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The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, triumphantly captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm.
The war court prosecutor says early pre-trial scheduling conflicts dont necessitate splitting up the trial of five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks.
After running a long-time plumbing company in Nashville, Tab Hunter was tired of the corporate white glove atmosphere.
Variety reports that New Line is developing a script “based on the life of famed Miami nightclub owner Chris Paciello.” A subject we thought was as over as Paciello’s former night club Liquid. But apparently Atlas Entertainment thinks the resurrection of Miami nights past is celluloid-worthy and has tapped Emmy winning writer Adam Mazer, author of HBO’s acclaimed Kevorkian biopic You Don’t Know Jack, to come up with an original screenplay. (Fact checking note to Mazer: Paciello, who did date Modern Family bombshell Sofia Vergara, never, ever, dated Madonna).
A British priest has apologized for some unholy language on his Facebook page, his bishop says.
Downtown Miami’s condo market is still going strong with sales and rental activity climbing, despite a jump in prices.
McDonald’s customer accused of pulling gun to cut ahead in drive-through lineFri, 25 May 2012 08:41 EDT
James Lee Cruz, 58, is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $7,500 bond. He is facing three counts of aggravated assault.
From football to baseball and every sport in between, Miami-Dade County has had another memorable high school season.
A 26-year-old man known as "Boston Rob" has been arrested after confessing to robberies in suburban West Palm Beach while armed with a needle-tipped syringe.
Two environmental groups and a pair of citizens want Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet to block a Palatka paper mill's plan for a pipeline to discharge wastewater into the St. Johns River.
Five people stuck on a disabled boat in rough seas were rescued Thursday about 15 miles east of Miami Beach, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Frida Aizman said her daughter, Eleonora Kaufman, suffered from fainting spells in the years before she died in November 2007.
More than 250 chickens — allegedly used for cockfighting — were seized on Rockland Key on Thursday when authorities served warrants on two properties during a drug investigation.
Monday is Memorial Day. Here’s what’s open and closed in South Florida.
Weather alert: Clearing Friday; experts predict near normal hurricane seasonThu, 24 May 2012 21:07 EDT
Forecasters said Thursday they expect nine to 15 named storms this year, including four to eight hurricanesThough the season has gotten off to a fast start, federal forecasters say thats not necessarily an indication of another hyperactive season ahead.
Politics, both internal and international, fueled the dispute over her invitation to speak in the historic sanctuary.
Several serious crashes are causing havoc on the roads Friday morning.
A person familiar with the situation says the Charlotte Bobcats will interview Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan on Friday for their vacant head coaching position.
Novak Djokovic's bid to win a fourth consecutive Grand Slam championship - and first at the French Open - might require a semifinal victory over Roger Federer.
The broken record of flailing swings, empty at-bats and strikeouts piling up against Los Angeles starter Dan Haren irritated Seattle manager Eric Wedge to no end.
Jeremy Hefner was off to a good start in the rain. He lost his grip after a long delay.
After coming back from a six-run deficit to tie the game, the Cardinals let it slip away.
Cole De Vries wasn't sure what was in store for him. Turns out, it was a harsh welcome to the major leagues.
The gem Dan Haren tossed Thursday night looked awfully familiar to Albert Pujols. Except this time instead of Pujols getting fooled by what Haren was tossing, he was helping the Los Angeles Angels' right-hander put together one of the finest efforts of his career.
Shane Victorino and Freddy Galvis each drove in three runs, including Galvis' go-ahead single in the sixth inning, and the Philadelphia Philles beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-9 on Thursday night.
The European Union is challenging Argentina before the World Trade Organization with claims the South American nations stifles imports to protect its own industry.
The women's clothier Talbots Inc. said Friday that a deadline expired without a deal in its exclusive talks about being acquired by a private equity firm and that it will actively pursue other options.
Portugal's Parliament has endorsed a four-year budget plan that places legal limits on state spending in an effort to restore the bailed-out country's fiscal health.
David Simon of Simon Property received a pay package worth more than $137 million for last year, and the typical CEO took home $9.6 million, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
Shares of a Hong Kong tycoon's property company tumbled Friday after he insisted he was innocent of bribery and money laundering charges filed by Macau prosecutors over a land deal in the Asian gambling hub.
Shares of mattress makers got a boost Friday from an industry survey that showed U.S. mattress sales improved sharply for April.
The market struggled for direction Friday afternoon, with two major indexes wavering indecisively between small gains and losses.
Bank of America Corp. and Barclays Bank PLC are selling their stake in the apartment building owner Archstone to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate for $1.58 billion.
An oil spill consortium set up after the BP spill to develop methods for containing deep sea spills will do a live drill with its state-of-the-art equipment this summer.
A Florida man was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of victims out of $8 million.
A Florida man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of victims out of $8 million.
No tickets matched all five "Fantasy 5" numbers, meaning the 266 tickets with four numbers correct are worth $555 each, the Florida Lottery said Friday.
Elbows pointed and fingers contorted into claws, the dancers of Ayikodans slide, somersault, lurch and crawl spider-like toward each other until they're knotted together.
A 24-year-old Canadian man is in federal custody for rushing toward the front of an American Airlines flight from Jamaica after the plane landed in Miami.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and an anti-censorship group sent the Brevard County Commission a letter urging the officials to put a controversial erotic novel back on its library shelves.
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A Florida man was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of victims out of $8 million.
From the vantage point of the Comfort Inn parking lot near the entrance to Kodiak's airport, traffic moves north toward downtown or south to the Coast Guard air station, the home to cutters, helicopters and rescue swimmers that aid mariners in the Bering Sea or the Pacific Ocean.
A gunman took an unknown number of hostages inside an Indiana real estate office Friday, police said, prompting officers to shut down nearby streets and surround the building with guns drawn.
Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey mayor and his adult son hacked into websites of political foes who were seeking his recall.
The widow of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy has called on Boston College Law School graduates to use training from their Catholic education to work for justice.
A Philadelphia woman is being questioned by police who say she suffocated her 18-month-old twins, named Adam and Eve, in the family home.
Western lawmakers want to elevate the Plains bison to a status similar to that of the iconic bald eagle with legislation to declare the burly beasts America's "national mammal."
Restaurants are going to the dogs... and the cats, and various other friends of the four-legged variety.
Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of horrors between Mexico's two most powerful drug cartels.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff used her line-item veto powers on a congressional bill that weakened the nation's benchmark environmental law protecting the Amazon.
Emergency workers who needed to take an obese teenager from her home to a hospital in Wales had to break through a wall of the residence to get her out and into an ambulance, officials said Friday.
Leaders of a minority community said South Sudan troops shot and killed a teenager on Friday while he was fishing, linking the death to the military's disarmament campaign in a conflict-torn stat
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In a story on May 23, The Associated Press called a Russian military plane that crashed while landing in the Czech Republic a jet. The An-30 aircraft had turboprop engines driving propellers, so it would be more correct to call it a turboprop. Turboprop engines are a variation of jet engines, even though they use propellers to generate thrust.
A Puerto Rico doctor has been found guilty of negligent homicide in the death of her toddler whom police say she accidentally left in a hot car for several hours.
Stunned Egyptians awoke Friday to learn that the revolution that led to the firs
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Human rights officials accused the Kenyan police Friday of eliminating suspected terrorists after armed men dragged a terror suspect out of a car. He was the third terror suspect to be abducted since April.
An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway has been released from a Pennsylvania federal prison following a real-estate scam.
A California activist faces up to three years and eight months behind bars for spraying an irritant at a pop singer from Vietnam to protest communism.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is happy with herself and her weight - a rare combination in the world of celebrities.
Israelis are gearing up to get down at Madonna's show as the pop diva landed in the holy land ahead of her world tour which kicks off here next week.
Records show Detroit pastor and gospel singing icon Marvin Winans' driver's license was suspended and there was a warrant out for his arrest when he was carjacked last week.
Gregg Allman is getting married for the seventh time.
Gregg Allman is getting married for the seventh time.
The 36th edition of the Spoleto Festival USA is open in Charleston.
