Lauderhill seniors are the model of elegance

Gert Packman has never looked her age.During the Great Depression, movie theaters wouldn’t let her in to see some films, because she didn’t look 16. (She was older).After retiring and moving to Florida, she got skeptical looks when she asked for the senior citizen discount. (She qualified). At 96, Packman showed a room full of people Wednesday that you...

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Supermodel Victoria's Secret Angels Share Valentine's Day Tips

Victoria's Secret Angels Lily Aldridge and Candice Swanepoel shared Valentine's Day tips with ET's Brooke Anderson and Rob Marciano via ooVoo's video chat service. Read on to learn how you can make this Valentine's Day a memorable one for your special lady.PICS: Hollywood's Most Dateable StarsWhen asked for advice on how to sweep a woman off her feet, Aldridge replied with a laundry list of trickets:...

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Inwood man confesses to setting wife's head on fire with blowtorch

First he bought his wife coffee. Then he set her head on fire.Officials today released the confession of the Inwood man charged in last month's blowtorch revenge attacks on his wife and ex-boss -- admissions eerie in their mix of the mundane and the maniacal."I woke up this morning around 6 a.m. with the plan already made," Carlos Diaz, 35, told cops of...

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Miami startup that turns text to video receives $1 million in seed funding

Guide, a new technology startup based in Miami, announced Tuesday it has closed a $1 million round of seed funding from investors including the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Sapient Corp., MTV founder Bob Pitman, actor and producer Omar Epps, and early Google employee Steve Schimmel. The Knight Foundation is supporting Guide through its new early-stage venture...

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Lawmakers want major changes in fixing long voting lines

TALLAHASSEE -- Some lawmakers are considering strengthening state officials’ authority to remove county supervisors of elections after voting snafus in November led to long lines and voter anger.Details are sketchy; supporters haven’t come forward with a specific proposal yet, and at times seemed to be thinking out loud at a Tuesday meeting of the Senate Ethics and Elections...

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Carpet Countdown: Oscars Luncheon

In today's Carpet Countdown, ET's Nancy O'Dell sits down with the Oscar frontrunners (including Hugh Jackman, Quevenzhane Wallis, Bradley Cooper, Naomi Watts and Jennifer Lawrence) after the Motion Picture Academy's Nominees Luncheon.PICS: Hot Looks of the Oscar Luncheon ...

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Car swiped in Bronx -- with baby in back seat

A 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee left idling outside a cell-phone store in The Bronx was swiped tonight — with an 8-month-old baby in the back seat, cops said.Police are now frantically scouring the area for the silver Jeep, which has blue fog lights, tinted windows and the Pennsylvania license plate RR84L2.The child’s dad had hopped out of the car — leaving...

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Report calls Florida business incentives “corporate welfare’’

TALLAHASSEE -- A government watchdog group and a conservative advocacy group blasted Florida’s government Tuesday for the hundreds of millions of dollars it gives to corporations, blaming the state’s public-private jobs agency for “pay-to-play” cronyism and “corporate welfare.”A new report by Integrity Florida and Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity highlights...

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Member of Miami-Dade marijuana growhouse ring pleads guilty

An operative in the Santiesteban family’s alleged marijuana growhouse ring pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to kidnap a rival gang member, admitting he witnessed the man’s murder after the target stole 50 pounds of pot from the Miami-Dade clan.Juan Felipe Castaneda’s plea agreement signaled a major development in the federal government’s crackdown on one of South Florida’s...

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Live action: Twitter grabs Super Bowl spotlight

NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce’s splashy show, a freak power outage, and —oh, yeah— a captivating game of football combined to generate a record 24.1 million posts on Twitter during Sunday night’s Super Bowl.That’s up from 13.7 million last year — and that doesn’t even include chatter surrounding the ads.Twitter said in a late Sunday blog post that about half of the more than 50 national TV spots that aired...

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