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Family: Country singer Slim Whitman dies at age 90
Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. He was 90. Whitman died of heart failure at Orange Park ...
Heat and Spurs tapped out after epic Game 6
LeBron James started to get up out of his chair after the postgame press conference, and it took him three tries to do it. "I'll get it," he said, sheepishly as he finally got his momentum going enough to peel himself out of the chair. The looks of exhaustion and ...
Urn found floating in Intracoastal Waterway
Someone riding a wave runner found a brass urn floating in the Intracoastal Waterway near North Miami Beach. The urn, filled with ashes, was turned over to Geronimo Mena Jr. at Guiding Light Cremations in Hollywood after it floated to the surface near the 163rd Street Bridge last week. "I ...
NY woman helps track suspect in dad's 1986 killing
An aspiring actress has helped police track down a suspect in her father's 1986 slaying. Periodically, over the last few years, Joselyn Martinez would try to find information about the man accused of shooting and killing her father outside his restaurant on Nov. 22, 1986, when she was 9 years ...
Future filmmakers feted at Student Academy Awards
The world's future filmmakers got a preview of the kind of Hollywood glamour and glory that could be theirs someday as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its 40th annual Student Academy Awards. Sixteen college students from around the globe were honored at the Saturday night ceremony, ...
Judge: Zimmerman witnesses must testify publicly
A Florida judge denied a defense request Thursday to let a handful of witnesses testify confidentially during George Zimmerman's trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. Defense attorney Mark O'Mara asked that the witnesses be allowed to testify out of the public eye because of concerns for their safety about testifying ...
Fla. widow, 84, claims $590M Powerball jackpot
An 84-year-old Florida widow who bought her Powerball ticket after another customer let her get ahead in line came forward Wednesday to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history: $590 million. Gloria C. MacKenzie, a retiree from Maine and a mother of four who lives in a modest, tin-roof ...
First tropical storm of the season, Andrea, forms
Forecasters say the first named storm of Atlantic season, Tropical Storm Andrea, has formed over the Gulf of Mexico. A news release from the National Hurricane Center in Miami says a reconnaissance aircraft spotted a well-defined area of circulation over the central Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday afternoon. The center ...
Jury IDs will be kept private at Zimmerman trial
The identities of potential jurors in the trial of a neighborhood watch leader charged with killing Trayvon Martin will be kept confidential. The judge presiding over George Zimmerman's trial also ruled Wednesday that potential jurors won't be sequestered, as requested by defense attorneys. During jury selection beginning next week, potential ...
4 llamas involved in car crash in SW Florida
Four llamas were evaluated Monday at a southwest Florida veterinary hospital after being involved in a crash on Interstate 75, authorities said. Charlotte County Fire-Rescue officials said a pickup truck carrying a trailer with four llamas crashed at mile marker 164, near Punta Gorda, shortly after 2:30 p.m. The truck ...
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