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  • Some Florida Firms Enjoy Incentives

    Located on eight acres in Fort Myers, the Florida office of technology research giant Gartner Inc. is 125,000 square feet of modern corporate campus, with a cafeteria large enough to feed 200 at a time, a gym and second-floor outdoor patio. It houses just over 10 percent of the multinational company's 4,500 staffers. Gartner's technology services and consulting operation grew up in ...

  • MIAMI U. Miami Team Rescues NCIS Agent in Panama

    A team from the University of Miami Hospital is sharing its story after being summoned to Panama to rescue a federal agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative ...

  • Exclusive Wounded Undercover Detective John Saavedra Named Miami-Dade PBA Officer of the year

    DORAL (CBSMiami) – An undercover Miami-Dade Police detective who was shot three times during a shoot-out at asuspected marijuana grow house last July has been named the 2012 Police Officer of the Year by the Miami-Dade PoliceBenevolent Association. CBS4's Peter D'Oench reported exclusively that the announcement came Saturday night at the ...

  • AIDS Walk Orlando raises hope and help for awareness prevention

    AIDS Walk Orlando, the second-largest annual fundraiser for the Hope and Help Center of Central Florida, Inc. Last year, the event raised more than $207,000 for the group. Early Saturday, the event had raised $116,150, but that amount was expected to grow. U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, delivered the event's opening remarks before leading the roughly two-mile walk through ...

  • Mother Facing Aggravated Manslaughter Charge Held Without Bond

    A mother charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child in the death of her 11-month-old son was ordered held without bond Saturday. Miami-Dade Judge Andrew Hague ordered Catalina Marista Bruno, 30, held on no bond in connection with a previous case involving her son. He set her bond at $250,000 for the new case, and set numerous conditions if she posts ...

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The Bank Job

The Bank Job

In September of 1971, an unknown number of thieves tunneled 40 feet beneath a women's dress shop and came through the concrete floor of the vault in a Lloyd's Bank on Baker Street in London. They looted the safety deposit boxes, making off with an estimated $4 million in cash and jewels. Pa ... ...

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  • MLB Arizona 1 Miami 0

    Brandon McCarthy fired his second career shutout Saturday, baffling the Marlins on three hits in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 1-0 decision over Miami. McCarthy (1-3) earned his first win of the season in his ninth start after firing eight shutout frames in his previous outing -- a no-decision against the Phillies. The right-hander allowed two walks and struck out five in the 100-pitch ...

  • Miami student takes Heats Wade to senior prom

    The Heat have cruised so easily through the 2013 playoffs that you can’t blame Dwyane Wade for lining up some events on his social calendar. Wade spent Friday night attending Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School’s senior prom with Nicole Muxo, a fan ...

  • Tampa historian Leland Hawes dies at 83

    TAMPA -- The love affair between Leland Hawes and newspapers began in the 1930s, with an old L.C. Smith typewriter in his father's office in their Thonotosassa home. Mr. Hawes, then a boy of 8 or 9, was fascinated by the typewriter, he told an interviewer later. His father, who worked in the citrus business, had an idea -- the boy could put out a newspaper in their rural community. That ...

  • Olympian DeeDee Trotter asks for justice after awards stolen

    ORLANDO -- Two time gold medalist DeeDee Trotter, whose Altamonte Springs home was robbed this month, is asking for help is getting her memorabilia back. The star ...

  • CDC Study find 58 of pools tainted with E. coli

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did a study of public pools during swim season last year which yielded some stomach-turning ...

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