rescue said they responded to a structure fire on SE Northridge Court just after 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Flames were visible through the roof when firefighters arrived. Crews said the initially attacked the fire from the inside. However, it quickly become too dangerous, so ...

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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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  • Record winning Powerball ticket of $590M sold in Zephyrhills

    A woman prepares to choose her numbers on a lottery ticket in California. The winning ticket, worth an estimated $590.5 million, was sold at a Zephyrhills Publix. (AP ...

  • Orlando native heading to Haiti to make a difference

    As senior vice president of convention sales and services at Visit Orlando, Tammi Runzler would seem to have it all. But she's leaving it all behind to head to ...

  • Mother accused of leaving child home alone locked in bedroom

    ORLANDO -- Orlando police arrested a woman for child neglect after they say she left her child locked in a bedroom for hours at a time. Jamesha Williams, 21, was arrested Friday after police received a tip that the child was being left alone and responded to her apartment. According to the arrest report, police could hear a small child yelling from a bedroom in the apartment. Williams ...

  • Record $590.5 million Powerball jackpot won by single Florida ticket

    One ticket has won the largest Powerball jackpot in history -- $590.5 million -- bought at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., a lottery official said. The ticket had the winning numbers of 22, 10, 13, 14, 52 and Powerball number 11, said David Bishop, deputy secretary of Florida Lottery. Saturday's jackpot was the largest in Powerball history, surpassing a $587.6 million jackpot ...

  • Florida supermarket sells winning Powerball ticket

    A Florida supermarket sold the only winning ticket in last night’s estimated $590.5 million Powerball drawing, lottery officials in the Sunshine State announced.The winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22, and 52, and the Powerball was 11.The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., about 29 miles northeast of Tampa, the Florida Lottery announced on ...

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