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Donors built Miami a $25 million shelter for women and kids. Is it the nation's best?

The new $25 million Lotus Village shelter for homeless women and children, funded in full by private donors, is now open in Overtown. It houses a children’s therapeutic center, a medical clinic, in-house day care, a yoga studio, a Zen garden, a professional kitchen where women will train as line cooks and chefs, and cozy beds for 490 women and children.

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Food & Drink

Romaine lettuce E. Coli outbreak becomes the biggest U.S. outbreak in 12 years

In its Wednesday afternoon update on the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak, the CDC reports 84 people sick, the most in any U.S. E. coli outbreak since 2006. Romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona, is still fingered as the culprit.

Home & Garden

Officials: Mold-covered bodies found at Detroit funeral home

Two bodies appeared to be covered in mold and the facial area of a third body was covered in unknown fluids at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Detroit on Wednesday, when state regulators inspected the establishment and ordered its closure.

Food & Drink

Is this Cuban coffee Cafetera Ring the most-Miami way to ask her to marry you?

For true Cuban coffee lovers there is the Cafetera Ring, a two-inch tall Cuban cafetera coffee maker you can wear as a ring. It was designed by Santayana Jewelers in Miami-Dade County.

Health & Fitness

Pediatric palliative care: living with hope and quality throughout illness

Pediatric palliative care is a specialty that aims primarily to relieve the burden of suffering for children and families living with any chronic, complex or critical illness.

Travel

Should these bankers go to prison? 5-week Wilmington Trust trial wraps

Is it a crime – should bosses go to prison – when bankers wreck government-insured banks and impoverish their own shareholders by making lots of risky loans that don't get paid back?

Fashion

Shoe czar Stuart Weitzman says this spring it's all about straps, flats and booties

Stuart Weitzman counts Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Gigi Hadid among his celebrity clientele. But we, the shoe-loving public, appreciate Weitzman for his brand of footwear, like the classic Stari kitten heel and his sexy Highland boot.

Fashion

Five questions for fashion icon Iris Apfel

As an interior designer, Iris Apfel had a client list that included Greta Garbo, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Estee Lauder. But that is not what she is known for. Apfel is famous for being fabulous, or to be more accurate, dressing fabulously.

Food & Drink

Listeria causes recall of frozen desserts sold in 15 states, including some Walmarts

Budget $aver Cherry Pineapple Monster Pops and Budget $aver Sugar Free Pops were recalled from 15 states after listeria was found during an inspection of the Denver facility where the frozen pops were made.

Fast and Furious: Supercharged has opened at Universal Orlando.

Travel

Engine revving, bus lurching, Fast & Furious roars to life at Universal Orlando

The Fast and Furious - Supercharged ride, a wild street chase simulated on giant projection screens, has opened at Universal Studios in Orlando.

Business

The recalled canned vegetables may have peanut in them, but you wouldn't know from the label

McCall Farms recalled one lot of Happy Harvest Spinach sold at Aldi in 16 states because there might be peanuts in the spinach, but a labeling mistake doesn't alert consumers to that.

Dr. Kevin Reiseck works with a patient at his South Miami chiropractic clinic, the Miami Spine Center.

Health & Fitness

Skydiving chiropractor avoided serious injury jumping from planes, now helps others in pain

South Miami chiropractor Dr. Kevin Reiseck, once a lauded skydive instructor, spent the first part of his life cheating death and avoiding serious injury. Now, he has dedicated the rest of it to helping people in pain.

Food & Drink

Publix has something to say about E. coli, salmonella, romaine and eggs in stores

Publix issued statements on its website that neither current foodborne illness outbreak, E. coli nor salmonella, affects romaine lettuce or eggs currently on its shelves.

Farah Mehndi tattoos Melanie Almeder's own poetry on her upper chest as part of

Health & Fitness

Cancer patients' own poetry of hope temporarily tattooed on their bodies in O, Miami project

Cancer survivors, their friends and family members recently participated in a two-day O, Miami Poetry Festival project called "This Dreaming This Living" at the Lennar Foundation Medical Center.

Health & Fitness

There is help for Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers

Currently, more than five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and as our population ages, this number could potentially skyrocket to 16 million by 2050.

Jock Doc

What is the difference between a separated and a dislocated shoulder?

My son was playing basketball and fell on his left shoulder. He had severe pain and difficulty lifting it. He went to the emergency room and was told he had a separated shoulder and was given a sling.

Plastic Surgery 101

Tummy tucks work well, but so do many minimally invasive procedures

Dr. Wolf, it’s getting around bikini time. I’m not overweight but I have some bulging that I never had. I’m not ready to undergo a tummy tuck. What do you recommend?

Ana Veciana-Suarez

Encore careers prove that people may find talent in unexpected places later in life

I may have found my calling late in life; the job that uses my storytelling talent for a new audience. After a few minutes of superficial consideration, I’ve decided I want to be an entertainer at children’s birthday parties. Specifically, my grandchildren’s parties.

Home & Garden

The owners of Seattle's 2nd Built Green Emerald Star home inform and inspire

"I feel like I'm living in a museum," says Veena Prasad. She's smiling, because her family's gorgeously light and vibrant new home in West Seattle looks nothing at all like a museum – until, maybe, you notice all those explanatory little signs her husband, Andri Kofmehl, has posted on the walls.

Travel

Seattle's new waterfront: Pike Place Market and beyond

SEATTLE – Open since 1907, Pike Place Market is one of the oldest continuously operating farmers markets in the United States. That historic significance – and those iconic waterfront views over Puget Sound– draw 10 million visitors a year to its dark alleys and cramped, creaky stairways.

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