National League Team Notes (USA Today)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:13:34 GMT
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Cisneros is Junior Olympics-bound (Florida Keys Keynoter)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:15:38 GMT
There's a little-known Middle Keys sports team that may just be the most successful in all of Monroe County. Coach Tim Knight's Amphibious Assault swim team operates out of the Cabana Club in Key Colony Beach and, thanks to 12-year-old Raul Cisneros, will be sending a competitor to the regional Junior Olympics for the 15th straight year next weekend.
Sen. Hosts Health Care Town Hall (Local 10 Miami)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:17:03 GMT
Florida Sen. George Lemieux says health care reform should be passed piece by piece, not in an all-encompassing plan.
Palmetto sweeps in girls' tennis (Miami Herald)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:39:18 GMT
The Palmetto girls' tennis team picked up an easy 7-0 match victory over Coral Reef on Monday afternoon. Katherine Castro won the No. 1 singles match 6-0, 6-0. Also sweeping their opponents were Marissa Levine and Dylan Schlesinger.
Learn how to avoid scams (Miami Herald)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:28:01 GMT
Anyone can be scammed at any age. That's the message of this year's National Consumer Week, led by the U.S. Postal Service. Area post offices will be hosting events to teach about protecting privacy, managing money and debt, avoiding identity theft, understanding credit and mortgages and how to steer clear of fraud and scams. Participants will be able to ask consumer experts questions.
Ponzi schemers' wives: Should they be charged? (Omaha World-Herald)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:16:59 GMT
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — They once could be found at the sides of their charming, wealthy husbands — leading lives of privilege and glamour.
Kim Rothstein shopped so much that it’s now all a blur (Sun-Sentinel)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:04:18 GMT
Deposition reveals how the wife of South Florida’s biggest swindler lived As her husband's billion-dollar fraud scheme was imploding last Halloween, Kim Rothstein went shopping for more shoes at Nordstrom.
Tom Matlack: My Sit Down With Big Red: Dave Cowens on Being a Good Man (The Huffington Post)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:14:47 GMT
Good Men Project cofounder Tom Matlack, an unabashed Celtics fan, met with Cowens last month at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
BSO deputy accused of intimidating teen in court (7 News Miami)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:04:56 GMT
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A veteran Broward Sheriff's Deputy has been accused of intimidating a South Florida teen in court. The job description says "to protect and serve," but instead, the Broward County Public Defender's Office said, one deputy's motive was to intimidate and harass.
Crook Slides Diamond Ring Right Off Woman's Finger (CBS4 Miami)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:03:34 GMT
An elderly South Florida woman hopes Fort Lauderdale police can catch the criminal who stole a valuable diamond ring right off of her finger in the parking lot of a Publix Supermarket.
