M iami connection to Bagel-fuls, a cream cheese-stuffed bagel bar that is new from Kraft in the frozen breakfast foods aisle. The inventor is Alvin ''Al'' Burger, 74, original owner of Roasters' n Toasters in Pinecrest. The fellow who made the product a commercial success and pitched Kraft to take it national is Gary Schwartzberg, 56, owner of Filled Bagel Industries in Medley.
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TV judges Marilyn Milian (The People's Court) and David Young (Judge David Young), residents of South Florida, are contenders for a Daytime Emmy in a new category -- Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program.
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Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, Barry University chancellor and former president, is in Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, recovering from surgery to replace her left hip. Dr. William Leone Jr. operated April 23.
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Former Sweetwater cop Manuel ''Manny'' Pardo Jr., awaiting execution on Florida's Death Row for nine murders, lost another bid to escape lethal injection. Pardo, 51, claimed his 1988 convictions and death sentences should be set aside. Among the reasons: He says he was incompetent at trial because of a ''thyroid and hormonal disorder'' that wasn't diagnosed at the time.
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A waterfront residence on La Gorce Island in Miami Beach that was once home to Cher and temporary digs for Janet Jackson and Julio Iglesias is back on the market -- for much more than a song. Asking price: $14.9 million.
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V eteran Miami-Dade prosecutor Abbe Rifkin, stuck in northbound traffic on I-95 near Northwest 62nd Street, did a double take at the vanity tag on the pickup truck in front of her: A four-letter word that begins and ends with T.
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C hris Korge, real estate developer and political fundraiser, and Rodney Barreto, political consultant and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission chairman, are a couple of losers -- in a local Body Fat Challenge. That's why Korge is sporting the bald look, and Barreto's thick salt-and-pepper mane is bare on top. The fellows who finished at the bottom of the three-month diet and exercise competition agreed to shave their heads, says Agustin ''Tino'' Herran, 39, president of the Sedano's...
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The mother of one of rapper Luther Campbell's children wants a Miami-Dade judge to initiate suspension of Campbell's driver's license -- because Campbell owes $38,981.61 in back child support.
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R ama Hughes, an art teacher and illustrator who grew up in Miami Shores, got ink in The Artist's Magazine -- for creating The Portrait Party blog (theportraitparty.blogspot.com ) that encourages people to draw each other and post the portraits online. The article is titled ``Trading Faces.''
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G ailen David, a Miami-based flight attendant for American Airlines, and JetBlue Airways are vying to register the same trademark -- ``Jetiquette.''
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No bull: A fellow identified as Cecil Osceola showed up at Everglades National Park's Shark Valley entrance -- with a bulldozer -- declaring he wanted to reclaim his land.
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H ospitalized in Miami: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 86, Special Olympics founder and sister of Sen. Edward ''Ted'' Kennedy and the late President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. She's also the mother-in-law of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Son Anthony Shriver says she is recovering from pneumonia at University of Miami Hospital (UMH, formerly Cedars Medical Center, which UM purchased late last year for $260 million).
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Jumbo honor for Jumbo's restaurant in Liberty City: The James Beard Foundation selected it as one of ''America's Classics.'' Owners Bobby and Dale Flam will attend the black-tie awards gala on June 8 at Lincoln Center in New York.
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Newlyweds: Martin Z. ''Marty'' Margulies, 70, real estate developer and art collector, and Constance Collins, 49, attorney and nonprofit president. They married on Sunday -- at Lotus House, the homeless women's shelter that Collins opened in Overtown in March '06. Rabbi Mitch Chefitz, scholar-in-residence of Temple Israel of Greater Miami, officiated. Guests included Wolfsonian museum director Cathy Leff, who introduced them; Sagamore hotel owners Marty and Cricket Taplin; Margulies' four children...
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South Florida attorney Kendall Coffey appeared live Tuesday on CNN Newsroom as a guest legal analyst on the sex scandal involving New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Coffey, 55, Miami's former U.S. Attorney, talked about federal law, Justice Department guidelines and political ramifications. What didn't come up: Coffey's own 1996 imbroglio with a topless dancer at the club Lipstik. Coffey resigned from his prosecutor post the day after The Miami Herald broke that story.
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Marketing consultant Hilda Mitrani, driving on I-95 near Northwest 62nd Street on Tuesday, couldn't believe the vanity license plate on the light green '01 Infiniti I30 in front of her --
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When Jason Rose was an infant, doctors diagnosed a rare blood disease called Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA). They weren't sure he would survive. He did, but it was a tough, tough road -- countless blood transfusions, steroids and other medicines, surgeries and physical therapy. Today, at 37, he is four-foot-three, the same height he was at 13, at his November '83 bar mitzvah.
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Coral Gables police Maj. Scott Masington gave his 30 motorcycle, crash investigation, bike and marine patrol officers the gift of time at Christmas: Casio watches. He presented them, in red-and-green wrap with a candy cane and stocking motif, at the Specialized Enforcement Division's holiday party at Cocoplum Yacht Club.
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St ephen M. ''Steve'' Ross, the billionaire developer who is buying a half interest in the Miami Dolphins, talks about his local gridiron experience: two years of varsity football at Miami Beach High. Ross, 67, class of '58, appears in the team photo in the Typhoon yearbook.
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End of an era: Longtime WPLG-ABC 10 anchor Dwight Lauderdale, a fixture on South Florida TV since 1974, is expected to announce his retirement Monday on the 11 p.m. news. His contract expires June 1, and talk is he'll leave in late May.
