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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

Movie Review

Men in Black [Blu-Ray]

Men in Black [Blu-Ray]

Barry Sonnenfelds Men in Black has a lot in common with Ghostbusters (1984), even if Sonnenfeld likes to think of it as a sequel to The French Connection, except with aliens instead of drug dealers. Both films were substantial summer hits that derive the biggest laug ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 1 killed in shooting at Daytona Beach motel

    DAYTONA BEACH -- Daytona Beach police are investigating a deadly shooting at a motel early Sunday morning Investigators said a witness heard a gunshot and called police to the Sunshine Inn at 1234 S. Ridgewood Avenues. Sammie Savage, 41, was found dead with a gunshot wound in a room. The witness that called 911 told police he saw a man running from the scene. Police said no other ...

  • 2 killed after car hits tree in Poinciana

    Florida Highway Patrol troopers at the scene of a vehicle accident involving a tree - Sunday, May 19, 2013. (PHOTO/Joey Williams, ...

  • Lifeguards kept busy during Cocoa Beach super boat races

    COCOA BEACH -- Tens of thousands of people packed Cocoa Beach for the 4th Annual Space Coast Super Boat Grand Prix this weekend. More people meant more rescues for lifeguards, including near-drownings. An estimated 60,000 people lined the beach for the boat races. "That's a lot of people, a lot of parking, lot of hotdogs, so a lot of good business for the local ...

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