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Compton Royalty: Documentary Examines Venus and Serena's Rise From Their Upbringing in Southeast L.A.

Olivia Sprauer, Teacher Fired for Being Too Sexy: A Glimpse Inside Her Real Life

Yesterday, Olivia Sprauer, a brunet bombshell who was fired from her teaching job at Martin County High School last month for being too sexy -- and yes, uploading nudie pics of herself -- exploded the internet. The former English teacher, who is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University, made it in ... More >>

Powerball Fever Spreads Across Florida

In case you didn't know, tonight is the big, huge, very gigantic Florida Powerball drawing. And even though the odds of getting hit in the face by a bolt of lightning are far better than winning the Powerball, people in Florida are still apparently buying tickets for it in droves. According to the ... More >>

Whitney Houston, Actress: Surveying the Great Diva's Checkered Film Career

Crazed, Blind, French-Speaking Octogenarian Forces Spirit Air Emergency Landing

All they wanted to do was fly from L.A. to Fort Lauderdale.About 100 passengers were stuck in Houston on Sunday after an unruly 81-year-old man forced a Spirit Air red-eye flight to make an emergency landing in Texas, according to ABC News. The man was "like, touching everybody," according to one pa ... More >>

Hallandale Beach Lifeguard Tomas Lopez Fired for Leaving Assigned Area to Save Swimmer UPDATED

Update, 2:25 p.m.: Lopez was reportedly offered his job back. He declined, adding what looks to be a conclusion on the biggest life guard PR meltdown we can remember.Original post, 11 a.m.:Hallandale Beach lifeguard Tomas Lopez ran 1,500 feet outside of his assigned area to help save a drowning vict ... More >>

Trayvon Martin Beat Up on George Zimmerman; Suddenly Zimmerman Isn't Racist Anymore

On Monday, George Zimmerman's lawyers posted on Facebook that they'd received documents a digital records that included "witness statements, 911 calls, non-emergency calls, photos, video, medical records, and more." Mysteriously, that was the same day ABC News got hold a medical report that says Zim ... More >>

Allen West Blames Obama for Afghanistan Suicide Bombing

In a tweet this morning, Congressman Allen West linked to an article detailing a suicide bombing in Kabul, the Afghan capital that President Barack Obama had just departed from, and... took the side of the Taliban."Pres flew into Afghanistan at night for 7 hrs," West wrote. "As sun came up, Taliban ... More >>

Vegan Black Metal Chef: Interview With Brian Manowitz, the Florida Native Behind the Internet Hit

Courtesy photoThe dark lord of tasty meat-free cooking. ​Vegan Black Metal Chef, the internet cooking star who proves that a meat-free lifestyle isn't exclusively the territory of New Age hippies or cute college chicks, is back. Posted Monday, episode seven of the online series finds VBMC, the bra ... More >>

Former Rep. Tim Mahoney Faces DUI Charge After Being Found Sleeping in His Car

Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeFormer Rep. Tim Mahoney​Former South Florida Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney faces a DUI charge after Palm Beach Gardens cops found him sleeping one off in his car early Saturday morning.As you may remember, Mahoney had a tough time with purported sex scandals ... More >>

Osama bin Laden Is Dead: Some Links

​Osama bin Laden is dead and you want to know the whole story? The compound in Attobad​-- U.S. forces shot bin Laden in the head during a raid at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. One of the al Qaeda leader's sons was also killed, as were two other men and a women being used as a human ... More >>

Walmart's "Love, Earth" Jewelry Line Doesn't Live Up to Green Promises

UPDATED: Schools Threat Suspect Is Green Party Member

The woman charged by the FBI with making a threat that led to the lockdown of more than 300 Broward County schools after hearing the words of right-wing talker Joyce Kaufman isn't a member of the Tea Party -- she's a member of the Green Party. Ellisa Martinez was arrested yesterday for ma ... More >>

Singer/Songwriter Brandi Carlile Plays Culture Room and the Cayamo Cruise

Ten Other Florida Stereotypes That Would Make Good Dolls

Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken​If you haven't seen Mattel's newest addition to the Adult Barbie Collector line, it's an appalling creation they're calling "Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken." This week brought news that the doll is, in fact, a real product the company is really selling to real adult collecto ... More >>

A 4-1/2 Hour "Candid" Interview and That's All You Got?

Come on, Joe Cotchett! You had 270 minutes with the financial Osama Bin Laden and you can't even give us a hint about what you learned about his lieutenants? Following the San Francisco attorney's jailhouse heart-to-heartstone with Madoff, Cotchett talked to ABC News, and maybe they're holding back ... More >>

The Day the World Came to Wellington

John SotoGuarding the entrance to the Lechuza Caracas estate in Wellington is a gate at least eight feet high, topped with iron spikes and emblazoned with the golden emblem of an owl. An electronic keypad out front is the only way to make the doors swing open, but for now they remain firmly shut. Th ... More >>

20/20 Madoff Marathon Tells of Mar-a-Lago Scuffle

photo courtesy dickipedia.comHere's part one from Friday's ABC News series on Bernard Madoff, the Palm Beach playboy-turned-Hiroshima of the financial world. It opens with a rather creepy sniper's view of Madoff working on a computer and fluffing his pillow in his Manhattan penthouse. (Not to defend ... More >>

Palm Beach Rabbi Invents Religious Divide, May Be Aiding Island's Sharks

Rabbi Michael ResnickA Palm Beach rabbi tells ABC News that the Bernie Madoff controversy "gives red meat to anti-Semites" and has caused a religious divide on the island. Rabbi Michael Resnick's comments not only fueled this online story but also a follow-up 20/20 report tonight on the town's Holy ... More >>

Abrams: Time To Give Readers "Recession 101"

On the day the company declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Tribune's Chief Innovation Officer, Lee Abrams, issues a "think piece" to staff in which he says Tribune newspapers must "own" the recession: THE RECESSION: Discussion on we should position our papers and TV as the vehicles that helps peo ... More >>

Ayers and Health Care: The Post's Electoral Relativism

Cash Is King

At Folsom Prison revisited

Titus Commedicus

Spy Versus Spy

Billy Ray takes on another liar: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen

Foley: "I am not a sicko"

Kirk Fordham: An American Hero?

Bush Digs Hastert

Hastert Points to St. Pete Times

Foley "Too Friendly" With Teen Boy

The Last Wives Club

The Smell of the Kill is funny, just like a sitcom pilot.

Giant Drag Is Gay

The Los Angeles duo hams it up on tour.

Swept Away

Skin Powder Bulletin!

Last Comic Waxing Nostalgic

Laughing at your life

The Grape Escape

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Straight to Helen

Hudson's a bad mother, and sister, in this pat parenthood tale

How Much Does Credibility Cost?

Boca Raton video producer Mark Kielar signed Cronkite, Brown, and Safer to host thinly veiled advertisements -- until the deal fell apart

Wayne Worldwide

The song-and-dance man from Whose Line Is It Anyway? takes it on the road

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

Back to School

Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm

Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

Back to the Future

Robert Wise finishes Star Trek: The Motion Picture--22 years later

Write and Wrong

Chris McQuarrie won an Oscar for Usual Suspects, to which Hollywood responded, "Big deal'

Dawn of the Dead

Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial

Night of the Living Heads

What's it like to ring in the new millennium with 80,000 drug-addled Phish fans? Expensive. Noisy. Crowded. Uninspiring.

A Win-Lose Situation

Eight Is Enough

Night & Day

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