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  • Florida No. 1 in barring ex-prisoners from voting

    Bird-lovers, birdwatchers and birders everywhere will love these posters that combine striking watercolor bird paintings by renowned South Florida Plein Air painter Brennan King. Available in 2 different sizes as well as subset versions featuring ‘Songbirds’, ‘Snowbirds’ and ‘Wading ...

  • Water district board agrees to $26M land buy before learning of $15M appraisal

    When the governing board of the South Florida Water Management District voted this month to offer Palm Beach County $26 million for a former citrus grove, the same value determined by an appraiser hired by the county, the district's board was not told of another county appraisal that had valued the property between $14.8 and $22.5 million.The $26 million offer for the Mecca Farms site also ...

  • At least 50 injured as car plows into parade

    About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.It happened around 2:10 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, near the Tennessee state line about a half-hour drive east of ...

  • Focus of crash investigation turns to tracks

    Officials investigating a train collision in Connecticut have ruled out foul play and are studying a rail fracture where a derailed commuter train was struck by another bound for New York City.National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener says the broken rail is of substantial interest to investigators and a portion of the track was sent to NTSB headquarters in Washington, D.C. for ...

  • Relay for Life inspiring say walkers at West Palm’s Meyer Amphitheatre

    Cancer survivors and event participants make their initial loops around the paved area at the Meyer Amphitheatre Saturday, May 18, 2013 during the Relay for Life event. The open ceremonies began at 1 p.m and the relay is scheduled to continue until 7 a.m. Sunday. A participant from each of 28 teams will walk for the entire 18 hours. The organization's website says that teams have raised ...


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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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  • Mother charged in death of 11-month-old boy appears in bond court

    According to investigators, Bruno placed the boy, Bryan Miguel Osceola, in a child seat in the rear passenger side of the vehicle and drove home. When she got home, she left Bryan in the car, strapped into his car seat, seared by the blazing ...

  • 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 ...

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