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Florida man stripped naked beaten and robbed at gunpoint during first date
A man in Florida has reported to the police that he was beaten, robbed, stripped naked and abandoned on the side of a road during a first date in Bunnell. Shaun Williams was spotted by the police on a state road in Bunnell, covered in blood, and was taken to a local hospital, the New York Daily News reported. According to FlaglerLive, Williams met a woman in a Daytona Beach convenience store ...
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John Corbett Named Banker of the Year by Florida Bankers Assoc.
John Corbett of CenterState Bank has been named Banker of the Year for 2013 by the Florida Bankers Association. Corbett, the president and CEO of Winter Haven-based CenterState, received the honor during the FBA's annual meeting in Palm Beach. The award recognizes individuals for their support of and achievements in the banking industry, as well as community ...
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With donation Wolfsonian expands to Miami’s downtown
About 16 years ago, prolific collector Mitchell “Micky” Wolfson Jr. transferred his accumulation of historically significant furniture, paintings, sculptures, posters, books, trinkets, household goods, machinery and other artifacts — along with the building that housed them — to Florida International University. And then he went out and acquired more. And then even more, ...
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Consumer Reports Number One Pan
Consumer Reports puts nonstick pans through all kinds of tests. Testers check whether eggs will stick when you fry them. A durability test runs a piece of steel wool that makes 2,000 passes over the pan to see how well the nonstick surface holds up. And the pancake test measures how evenly a frying pan ...
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Transformers The Ride filled with thrills at Universal Orlando
ORLANDO -- In this dizzied land of theme park madness, where battles for tourist dollars are fought by fairy tale princesses and fuzzy penguins, Universal Orlando today officially launches the Sunshine State's latest, and by all means loudest, big-thrills offensive, Transformers: The Ride. Cinderella might want to trade out her tiara for a helmet. This new sucker is ...
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Tri-Rail train hits kills pedestrian in Boca Raton
Boca Raton Police.It happened around 8:25 p.m. just north of Palmetto Park Road, Officer Sandra Boonenberg said.The train remained at the scene for more than two hours until ...
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Police investigating after bodies found in West Palm Beach school
West Palm Beach police are investigating the deaths of two men whose bodies were found early Wednesday inside a downtown school.Police Capt. David Bernhardt declined to comment on how the men died, saying the investigation remains open. Other school employees found their bodies about 6 a.m. Wednesday in a maintenance area at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. School of the Arts, he said.The men were ...
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Miami Fire Rescues Kitten From Storm Drain
A man walking near the intersection of Biscayne Blvd and NE 39 Street heard a faint meowing coming from a storm drain just after 3 p.m. and called 911. The MiamiMiami Fire Rescue Technical Rescue Team arrived on the scene and used special equipment to rescue the cat, who had fallen at least 10 feet. Paramedics were on hand to evauluate the cat, who did not appear to have any ...
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The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is the citys premier business event.
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum begins today and will continue through Saturday, hosting more than 3,700 businessmen, officials and reporters. This year, an impressive number of Russian and foreign businessmen, many of them considered celebrities in their field, will be discussing various topics including the prospect of a new global ...
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Local businesses prosper in wake of Miami Heat’s NBA Finals run
Artist Erica King makes collages of the Miami Heat among her other creative collages at her studio in Coconut Grove on Wednesday June 19, ...
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Investigators return to Volusia County well in cold case
Investigator Ralph Henshaw believes firefighters, who are lowered down the well, will find the key to unlock the mystery of 1974 ...
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Message in a bottle from Tampa finds broken-hearted man
-- Michael Souvigny was hunting hogs in Green Cove Springs, just south of Jacksonville, when he noticed a green bottle on the banks of the St. John's River. The welder, 25, saw paper inside. He broke the glass, wiped dirt from his hands and read a letter, dated August 2001, to his rifle-toting buddies: "To whoever finds this bottle: may you be blessed as the two of us. May you find ...
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Cousteau to explore 31 days of life on Floridas seafloor | Video
WASHINGTON — Living in an undersea lab about the size of a school bus, explorer Fabien Cousteau and five fellow aquanauts will spend 31 continuous days submerged off the coast of South Florida this fall, riding around on an underwater vehicle and experiencing a month of life along the seafloor.The research team plans to dive down 63 feet on Sept. 30 to climb inside the Aquarius, an ...
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911 calls from home where Coral Springs boy was found dead are released
Coral Springs Police searched 29 minutes before finding the apartment where a 4-year-old boy was found dead June 10. Investigators say the calls were made by Destene Chardoney Simmons, 23, the mother of Antwan Hope.The first call was received at 11:25 a.m. Police say a soft-spoken Simmons asked the 911 operator, "Can you send someone to this address?" without giving an ...
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Couple in deck collapse sues restaurant
MIAMI -- A couple has filed a lawsuit against a South Florida restaurant where a deck collapsed into Biscayne Bay last week during the fourth game of the NBA finals.A 14-page complaint claims Shuckers Bar & Grill in North Bay Village had a duty to properly maintain its property. The complaint - the first of what will likely be several - was filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court this week by ...
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Miami firefighters rescue kitten trapped in storm drain
Firefighters with Miami Fire Rescue helped save a kitten who was trapped inside of a storm drain. MFR said a man who was walking along the sidewalk near North East 39th Street and Biscayne Boulevard heard the kitten cries and called 911. After 3 p.m. Wednesday, MFR's Technical Rescue Team arrived to find the kitten 10 feet below the street in the middle of the storm ...
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James Gandolfini star of The Sopranos dies at 51
James Gandolfini, best known for his role as Tony Soprano in the HBO series "The Sopranos" has died. An HBO spokesperson says Gandolfini was on vacation in Italy when he died of a possible heart attack. He was 51. Gandolfini starred in more than 50 roles in his career, but he rocketed to fame with his portrayal of Mafia boss Tony Soprano. Most recently, he starred in "Zero ...
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GPS tracks down man accused of stealing $500000 in wine
Reinier Hernandez-Orta, 30, of Miami, is accused of stealing a tractor trailer with $500,000 of imported wine inside. GPS inside the trailer led authorities to the Lake Worth Service Plaza and Hernandez-Orta shortly ...
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Lake Worth man accused of robbing Family Dollar
Carlos Dominguez, 40, of Lake Worth, is accused of an armed robbery at a Family Dollar where employees say he visited daily for coffee, according to an arrest ...
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NSA cellphone records wont help Broward bank robbery suspect feds say
National Security Agency 's controversial program - that has secretly stored millions of U.S. phone records - could help his defense in a Broward bank robbery trial. Terrance Brown, ...
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Delray man facing aggravated assault charges
Delray Beach man is accused of breaking into the hotel room where the mother of his unborn child was staying, dragging her out by the neck and using a large stick to threaten the man with her, according to ...
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Delray officials bicker over nominations to redevelopment agency
Delray Beach City Commission meeting Tuesday, accusations flew after city officials in a 3-2 vote blocked the nomination of former Mayor Woody McDuffie to the Community Redevelopment Agency board.The battle was divided among seniority lines, with commissioners who are serving their last term pitted against those who took office in ...
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Close Miami Heat game leads to battery riot charges
Miami Heat fan turned violent when the child's father stepped in and punched the other man in the face "until his thumbs were hurting," according to ...
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Miami-Dade County street-light supervisor charged with taking bribes
A Miami-Dade County public works supervisor who oversaw the installation of more than 45,000 street lights is behind bars, after being accused of accepting thousands of dollars’ worth of household merchandise as bribes from a lighting-product vendor, authorities said Wednesday.George Brown, 50, of Hollywood, had his first appearance in Fort Lauderdale federal court Wednesday on charges of ...
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Celebrated University of Miami architecture dean champion of traditional design to step down
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the prominent planner and architect under whose leadership the University of Miami’s fledgling architecture school gained a national reputation as an iconoclastically un-voguish center for traditional design and community engagement, is stepping down as dean after an unusually long tenure of 18 years.UM President Donna Shalala, in a statement Wednesday, called ...
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The Pier in danger after decades of memories and pictures
Advocates for The Pier want it to be renovated and restored in its current form, kept as the tourist attraction it is, while city officials feel it would be more economical and feasible to tear it down and replace it with a new structure. The advocates for The Pier want us to decide.
The Pier, as it is called by St Petersburg residents, or the St Petersburg Pier, as it is known nationally and even internationally, is one of the major landmarks of the city and a seminal tourist attraction and has been visited by tens of millions of people during the course of its existence, but it may soon be demolished and replaced, which has courted the anger of many residents. Read more
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