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  • Fallin declares state of emergency after tornadoes

    Governor Mary Fallin declared a State of Emergency for 16 Oklahoma counties due to tornadoes, severe storms, straight-line winds and flooding that began ...

  • Fire in Palm Springs home leaves six homeless

    A home in Palm Springs has been damaged by a fire.Palm Beach County Fire Rescue arrived at the 2800 block of Dolphin Circle at 5:56 p.m. this evening after callers said their grandmother's house was on fire and two people inside were trapped.Firefighters "made an aggressive fire attack" according to a fire rescue spokesman, and were able to contain the fire to the bedroom where it ...

  • Florida National Guard in transition phase

    Sgt. Sean O'Donnell, center, 23, U.S. Army National Guard, barks out command to his platoon during a warrior leadership course at the Florida National Guard training facility Camp Blanding, where weekend warriors hone their ...

  • Florida Governor Rick Scott To Veto 3 College Tuition Hike

    Florida Governor Rick Scott could sign or veto a texting while driving ban as soon as the weekend but so far, he has given no indication which way he is leaning. Attorney David Seltzer comments on the ...

  • Motorcyclist hit by car in Lake Worth

    A motorcyclist was taken to the hospital by Trauma Hawk this evening after being struck by a vehicle on the corner of Sixth Avenue South and Dixie Highway in Lake Worth.The accident occurred at 6:47 p.m. The rider was taken to the trauma unit at Delray Medical Center, according to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue.No other information was immediately ...


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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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  • Commentary The U.S. must get off the sidelines on Syria

    Outrage. That's what we should feel over the Syrian government's slaughter of more than 70,000 of its own people and its use of chemical weapons. And outrage is what we should feel over the international community's impotence.Despite intelligence regarding Syrian use of chemical weapons, which the Obama administration acknowledges, the White House persists in setting a burden of ...

  • Editorial Cities’ offer on the Office of Inspector General again contains a poison pill

    From the beginning, 14 Palm Beach County cities have insisted that their refusal to finance the countywide inspector general's office has nothing to do with resistance to the watchdog agency itself. Their lawsuit and refusal to pay, they said, was simply due to concerns about the constitutionality of the agency's unconventional financing model.But the cities' actions tell a very ...

  • CrossFit regional grows into convention center event

    Burpees, dead lifts and box jumps have gone mainstream after more than 10,000 people flocked to the Palm Beach County Convention Center over the weekend to watch the Reebok CrossFit South East Regional.CrossFit, which combines aerobic and weight exercises with an intense combination of workouts that include sprinting, rope climbing, dead lifts and pull-ups, has exploded in popularity in the past ...

  • Tornado levels homes in Oklahoma City trailer park

    People survey damage from a tornado that hit Edmond, Okla., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, ...

  • LeBron knows Pacers will try to put me on the floor | Video

    LeBron James has spent a career refining basketball in his mind. It's how he works. Before the fourth quarter, for instance, when he's typically moved onto the opposing team's top scorer, he sits on the bench mentally reviewing the player he'll defend. "I start just going through the notes that we planned on him, the [video] cut-ups I've watched of that ...

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