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  • NBA Indiana Pacers set up Eastern finals with Miami Heat

    NBA Eastern Conference finals after they closed out their semi-final series against the New York Knicks in six games with a 106-99 victory on Saturday. The Pacers thrilled their home crowd with the win to take the seven-game series 4-2 and advance to the finals for the first time in nine ...

  • Gators Roll To 11-1 Win Over Bulls

    The Gators roughed up South Florida starter Sara Nevins for six runs in less than two innings Saturday and rolled to an 11-1 win over the Bulls to advance to the finals of the Gainesville Regional. The game was called after five innings because of softball's run rule.UF will play at 1 p.m. today against the survivor of the remaining two games Saturday.Nevins came into the game with a ...

  • Letters Entrenched officials don’t want inspector general’s oversight.

    Regarding the controversy over Palm Beach County's Office of the Inspector General, from the start the will of the people was thwarted. First by a county computer system that couldn't accommodate charging vendors for their payments. Technology can put a man on the moon, but the county administrator claims that it would take a half-million dollars to make a bookkeeping change. Then 15, ...

  • Firm seeks not just to restore damage but prevent it in smarphone age

    A West Palm Beach firm that specializes in water, fire and mold restoration isn't just pitching help after bad things happen.It's also trying to help hotel workers baffled by a burst pipe at 3 a.m. or a teacher crouched in a school closet during an unexpected ...

  • Chamber’s Business Award finalists honored today

    Successful business leaders adapt to the ups and downs of the economy and the changing needs of customers. Three companies whose leaders have done just that are being spotlighted today as the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches honors finalists for this year's small businessperson of the year award.A publishing and media firm, a security business and a radio enterprise will take center ...


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My Kid Could Paint That [DVD]

My Kid Could Paint That [DVD]

The most intriguing documentaries are often the ones that end up being about subjects the filmmakers didnt originally intend. This is both the inherent danger and lure of documentary filmmaking: the act of capturing life unfolding in front of the camera lens in potent ... ...

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  • Charity pays for glasses for underprivileged kids

    The Heiken Children’s Vision Program provides free comprehensive eye examination and glasses when prescribed to low-income school children who fail their vision screening and have no insurance or other resources for eye care. The program was started in 1992, and since then, 75,000 children have received exams with 83 percent needing and receiving free eyeglasses. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, the ...

  • MIAMI U. Miami Team Rescues NCIS Agent in Panama

    A team from the University of Miami Hospital is sharing its story after being summoned to Panama to rescue a federal agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative ...

  • U.S. foreign aid chief talks about region’s future

    SINCELEJO, Colombia -- Rajiv Shah is the head of the U.S. Administration for International Development, one of the world’s largest aid agencies. During a recent trip to Colombia, Shah attended an event where a dozen rural families were given titles to some 1,483 acres of land they had been forced off of by this nation’s civil conflict. USAID has been supporting Colombia’s land ...

  • Exclusive Wounded Undercover Detective John Saavedra Named Miami-Dade PBA Officer of the year

    DORAL (CBSMiami) – An undercover Miami-Dade Police detective who was shot three times during a shoot-out at asuspected marijuana grow house last July has been named the 2012 Police Officer of the Year by the Miami-Dade PoliceBenevolent Association. CBS4's Peter D'Oench reported exclusively that the announcement came Saturday night at the ...

  • Marco Rubio blames President Obama for latest scandals

    TAMPA -- Sen. Marco Rubio’s efforts to reform immigration may be drawing skepticism from many conservatives. But scandals facing the White House have allowed him to shift his message back to the one that made him a star in the first place: The threat to America posed by excessive government.Rubio mesmerized more than 700 people at the annual Hillsborough GOP’s annual Lincoln Day ...

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