College championship won’t be easy money again

South Florida hotels should count their blessings from this weekend’s football bookings. The championship crowds won’t come this easily again. With Notre Dame playing for its first national title in more than 20 years, demand is unusually high for both hotel rooms and tickets for Monday’s championship game against Alabama. The teams have two of the largest fan bases in the...

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Prosecutors: Miami Police sergeant on trial did “wrong instead of right’’

Miami Police Sgt. Raul Iglesias chose to do “wrong instead of right” in 2010 when he took over an undercover squad fighting drug dealing in the inner-city, a prosecutor said during opening statements of a federal trial Thursday. Iglesias planted cocaine on a suspect and stole drugs and money from street dealers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ricardo Del Toro told a 12-person jury....

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George Lucas Engaged to Girlfriend Mellody Hobson

Legendary filmmaker George Lucas will soon undertake a brand-new, epic endeavor: matrimony!Related: George Lucas: 'I'm Retiring' The Star Wars director will soon tie the knot with his longtime girlfriend Mellody Hobson, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Lucas has been dating Hobson, a DreamWorks Animation chairman, since 2006.This will be the second marriage for Lucas, 68, and the first for Hobson,...

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Off-duty cop shot in Bronx preventing apparent car dealership robbery

An off-duty police officer was shot in the leg tonight while preventing an attempted robbery in the Bronx , police sources said.The officer interrupted a robbery crew of at least four men from sticking up a used car dealership he co-owned called "Boston Road Auto Mall"in Bronxwood around 6:32 p.m., sources said.He ran after one of the perps, who was armed,...

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The return of the cranes: Miami-Dade construction projects on the horizon in 2013

The cranes are coming back to Miami. The battered construction industry is going higher in the new year after showing strong signs of life in 2012. Will Miami feel more like Manhattan in a few years? It just might.So far, there has been more talk than action, fewer shovels in the ground than grand announcements. Even so, construction is underway on a dozen new condominiums...

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Scott Rothstein’s wife to plead guilty in jewelry coverup

The wife of Fort Lauderdale’s most infamous fraudster could soon be before a judge fighting for her own freedom.Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein’s wife is scheduled to plead guilty on Feb. 1 to conspiring to hide more than $1 million in jewelry from federal authorities, one of her attorneys confirmed Wednesday.Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com. ...

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Review: Nintendo’s TVii tops button-laden remotes

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nintendo‘s TV-watching tool for the new Wii U game console beats my regular remote control hands down.Called TVii, the service transforms how you watch television in three key ways. It turns the touch-screen GamePad controller for the Wii U into a remote control for your TV and set-top box. It groups your favorite shows and sports teams together, whether it’s on live TV or an Internet...

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Lena Dunham Girls Emmys 2012

As the last of the Gangnam Style craze finally dies down, and after the long-awaited Mayan doomsday scenario failed to manifest, the year 2013 might seem a bit underwhelming. Thankfully, one major star from this past year is not poised to slow down one bit.Lena Dunham, primarily known for her breakout HBO comedy Girls is something of a renaissance woman. It's one thing to be a part of a critically...

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Man who allegedly hit 4 pedestrians at New Year's Eve party claims he was being chased by mob

He says it was all a wild Goose chase.The alleged drunken driver who mowed down four pedestrians outside a Brooklyn club’s wild New Year’s Eve party claims he was fleeing a violent mob, angered that he accused them of stealing his bottles of pricey vodka, his attorney said today.Staten Island carpenter Charles Amado, 34, was slapped with attempted murder...

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Portion of Macy’s Flagler Street property in downtown Miami sold

A New York firm bought part of the Macy’s building in downtown Miami and is expected to acquire the rest. The next priority is negotiating a new lease to keep Macy’s as a tenant.In a deal that could have implications for the future of downtown Miami’s anchor retail tenant, a New York real estate investment firm paid $15.55 million to acquire more than half the property that...

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