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  • Obama’s Morehouse visit shines spotlight on historically black colleges

    When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College in Atlanta today, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities -- a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress.The so-called HBCUs educate a hugely disproportionate share of low-income students, and ...

  • Museum raising cash to recreate Hughes flight

    The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air travel.The Kansas City museum's Constellation, or "Connie," is one of only a handful of the 856 that were built ...

  • Palm Beach County man son rescued in Everglades after airboat sinks

    A Palm Beach County man and his 13-year-old son were rescued Friday afternoon after their airboat sank in the Everglades, according to Broward County Sheriff's Office reports.Will Cazanas and his son, William, both of Palm Beach County, spent two hours stranded after their craft sank in west Broward County, just south of the Palm Beach County line.A distress call was received at 4 p.m. and ...

  • Jet-set Miami developers entangled in legal drama over private jet

    For sale: a $12.6 million Bombardier Challenger jet presumably grounded at the Opa-locka Airport.At a price around $7.5 million, it comes stocked with china glasses, monogrammed hand towels and pillows, a mini-bar, and a lap top of navigational charts.It also carries some awful hefty baggage. The private aircraft is the source of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case and a long-running legal battle ...

  • Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

    Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...


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Movie Review

Kingpin

It has always been said that funny is a matter of taste. "Kingpin" is a matter of being funny by being tasteless. "Kingpin" is a gross, screwball comedy sprinkled with social and cultural satire, then loaded with bathroom humor and a whole heaping of cinema in-jokes and movie spoofs, plus one good sheep joke. If anything, "Kingpin" features a great competition between two characters for the worst ... ...

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  • Assad’s hard line may spell trouble for peace efforts

    Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a rare interview with a foreign newspaper, appeared to dismiss the possibility for serious peace talks planned for next month, and seemed to back away from earlier statements by Syrian officials that the government was willing to negotiate with its armed opponents."We do not believe that many Western countries really want a solution in Syria," Assad ...

  • Auto insurers still denying injury claims despite court ruling

    Never mind that pesky court injunction -- major Florida auto insurers are denying benefits based on a contested state law anyway, documents obtained by The Palm Beach Post show.They're limiting non-emergency benefits to $2,500, excluding massage therapy and other moves under provisions a judge found unconstitutional, claims records made available by medical providers ...

  • Pedestrian struck killed by bus at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport

    A bus struck and killed a pedestrian at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Saturday afternoon.The Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that the private charter bus hit the person on Terminal Drive outside the lower level of Terminal 4.BSO Fire Recue personnel responded to the crash and declared the pedestrian dead at the scene. 10 passengers on the bus were not ...

  • Notoriety follows David Rivera pal in Nicaragua

    Ana Alliegro, the Miami woman at the center of the federal corruption investigation involving former congressman David Rivera, is living in a small town outside of ...

  • One killed two injured in crash on Florida’s Turnpike in Miramar

    One person was killed and two were injured in an early-morning car crash on the Homestead Extension of Florida’s Turnpike in Miramar.Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release that a 2004 Hyundai XG 350 was stopped in the westbound left lane of the Homestead Extension west of University Drive when a 2011 Nissan 370 struck it from behind at about 2:45 a.m.The Hyundai burst into ...

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