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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Philip Roth Is Retiring; Amazon Glitch Disables Buy Buttons

Today in books and publishing: Philip Roth confirms his retirement; Amazon‘s mysteriously vanishing buy buttons; Kobo expands to Italy, Kindle considers China; cities in literature.RELATED: Trikes, a Mustache, and Andy Warhol Philip Roth wraps it up. One of America’s most celebrated living novelists has been hinting...

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Buzzmakers: Brooke's Cancer Fight & World War Z

What had ET readers buzzing this week?1. It's Brad vs. Zombies in World War ZZombie attack!!! Brad Pitt plays a family man and United Nations employee who faces a deadly zombie pandemic in World War Z -- we gave you an exclusive first look and now we've got the intense trailer!Just when you thought that the zombie genre may be starting to generate less screams and more Zzzz's, World War Z arrives...

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Sotheby's to sell Mick Jagger's love letters

LONDON — Handwritten letters from Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to his former lover Marsha Hunt will be auctioned in London next month.Hunt is an American-born singer who was the inspiration for the Stones' 1971 hit "Brown Sugar" and bore Jagger's first child.Sotheby's said Saturday that Hunt has tasked the auction house with selling 10 letters written...

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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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Miami-Dade clerk sentenced to seven years in crowbar killing

A South Miami-Dade store clerk who hit a customer with a crowbar, killing him, pleaded guilty Friday to manslaughter and will serve seven years in prison.Ragheb Sulaiman, 26, was initially charged in with second-degree murder in November 2010 after police said he hit Akil LaRue Oliver at the Quick Shop Food Store, 9720 SW 168th St.Oliver's family agreed to the plea deal....

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Heidi Klum: 'I'm in Love' with My Boyfriend

Heidi Klum has been mostly vague about her relationship with Martin Kirsten -- who has served as her bodyguard for years -- but the supermodel recently acknowledged the two were dating. Now Heidi is opening up more about her feelings for Martin and how he gets along with her four children.Speaking to the German magazine Bunte, the former wife of British singer Seal confirms her relationship with Kirsten...

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Mayor Bloomberg announces new ferry service into Manhattan for Rockaways residents

Rockaways residents — stranded without a subway since Sandy struck nearly two weeks ago — are getting a new ferry service to and from Manhattan that will begin on Monday, Mayor Bloomberg announced. Trips will cost $2 each way. The ferries will make eight morning rush hour trips from Beach 108th Street and Beach Channel Drive in the Rockaways to Manhattan...

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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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