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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. ...

  • Gov. Rick Scott signs elections bill to fix long voter lines

    TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott has finished the fix of the flawed election law that relegated Florida to a late-night joke in 2012 by signing an elections clean-up bill passed on the final day of the legislative session.The measure, signed by Scott late Monday before he left for a trade mission to Chile, reverses several provisions implemented in 2011 by GOP lawmakers in anticipation of the ...

  • Man gets 10 years for fatal street fight

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Jacksonville man who said he was defending himself when he fatally shot another man during a street fight has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.A Duval County judge sentenced 20-year-old Quintavis Sermond Seay on Monday for manslaughter. The Florida Times-Union ( http://goo.gl/2SJ0H) reports that under a plea agreement, the judge could have given Seay anywhere from ...

  • Area agencies standing by to assist tornado victims

    As the level of devastation becomes clearer following this week’s deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma, area charities and service agencies are waiting to see how they can help -- and how much help will be ...

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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  • Walls to new GPD building start going up

    In March of next year, the new building will open, ready for officers to return. But until then, construction continues at 721 NW Sixth St., where the original worn-down headquarters once stood.On Tuesday, workers in hardhats hammered away, installing support beams and starting on the exterior walls. A poured concrete slab serves as the site's current foundation."It's ...

  • Early Easter leaves Orlando hotels with April hangover

    After four months of year-over-year growth, business dipped in April at Orlando-area hotels, likely because of an early Easter this year and the absence of a couple of big conventions in town.Hotels in the Orlando market filled 72.6 percent of their rooms last month, compared with 75.6 percent in April 2012, and the average daily room price slipped 1 percent to $105.66, according to the latest ...

  • Central Florida tornado victims express sympathy for Oklahoma twister survivors

    Central Florida residents have been glued to the TV coverage of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Okla., but Becky Nolan can't watch the images of debris and tear-stricken faces. It's too painful for Nolan, whose husband and a son were killed in string of deadly tornadoes that roared ...

  • Deerfield Beach Man Hit Girl With iPad Cord Authorities

    A Miami Beach father, 49-year-old Adolfo Guzman, is facing an aggravated child abuse charge after he tied his 12-year-old son to a pole and left him for hours while he went shopping, police said. The boy said that he didn't tell his father he was at a friend's house Sunday, and said his father is innocent. His sister and Miami Beach Police spokesman Sgt. Bobby Hernandez also spoke ...

  • West Delray man shoots through door at suspected intruders

    Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office detectives and deputies stand outside a house on the 5000 block of Palm Ridge Boulevard after a man shot through his back door after thinking three men were trying to break in around 2 p.m. on ...

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