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Noon kickoff with Gators shows how far Miami ACC have fallen
Wake Forest on Raycom? Can't say I really blame ESPN for sticking this game in the undesirable noon slot. Miami is, after all, the home team and this is the ACC's TV game. Quite frankly, both UM and the ACC haven't been relevant on a national level for years. It also doesn't help that the Gators, even though they won 11 games last season, aren't the sexiest of teams and ...
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Florida Staves Off Steals by Arizona
TALLAHASSEE | Florida has a new fiscal game plan to keep its spring training lineup of baseball teams from jumping to the Cactus League in ...
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Barber’s Honor a Highlight During Sneaker Soiree Event
Ronde Barber's record-breaking 200th consecutive start to open the 2012 NFL season was one of the moments recognized during the Tampa Bay Sports Commission's annual Sneaker Soiree ...
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Student Shot In The Leg At Redland Middle School Near Miami
A teenage student was shot in the leg at a middle school south of Miami Friday afternoon, sending the campus into lockdown. Miami-Dade Police said investigators were questioning a classmate who allegedly brought the firearm inside a backpack to Redland Middle School in Homestead. Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesman John Schuster told NBC6 ...
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Abortion pill cases link Tampa woman to stranger in Oklahoma
TAMPA -- Five years ago, an Air Force airman grudgingly married his pregnant girlfriend but began lacing her food with ground up abortion pills. She miscarried in her second trimester, after consuming a deviled egg. Caylinn Young, 25, of Oklahoma felt isolated in her experience until she read recently about a Lutz woman named Remee Lee, 26, who miscarried in March, reportedly under similar ...
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FHP planes to help catch speeders this holiday weekend
Memorial Day weekend, looking for oblivious lead-footed drivers traveling South Florida's roadways. The agency wants to reduce holiday weekend traffic fatalities statewide. Since 2008, those have ranged from 22 to 33 deaths per year. There were 27 fatal crashes in Florida last year during Memorial Day weekend. "We're out to enforce speed laws to save lives," FHP Sgt. Mark ...
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Communications satellite launched into space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening. The satellite was the fifth Wideband Global satcom spacecraft to be launched.The satellite, which is being sent into an orbit that follows the earth's rotation 22,000 miles above the equator, will serve ...
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Judge rejects request to exhume bodies at school
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A circuit judge is rejecting a request to exhume human remains on the site of a now-defunct Panhandle reform school.Judge William Wright, who is based in Jackson County, ruled Friday against the request made by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.Bondi's office filed the petition in March. There is believed to be unmarked graves on the school site. Wright in his ...
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Holiday weekend crowds way down from boom in Miami Beach
the place for Memorial Day weekend revelers, with hot acts, sold-out hotels and can’t-miss parties that cater to African-American crowds.Just two years ago, hotel occupancy averaged more than 85 percent over the weekend with daily rates about $260 — far higher than the month’s average of 74.4 percent occupancy at $195 a night and the holiday weekend’s highest numbers in ...
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Students gets chess lessons aplenty
Williams Elementary fourth-grader Dejayauna Johnson, 11, challenges Lincoln Middle School eighth-grader Davis Washburn, 14, to a game of chess Friday. Washburn was playing three other students at the same time, and every time he came back to Johnson's board the pieces were in different places so he accused her of cheating. Johnson told him to bring it on, and Washburn replied, "Now I ...
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Paralegals attorney says no setup in Tampa DUI case
TAMPA -- The paralegal at the center of scandalous allegations of a DUI setup talked to prosecutors behind closed doors Thursday. But the attorney for Melissa Personius contends there was no plot by the paralegal's bosses to get C. Philip Campbell, their opposing counsel, arrested on a DUI charge in the middle of a heated trial. "It wasn't like, 'Get this guy drunk, get him ...
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Virginia Tech tops Georgia Tech 3-2 in ACC tourney
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Chad Pinder drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh to help Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech 3-2 on Friday in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, clinching an appearance in Sunday's ...
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AMRs Unconventional CPR Lessons Keep People Alive
American Medical Response just broke a world record on teaching chest compression-only CPR to keep people alive. All with a little rhythm and some help from the BeeGees. NBC 6's David Jeannot ...
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Pricey pooch portraits to help homeless pets
He's the man behind the camera in the nationwide Rover to the Rescue Tour. And he wants to photograph your dog to help raise money for pet rescues and shelters. Andrew Grant will be at the Humane Society ...
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Tampa Bay area Boy Scouts talk about the decision to allow openly gay members
Sam Bryant earned the rank of Eagle Scout 21/2 years ago, piling up merit badges, holding leadership positions in Tampa Palms Troop 180 and -- for his big project -- putting on a dog adoption fair. "Scouting has made me a better person,'' the Freedom High School junior said Friday. "I gain knowledge of a bunch stuff I don't get anywhere else.'' As for recent ...
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Heres how to keep your pet safe this Memorial Day
Bringing your family pet to the backyard barbecue? You may want to check out these tips on keeping your pet safe this holiday weekend, compliments ...
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Doctor demands federal agents return records seized in pain clinic raid
pain management clinic where he worked and seized his patient and business records.Two years later, Dr. John Bennett hasn't been charged with any crime — though federal prosecutors hinted he may be — but he has taken a very unusual and aggressive step to fight back.Bennett, 63, filed a civil action to try to force authorities to return his property and tip their hand about ...
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Atton Hotels opening property in Miami
South American hospitality company Atton Hotels will open a location in Miami two years from now.The expansion was announced Friday by Gov. Rick Scott, who recently returned from a trade trip to Santiago, Chile.Atton Hotels, founded in 2000, has three hotels in Chile and one in Peru. The Brickell Avenue property will have 270 rooms; an exact address was not available Friday. Scott’s ...
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Miami Diving hopes TV’s ‘Splash’ brings new interest in sport
Can a television competition show tell the story of diving?Briadam Herrera, 17, laughs at the question as he stands on the sun-baked pool deck at the University of Miami in Coral ...
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Business paid to close for Miami Gardens City Hall construction
Miami Gardens’ new city hall is expected to be completed sometime later this year, and with construction under way, the city ran into a minor hiccup in the building of a road near the construction site.Local business Tires On The Go uses Northwest 185th Terrace as an access point — that’s a road the city is reconstructing.According to Miami Gardens City Manager Danny Crew, the ...
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Student shot in leg at South Florida school
HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- A boy was shot in the leg at a South Florida middle school.A Miami-Dade Schools Police Department spokesman says the shooting occurred Friday afternoon at Redland Middle School in Homestead. Initial reports indicate that an 11-year-old boy brought a gun to school in his backpack, and the gun accidentally discharged inside the bag.The wounded boy was airlifted to Miami ...
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Termites season swarms Tampa Bay area
TAMPA, Fla. - It started with wings, lots of broken off wings. After awhile, Michael Haddock broke down and called an exterminator. That's when he learned, inside the floor of his newly-rented south Tampa home, there are termites. "It was a nice little Saturday morning surprise that we had," Haddock said. Haddock will soon have to get his home tented, which is a sight pest control ...
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Suspect Shot During Miramar Home Invasion
One suspect was shot and two others were in custody following a home invasion in Miramar early Friday, police said. NBC 6's Sharon Lawson ...
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MYSTERY MEDALLIONFlorida Man Finds Amulet During Python Hunt
nnA Florida man who participated in a recent python hunt in the Everglades wound up taking home the gold when he discovered an antique, gem-studded amulet which, is estimated to be from sometime between the 17th to 19th ...
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Man accused of pointing cane yelling Boom at deputy
Mark David Molinksi faces charges after he held up a metal cane and pointed it like a gun, saying "Boom!" to a deputy and a Riviera Beach police officer, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department arrest ...
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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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