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Police find bodies of 2 people 2 pets in Miami Beach apartment fire

The two-story apartment, at 605 Euclid Ave., was evacuated early Thursday. American Red Cross workers were on the scene and helped residents get ...
Sumter deputies looking for truck stop robbery suspect

Investigators said 44-year-old Christopher Edwards robbed the T-A Travel Center on State Road 44 in Wildwood Monday evening. Anyone with information on his whereaboust is asked to call the Sumter County Sheriff's Office at 352-569-1600. (PHOTO/ Sumter County Sheriff's ...
Transformers The Ride grand opening today at Universal Orlando

Universal Orlando's "Transformers: The Ride 3-D." Transformers the Ride 3D is in the middle of Universal Studios, overlooking the lagoon behind the Shrek 4-D theater and Universal Studios Florida's central lake. The building was formally home to the Hercules and Xena show was leveled for Transformers. Crews began working 24 hours-a-day last June. As you can imagine, ...
PolitiFact Sequestration and the funding of the National Guard

There's just no getting around the fact that we're into hurricane season, as evidenced by two named storms so far. Recently, Florida Senator Bill Nelson responded to Governor Rick Scott's concerns about sequestration and funding of the National Guard during or following any disaster that might hit the state. Scott expressed concern that sequestration cuts might impact essential ...
Cocoa Beach seeking to ban casinos

Some Cocoa Beach city commissioners say gambling establishments create problems and want to be proactive in case the state legislature decides to expand gambling in the state next ...

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Howling III: The Marsupials [DVD]

Philippe Mora's Howling III: The Marsupials is a silly, semi-spoof of werewolf movies that has nothing to do with the first two entries in The Howling series aside from the title (not that The Howling and Howling II had much to do with each other, either). Set in Australia, it imagines a clan of marsupial werewolves living isolated and in relative peace in the far reac ... ...

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Weather forecast Hot and humid with scattered afternoon storms

ORLANDO -- As a front sits to our north, abundant moisture pools across Central Florida. Sea breeze collisions will produce scattered showers and storms. By this weekend, an easterly wave moves across the state, changing the movement of storms. Today, partly sunny skies and scattered afternoon convection are expected. Showers and storms will move to the northeast, with some strong storms ...
Brevard Community College becoming Eastern Florida State

Brevard Community College is now Eastern Florida State College. Expect see new commercials, and a new website, for the school on July ...
Weather Forecast Mainly Dry With Highs Around 89 Thursday

Showers and storms will move inland Thursday, leaving us mainly dry with highs around 89. It'll be partly cloudy Thursday night with temps around ...
Report Apartments rent for more than homes in Metro Orlando

Baldwin Park section than in any other part of the four-county metropolitan area, a new report shows. The median rent last month in Baldwin Park was $2,169 for all the types of rental housing there - houses, apartments, condominiums and town homes. "Orlando is coming back as a jobs magnet, and some areas are increasing faster than others," said Robert E. Smith, president of Smith ...
Fla. homeowner fatally shoots invader

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police say a Jacksonville man fatally shot a man who tried to break into his home.Authorities responding to the home around 11:20 p.m. Wednesday found the wounded suspect. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.The Florida Times-Union ( http://bit.ly/11PA88x) reports the other suspects fled the scene. St. T.K. Waters of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Florida man stripped naked, beaten and robbed at gunpoint during first date

A man in Florida has reported to the police that he was beaten, robbed, stripped naked and abandoned on the side of a road during a first date in Bunnell.

Shaun Williams was spotted by the police on a state road in Bunnell, covered in blood, and was taken to a local hospital, the New York Daily News reported.

According to FlaglerLive, Williams met a woman in a Daytona Beach convenience store about two weeks ago.

After some conversation, they exchanged phone numbers and decided to meet for their first date on Friday.

The woman agreed to pick Williams up from the convenience store where they first met, the report said.

The woman, whose real name has not been released, showed up in a dark blue sedan along with two other men, one she called her brother, and the other her brother's friend.

She told him that she needed to drop them before going on their date.

The girl drove for several minutes before the brother told her to turn into a side street, as he wanted to meet someone.

When Williams came out to take a bathroom break, a hard metal object hit him and he fell on the ground.

The attackers then allegedly pointed a gun and demanded for money and clothes.

The men forced him to hand over his prepaid cell phone, his Florida driver's license, 200 dollars in cash and all of the clothes he picked out for his first date, FlaglerLive stated. ...