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Circumcised Men in South Florida Try to Regrow Their Foreskins

The blinds are drawn in Murphy's Miami Beach bedroom as the 33-year-old pulls a white, silicone, four-inch conical contraption from his nightstand. Called a TLC Tugger, it was designed to stretch skin gradually, as earlobes are stretched for gauges. Except Murphy isn't stretching his earlobes. His project is much more...
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Wheelchair Attendants Strike at FLL Airport Over Low Wages, Poor Benefits

G2 Security Staff make $8.05 an hour plus tips, with limited benefits. And the wheelchair attendants who work these jobs are protesting what they call "poverty wages" at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Tuesday.  According to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), about fifty or so workers planned an all-day strike...
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Paul Collins, the King of Power Pop, Heads to Hollywood ArtsPark

"The main thing going on in the music business today is that all the free downloading and streaming has forced bands to go back to playing live," observes Paul Collins, known as the King of Power Pop. "Unfortunately, that has resulted in astronomical ticket prices for some bands and performers...
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South Florida Cops Misuse Tasers, With Deadly Results

Richard Rosengarten walked into Publix at 4:20 p.m. November 15, 2013. Normally, not even Rosengarten, a brilliant and bespectacled University of Miami law student, would remember the exact date and time he went grocery shopping. But it's not every day you see cops electrify an innocent man. The supermarket's automatic...
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Environmentalists: Don’t Trust Army Corps on Port Everglades Dredging

After a decades-long approval process, a plan to deepen and widen Port Everglades was greenlit by the Army Corps of Engineers Friday afternoon. Because the bigger port will accommodate bigger ships, local government officials are praising the expansion as an economic win, but environmental groups aren't so enthusiastic. They are...
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Chubby Checker Sues Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom Over Kids’ Clothing Line

A Pennsylvanian man named Ernest Evans, better known by his stage name, Chubby Checker,  is suing a New York clothing company called Andy & Evan Industries for selling children's clothing — some pieces of which, like "shirtzies," are branded as "Chubby Checker" —without the singer's knowledge or consent, or compensation...
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DJ Khaled Moves From Snapchat to the Stars

"He was quiet." Imagine that. Of all the words in all the land one could use to describe DJ Khaled, Gary Holzenthal chose "quiet." It would have been less jarring to learn that his best friend was a llama. "We have had our fair share of characters, but as far...
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All Aboard Florida Set to Start Construction in West Palm Beach

One of the biggest concerns over All Aboard Florida conducting business has been the nightmare traffic jams that might come with it. And now we’re about to get the first taste of that, as the private rail service is going to begin the first phase of upgrading 185 tracks that...
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Miami Heat Win, but Secure the Top-10 Draft Spot Anyway

The Miami Heat did all it could to not win Wednesday night, in order to secure that top-10 pick. But they were ill prepared for the juggernaut of losery that are the Philadelphia 76ers. Any time the Heat tried to suck the joint up, the 6ers took it up a...
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Stellar Doc Amy Summons Up All That Amy Winehouse Was

The death of Amy Winehouse, in July 2011, at age 27, was one of the first great tragedies of 21st-century pop music, an event — like the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain in the last decade of the 20th — that emphasized the jarring contrast between the fragility...
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Boy Scouts Protected Leader Who Showed Porn to Kids

The parent of a Broward County Boy Scout who objected to a parent leader showing hardcore porn to kids received a letter from the South Florida Boy Scout Council warning him that he will be kicked out unless he stopped making the accusations. Last week, Mark Kern, a former parent-volunteer...
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Florida Fines West Palm Beach Health Spa After Claims of False Cancer Treatment

West Palm Beach's the Hippocrates Health Institute has been in operation since 1987, offering alternative medical practices on its swanky spa-like campus. But according to Canadian news reports, the institute and its top man, Brian Clement, are responsible for smooth-talking cancer patients away from traditional therapy, with disastrous results. One...