A man at Miami International Airport who said he had dynamite in his luggage — because he thought it would be funny — was arrested Monday, according to Miami-Dade police.The suspicious luggage led to a partial evacuation at Concourse J. The Miami-Dade police bomb squad searched the bag and found no explosives, police said. Alejandro Leon Hurtado, 63, of Guatemala, was at...
How Zero Dark Thirty Copied Bin Laden's Compound
Label: LifestyleOscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow reteams with her Hurt Locker screenwriter Mark Boal for Zero Dark Thirty, a chronicling of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and the two opened up to Nightline about how they recreated bin Laden's compound.VIDEO: Zero Dark Thirty TrailerThe filmmakers built a full-scale version of the compound in Jordan, and Bigelow says that everything from the carpet to the marks...
Push to do the ‘rate’ thing
Label: Health The City Council and city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission sparred yesterday over a new taxi design that eliminates printed fares from the sides of taxicabs.Councilman James Vacca (D-Bronx), Transportation Committee chair, is pushing a bill to require the TLC to reinstate the printed fares, which the city dropped earlier this year.“I think passengers have...
Shoppers welcome holiday sales by buying early, often — and online
Label: Business Shoppers swooped into stores in droves on Thanksgiving weekend, topping last year’s sales, as more retailers opened their doors earlier than ever on Thursday, luring bargain hunters away from eating another plate of turkey.And now Cyber Monday is expected to set a record for online shopping this year, for those who prefer the Internet to the mall.Spending per shopper nationwide...
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Flurry of new bills filed in Tallahassee
Label: World TALLAHASSEE -- Florida lawmakers have filed their first bills of the season.Most are familiar: a ban on texting while driving, a requirement that parasailing operators carry insurance and a “foreign law” bill criticized by opponents as anti-Islamic.Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, says she will keep sponsoring the texting while driving measure until it passes. It nearly survived...
Justin Bieber Defends Meeting Prime Minister in Overalls
Label: LifestyleAfter catching a bit of flack for meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister in a decidedly casual pair of overalls, Justin Bieber took to Instagram Sunday to explain himself.Related: Justin Bieber on Selena, His Favorite Things
"The pic of me and the Prime Minister was taken in a room in the arena where I was performing at that day," Bieber wrote in response to a journalist who criticized the move...
Cyber Monday likely to be the year's busiest online sales day
Label: Health APCyber Monday is likely to be the year's busiest online sales day.Bye-bye Black Friday. So long Small Business Saturday. Now, it's Cyber Monday's turn.Cyber Monday, coined in 2005 by a shopping trade group that noticed online sales spiked on the Monday following Thanksgiving, is the next in a series of days that stores are counting on to jumpstart the...
Shifting tides of Panama real estate echo Miami trends
Label: Business PANAMA CITY, Panama — As a real estate agent shows off a model apartment — white leather sectional, stainless steel appliances, open concept, ocean views — in the 59-story Yacht Club Tower, and touts its fitness center and pool deck designed to mimic a ship floating on the sea, he makes a telling statement:“We tried to emulate the Miami style in this building.”Approaching...
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Never mind shopping; Messiah concert marks start of holiday season
Label: World Participating in the annual Messiah sing-in, always made me feel like the Season had begun. I was a member of the community chorus for many years, under the late Dr. Lee Kjelson. It was a wonderful feeling, singing the words from the Bible that foretold the coming of Jesus. Now, decades later, the Messiah sing-in tradition is still going strong.At 2:30 p. m. on Dec. 9,...
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