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  • After 12 Miranda Kerr feels good in husbands clothes

    Supermodel Miranda Kerr likes to wear her husband Orlando Bloom's clothes because it makes her feel closer to him. The 30-year-old steals items from her husband's wardrobe also because she likes his relaxed rock 'n' roll style. "Sometimes I wear my husband's jacket or T-shirt. It feels good because it's his and it's fun to mix it up," contactmusic.com quoted Kerr as saying. Kerr, who is known ...

  • Miranda Kerr flashes bare boobs on Miami Beach

    Miranda Kerr bared her boobs while shooting an ad for her new make-up range 'Kora Organics' on Miami Beach, Florida. The Victoria's Secrets beauty, 30, was spotted giggling as she struck a pose, the Sun reported. However, an assistant covered the Aussie star, who is married to actor Orlando Bloom. ...

  • Record breaking 18 ft python captured in Florida

    Jason Leon (L), caught the 18-foot, 8-inch Burmese python in southeast Miami-Dade County; University of Florida scientists lie down next to the record snake. ORLANDO, Fla., -- An 18-foot, 8-inch Burmese python set a record for the longest snake ever captured in South Florida, where the exotic species has taken up residence.College student Jason Leon snared the female python in a rural area ...

  • ‘Zombie’ attack victim may spend rest of life in Miami-Dade nursing home

    Ronald Poppo listens to Heat games through a portable radio, but he’ll never watch TV again. He’s relearning how to play guitar, but he has lost interest in reconnecting with his family. Poppo’s doctors offer to give him prosthetic eyes and rebuild his chewed-off nose, but he turns them down. “He’s blind, so he can’t see what he looks like now, and it ...

  • 5 things to know in Florida for May 22

    Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.FACE-CHEWING VICTIM CONTINUES RECOVERY IN MIAMIA homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year appeared Tuesday to be mostly at peace with his disfigurement, strumming a guitar, making jokes and thanking people for their donations to help pay for his care. Ronald Poppo ...

Movie Review

Frailty

Frailty is a thriller about the horrors involved in following the dire commandments of a vengeful god. Told in flashback through the mouth of an unreliable narrator, it spins a dark tale about a loving, widower father who believes that God is speaking to him in visions and commanding him and his two young sons to destroy demons who look like normal people. The crux of the story, then, is t ... ...

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  • Undocumented immigrant spared deportation allowed to remain for one year

    Rene Rivas was about to be deported in the dark of night, at 4 a.m.But that was last week.Seven days later, on Monday, the undocumented immigrant was released from an immigration lock-up and allowed to work legally and live openly with his wife and children in Miami for a year. The roller-coaster story of this 41-year-old construction worker from Durango, Mexico, is anything but common as ...

  • Miami-Dade non-profit offers free hearing screenings this week

    Audiologist Maria Ortiz gets ready to test 10-year-old Vincent Feola's hearing during the Hearing and Speech Center of Florida's open house Tuesday. The free hearings continue this week. (Vincent's hearing turned out just ...

  • Floridas longest serving death row inmate dies

    RAIFORD, Fla. -- A man who has been on death row longer than any other inmate in Florida has died in prison.The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/16L6tVt) reports that Gary Alvord died Sunday at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford.A spokeswoman confirmed the death but could not provide details, including whether Alvord's body was claimed by relatives or whether he will be buried on ...

  • Philbin I Thought The Guys Practiced Fast

    . I think they were three excellent choices and the three of them are well deserving of the award. With that, we can open up for questions." (On ...

  • Miami-Dade commissioners vote to overhaul sewer system

    The Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to spend billions of dollars to overhaul the county's sewer system, avoiding more delays and possibly millions in fines, and prompting a raise in monthly water and sewer rates to pay for ...

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