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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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Pets

Listeria and potential for botulism cause two recalls from one dog food maker

OC Raw Dog recalled one lot of its Chicken, Fish & Produce Meaty Rox, Doggie Sliders, Slider Bags and Doggie Dozen Patty Bags after listeria was found and its 3.2-ounce Freeze Dried Sardines as a precaution against botulism.

Food & Drink

E. coli update: 60 sick, prison information leads CDC to expand romaine lettuce warning

After eight inmates at Alaska's Anvil Mountain Correctional Center got hit with E. coli from whole head romaine lettuce, the CDC expanded its romaine lettuce warning Friday to include chopped and whole head and hearts of romaine lettuce.

Home & Garden

Hot Property: The Manor one-ups a Billionaire

The most expensive home for sale in America is still found in Los Angeles, but it's no longer the larger-than-life mansion that debuted a year ago in Bel-Air at $250 million.

Celebrity Edge, where dining really is on the edge

Travel

There's a food fight among premium cruise lines, and Celebrity is seeking an Edge

Pets

Dogs, cats often suffer common inflammatory ear condition

My 3-year-old Irish setter’s ears give him trouble. He shakes his head constantly. My vet smelled them and gave us expensive drops and a flush to put in there, but whenever we stop using these he starts flipping his ears around again. Is there a cure?

Travel

It looks like a war machine from 'Avatar,' but this Disney beast is no villain

Disney and Lightstorm Entertainment have created a hulking steampunk beast that will roam Pandora: The World of Avatar at Animal Kingdom and talk to guests about plants and conservation starting April 22, the park's 20th anniversary.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin, center, walk in the March of the Living, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march between the former death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Thursday, April 12, 2018.

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Opinion: When the survey says the Holocaust is fading away

Last week, the world commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Much of the news this year focused on a new national survey, conducted by Schoen Consulting for the Claims Conference, to assess just how much Americans, especially young Americans, know about the Holocaust today.

Home & Garden

Where can you park a tiny house? Wherever you want, builder says.

It's not often that you can tour an entire home inside a convention center exhibit hall, but when the house is just over 200 square feet and attached to a trailer, it can go just about anywhere.

Home & Garden

On Gardening: Milkweed feasting more than you realize

As we all strive to get our hands on every native milkweed for our states and to the ultimate benefit of the Monarch butterfly I thought I might plug its use for the other guys. Your first thought might be I'm talking about the Queen or Soldier butterflies that are related to the Monarch and also must have milkweeds as larval host plants.

Food & Drink

E. coli outbreak update: 53 sick in 16 states, throw out romaine lettuce (still)

The Centers for Disease Control's Wednesday update on the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak says the sick count has added 18 people since Friday, for a total of 53 in 16 states. And there's a high hospitalization rate.

How to identify if your package of Boost Me Mighty Meaty Beef Topper Meal Enhancer has been recalled

Pets

The week's third dog food recall snags another company that had one in February.

TruPet recalled 400 cases of TruDog Boost Me Mighty Meaty Beef Topper Meal Enhancer after the FDA found salmonella in a sample. TruDog dog treats also got recalled in February after salmonella was found.

Travel

In Disney's World of Avatar, the Pandora Utility Suit

At Disney's Animal Kingdom, in the land of Pandora, the utility suit is piloted by a human and was designed to study flora and collect plant samples. Starting April 22, it will rove Pandora and tell guests about the land's plant life.

Food & Drink

On the chance the tea leaves read 'salmonella,' this brand sold at Publix has been recalled

Traditional Medicinals and Publix, one of several stores that sells Traditional Medicinals, announced a recall of one lot each of EveryDay Detox Lemon and Throat Coat Lemon Echinacea after its lemon myrtle leaf found salmonella in a sample.

Pets

Students on spring break help repair 87-year-old's home, rescue stray dog

For spring break this year, college students Kiara Jacoby and Tori Zaccaria decided to go to a hurricane-ravaged Texas town just south of Houston to help an 87-year-old woman repair her badly damaged home.

Health & Fitness

Pediatric cancer: warning signs and symptoms

Some parents will, at some time, worry about the possibility of a child developing cancer. Is this fear realistic? Just how common is pediatric cancer?

Publix eggs included in Cal-Maine's egg recall connected to Rose Acre Farms' salmonella recall

Food & Drink

Here's where people got sick in egg salmonella outbreak as a new recall touches Publix

The Centers for Disease Control's Monday update says 23 people in nine states are in the egg salmonella outbreak so far. Meanwhile, Cal-Maine announced a secondary recall, covering eggs sold at Walmart and Publix, among other places.

Pets

Dog food company recalls second and third products for salmonella in two months.

Carnivore Meat Company recalled one lot of Vital Essentials Freeze-Dried Beef Toppers and one lot of Vital Essentials Frozen Beef Chub Entrée for Dogs after the FDA found salmonella.

Home & Garden

Home Depot sued for mismanaging retirement fund accounts

A suit filed in federal court against Home Depot charges that the hardware giant permitted mismanagement of retirement funds affecting more than 200,000 people and costing their accounts at least $140 million.

Travel

Sun Country offers to pay all return-trip expenses for passengers stranded in Mexico

Sun Country Airlines said Tuesday it will pay the additional travel costs faced by the approximately 250 passengers who were left stranded in Mexico by two snowstorm-related flight cancellations this weekend.

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