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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. ...

  • Gay Fla. teen charged for underage girlfriend

    In this photo made available by the Hunt family, Kaitlyn Hunt and her father Steve in Vero Beach, Fla., Monday May 20, 2013. Kaitlyn, 18, was expelled from school for dating and having sex with her 14-year-old girlfriend, who was a fellow player on her basketball team. Hunt was arrested and charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 to 16 years. (AP Photo/Hunt ...

  • Gatorland takes animals from closed attraction

    ORLANDO, Fla. -- Gatorland is preparing to welcome more than 70 animals that the central Florida zoo purchased from a recently closed attraction in southwest Florida.Gatorland officials say alligators, crocodiles, snakes, turtles, deer and bobcats are arriving from Everglades Wonder Gardens in Bonita Springs, which closed in April after 77 years.Gatorland officials are particularly excited ...

  • Miami Shut Out Of Super Bowls 50 And 51

    Despite a spectacular bid package that encompassed everything the NFL is looking for in a Super Bowl, the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County lost out on Super Bowls 50 and 51 today in Boston. All 32 owners met for one day at the Hyatt Harborside directly across Boston Harbor from downtown Boston to hear final presentations from Miami, San Francisco and Houston. They rewarded the iconic 50th ...

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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  • Huge Python Killed in Florida

    Florida wildlife officials confirmed an 18-foot, 8-inch Burmese python killed in Miami-Dade County set a new state record. Kristen Sommers, exotic species coordination section leader for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, confirmed the snake killed May 11 by Jason Leon in a rural area of the county beat the previous record python in the state, 17 feet, 7 inches. ...

  • Miami Fed Chief Juan del Busto Joins Ocean Bank Board of Directors

    Juan del Busto, the former regional executive of The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Miami branch and current chairman of Del Busto Capital Partners, Inc., has joined the Ocean Bank Board of Directors. Juan del Busto Ocean Bank Board of Directors "Ocean Bank is an excellent choice for me, not only is it a great financial institution, the bank is also very community minded in areas ...

  • Miami Zombie victim Cannibal attack survivor Ronald Poppo in 2013

    Although the 66-year-old man lost both of his eyes and part of his face during the gruesome attack, he's "living happy and adjusting to his new life," according to doctors at Jackson Memorial Medical Center. "He's had a long year, but has managed to cope quite well," said plastic surgeon Dr. Woody Kassira adding that Poppo has been "a pleasure to work ...

  • St. Petersburg on List of World’s Best Travel Spots

    WASHINGTON, May 21 (RIA Novosti) – Nestled on the Baltic Sea and often described as one of the most Western cities in Russia, St. Petersburg has a new place of honor as one of the top travel destinations in the world, according to the 2013 Travelers’ Choice Destinations awards released Tuesday by the popular online travel website TripAdvisor. "St. Petersburg is a fantastic ...

  • Florida man admits guilt in fatal stabbing of Chicago Bears fan

    A Jacksonville man who stabbed a Chicago fan at the Landing last year before a Bears/Jaguars football game pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder. Matthew Reid Hinson, 28, will be sentenced by Circuit Judge Suzanne Bass at a later date and could get life in prison. Hinson slashed William "Chris" Pettry's neck with a pocket knife at Fionn MacCool's, an Irish-themed ...

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