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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. ...

  • Family of man shot 16 times by Beach Hialeah cops says he was ‘executed’

    Framegrab of video showing police approaching car with guns drawn during Miami Beach's Urban Beach Week last Memorial Day wknd, 2011. Video was shot on a phone by Narces ...

  • JPMorgans Dimon faces shareholder referendum

    TAMPA, Fla. -- Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO JPMorgan Chase, told shareholders Tuesday that last year's $6 billion trading loss had been expensive and "extremely embarrassing," but he also asked shareholders not to fixate on the issue."It would have been a terrible shame if that one issue were allowed to damage the company from doing all the things it was supposed to ...

  • Civil rights suit filed in fatal MB cop shooting

    MIAMI -- The family of a 22-year-old man killed in a barrage of police gunfire during 2011's hip-hop Urban Beach Week festival is filing a civil rights and negligence lawsuit seeking damages for his death.Attorney Marwan Porter said Tuesday the family believes the killing of Raymond Herisse was unjustified. Officers fired more than 100 shots at Herisse's car after it was allegedly ...

  • Guilty fraud plea in $5.6M Vegas embezzlement

    LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with the embezzlement of $5.6 million from the prominent builder of residential high-rises in the Vegas area over nearly five years.U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden says Rocco Lazazzaro pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud at the Florida-based Turnberry Associates.He says Lazazzaro personally was ...

Movie Review

Deep Impact

Last year it was the battle of the dueling volcano movies, "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano." This year, history repeats itself, except volcanoes have been replaced with giant meteors on collision courses for Earth. Michael Bay's "Armageddon" isn't due until July, but for those who just can't wait to see Earth destroyed by fire from the heavens, the Steven Spielberg-produced "Deep Impact" has arrived. ... ...

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  • Fla. Supreme Court says execution can go forward

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Supreme Court says the execution of a man who killed a prison guard in 1987 can go forward.The court denied an appeal Tuesday and said that William Van Poyck's June 12 execution will not be delayed.In June 1987, Van Poyck and co-defendant Frank Valdes ambushed two guards who were taking inmate James O'Brien in a prison van to a doctor's office in ...

  • Wake Pouncey And Fields Win Team Awards

    took home the Nat Moore Community Service Award, it was announced today. This was the first time that Wake has won Dan Marino Most Valuable Player Award which is voted on by the South Florida media. In 2012, he started all 16 games and finished the year with 53 tackles and 15 sacks. Wake ranked third in the AFC and fourth in the NFL in sacks and also tied for the sixth highest single season sack ...

  • Barreto Were Excited About Our Chances

    Each city will get to make a 20-minute presentation inside the Hyatt Harborside Hotel on Boston Harbor. Super Bowl Bid Committee Chairman Rodney Barreto and former Miami Dolphins wide ...

  • Record Burmese python caught in Florida

    Florida .It's a new record for the longest Burmese python caught in the wild in Florida. The previous record was a 17ft 7in python caught in August in Everglades national park.According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the 18ft 8in snake was caught May 11 alongside a road in rural Miami-Dade County.Wildlife officials said Monday that a Miami man spotted about 3ft of ...

  • 3 caught trying to retrieve repossessed car GPD says

    An employee of Hyde N Seek Recovery, 1354 NW 53rd Ave., saw three people - later identified as Dalton Cassel, 18, Christopher Duval, 20, and Juanita Love, 36 - along the fence line of the closed business, according to a Gainesville Police Department report.The witness said Cassel was acting as a lookout while Love and Duval stood near the fence. All three walked away when they saw the employee, ...

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