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  • Fla couples charged after pipe bomb weapons found

    COCOA, Fla. -- A Cocoa couple has been charged after police said they found pipe bombs and a cache of weapons inside their central Florida home.The Brevard County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad evacuated neighbors from a dozen nearby homes as they searched the couple's two-story apartment Friday. Authorities found two pipe bombs along with rifles, handguns and shotguns. Two elementary ...

  • Leonard Pitts Jr. In Florida timely injustice

    Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been exonerated and freed from death row in the previous 23 years, Ryan committed an act of profound moral courage, imposing a moratorium on capital punishment. In 2003, in the waning days of his term, he ...

  • Single ticket scoops $590m jackpot in Florida lottery

    A single ticket in Florida has matched all the numbers to win the highest Powerball lottery jackpot in history at an estimated 590.5 million dollars (389.2m), officials said ...

  • Charter bus hits killed victim at Fla. airport

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Authorities are investigating after a pedestrian was hit by a bus and killed at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport.Broward Sheriff's officials said the unidentified victim was walking along the lower level of the terminal Saturday when they were hit by a private charter bus.The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. None of the roughly 10 people ...

  • Dad son rescued after airboat sinks in Everglades

    LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. -- A man and his 13-year-old son have been rescued after their airboat sank in the Florida Everglades.Will Cazanas and his son were stranded for two hours Friday after their airboat sank in western Broward County.Broward County Sheriff's officials sent out an airboat after receiving a distress call. They found the pair about 20 minutes into their search. The Palm Beach ...

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A Night to Dismember [DVD]

A Night to Dismember [DVD]

Only the most ardent exploitation and fringe cinema fanatics would argue that Doris Wishman is a good filmmaker in any sense of the word, but she is nothing if not opportunistic. Having gotten her start in 1960 by jumping on the nudist-exploitation bandwagon early in the cycle with Hideout in the Sun, the self-taught filmmaker became one of the most prolific independent female producer-dir ... ...

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  • Winning ticket for 590-mln-dollar Powerball jackpot sold in Florida

    The winning ticket was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida. No further details on the lone winner was available. The numbers drawn Saturday were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52 with a Powerball number of ...

  • ONE LUCKY WINNERWinning Ticket For $590.5M Powerball Sold in Florida

    Powerball numbers are chosen in the drawing at the Florida Lottery on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, in Tallahassee, Fla. The numbers drawn in the $579.9-million game were: 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and Powerball of 6. (AP Photo/Phil ...

  • One lucky Florida Powerball winner

    A Florida supermarket sold the only winning ticket in last night’s $600 million Powerball drawing, lottery officials in the Sunshine State announced.The winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22, and 52, and the Powerball was 11.The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., about 29 miles northeast of Tampa, the Florida Lottery announced on Twitter."We’re ...

  • $590M-plus Powerball 1 winning ticket sold in Fla

    DES MOINES, Iowa - It's all about the odds, and one single ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching all the numbers to win the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said early Sunday.The lone winner was sold at a Publix supermarket location in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told ...

  • Powerball One ticket-holder in Florida wins $600 million jackpot

    ORLANDO, Fla. -- One of the tickets sold in Florida for the Powerball game Saturday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 10-13-14-22-52, Powerball: 11 The player matching all five numbers and the Powerball won the $600 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $40 million for Wednesday, May 22. Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $1 ...

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