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  • Miami Beach gets ready for Urban Beach Weekend

    Put 250,000 people ready to party and ignorant of local rules in a 20-block radius and you end up with one mess bigger than a teenage girl's car. Yet, this is the scenario that Miami Beach has to deal with one weekend a year since 2001 during the animated Urban Beach Weekend that takes place ...

  • Defying odds bicycle shops thrive in Orlando

    who help keep sales healthy. "Our area is a great area because it's gotten very bike-friendly," said Jessica Kinnee, co-owner of Retro City Cycles north of downtown Orlando. And, she said, "we can do this 365 days a year." One of the latest stores to open here is Performance Bicycle, a nationwide dealer that expanded into Florida this year. It has four Florida shops so ...

  • Two women accused of attacking robbing cab driver

    police said on Saturday. The women, Kimberly Amber Parker, 29 and Jessica Lee Dennis, 21, are both charged with carjacking, strong-arm robbery and battery. Both were being held at the North Broward Jail ...

  • S Florida town puts unwanted bridge up for sale

    What they got, though, is considered an eyesore. It turns out that the design plans were never reviewed, so the construction firm built a bridge designed for vehicle traffic and not horses or ...

  • 2 Women Arrested for Cab Driver Attack Robbery Police

    A Broward taxi driver was home recovering on Thursday after he says he was attacked by two women in his cab. Joseph Gutierrez de Pineres told NBC 6's Willard Shepard what happened to ...

Movie Review

U-571 [DVD]

U-571 [DVD]

In "U-571," Matthew McConaughey plays Lt. Andrew Tyler, a young, determined Naval officer who is upset that he has not been commissioned as a full captain to lead his own submarine. When he confronts Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren (Bill Paxton), the commanding officer whose lack of recommendation impeded Tyler's ascension, Dahlgren informs him that he is simply not ready yet. In a later scene, Dahlg ... ...

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  • Abortion Pill Case Links Tampa Oklahoma Women

    TAMPA | Five years ago, an Air Force airman grudgingly married his pregnant girlfriend but began lacing her food with ground up abortion pills. She miscarried in her second trimester, after consuming a deviled ...

  • Florida man who claimed self-defense found guilty of killing neighbor in dog dispute

    A 66-year-old Flagler Beach man was convicted Friday of second-degree murder after he shot neighbor Dana Mulhall five times in March 2012 because of his dogs, according to the State Attorney's Office.Paul Miller took issue over the 52-year-old's barking dogs, hid his handgun in his waistband and went outside to confront Mulhall.He shot him, later claiming self-defense, according to ...

  • Cyclists Report Being Shot by BB Guns on Rickenbacker Causeway

    Cyclists on the Rickenbacker Causeway now have a new worry to add to a growing list: BB guns and tacks. NBC 6's Steve Litz spoke with cyclist Nolan Farhy about getting shot by a BB gun during a morning ...

  • Man who killed longest python gets its snakeskin- Florida man finds gold instead of snakes during hunt

    Oct. 27, 2011: the South Florida Water Management District, workers are shown holding a nearly 16-foot long Burmese Python that was captured and killed in Everglades National Park, ...

  • Tampa motorcyclist dies in Bearss Avenue crash

    TAMPA -- A motorcyclist died Friday night after an accident on Bearss Avenue, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Just after 7 p.m., Geoffrey B. Dawson, 25, of Tampa, was driving a 2006 Honda CBR 1000 westbound on Bearss Avenue at a high rate of speed, weaving in and out of traffic, deputies said. At the same time, Catherine Nicholas, 27, of Brandon, was turning left at ...

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