Jurors hear secret tape recording in Miami police corruption trial as feds rest their case

As rain began to fall on a June evening, Miami Police Sgt. Raul Iglesias told an undercover detective in his drug-fighting squad to turn off his cell phone and take out the battery as both officers stood outside the boss’s home.Iglesias, already relieved of duty on suspicions of being a dirty cop, feared Roberto Asanza’s phone could be recording him. And his instincts were...

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Lenovo IdeaTab A2107 comes to AT&T for $200 with no contract

AT&T (T) on Friday announced the addition of the Lenovo (LNVGY) IdeaTab A2107 to its line of tablet PCs. The 7-inch slate is equipped with a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, 3G connectivity and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The IdeaTab A2107 also includes a 3-megapixel rear camera, a microSD slot, a front-facing camera and a 3550 mAh battery. The tablet’s display...

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Britney Spears Split with Jason Trawick

After more than three years together, Britney Spears and her fiance Jason Trawick have split, her rep confirmed to People. RELATED - Britney "Working Hard" on New Music"Jason and I have decided to call off our engagement," Spears says in the statement. "I'll always adore him and we will remain great friends." Trawick adds, "As this chapter ends for us a new one begins. I love and cherish her and her...

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Man stabbed and burnt to death in Bronx

Seth GottfriedFirefighters on the scene of today's fatal Bronx fireA man was stabbed and burnt to death in the Bronx this morning, cops said.Firefighters discovered his body under a mattress during a fire that started about 6 a.m. on the second floor of a Fordham Heights building on Webster Avenue near 182nd Street, police sources said.The victim, 56, lived...

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What the week’s big mortgage moves mean for consumers

This week brought three big developments to the nation’s beleaguered mortgage landscape. For consumers, the complex moves have been mostly mystifying, but experts say they all aim at turning the page.“There is a strong desire to put behind us all this period of time — the aftermath of the darkest period in American finance. All these things [announced this week] are intended...

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South Florida man charged with brewing moonshine in his backyard

Authorities say they have arrested a 23-year-old man who has been distilling and selling moonshine at his Lantana home.Daniel David Pawa is in the Palm Beach County Jail this morning facing charges including possessing moonshine, conspiracy to violate beverage laws and possessing a fire arm, according to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.Department...

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BlackBerry Z10 shown off in leaked marketing materials

Title Post: BlackBerry Z10 shown off in leaked marketing materialsUrl Post: http://www.news.fluser.com/blackberry-z10-shown-off-in-leaked-marketing-materials/Link To Post : BlackBerry Z10 shown off in leaked marketing materialsRating: 100%based on 99998 ratings.5 user reviews.Author: Fluser SeoLinkThanks for visiting the blog, If any criticism and suggestions please leave a comm...

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Guillermo Diaz Scandal Interview Season Two

Last night's Scandal brought a relieving resolution to the "Who Shot Fitz?" storyline -- but not before poor Huck found himself on the wrong end of a Patriot Act-fueled interrogation.Bruised, battered and betrayed, Huck finally re-emerged into society, but fans were left to wonder what the future holds for Olivia's most secretive soldier. To answer your questions I caught up with Guillermo Diaz at...

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Top talent lined up for Obama's inaugural events

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is drawing an A-list of performers for his inaugural festivities, including a massive ball expected to draw more than 35,000 revelers.Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson, Usher, Alicia Keys and Brad Paisley are among the stars announced Friday to sing at Obama's inaugural balls Jan. 21 and a children's concert on Jan. 19. Also...

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Legal feud over Spanish-language TV leads to federal suit in Miami

What began as a highly-touted affiliation between a new Spanish-language national television network and a popular independent local station in Miami has dissolved into a legal dispute of David and Goliath proportions.MundoFox Broadcasting, part of the family of communications giant News Corporation, filed suit in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida against...

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Young nature photographers win local zoo competition

The Zoological Society of Florida, Zoo Miami and Mercantil Commercebank teamed to host the 2012 Zoolens Photography Project.The photo competition, which ran from Sept. 29 through Nov. 9, was designed to help Miami-Dade students develop a greater sense of appreciation for wildlife.With Zoo Miami’s wildlife expert Ron Magill as one of the judges, the competition announced three...

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Amazon steps up digital music competition with Apple

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc unveiled a service that increases competition with Apple Inc’s dominant iTunes store.Amazon launched Amazon AutoRip, which gives customers free digital versions of music CDs they purchase from the world’s largest Internet retailer.The digital music files are automatically stored in customer libraries in remote datacenters run by Amazon, where they are available...

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Destiny's Child Reunite, Beyonce Announces

After nearly a decade, Destiny's Child will reunite with some new music, front woman Beyonce Knowles confirms!Beyonce broke the exciting news on her website with a huge title that read: Destiny's Child Love Songs. Underneath the headline, Queen B simply wrote: "I am so proud to announce the first original Destiny's Child music in eight years! - Beyonce" RELATED: Beyonce Confirms Justin Timberlake...

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Bus shot in Queens

Someone fired gunshots at a Queens bus this morning on Springfield Boulevard and 141st Avenue, officials said. The gun shots shattered the left rear window of the Q85 bus, but no one was injured in the late morning fusillade, according to the MTA. jennifer.fermino@nypost.com ...

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Unemployment claims on the rise in Miami-Dade

Miami-Dade County ended 2012 with more people joining the unemployment rolls than it did last year. The late-year increase in first-time unemployment claims broke a trend of declining applications throughout most of 2012. First-time claims spiked about 15 percent in November and December, with about 17,500 new applications in all over those 60 days. That’s compared to 15,000...

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Hollywood OKs deal with Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso will soon have a sequel.Hollywood’s Community Redevelopment Agency board agreed Wednesday morning to buy 3,000 movie tickets a year — at a cost of $30,000 — to help the small art house theater open a second location.“The outpouring of support is amazing,” said Gregory von Hausch, the theater’s executive director. “Now we just have to work to get it open.”...

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Lawyers in Ohio football rape case want trial moved

(Reuters) – Attorneys for two Ohio teenage football players accused of raping a 16-year-old student have asked that the trial be moved because potential witnesses are afraid to come forward in defense of the boys, one of the lawyers said on Monday.Walter Madison, the attorney for one of the accused rapists, Ma’lik Richmon, said social media efforts to bring the alleged rape into the national spotlight...

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First ET Interview: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is one of the hardest-working men in Hollywood today. Following his star turns in Looper, The Dark Knight Rises, Premium Rush and Inception, he also had a key role in Lincoln, just completed a turn in the director's chair for Don Jon's Addiction, and was just cast in the growing company of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.Video: What If 'Looper' Stars Could Time Travel? Now, we're...

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Hillary Clinton 'thrilled to be back' at work

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is "thrilled to be back" at work after a month-long absence due to illness, a concussion and a blood clot near her brain. But she says she is looking forward to leaving the job as America's top diplomat and taking a break for at least "a little while."In her first public appearance since returning to the State Department earlier this...

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4 smartphones with standout features

These days, smartphones are almost all drawing from the same bag of tricks, and it can be hard to tell one from the next. If the average smartphone will do all the basic things you want it to, what does it take to be special? Here are four smartphones with unusual features that really make them stand out. Nokia Lumia 920 Rating: 4 stars out of 5 (Excellent) ...

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Scott Israel is sworn in as Broward sheriff

As several thousand people looked on inside the Faith Center of Sunrise, new Broward Sheriff Scott Israel was introduced at Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony to a standing ovation.It’s one of the most powerful elected post in the county, overseeing about 5,500 employees and a $670 million budget.The BSO Honor Guard and a pipe and drum corps led the procession on stage. Israel’s...

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Kathie Lee and Hoda Give Up Drinking Wine

Say goodbye to Tuesday, Booze Day! Co-hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb announced on the final hour of TODAY that they will be giving up drinking wine on their show for an entire month! Can they do it?!The women are so dedicated to their New Year's resolutions that they've put a clock up on their website to track how long they go without drinking on a show that starts at 10 a.m. They enjoyed...

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Village 'bomb mom' out of hospital, set to be arraigned

Morgan Gliedman -- the Dalton-grad doctor's daughter allegedly caught with explosives and shotguns in her Greenwich Village apartment -- left St. Luke's Medical Center in custody this morning and is due to be arraigned sometime today.It will be the first post-arrest -- and post-partum -- appearance for the pretty Gliedman, 27, who had been busted two Saturdays...

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Norwegian Cruise Line to go public

In a long expected move, Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line Tuesday announced plans to take the company public.The company has registered an initial public offering of 23,529,412 ordinary shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The shares will be traded on the NASDAQ; no price has set been set. The third largest ocean-going cruise line, Norwegian Cruise Line has...

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BCS ticket prices falling (but so is the number of available seats)

Procrastination pays.For those fans who waited until the last minute to buy tickets to Monday night’s national championship football game in South Florida, now’s the time to buy.Ticket prices have fallen by about half since Dec. 1, when the University of Alabama clinched its spot in the title game. The average price is about $1,500 as of Monday morning, with the cheapest...

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Kuwaiti journalist jailed for Twitter ‘insults’

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — A Kuwait newspaper says an online journalist has been sentenced to two years in prison for posts deemed “insulting” to the Gulf nation’s ruler — the second such ruling this week.The decision reflects a widening social media crackdown across the Gulf Arab states to quell perceived political dissent.Kuwait’s pro-government Al Watan newspaper reported Monday that Ayyad al-Harbi, a...

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Claire Danes Covers Elle Magazine

After giving birth this past December, Homeland star Claire Danes shares that she plans on being a working mom, but was "nervous" about the idea at first."I've always wanted to have kids, but I'm glad I didn't until now," she tells ELLE magazine of welcoming baby boy Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy on Dec. 17 with her husband of three years, 37-year-old actor Hugh Dancy. "When I was thinking about...

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Ten banks settle wrongful foreclosure complaints for $8.5B

WASHINGTON — Ten major banks and mortgage companies agreed Monday to pay $8.5 billion to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in their homes.The banks, which include JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, will pay billions to homeowners to end a review process of foreclosure...

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Billionaire Phillip Frost an ‘entrepreneur’s entrepreneur’

For that blind first date, a half-century ago, the young doctor, Phillip Frost, showed up at Patricia Orr’s family house in suburban New York, with an unusual gift: a miniature mushroom garden.In the 50 years since, Frost, the son of a shoe store owner, has gone on to amass a fortune of $2.4 billion, according to Forbes magazine, becoming the 188th wealthiest man in the United...

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CrimeWatch: Two email scams you shouldn’t fall for

This week I am going to share with you some scam emails that are going around. People are falling for them, but many could have been avoided with some common sense. If you get an email like the one below, please call the person before sending cash, which many have done and have lost their money.Caught out of the country Omg!! I’m writing this with tears in my eyes, my family...

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RIM unveils a new BlackBerry phone! (But it’s only a Curve for T-Mobile running BlackBerry 7)

Research In Motion (RIMM) on Thursday took the wraps off a brand new BlackBerry smartphone — but it’s not the kind of smartphone BlackBerry fans have been waiting more than a year for. Instead, it’s a low-end BlackBerry Curve 9315 that will launch later this month on T-Mobile. The phone features the BlackBerry 7.1 operating system, a 3.2-megapixel camera, microSD memory expansion and a full QWERTY...

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Cher Signs Development Deal with Logo

Logo just announced at The Television Critics Association in Pasadena, CA that the network has signed a development deal with the ultimate gay icon, Cher. AUDIO - Listen to Cher's New SongThe show, which is in its earliest stages of development, would mark Cher's first regular TV gig since The Sonny and Cher Show ended in 1977.While this could change before the show hits the air (if it actually does),...

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NY legislators say gun-safety measures will be a priority for state government

ALBANY — Several state senators say new gun safety measures will be a priority when they return to Albany this week following the school shooting in Connecticut that left 20 children dead.Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Sen. Catharine Young, a Republican from Olean, say any legislative agreement should include a stronger version of Kendra's...

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Billionaire Phillip Frost an ‘entrepreneur’s entrepreneur’

For that blind first date, a half-century ago, the young doctor, Phillip Frost, showed up at Patricia Orr’s family house in suburban New York, with an unusual gift: a miniature mushroom garden.In the 50 years since, Frost, the son of a shoe store owner, has gone on to amass a fortune of $2.4 billion, according to Forbes magazine, becoming the 188th wealthiest man in the United...

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