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  • Gators Rogers Shut Out Bulls

    GAINESVILLE | Florida ace Hannah Rogers, who walked four batters and hit two more in a win Saturday, showed better control on Sunday as Florida handled USF 2-0 to advance to next weekend's Super ...

  • Raw Heavy Tornado Damage in Shawnee Okla

    A tornado that hit Oklahoma late Sunday did heavy damage to the town of Shawnee. Reports of injuries could not immediately be confirmed. (May ...

  • Letters Real IRS controversy is exploitation of tax-exempt status.

    Regarding the IRS controversy, in 1913 Congress created a tax exemption for companies or organizations created "...exclusively to promote social welfare." This exemption specifically could not be applied to political groups. In exchange, the groups were able to raise unlimited amounts of money without disclosing their sources.Although the law did not change, IRS regulations softened ...

  • Glitch in widely used polygraph can skew results

     Several police departments across the country said they were not disturbed by the news of the LX4000 polygraph because they had not noticed inaccurate measurements. In South Florida, the use of the LX4000 is ...

  • U.S. suburban poverty growing but trend mixed in Miami-Dade Broward

    Across the country, the poverty rate is surging in the suburbs, where the number of poor people is growing much faster than in central cities — a largely unrecognized reversal that calls for a retooling of federal anti-poverty, economic development and transit funding, the Brookings Institution has found. In a book released Monday, researchers at the non-partisan think tank’s ...


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Movie Review

Men With Guns

John Sayles' "Men With Guns" is about what happens to a society when brute force and constant threat of violence are the only means of gaining and maintaining power. The film takes place in an unnamed Central American country, where the men with guns are the rulers. Most of the country is divided into tiny segments -- some are controlled by guerrillas with guns, some are controlled by Army soldier ... ...

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  • Police find missing 10-month-old girl from Miami Gardens

    A Miami Gardens police officer was on patrol when police said he was approached by a citizen who gave the officer information that Arianna Willis and her 42-year-old father, Dexter Jones, were both seen in an establishment at Northwest 199th Street and Northwest 2nd ...

  • Inside a Bangladesh garment factory

    Set aside for a moment what you think you know about the garment factories in Bangladesh: grimy, sweaty, children sitting in dimly lit, sweltering rooms sewing shirts you buy at your box store for ...

  • Talk is cheap and heaped as Pacers Heat prepare | Video

    Erik Spoelstra at the time? "I could care less." From that semantical sparring, the Heat and Pacers essentially wrestled through a six-game matchup as physical as any series in the Heat's three seasons ...

  • Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states

    (Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had ...

  • Congress keeps up pressure on IRS

    There will be more hearings this week in the Congress on the IRS targeting of more conservative political groups, as Republicans try to zero in on who signed off on the effort as the GOP presses the Obama Administration for answers.These hearings come after Friday's first Congressional review of the IRS work on tax exempt applications by a series of Republican-leaning groups, which the IRS ...

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