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Why, table-side massage during poker games, of course. http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/595774.html http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/595774.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:01 EDT A police polygraph test used to justify the shutdown of a Broward sheriff's investigation into an inmate abuse claim is now suddenly in question, casting doubt on the agency's handling of the case. http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/595772.html http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/595772.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:51 EDT A Wal-Mart shopper looking for a deal in the garden department found more than he bargained for when he startled a poisonous pygmy rattlesnake hiding in some plants. http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/595480.html http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/595480.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:57 EDT A 9-month-old baby girl was killed Sunday when the car she was riding in crashed into a concrete sign in Miramar, Miramar police said. http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/593167.html http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/593167.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:20 EDT Melvin Gonzalez, a welder, was motoring through Hialeah early Thursday morning in a van filled with with gasoline, acetylene, compressed oxygen and other tools of his trade. http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/390482.html http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/390482.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:04 EST A spectacular multifloral lady slipper orchid, with long, undulating petals and golden pouches, won grand champion as best plant of the show at the 19th World Orchid Conference, open in Miami through Sunday. Exhibited by Krull-Smith of Apopka, the superbly grown Paphiopedilum Michael Koopowitz is a cross between Paph. philippinense and Paph. sanderianum. The plant is three feet tall and four feet wide, with petals extending 2 ½ feet. Frank Smith, the company owner, said the plant is not... http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/88455.html http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/88455.html Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:59 EDT ORLANDO -- (AP) -- A group petitioning to ban gay marriage filed a lawsuit Thursday against Broward County and a Sunrise police officer, claiming the sergeant violated volunteers' civil rights during a petition drive. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/595066.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/595066.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT FedEx prides itself on reliability. But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines to Baltimore via the shipping company. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/595062.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/595062.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Thirteen people living in a suspected boarding house near Fort Lauderdale escaped unharmed after a fire broke out early Saturday morning, Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/595059.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/595059.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT When West Boca Raton High cheerleader Stephanie Kuleba died in March after outpatient surgery, geneticists Jeffery Vance and Margaret Pericak-Vance had a suspicion. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592996.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592996.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT 33132-1693. 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But Edna Ortiz, 55, became a widow too soon when her husband died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594258.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594258.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT David McCourt believed his life was over after he lost his wife and 5-year-old daughter on 9/11. But a move to Palm Beach and the comforting memories of his family have helped McCourt give life a second chance. ''I think subconsciously I wanted a place that would anesthetize me to the pain, and Palm Beach seduced me with its beautiful tropical landscapes and ocean views,'' he said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594261.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Sue Rosenblum's son, Joshua, the youngest of her five children, was to be married in Bermuda on Sept. 15, 2001. But the 28-year-old was killed four days earlier while working for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 104th floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594274.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594274.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT It was the greatest tribute South Beach's Dominic J. Puopolo Jr. could have ever paid to his mother, and in 2007 it became a reality. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594275.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594275.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Dominic Puopolo Jr. of Miami Beach lost his mother on Sept. 11, 2001, when her plane, American Airlines Flight 11, was hijacked and flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594405.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/594405.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:10 EDT Dominic Puopolo Jr. of Miami Beach lost his mother on Sept. 11, 2001, when her plane, American Airlines Flight 11, was hijacked and flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592986.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592986.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Calendar Desk, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Fifth Floor Newsroom, Miami, FL 33132-1693. 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For a complete list of events, go to www.MiamiHerald.com. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593447.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593447.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01 EDT David Haroldo Figueroa was so enraged over a minor fender bender, Broward sheriff's deputies say, that he pummeled the other driver and then attempted to yank the man out of his van when he tried to drive away. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593451.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593451.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Decked out in baggy jeans, a long black T-shirt and a baseball cap, a robber swiped cash Sunday night from a Broward Walgreens without even showing a weapon. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593452.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593452.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT ''Drug-induced love'' was the reason Daniel LeFrancois gave Thursday to a Broward judge to explain his relentless attack of James Graziose with a hammer last year. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593459.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593459.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Fort Lauderdale's latest attempt to keep the Baltimore Orioles baseball team from possibly leaving its spring training site has failed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593486.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593486.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT A ruling by the Florida Supreme Court Thursday struck down Gov. Charlie Crist's gambling deal that allowed the Seminole Tribe to offer Las Vegas-style slot machines, baccarat and blackjack at its casinos, including the Hard Rock chain. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593526.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593526.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Starting Monday, travel times will be posted on the message signs gracing Interstate 595, according to the Florida Department of Transportation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593509.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593509.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Fort Lauderdale police were investigating a suspicious death after a body was found on Thursday night. The body of a male was found in the 1100 block of Northwest Fifth Court, police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sousa said. Reports of the body came in at about 8 p.m. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593508.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/593508.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT A 12-year-old boy in-line-skating with friends in Pembroke Pines on Wednesday night was killed after being struck by a car driven by a Miami teenager, police said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592118.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592118.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:01 EDT Broward Chief Judge Victor Tobin is being sued for defamation and accused of misleading the state Legislature and the County Commission about the cost of a program that handled traffic cases for the county, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592119.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592119.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT The human bones found inside a sunken van in a Coral Springs canal earlier this year were officially identified Wednesday as those of Jeffrey Walter Klee, a teenager first reported missing more than three decades ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592121.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592121.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT Meshia Morant came to Junior and Nadia Lodge about six months ago, a kind, 30-year-old woman with a son but without a job and needing a place to stay, Nadia Lodge said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592120.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592120.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT A Broward teen accused of trying to abduct an 11-year-old girl while she was asleep in her home was under the heavy influence of drugs and alcohol and may have ''blacked out'' during the episode, his attorney argued Wednesday during a hearing to get him out of jail. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592165.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/592165.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT A Miramar police officer -- on his way to a City Commission meeting -- was seriously hurt after another vehicle crashed into his on Wednesday night, authorities said. http://www.miamiherald.com/510/story/586400.html http://www.miamiherald.com/510/story/586400.html Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT Babette Kulka conquered most of her fears by the time she was 65. She swam countless miles in the ocean, pedaled on treacherous trails and ran across a finish line with a broken ankle. http://www.miamiherald.com/510/story/581968.html http://www.miamiherald.com/510/story/581968.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:01 EDT Michael McQuade was a Margate police officer and former Marine who had focus and determination -- and a soft spot for his pint-size Yorkie, Bella.