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Look back at Downtown Disney Car Masters Weekend part two Famous cars
Disney. Obviously, many of them were Disney-related, as you can see in the slideshow at the top of this article. Lightning McQueen, Tow Mater, and Finn McMissile were all out for photos at Car Masters Weekend, attracting big lines last Saturday and ...
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Have a pet Check your homeowners insurance coverage
"I would love it where the insurance companies said 'OK, we know you've got a dog on this list but has it got a canine Good Companion Certificate? Has it been to a trainer?'" he ...
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Dog finds mystery purse in field
THEY DON'T WANT TO TIP OFF ANY POTENTIAL SUSPECTS. DEVELOPING TONIGHT, A STRANGE MYSTERY THAT HAS POLICE BAFFLED. AFTER A DOG FINDS A WOMAN'S PURSE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD. THIS IS BIZARRE. WE ARE TOLL THE DOG WAS IN HER BACKYARD WITH HER OWNER WHEN SUDDENLY SHE FOUND A RANDOM PURSE AND THERE WAS STILL IDENTIFICATION INSIDE. LISA BELL IS LIVE IN CLERMONT. LISA, WHAT MAKES THIS A ...
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Man caught on camera breaking into Edgewater home
Volusia County think a man caught on home surveillance breaking into a home may have done this before. The Edgewater police department released surveillance pictures taken right before they say the man broke into a home. Residents in the community are high-tech. Several of them own video cameras, but either the crooks didn't see them or then didn't care because it didn't stop them ...
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Ex-mobster tells of Bulger gangs killings
"You killed friends?" Bulger attorney Hank Brennan shot. "Yes," replied prosecution witness John Martorano. "Families?" "Yes." "Strangers?" "Yes." "Innocent people?" "Yes," said Martorano, who has admitted to 20 murders and who earlier served 12 years in prison on a government deal for his cooperation in the case ...
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Movie Review
The Forgotten
In The Forgotten, Julianne Moore stars as Telly Paretta, a woman who lost her 9-year-old son Sam in a plane crash 14 months earlier, but has been unable to let go of her grief. She ritualistically goes into her dead son's room every day, laying out his belongings on top of his dress ... ...
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George Zimmerman trial Juror says civil rights were violated
Jeff Counelis was dismissed from the jury pool in the George Zimmerman trial last Wednesday, reportedly because of a post he made on Facebook earlier this ...
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Ireland Nugents new legs get finishing touches
ORLANDO -- A lot of work went into making 2-year-old amputee Ireland Nugent's new legs. After days of fittings and measurements, prosthetists spend Tuesday put the finishing touches on the limbs, which are custom fit to size and style. What's a girl to do with so many fashion fabrics to choose from? Ireland didn't pick just one pattern, Minnie Mouse is on her right leg, Dora ...
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Chickens could come home to roost in Orange County
Chickens living in a backyard. Orange County is considering a new ordinance to make it happen in unincorporated parts of the ...
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Police Sheriffs detective left gun in movie theater restroom
A 9-year-old boy found a loaded handgun inside an Ybor City movie theater bathroom on Sunday. Police say it belongs to a Hillsborough County Sheriff's detective, who was off-duty at the ...
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Body of Ibrahim Todashev flown to Russia
The body of a man shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando a month ago is on its way to Russia Tuesday night. Ibrahim Todashev's body was put on a Russian commercial plane and sent overseas just after 5 p.m. Todashev was being questioned in an Orlando apartment last month about a triple murder in the Boston area involving one of the Boston bombing suspects. The FBI claimed he became ...
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
Hotel Review
Wyndham New Orleans at Canal Place
On arrival at this hotel the thing that struck us most was the location. It was just meters from the ...
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- American Airlines-US Air merger denounced as “merger of convenience” and anti-consumer
- May tourism up in the Smokies
- Job action by foreign service hurting Canadian tourism industry
- Obama welcomes Iran's election of moderate president
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