Marlins hire new PR firm

Maybe a new slogan will help?The Miami Marlins on Tuesday announced the hiring of a new public relations firm to help with the team’s battered image on the heels of jettisoning star players and renewed backlash against tax dollars used to build the team’s new baseball park. Miami’s Jeffrey Group won the account. The company replaces RBB and founding partner Bruce Rubin, a...

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Related developers find themselves in court over tactics

His company on trial over its tactics in a controversial condo project, Jorge Perez, the celebrated developer, found himself on the witness stand Monday answering to an unexpected foe: Jorge Perez, the author.Perez, the chairman of the Related Group, testified in the trial of a lawsuit brought against his company by The Vizcayans, a fundraising and support group for the Vizcaya...

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Yahoo revenue rises on search advertising

(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc posted a 4 percent gain in net revenue to $ 1.22 billion in the fourth quarter, when an increase in search advertising sales offset weakness in the Web portal’s display ad business.The company forecast net revenue — which excludes fees shared with partner websites — of $ 1.07 billion to $ 1.1 billion in the current quarter, trailing the $ 1.1 billion that Wall Street analysts...

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Jamie Lynn Sigler Engaged to Cutter Dykstra of Washington Nationals

Wedding bells will soon be ringing for former Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler!The actress, 31, spilled the beans about her upcoming engagement via Twitter by posting a smiley photo of herself with beau Cutter Dykstra, 23, showing off her brand new sparkler.Pics: When Celebs and Athletes Hook Up "So this just happened," captioned Sigler to the pic of the couple beaming.Soon after, the ecstatic groom-to-be...

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Father 'proud' of son who stood up to alleged molester

I'm proud of him, the dad testified today of a brave nine-year-old boy who stood up to an alleged sex-molesting school aide at the Upper West Side's PS 87 last year.The boy had taken the stand Friday to describe the alleged abuse at the hands of aide Gregory Atkins, 56, angrily confronting the defense attorney during cross examination by shouting, "Stop...

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Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge opens for entries

Entrepreneurs, please don’t let the name of our contest scare you.As we launch our 15th annual Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge today, we are putting out our annual call for entries. But we aren’t looking for long, laboriously detailed business plans. Quite the contrary.More and more, today’s investors in very early stage companies want to see a succinct presentation...

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Brush fire breaks out in Southwest Miami-Dade

Firefighters were battling Sunday a brush fire in Southwest Miami-Dade, with crews working to keep the flames from spreading to nearby homes.The fire broke out at 1:07 p.m. in the area of 112th Avenue and 224th Street. As of late Sunday, no homes were being threatened, fire department officials said.Streets in the area were blocked off while firefighters worked to contain...

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Screen Actors Guild Winners 2013

Tonight, the Screen Actors Guild hosts its annual awards show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California -- and ET is updating you on the winners below! Check back to find out if your favorite star takes home "the Actor" statuette. (Winners Underlined.) RELATED - 2012 Independent Spirit Award Nominations Best Ensemble Argo Les Miserables Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Best Exotic Marigold...

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Schools safety agent shot in Brooklyn; he's expected to survive

An off-duty school-safety agent was shot in the chest in Brooklyn tonight, sources said.A masked man walked up to the city worker around 5:46 p.m. as the victim sat alone in his black Infiniti at 256 East 51st St. near Clarkson Avenue in East Flatbush and blasted him once, sources said.The wounded man was rushed to Kings County Hospital. His condition was...

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Miami Lakes company growing its brand of skin care products

For decades, Vivant Skin Care has formulated creams, serums, cleansers and tonics to treat such dermatological conditions as acne, aging and hyperpigmentation.Family owned and linked to Dr. James E. Fulton, who co-developed the anti-aging formula Retin-A, the company built its reputation with medically tested therapies aimed at improving skin.Now, like a complexion that has...

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