Miami-Dade police officer convicted in lewdness case

A Miami-Dade police officer, who routinely stopped women drivers without cause and engaged in lewd conversations, was convicted in federal court Friday.Prabhainjana Dwivedi, a seven-year veteran, was found guilty on six of seven counts of depriving people of their civil rights. He was found not guilty on the seventh count involving an undercover police officer.Following the...

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Spring Breakers Posters

Sexy Selena By JACKIE WILLISFebruary 09, 2013 Bring on the neon! Bikini-clad gals Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez and Rachel Korine are girls gone wild in Spring Breakers. Posing alongside Kevin Federline-lookalike James Franco (and for Gomez, posing solo) in the latest...

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City recovering from storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow on LI

REUTERSA man operates a snow plow in New York today.A massive winter storm dumped as much as 2½ feet of snow on Long Island overnight and left thousands there without power while New York City residents, despite a foot of snow, counted themselves lucky Saturday.Police in Suffolk County, on the eastern end of the island, used snowmobiles to reach some motorists...

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IRS dealt a setback on tax preparer regulations

To help combat fraud by tax preparers, the Internal Revenue Service created the “Registered Tax Return Preparer” program. Then just before the tax season got under way, the agency was told by a federal judge that it doesn’t have the authority to regulate the hundreds of thousands of tax preparers covered under the program.Although some tax-return preparers are licensed by...

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Squatter Lokiboy evicted from Boca Raton mansion

BOCA RATON -- Infamous squatter Andre Barbosa has been evicted from a Boca Raton mansion, police said.Bank of America retook possession of a $2.5 million home where the 23-year-old Brazilian national had been staying since December.Bank representatives, with the assistance of police, cleared out the foreclosed home at 580 Gold Harbor Dr. at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday. ...

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Bobby Brown on How His Family is Coping a Year after Whitney Houston's Death

As the music industry celebrates its finest artists this Sunday with the Grammy Awards, it also mourns the loss of the one of its greats, Whitney Houston, who passed away last year. At will.i.am's annual benefit concert, Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown and other friends of the late singer shared their remembrances.Brown, who was performing at the star-studded benefit concert that is held annually...

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LiLo NOT staying at LI home - partying it up in Manhattan penthouse instead, dad says

A cash-poor Lindsay Lohan isn’t crashing at her mom’s Long Island home – she’s living it up in a Manhattan penthouse.The starlet’s father told The Post he doubts Lindz is actually living with her mom, Dina, in Merrick."I don’t think she's living there. But she's there once in a while,” he said today. “How many times have you seen her in Merrick? She stays...

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New restaurants aim to help turn Miami Health District into a destination

Gorgonzola pizza with white truffle oil, Chilean sea bass, imported Italian prosciutto and craft beers are run-of-the-mill fare in Miami’s trendier neighborhoods from Miami Beach to the Miami Design District. But such a trendy menu isn’t what you would expect on the edge of Overtown in the area broadly known as Miami’s Health District.The opening last fall of two high-profile...

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Jury awards girl sexually assaulted on school district bus $1.7 million

WEST PALM BEACH -- Minutes after a jury late Wednesday awarded a mentally challenged Pahokee girl $1.7 million for the trauma she suffered when she was raped on a Palm Beach County school bus when she was 3, the girl’s mother rushed toward those who had given her daughter a second chance.“Wait,” she called out just before they filed out the door. “I want to thank all of you.”In...

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Sam Claflin Talks Finnick Catching Fire

This August, Sam Claflin officially beat out every other young actor in Hollywood to score the role of Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Now, with filming nearing completion, the 26-year-old has opened up for the first time about the cool character, his physical preparation and hopes for the cinematic sequel!In an interview with Teen Vogue, Claflin says that it took him a hot minute...

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