The 20th Herald Hunt is over, an the winners are a team calling themselves "The Fiscal Cliff Hangers" from Davie.The team of five people solved the brain-twisting Hunt at about 2:45 p.m. by piecing together their clues and finding a common theme, which led them to a phone number -- and still more clues. Come back to MiamiHerald.com later today to see the results. ...
Buzzmakers: AJ is a Dad and Angus Apologizes
Label: LifestyleWhat had ET readers buzzing this week?1. Charges Filed Against Lindsay LohanCalifornia prosecutors have officially filed charges against Lindsay Lohan.The charges, which include willfully resisting, obstructing, or delaying an officer in the course of their duties, supplying false information to a police officer and reckless driving, stem from the car accident Lohan was involved in last June when...
Mother's anguish as son and boxing legend Hector 'Macho' Camacho is buried
Label: Health Jennifer L. GonzelesANGUISH: Maria Matias, mother or murdered boxing great Hector (Macho) Camacho, is carried away after becoming overwhelmed with grief at her son's burial in The Bronx today.She just couldn’t accept it was the final round. The wailing mom of slain boxing champ Hector (Macho) Camacho had to be dragged kicking and screaming from her son’s...
Boat Show may block Miami’s 2016 Super Bowl bid
Label: Business This winter, the biggest NFL match-up in South Florida might be Super Bowl versus Boat Show. As South Florida readies a bid for the 2016 Super Bowl, it must contend with a major potential conflict on the tourism calendar. The National Football League may move the Super Bowl to Presidents’ Day weekend, already home to the five-day Miami International Boat Show since the 1940s....
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Remembering the rhythm: Fans celebrate life of Jaco Pastorius
Label: World Tammy Goss is sitting on a park bench in a small patch of green wedged between Dixie Highway and the FEC railroad tracks. Staring down from the southeast wall of the corner community center is a huge blue-toned mural of a man’s face, his fingers curled around an electric bass guitar. She knows his name.“Jaco Pastorius, I think,” said Goss, 45.But that’s all she really knows...
Study: DVRs now in half of US pay-TV homes
Label: TechnologyNEW YORK (AP) — A new survey finds that digital video recorders are now in more than half of all U.S. homes that subscribe to cable or satellite TV services.Leichtman Research Group‘s survey of 1,300 households found that 52 percent of the ones that have pay-TV service also have a DVR. That translates to about 45 percent of all households and is up from 13.5 percent of all households surveyed five...
The Famous Monsters & Aliens of Rick Baker
Label: LifestyleRick Baker is being honored with a well-deserved Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, and the multiple Oscar-winning special makeup effects artist talks to ETonline about his first big break, how An American Werewolf in London would look onscreen today, the inspirations for his wild Men in Black 3 creatures and more.Video: Will Smith Keeps Swingin' at 'MiB' "I was part of the first generation...
Pressuring GOP, Obama takes his fiscal plan to Pa.
Label: Health REUTERSPresident Obama gestures next to Michael Araten, right, President of Rodon, and Joel Glickman, Vice Chairman, at the Rodon Group, a manufacturer of toys in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, Friday.HATFIELD, Pa. — President Obama argued Friday that allowing taxes to rise for the middle class would amount to a "lump of coal" for Christmas," while Republican...
Banking regulators release Helm Bank’s and Great Eastern Bank’s enforcement actions agreed to in October
Label: Business Helm Bank USA, based in Miami, signed a consent order with federal and state banking regulators Oct. 17, according to information on October enforcement actions released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday.Helm Bank must deveop a Bank Secrecy Act compliance plan, implement internal controls and a training program, revise its strategic plan and develop a plan...
Nov
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Email effort fails to end state secrecy
Label: World TALLAHASSEE -- Bad news and controversy are routine in the vast state government under Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s control. But don’t look for clues in Project Sunburst, Scott’s program of email transparency.That’s because Scott doesn’t use email as a primary form of communication, and neither does his top aide, chief of staff Adam Hollingsworth.Workers at state agencies also...
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