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  • Kerr suffers wardrobe malfunction

    Supermodel Miranda Kerr suffered a wardrobe malfunction at the Miami Beach while she was shooting an ad campaign. The 30-year-old was shooting a campaign for her KORA Organics make-up line when her top fell down accidentally, exposing her breasts, reports dailystar.co.uk. She laughed off the blunder after covering up her ...

  • Customs seizes elephant meat dead primate in LA

    LOS ANGELES -; U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including elephant meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and ...

  • Fred Grimm On Robaina Miami-Dade voters got it right

    Credit the wisdom of Miami-Dade voters. They saw through Julio Robaina.Two years ago, county mayoral candidate Robaina had twice as much money in his campaign account as rival Carlos Gimenez. Robaina had endorsements from Jeb Bush and from Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart and other powerbrokers in South Florida’s political establishment.And Robaina had a ready retort for his critics. When ...

  • Florida homeowners to receive $19.25 million in “unprecedented’’ settlement

    Wells Fargo Bank and insurer QBE have agreed to pay an estimated $19.25 million to more than 24,000 Florida homeowners under a proposed settlement that plaintiff attorneys call “unprecedented.”Without admitting wrongdoing, the firms would settle claims they inflated premiums — often to five or six times above normal rates — for “force-placed” insurance. ...

  • Parents Woman tricked into abortion struggling

    TAMPA, Fla. -- The parents of a Tampa woman who says she was tricked by her boyfriend into taking a pill that led to a miscarriage spoke out Monday, saying no woman should ever have to endure such a "horrific act."James and Rosa Lee told a news conference their 26-year-old daughter Remee is struggling after losing her 6-week-old embryo, but is holding up. Remee Lee is not speaking to ...

Movie Review

Some Like It Hot [DVD]

Some Like It Hot [DVD]

In the annals of film comedy, there are a select few films that truly stand out as having withstood the test of time--that are just as funny now, if not funnier, than they were when first released--and Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot is right at the top. Named ... ...

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  • Police to crack down on seatbelt use violations

    Law enforcement officials around the state kicked off their annual ';Click It or Ticket'; campaign Monday as part of a nationwide effort to boost seatbelt ...

  • Surveillance Video Shows Restaurant Burglary

    Two boys, a 16-year-old and 17-year-old, are charged with burglary and grand theft of a home in Lighthouse Point, according to Police Chief Ross ...

  • Broward women brought 143 Haitian workers to US for fake jobs feds say

    Haiti with false promises of steady paying jobs in construction or on farms, the hope of getting permanent residency and making a life in the U.S., they said.But when they arrived, they found the jobs didn't exist, and they were left to fend for themselves — the victims of a fraud perpetrated by two Broward women, prosecutors said.The plot was so audacious that one of the women, Jetta ...

  • Losing North Miami Candidates Recount Votes

    NORTH MIAMI (CBS4) – In a return to primitive election tabulation, North Miami candidates painstakingly hand counted almost 7,000 ballots Monday. Doctor Joseph Smith, who came in third place for the mayoral vote, paid almost $500 fee to see every vote. When CBS4's David Sutta commented to Smith about reverting to this old school way of counting votes, he responded, "Correct. ...

  • Judge tosses ex-BP executives obstruction charge

    NEW ORLEANS -; A federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in ...

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