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  • FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects

    MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...

  • Man found hanging at St. Petersburg theatre

    A workman who disappeared from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre in December was found hanging in the theatre's attic, investigators said. The body of the 22-year-old man was found hanging from a rope. Investigators believe he hanged himself. The legendary Mariinsky Theatre opened a new $700-million stage earlier this month in a gala ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin. --IANS/RIA ...

  • Man charged with murder in Florida after he was overheard discussing killing when cellphone pocket-dialed 911

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed 911.The Broward Sheriff's Office says 24-year-old Scott Simon is charged with first-degree murder in the May 5 shooting of 33-year-old Nicholas Walker. Walker was shot while driving his car onto an Interstate 95 ...

  • FHP trooper hits gator crossing road near Naples

    NAPLES, Fla. -- A Florida Highway Patrol trooper driving in North Naples hit an alligator that was crossing a road.The incident happened about 3 a.m. Thursday on Immokalee Road.The Naples Daily News ( http://bit.ly/11d7cWg) reports Trooper Roberto Morales couldn't avoid hitting the gator, which ran off. Morales wasn't injured, but his vehicle was damaged.Morales says the gator was ...

  • Coast Guard repatriates 7 Cuban migrants

    MIAMI -- The U.S. Coast Guard has returned seven Cuban migrants found off the Florida Keys back to their Caribbean homeland.The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter William Flores repatriated the migrants on Wednesday to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba. The group was found on Saturday after a good Samaritan reported a rustic boat was taking on water east of Card Sound.The Coast Guard says crew members ...

Movie Review

There's Something About Mary

There are two possible responses to the Farrelly Brothers' new movie, "There's Something About Mary": either you will think it childish, stupid, juvenile, and sick, and walk out of the theater in the first half hour; or you will think it childish, stupid, juvenile, and sick, and walk out of the theater after the movie is over with tears in your eyes from laughing so hard. Since 1994's "Dumb and Du ... ...

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