Weather alert: Weekend will be cool and breezy

Cool weather will continue Saturday in South Florida with breezy conditions and low temperatures dipping below 70. Highs will be in the mid-70s. On Sunday, forecasters expect the start of a warming trend, with highs near 80 and a low of about 70.Monday will bring more breezes and partly sunny skies, with a high of 79 degrees and a 20 percent chance of rain after 8 a.m. ...

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First Person: Unfriending a Facebook Friend to Save a Friendship

Yahoo News asked voters to share stories about relationships gone sour during the election — and how they’re working to mend fences. Here’s one person’s story.FIRST PERSON | Because of the election,I had to ignore one of my oldest friends. My name is Kathy Foust from Knox, Ind., and I am in my late 30s. If there is one...

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17 Turkish soldiers killed in helicopter crash

ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish military helicopter carrying soldiers on a mission against Kurdish rebels crashed in heavy fog on Saturday, killing 17 people, Turkish media reported.Authorities were investigating the cause of the crash in a mountainous part of Pervari district in Siirt province, where the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party is active.The provincial...

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Terra Group plans single-family development in Doral with modern architecture

Terra Group expects to break ground soon on a major mixed-use development in Doral, including 300 single-family homes and a grocery-anchored shopping center.Separately, the Miami developer said it recently acquired four parcels on the edge of Miami’s Midtown/Design District near 36th Street and Biscayne Boulevard through Terra Skylar Investments, a new venture formed with...

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Broward joins Miami-Dade in completing election count

After a doozy of an Election Day, Miami-Dade County officials finished their vote tally Thursday, following an around-the-clock tabulation of tens of thousands of absentee ballots and a few thousand provisional ballots.Mayor Carlos Gimenez also pledged to uncover what went wrong Tuesday, by asking four Miami-Dade commissioners to join a task force that will examine the long...

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Icahn says has mulled Netflix takeover, no decision made

(Reuters) – Activist investor Carl Icahn, who holds an almost 10 percent stake in Netflix, said on Thursday he has considered a hostile takeover bid for Netflix, but it was uncertain he stood a chance of acquiring the Internet streaming service.Asked by TV network CNBC whether he would “go hostile” on Netflix, Icahn said, “The thought had certainly entered...

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Lindsay Lohan Pulls Out of 20 20 Interview

Lindsay Lohan was set to give her first major interview in years to Barbara Walters on the November 16 edition of 20/20, but that chat has since been canceled.RELATEDA source tells Deadline that Lohan's new representatives were dissatisfied with the direction ABC wanted to take the interview. Apparently the Liz & Dick star was only interested in talking about the film and not her omnipresent and...

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Alliance for Coney Island launching with focus on cleanup efforts

Hurricane Sandy has left Coney Island looking like a Cyclone hit it – devastating its seaside amusement district, officials say, with tens of millions of dollars in damage alone. And now a new nonprofit entity created to continue the steady sanitizing of America’s Playground in recent years has inherited a real cleanup job.The Alliance for Coney Island...

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Zillow: Foreclosure discounts shrinking

Buying a foreclosed home is no longer the big bargain it used to be. In South Florida, the discount for foreclosures narrowed to 2.9 percent below a comparable non-distressed home in September from 6.8 percent a year earlier, according to Zillow. The foreclosure discount for the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties peaked in August 2008, when bank-owned...

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