Miami-Dade police officer convicted in lewdness case

A Miami-Dade police officer, who routinely stopped women drivers without cause and engaged in lewd conversations, was convicted in federal court Friday.Prabhainjana Dwivedi, a seven-year veteran, was found guilty on six of seven counts of depriving people of their civil rights. He was found not guilty on the seventh count involving an undercover police officer.Following the...

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Spring Breakers Posters

Sexy Selena By JACKIE WILLISFebruary 09, 2013 Bring on the neon! Bikini-clad gals Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez and Rachel Korine are girls gone wild in Spring Breakers. Posing alongside Kevin Federline-lookalike James Franco (and for Gomez, posing solo) in the latest...

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City recovering from snowstorm that dumped more than 2 feet of powder on LI

REUTERSA man operates a snow plow in New York on Saturday.A massive winter storm dumped as much as 2½ feet of snow on Long Island overnight and left thousands there without power while New York City residents, despite a foot of snow, counted themselves lucky Saturday.Police in Suffolk County, on the eastern end of the island, used snowmobiles to reach some...

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IRS dealt a setback on tax preparer regulations

To help combat fraud by tax preparers, the Internal Revenue Service created the “Registered Tax Return Preparer” program. Then just before the tax season got under way, the agency was told by a federal judge that it doesn’t have the authority to regulate the hundreds of thousands of tax preparers covered under the program.Although some tax-return preparers are licensed by...

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Squatter Lokiboy evicted from Boca Raton mansion

BOCA RATON -- Infamous squatter Andre Barbosa has been evicted from a Boca Raton mansion, police said.Bank of America retook possession of a $2.5 million home where the 23-year-old Brazilian national had been staying since December.Bank representatives, with the assistance of police, cleared out the foreclosed home at 580 Gold Harbor Dr. at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday. ...

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Exclusive: Joe Flacco Gets Fitted for Tommy Hilfiger's New York Fashion Show

Joe Flacco has had quite the week. The Baltimore Ravens quarterback won the Super Bowl and was named MVP on Sunday, visited Disney World the day after, and has been making appearances non-stop since then.Next on Flacco's agenda is attending Tommy Hilfiger's New York Fashion Show and ET has an exclusive look at his fitting session with the fashion designer to select what he'll wear to the show. PICS:...

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2 housing officers bust shooter, 13, for attempted murder of 14-year-old in East Harlem: cops

DCPIOfficers recovered this weapon after a 13-year-old attempted to shoot a rival teen.Cops busted a 13-year-old for attempted murder yesterday after officers spotted him shooting at another teen in an East Harlem Housing project.The two kids, from rival housing project crews, were in a dispute at the Jefferson Houses on Second Avenue near East 115th Street...

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New restaurants aim to help turn Miami Health District into a destination

Gorgonzola pizza with white truffle oil, Chilean sea bass, imported Italian prosciutto and craft beers are run-of-the-mill fare in Miami’s trendier neighborhoods from Miami Beach to the Miami Design District. But such a trendy menu isn’t what you would expect on the edge of Overtown in the area broadly known as Miami’s Health District.The opening last fall of two high-profile...

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Jury awards girl sexually assaulted on school district bus $1.7 million

WEST PALM BEACH -- Minutes after a jury late Wednesday awarded a mentally challenged Pahokee girl $1.7 million for the trauma she suffered when she was raped on a Palm Beach County school bus when she was 3, the girl’s mother rushed toward those who had given her daughter a second chance.“Wait,” she called out just before they filed out the door. “I want to thank all of you.”In...

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Matt Lauria Zosia Mamet Talk Really Really Girls Parenthood and Mae Whitman

There are no shows I adore more right now than Parenthood and Girls, so you can imagine the jubilation coursing throughout my body when Matt Lauria and Zosia Mamet signed on to co-star in MCC Theater's production of Really Really. RELATED - Parenthood & Girls Are Two of The Year's Best ShowsAnd once you watch my interview with this dynamic duo, you'll really (really) understand why I adore them...

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