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Railroad coming to U.S. 27 A new vision emerges
Everglades , U.S. 27 seems far away from the hustle and bustle of interstate commerce. It has no strip malls, few stoplights and gas stations. Vast open land - sugar cane fields, farms, sawgrass - surrounds its four lanes in Broward ...
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Bus strikes kills woman at Lauderdale airport | Video
A woman’s airport visit to meet her husband, who was arriving from a flight, turned deadly when she tripped in a roadway and a charter bus ran over her. It forced the normally hectic four-lane arrivals section ...
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Loria finally takes his seat at Taxpayer Stadium
Get your Marlins Tickets now! obviously haven't padded attendance enough through sweet deals like allowing fans over 55 into Thursday games free or giving away select tickets for a $1.25 service charge at select bars. So on Saturday night, they really ran a risky promotion to beef up their major league-worst crowds. Jeffrey Loria walked in the ...
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Bocas beauty needs attention panel says | Video
Boca Raton 's landscape beauty may be in the eye of the beholder.And the city panel in charge of rewarding properties for their look thinks the town is getting a little rough around the edges.The city has come along way since the 1960s, when its main features were scrub pines, sugar sand and rattlesnakes. Over the past 30 years, Boca has become renowned as a South Florida showcase — ...
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Year-old funding scandal hurt local Race For the Cure officials say
West Palm Beach , which took place in January, pulled in $1.1 million, its lowest yield in at least five years, according to the affiliate's figures. Donations raised by the event, the largest fundraising effort for each Komen affiliate, have averaged about $1.7 million since 2009. Komen South Florida officials attributed the drop in fundraising — and a corresponding 9 percent dip in ...
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Recognition tough to come by for Heats Erik Spoelstra
Erik Spoelstra would rather avoid. Ever since he was put in this situation, he's run from the topic of his abilities as a coach. The everlasting smile disappears the moment Spoelstra, now in his fifth season with ...
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Crash victim saves driver unable to rescue passenger in fiery fatal crash
A driver who crashed into a car that burst into flames saved the other driver, but couldn't rescue a passenger who was killed during the Saturday collision ...
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City of Weston horse places fourth at Pimlico Race Course
Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The owners chose to name the 3-year-old thoroughbred after their city of residence. City of Weston competed in the $100,000 Chick Lang Stakes among eight other ...
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NBA Indiana Pacers set up Eastern finals with Miami Heat
NBA Eastern Conference finals after they closed out their semi-final series against the New York Knicks in six games with a 106-99 victory on Saturday. The Pacers thrilled their home crowd with the win to take the seven-game series 4-2 and advance to the finals for the first time in nine ...
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Gators Roll To 11-1 Win Over Bulls
The Gators roughed up South Florida starter Sara Nevins for six runs in less than two innings Saturday and rolled to an 11-1 win over the Bulls to advance to the finals of the Gainesville Regional. The game was called after five innings because of softball's run rule.UF will play at 1 p.m. today against the survivor of the remaining two games Saturday.Nevins came into the game with a ...
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Letters Entrenched officials don’t want inspector general’s oversight.
Regarding the controversy over Palm Beach County's Office of the Inspector General, from the start the will of the people was thwarted. First by a county computer system that couldn't accommodate charging vendors for their payments. Technology can put a man on the moon, but the county administrator claims that it would take a half-million dollars to make a bookkeeping change. Then 15, ...
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Firm seeks not just to restore damage but prevent it in smarphone age
A West Palm Beach firm that specializes in water, fire and mold restoration isn't just pitching help after bad things happen.It's also trying to help hotel workers baffled by a burst pipe at 3 a.m. or a teacher crouched in a school closet during an unexpected ...
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Chamber’s Business Award finalists honored today
Successful business leaders adapt to the ups and downs of the economy and the changing needs of customers. Three companies whose leaders have done just that are being spotlighted today as the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches honors finalists for this year's small businessperson of the year award.A publishing and media firm, a security business and a radio enterprise will take center ...
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Charity pays for glasses for underprivileged kids
The Heiken Children’s Vision Program provides free comprehensive eye examination and glasses when prescribed to low-income school children who fail their vision screening and have no insurance or other resources for eye care. The program was started in 1992, and since then, 75,000 children have received exams with 83 percent needing and receiving free eyeglasses. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, the ...
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MIAMI U. Miami Team Rescues NCIS Agent in Panama
A team from the University of Miami Hospital is sharing its story after being summoned to Panama to rescue a federal agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative ...
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U.S. foreign aid chief talks about region’s future
SINCELEJO, Colombia -- Rajiv Shah is the head of the U.S. Administration for International Development, one of the world’s largest aid agencies. During a recent trip to Colombia, Shah attended an event where a dozen rural families were given titles to some 1,483 acres of land they had been forced off of by this nation’s civil conflict. USAID has been supporting Colombia’s land ...
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Exclusive Wounded Undercover Detective John Saavedra Named Miami-Dade PBA Officer of the year
DORAL (CBSMiami) – An undercover Miami-Dade Police detective who was shot three times during a shoot-out at asuspected marijuana grow house last July has been named the 2012 Police Officer of the Year by the Miami-Dade PoliceBenevolent Association. CBS4's Peter D'Oench reported exclusively that the announcement came Saturday night at the ...
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Marco Rubio blames President Obama for latest scandals
TAMPA -- Sen. Marco Rubio’s efforts to reform immigration may be drawing skepticism from many conservatives. But scandals facing the White House have allowed him to shift his message back to the one that made him a star in the first place: The threat to America posed by excessive government.Rubio mesmerized more than 700 people at the annual Hillsborough GOP’s annual Lincoln Day ...
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After voting for a ban Charlie Crist now backs gay marriage
Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist greets former Florida Education Commissioner Betty Castor at the Pinellas/Hillsborough Kennedy King Dinner at the Tampa Convention Center Saturday, May 11, 2013. Crist was the keynote speaker at the ...
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Beckham plays final home match
Given a standing ovation by the near 45,000 strong capacity crowd in the Parc des Princes, Beckham hugged teammates and opponents before being substituted by Ezequiel ...
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Koehler takes tough-luck loss in strong showing
ARI@MIA: Dobbs makes a diving stop in the second MIAMI -- One swing and one throw from the D-backs' Gerardo Parra made the difference in a pitchers' duel on Saturday night at Marlins Park. The speedy right fielder's first-inning heroics were enough to propel Arizona to a 1-0 victory, extending the Marlins' losing streak to a season-high seven games. The Marlins are now ...
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Nolasco looks to lead Marlins out of funk
Losers of seven straight and 10 of their past 11, the Marlins have led in a game just once since May 10, when they scored in the first inning on Thursday against the Reds only to fall in extra innings. Averaging just 1.5 runs per game since May 6, Miami will try to avoid being swept for the third time over its past four series Sunday when the club hosts the red-hot D-backs. Not expected to ...
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Mother Facing Aggravated Manslaughter Charge Held Without Bond
A mother charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child in the death of her 11-month-old son was ordered held without bond Saturday. Miami-Dade Judge Andrew Hague ordered Catalina Marista Bruno, 30, held on no bond in connection with a previous case involving her son. He set her bond at $250,000 for the new case, and set numerous conditions if she posts ...
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MLB Arizona 1 Miami 0
Brandon McCarthy fired his second career shutout Saturday, baffling the Marlins on three hits in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 1-0 decision over Miami. McCarthy (1-3) earned his first win of the season in his ninth start after firing eight shutout frames in his previous outing -- a no-decision against the Phillies. The right-hander allowed two walks and struck out five in the 100-pitch ...
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BSO Woman dies after hit by bus at Fort Lauderdale Airport
An SUV pulled up to the arrivals area of the airport to pick up an airline passenger. However the vehicle stopped in a lane only meant for moving ...
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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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