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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. ...
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DCF Documents Reveal History With Family of Boy Left in Car
The Kendall mother charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of her 11-month-old son had been diagnosed with postpartum depression soon after the baby was born, her attorneys revealed in court Monday. Lonnie Richardson, attorney for Catalina Bruno, and DCF regional director Esther Jacobo ...
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Nearly 19 feet Longest Burmese python captured in Florida
Florida has a long list of problematic invasive species, from the vervet monkey to the lionfish, but the Burmese python might be the state's public enemy No. 1 so much so that residents will hop out of their cars at night to catch one double the normal size. A Miami man wrangled and killed the ...
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Will Florida host 50th Super Bowl
Super Bowl derby may be to snag the consolation prize. The consensus is that the recent failure to obtain tax money to help fund an extensive overhaul ...
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Orlando-area hospitals keep top ratings in annual analysis | Video
Florida's hospitals, like those across the rest of the nation, have received their spring report cards and more than a third earned an A, according to a nonprofit organization that advocates for safer health-care delivery. In the Sunshine State, 37 percent of all hospitals scored an A, allowing Florida to retain its 10th-place ranking among states. Florida also ranked ...
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See a full list of Gov. Scotts $368M in vetoes - including $6M in Northeast Florida
Gov. Rick Scott Gov. Rick Scott spread the pain. As Scott signed a $74.1 billion state budget Monday, he used his line-item veto power to eliminate proposals that ranged from spending $14 million on a building project at Gulf Coast State College in the Panhandle to earmarking $20,000 for the Hialeah Junior Fire Academy in South Florida. "My filter was this,'' Scott said. "One, is ...
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Nassau County considering mobility fee to replace impact fees concurrency
A proposed mobility fee was presented in draft form to Nassau county officials Monday, which would steer the countys growth in a more efficient direction. County traffic consultants presented the idea to the county commission, which would replace transportation impact fees and concurrency, the Fernandina Beach News Leader reports. The proposed fee would target traffic needs east and west of ...
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Downtown Jacksonville homeless day center to open in July
Hemming Plaza is an unofficial gathering spot for the citys homeless population. The Jacksonville Day Resource Center at City Rescue Mission will open in July, the Financial News & Daily Record reports. Plans for the center were announced last November, which will include services such as showers, washing machines and other services to the homeless. A homeless day center was the center of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Jacobs Orlando City Soccer meet to discuss Plan B for soccer stadium
Orlando City Soccer Club owners met with Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs to come up with a Plan B to fund the city's Major League Soccer stadium. Orlando City Soccer Club owners met with Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs Monday in an effort to come up with a Plan B to help save plans for a soccer stadium in downtown Orlando, WFTV reports. The citys Major League Soccer stadium suffered a ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Founder Institute Not enough Tampa Bay entrepreneurs for boot camp
Ressi An institute created to support entrepreneurial projects, the Founder Institute, had announced it would be holding a boot camp in the Tampa Bay-area, but has now cancelled it due to a lack of qualified applicants, it said. The Institute was created by Adeo Ressi, a college dropout who has had started eight businesses including a New York guide program bought by AOL in 1997. Ressi came to ...
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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 ...
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Southgate strikes back Mall making big changes to keep customers
After a series of headlines about major department store departures, Westfield Group created some buzz with plans to renovate Sarasotas Southgate Mall with an outdoor project including retail, restaurants and nightlife. The one-acre addition will add 46,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space to the existing mall building in a space that is currently being used as a parking lot, the ...
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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 ...
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IMG unveils $15 million dormitory
The internationally-famed athletics training school, the IMG Academy of Bradenton, opened its new $15 million residence hall on Monday. The academy is a private school for elite athletes from around the world with about 700 students from pre-kindergarten to post-graduate age-levels, the Bradenton Herald said. The state-of-the-art dorm is accessible only by security badges. It has more than ...
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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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Jacksonville Head Start center to open Wednesday
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jacksonville's 24 Head Start centers are set to reopen after being shuttered when the federal government stopped providing the Jacksonville Urban League funding because of safety issues.The Florida Times-Union ( http://bit.ly/118ntMg) reports officials with the Florida Department of Children and Families spend the weekend pleading with federal officials to reopen the ...
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DCF deemed boy safe before he was left in vehicle
MIAMI -- Six months before a baby boy died after being left strapped in his car seat, the Florida Department of Children and Families concluded there was no evidence his mother's drinking endangered his life.The Miami Herald ( http://hrld.us/118kLX9) reports the agency closed the case on Catalina Marista Bruno in November following two incidents. Eleven-month-old Bryan Miguel Osceola died ...
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Barreto We’re 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 ...
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Caryn Kelley Testimony continues in College Park slaying trial
Caryn Kelley is expected to take the stand in her own defense. She's faces up to 30 years in prison if she is found guilty of ...
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Florida's Exploration Park keeps state ahead
NASA’s new Space Life Sciences Lab and the adjacent Exploration Park, which is still under development, are testaments to Florida’s ongoing leadership in the exploration and understanding of space travel and the world beyond Earth’s stratosphere.
Florida has long been at the forefront of space travel internationally, it is here, at Cape Canaveral, that NASA’s shuttles take to the skies headed for the moon, or, more commonly, the International Space Station. Read more
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