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GDP Green carry Spurs past Heat
San Antonio Spurs outscored defending champion Miami Heat 114-104 with the help of outstanding performances of GDP (Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan and Tony Parker) and shooter Danny Green, moving within one win to their fifth NBA title. It was Ginobili's first starting in more than one year. The 11-year veteran, who had scored a total of 30 points in the first four games, rewarded Spurs coach Gregg ...
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Serena Williams shows off athletic bikini body on Miami holiday
Serena Williams flaunted her toned figure while on a holiday in Miami to celebrate her French Open win. The tennis player, 31, who will be competing for her sixth Wimbledon title soon, wore a bikini to the beach, the Sun reported. The multi-millionaire star looked stunning in her two-piece that showed off her wash-board abs and toned arms and legs. Williams' kept her eyes hidden behind ...
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SoFla Woman Gets Weight Loss Support on Instagram
Moss posts her "before" and "after" pictures on her personal Instagram account. Users she's never met before comment on her ...
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Noah Waddell 12-Year-Old Piano Prodigy Plays For Patients At Florida Hospital
Noah Waddell is a little boy with huge talent -- and a big heart to match. The 12-year-old piano prodigy has been dedicating his time and skill to soothing patients at a Florida hospital, according to ABC. He began ...
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Miami Heat Back On Shaky Ground After NBA Finals Game 5 Loss To San Antonio Spurs
MIAMI (AP) -- LeBron James has been here before, with dire results. It was two years ago, the end of the first season of "Big Three" basketball in Miami. The situation: Heat down 3-2, hosting Game 6 of the NBA Finals, only two home wins separating them from what would have been James' first title. Then, thud. James had six turnovers in Game 6, the Heat were outscored by 24 with ...
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University of Florida football palyer charged with assaulting nightclub bouncer www.privateofficer.com
A UF football player was arrested Sunday after police say he punched a bouncer over cover charge. Antonio Morrison, 19, walked up to a bouncer at Kava Lounge, located at 1007 W. University Avenue, to ask about the entrance fee, according to an email from Gainesville Police Department spokesman Officer Ben Tobias. Morrison started arguing with the bouncer and yelling because he didn't want ...
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Orlando entrepreneur center marks 10 t h anniversary Tuesday with free seminars
Orlando's National Entrepreneur Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary Tuesday with an afternoon of free educational seminars for small business owners.The center, which is home to 11 different business organizations and service providers, will mark the occasion with a private event in the morning followed by three educational sessions in the afternoon, including:"Disruptive ...
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Miami faces the Heat to stay alive
MIAMI - The Miami Heat weren’t supposed to be in this situation. Not now, anyway.Coming home from Texas with their season on the line in 2011 was one thing. They were at the end of their first year together, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh still trying to figure it all out and clearly a long way from it.But this season they were the NBA’s best team, one that lost three games ...
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Mans Pulse Restored After Near-Drowning Authorities
Bystanders called 911 at 7:43 p.m., and rescuers arrived two minutes later. They found the victim not breathing and intubated him, and then got a pulse, Garcia ...
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Man pleads guilty to mailing ecstasy to US in supplements
MDMA , 597 grams of it. Better known as ecstasy, the illegal drug is often associated with enthusiasts of electronic music and all-night dance ...
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South Miami Pushing Back Against Panhandling
MIAMI (CBS4) - Panhandling and trespassing are the targets of possible new ordinances by the South Miami City Commission, Tuesday. The first of two new ordinances would make it illegal to panhandle, "by trick or fraud," or to help someone violate the ordinance and prohibit panhandling while trespassing. To go along with the first ordinance, CBS4 News partner ...
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NYC woman faces suspect in her dads 1986 killing
An aspiring New York City actress has finally faced down the suspect she helped police capture in connection with her father's 1986 ...
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NAACP No protesting at George Zimmerman trial
An NAACP rally in Sanford in March 2012 brought in hundreds, if not thousands. Now the NAACP is asking people not to protest during the ...
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1000 jobs available at Orlando job fair
ORLANDO -- Some 1,000 jobs are up for grabs at a job fair Tuesday in Orlando. The event, sponsored by The Continental Group and Workforce Central Florida, is happening from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Doubletree by Hilton Orlando at Seaworld. That's on International Drive. Among the 30 companies expected are the Peabody Hotel, Hilton Grand Vacations, Macys, Allstate and Universal Orlando. ...
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Palm Bay building new city center for residents tourists
This spot along the Indian River is part of a two-mile stretch that will eventually be home to a new downtown area for Palm ...
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Elderly man brings loaded gun to OIA
Orlando Police had to arrest an elderly St. Augustine man because he had a loaded gun in his carry-on luggage through a security checkpoint at Orlando International ...
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Jeff Timmons dishes on upcoming Amway Center Package Tour concert
recently shook his hips to demonstrate his excitement for this Friday's concert. 98 Degrees' Jeff Timmons is also pretty stoked, giving us the rundown on what we will -- and hopefully will not -- see on stage at the Amway Center. Timmons was in town recently for Full Sail University's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. ALLISON WALKER: So what's your connection with Full Sail, ...
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Mosquitoes swarm Tampa Bay
TAMPA, Fla. - Every week, Polly Bates goes to the park to watch her daughter practice lacrosse. But lately, it hasn't been easy. "It's just terrible. It's hard to play out here," she said. Bates says the mosquitoes have gotten so bad, bug spray has become a practice ...
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G20 Youth Summit opens in St Petersburg
The Y20 Russia 2013 summit, which opens on the eve of St. Petersburg’s International Economic Forum, and which is organised at the same venue, will feature 106 young participants from G20 countries and from six countries invited by the Russian chairmanship /Brunei, Spain, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Singapore, Ethiopia/. The event’s objective is a dialogue with G-20 leaders on the basis of ...
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Media company welcomed to Innovation Square
Mayor Ed Braddy welcomes representatives of CurtCo Robb Media to the Gainesville community during a welcome party for CurtCo Media at the Ayers Technology Plaza, in Gainesville, Monday June 17, 2013. CurtCo Robb Media publishes the Robb Report and related luxury consumer guides for the ...
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Jailed son called dad got coaching on testimony in pill mill case
Christopher George, 32, formerly of Wellington is serving more than 17 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy for running pill mill clinics in Broward and Palm Beach ...
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Police seek vandals who scrawled anti-gay slurs on Davie restaurants wall
Davie Police are seeking three men and a woman suspected of vandalizing a restaurant with spray paint.Around 1 a.m. June 8, surveillance cameras recorded the group walking to and from the Chik-fil-A at 1900 S. University Drive in Davie. Video also showed one of the men facing a wall and spray-painting anti-gay slurs on it, police said.As he and two other men spray-painted the business, the woman ...
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Fake designer jewelry seized from store Orlando police say
This is some of the jewelry that Orlando police seized June 17, 2013 from New York Shoes. Officers say the store was passing it off as designer merchandise. No arrests were ...
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Mayor Says She Wants More Thorough Inspections of Decks
"It says that any building and or structure that will have any type of occupancy where 10 or more people will be standing on, it has to be part of the report," Rodriguez ...
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Man arrested on charges that he mailed ecstasy in supplements
MDMA , 597 grams of it. Better known as ecstasy, the illegal drug is often associated with enthusiasts of electronic music and all-night dance ...
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Horticultural therapy for war veterans.
There are still Vietnam veterans living in poverty or on the street in the United States today, everyday many commit suicide from despair. Since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, suicide rates among veterans have spiked again as sufferers of a range of mental and physical injuries fall through the net. Veteran Farms are one way in which these veterans can be helped.
Adam Burke is a man with a mission, to help war veterans returning to the United States after tours abroad, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, that have struggled to reintegrate with society. This may be due to PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder), physical injuries, such as disability, or a sense of a loss of purpose after the harried action of a war zone. Read more
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