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Florida Science Student Has Charges Dropped And Gets Surprise Gift Instead
. Remember the young lady, Kiera Wilmot, who had been the center of a controversy when she lit off a small chemical explosion at her school? The Florida student still has not learned her fate as far as her high school goes, though she ...
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Miami-Dade Police Investigating Double Homicide
Police said that two men were found dead inside a house at 10203 NW 12th Ave. after police received an anonymous call about a check on the welfare of the individuals inside the ...
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Camera Captures Miami Beach Police Saving Suicidal Man
MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) – Miami Beach Police officers are being credited with saving a suicidal man from jumping off a roof of a South Beach parking garage. The 50-minute ordeal happened Tuesday at the garage on 16th Street and Collins Ave., according to the police ...
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FBI seizes cellphones from lawyer Tampa cop in DUI scandal
TAMPA -- Grisham-like allegations that lawyers set up an opposing attorney for a DUI arrest mid trial heated up Thursday when federal agents seized the cellphones of a lawyer and a Tampa police sergeant. The scorching trial of shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem versus his radio nemesis earlier this year took a back seat to the question that's been the buzz of the legal community ever ...
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Around the region for May 24 2013
Woman ejected from 1 car, hit by anotherA Gainesville woman was in critical condition Thursday after she was ejected from a car earlier in the day on Interstate 75 in Columbia County, according to a report.Oqueria Eloise Crumedy, 26, was a passenger in a 1997 Toyota Camry being driven north by Marion Jovan Mayes at around 10:32 a.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol.Mayes was in the ...
Movie Review
Collateral Damage
Originally pulled from the fall 2001 release schedule in the wake of the events of September 11, when Hollywood had an unsurprisingly temporary and fleeting crisis of conscience regarding the depiction of violence in the movies, particularly terrorist-related violence, Andrew Davis' Collateral Damage has now been released, probably with the hopes that it will serve some form of mass cathar ... ...
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Reichert House life changing new grads say
Tracy Williams, 18, high fives fellow graduate Cory Smith, 12, at the Reichert House Youth Academy's Baccalaureate Ceremony at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church on Thursday in Gainesville. The keynote address was delivered by Jacob Atem, one of the original ';Lost Boys of ...
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Memorial Weekend Miami Classic 2013
Memorial Weekend , or as some still call it Urban Beach weekend. Parties, tourists, hip hop and strip clubs are always the defining factors of many good times and ...
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Zagunis HR in 9th leads Hokies past Seminoles
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Mark Zagunis homered with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Virginia Tech a 3-2 victory over Florida State in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament ...
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Orlando Fringe Festival Patrons Picks
Fringe Festival each year designates Patrons Picks shows - the production in each festival venue that sells the most tickets. Those productions then present one additional show at the end of the festival. The Fringe begins to announce the Patrons Picks as soon as it becomes mathematically impossible for other shows to top the front-runner. So far, five have been selected. Tickets are available ...
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Locally reaction to scouting decision is mixed
What some object to is that the Boy Scouts still will not allow openly gay people to be scout leaders.Gainesville's Ian Williamson, 24, who is openly gay, had been involved with the Boy Scouts for 12 years. Williamson said he is frustrated that Boy Scouts will not allow gay leaders."I'm a little bit disappointed that they're only voting on the part to allow gay youth and they ...