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  • 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. ...

  • 2 Fantasy 5 players share $95813.71 top prize

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Two winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $95,813.71 each, the Florida Lottery said Tuesday.The winning tickets were bought in Fort Myers and Winter Park, lottery officials reported.The 256 tickets matching four numbers won $120.50 each. Another 8,625 tickets matching three numbers won $10 each, and 83,718 tickets won a Quick Pick ticket for picking two ...

  • Lawyer challenges impolitely blowing horn ticket

    DELAND, Fla. -- A central Florida attorney wants a DeLand police officer to show up in court to explain why he skipped a traffic hearing after pulling him over for "impolitely" honking his horn.It started in February when DeLand Detective Christopher Jusick stopped Michael Lambert and gave him a warning for honking his horn at him after the traffic light turned green. Lambert, a ...

  • Burglary suspect leads Orange deputies on chase crashes into tree

    Orange County deputies say a man wanted in several local robberies and burglaries who has been on the run for weeks is in custody after he crashed the stolen truck he's been driving into a tree. It happened early Tuesday morning on 17th Street between Orange Blossom Trail and Westmoreland Drive. Orange County Deputies said they had been on the lookout for the man and the truck for ...

  • POLITIFACT Health insurance costs coming down

    The arguments both for and against the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare, have been exchanged ever since the legislation was proposed. Supporters of the act say that everybody will benefit from having health insurance, while critics of the act argue that the government should not interfere or mandate decisions that should be made individually by people, and that the costs of the ...

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Blow Out [Blu-Ray]

Blow Out [Blu-Ray]

Brian De Palmas engrossing political thriller Blow Out capped off the auteurs most consistently fertile artistic period, which arguably started with his first full dive into Hitchcockian horror with Sisters (1973). Between those two films, he made the campy rock musical Phantom ... ...

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  • Miami Face-Eating Victim Photos To Be Released

    New pictures of a homeless man whose face was virtually chewed off in a horrifying attack in Miami last year are to be released. Doctors and care workers who are treating Ronald Poppo in Jackson will also give an update on his recovery from his gruesome injuries. They will play a taped message from the victim and show new photos of his face, which continues to heal after the attack on the ...

  • Sports Buzz Should Orlando Magic want the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft

    New York City , starting at 8:30 p.m. The Magic -- by virtue of finishing with the worst record in the league -- have the best chance to win the No. 1 pick. But should the Magic and even their fans be hoping to get the pick or hope some other team moves up and grabs the top ...

  • Florida Hospital Waterman CEO swaps jobs with Flagler hospital exec

    Florida Hospital Waterman CEO Ken Mattison (shown) will swap jobs with Florida Hospital Flagler CEO David Ottati. Florida Hospital Waterman CEO Ken Mattison and Florida Hospital Flagler CEO David Ottati are swapping jobs, Orlando Sentinel reports. Mattison announced in April he would be leaving the Lake County hospital for another position within the Adventist Health System. Now, Ottati will ...

  • Latest updates on Oklahoma City tornado... JPMorgan investors on edge over Dimon vote... Samsung passes Apple in survey... Bernanke Innovation grows economic rewards Video

    May 20 (Bloomberg) -- In today's "Movers & Shakers," Bloomberg's Betty Liu highlights comments on the benefits of innovation from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's commencement speech at Bard College. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." Wichita Business Journal employee Gary Nickel received this photo from his son, Justin Nickel, who was in ...

  • Ocala man dies when storm topples tree on car

    OCALA, Fla. -- Police say a 28-year-old Ocala man died when a large oak tree fell on his vehicle during a thunderstorm.Ocala police Maj. Dennis Yonce told the Ocala Star-Banner ( http://bit.ly/17XE7af) that Christopher Harris was sitting in his Mitsubishi in the driveway of his home while a storm passed about 4:30 p.m. Monday.The storm which brought torrential rain and strong gusts uprooted a ...

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