Weather alert: Weekend will be cool and breezy

Cool weather will continue Saturday in South Florida with breezy conditions and low temperatures dipping below 70. Highs will be in the mid-70s. On Sunday, forecasters expect the start of a warming trend, with highs near 80 and a low of about 70.Monday will bring more breezes and partly sunny skies, with a high of 79 degrees and a 20 percent chance of rain after 8 a.m. ...

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Walmart Moves Up Black Friday

Walmart is kicking off Black Friday shopping earlier than ever this year, opening stores at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.“In addition to offering amazing low prices on the season’s top gifts, Walmart is taking the historic step to ensure wishlist items like the Apple iPad2 are available for customers during a special one-hour event on Thanksgiving,” the...

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Worker's gasoline-filled soy sauce containers spark fire at Midtown sushi restaurant: sources

Christopher SadowskiEmergency crews help one of the workers burned in a Midtown restaurant fire Friday.A fire erupted at a Midtown sushi restaurant last night after a worker haphazardly carried gasoline in soy sauce containers, sources said.“I was pouring a round of Jack Daniels,” said ENO restaurant bartender Adele Mackenzie. “The next thing I know the...

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Take the challenge: Can you launch a company on $100

Can you launch a company for $100?Books & Books, the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce, Florida International University and The LAB Miami have teamed up to host The $100 Startup Competition. Inspired by the bestselling book by Chris Guillebeau, the contest challenges South Florida entrepreneurs to enter their ideas for businesses that can be launched with just $100.To...

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Miami-Dade’s election count comes to an end, finally

After a doozy of an Election Day, Miami-Dade County officials finished their vote tally Thursday, following an around-the-clock tabulation of tens of thousands of absentee ballots and a few thousand provisional ballots.Mayor Carlos Gimenez also pledged to uncover what went wrong Tuesday, by asking four Miami-Dade commissioners to join a task force that will examine the long...

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US video game sales drop 25 percent in October

NEW YORK (AP) — A research firm says U.S. retail sales of new video game hardware, software and accessories fell 25 percent in October.The drop marks the 11th straight month of declining sales for physical game products. Many gamers are waiting for big holiday releases such as Activision Blizzard Inc.‘s “Call of Duty: Black Ops II.” The...

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Justin Bieber Lives Every Teen Boy's Dream at VS Show

"[It's] definitely a good night for me," beamed Justin Bieber on the red carpet of this year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in NYC. "It's an 18-year-old's dream …to be able to see all these models," said the teen phenom who, along with Rihanna and Bruno Mars, took to the stage November 7 to serenade VS Angels as they strut their stuff on the catwalk.Video: Inside Victoria's Secret's Fashion Show...

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Fifth man charged in fatal Bronx shooting

DCPIJavier Perez is charged in an August murder in The Bronx, police said.A fifth man was charged yesterday for gunning down a Bronx man and injuring another man back in August, police said.Javier Perez, 22, was slapped with murder, attempted murder, gang assault, and weapon possession for fatally shooting Adrian Garcia, 25, and wounding his 20-year old...

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Creativity is key for South Florida nonprofit groups

Feeding South Florida needed a fresh way to raise awareness about hunger. Enter the graffiti artists.With a wall in the hip Wynwood neighborhood now devoted to the cause, the Pembroke Park-based organization has become a prime example of the lengths nonprofits are going to as need grows, traditional support shrinks and competition for dollars heats up. “In the past, we did...

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