Record Powerball jackpot boosted to $500M

EPADES MOINES, Iowa — Get your ticket!The record Powerball jackpot is now even bigger.Powerball officials say they've boosted the jackpot for Wednesday's drawing to $500 million from the previously posted $425 million. Huge ticket sales nationally are pushing the payout higher.A single winner choosing the cash payout will take home $327 million before taxes.Record...

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Case-Shiller: Miami, U.S. home prices up again

The good news keeps coming for housing.Miami area home prices rose 7.4 percent in September from a year earlier, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.Home prices in Miami inched up 0.1 percent in September from August, the report, issued by S&P Dow Jones Indices, said. Seasonally adjusted, Miami posted a 0.3 percent gain in home prices in September...

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Lawyers offer opening statements in Rilya Wilson murder case

A Miami woman “snuffed the life” out of foster child Rilya Wilson, then concocted a web of lies to cover up the murder, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.The caretaker, Geralyn Graham, hated Rilya so much that she kept the girl restrained with “flex cuffs” and in a dog cage, prosecutor Joshua Weintraub told jurors during his opening statement.“She thought, after eight months,...

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Joe Manganiello on 'How I Met Your Mother'

Now enjoying the skyrocketing success of True Blood and his recent film Magic Mike, Joe Manganiello now revisits the recurring role on How I Met Your Mother that enabled him to achieve that success."It's awesome," Manganiello told ET's special correspondent Melissa Peterman of returning to the show. "I missed everybody. You see everybody out and about over the years...but it was just really fun to...

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R Train service between Manhattan and Brooklyn could return in a week or two

The R train - which has been operating severely curtailed service since Sandy - could begin running between Manhattan and Brooklyn in a week or two, officials said. "Obviously we're trying to get it back sooner rather than later," said Thomas Prendergast, president of New York City Transit. Its especially important to connect the the two boroughs because...

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Shifting tides of Panama real estate echo Miami trends

PANAMA CITY, Panama — As a real estate agent shows off a model apartment — white leather sectional, stainless steel appliances, open concept, ocean views — in the 59-story Yacht Club Tower, and touts its fitness center and pool deck designed to mimic a ship floating on the sea, he makes a telling statement:“We tried to emulate the Miami style in this building.”Approaching...

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South Florida responders returning home from Sandy recovery work

A group of South Florida medical responders are returning home Sunday and Monday after spending two weeks assisting with Hurricane Sandy recovery in New York.The team of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and mental health experts are expected to arrive at local airports. While in New York, the medical responders staffed a field hospital in Long Beach providing first...

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Larry Hagman Dies

Larry Hagman, best known for playing Dallas villain J.R. Ewing, died Friday morning from complications stemming from his recent battle with cancer.He was 81 years old.Video: Larry Hagman Talks 'Dallas', Cancer and Veganism "Larry was back in his beloved Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved most," his family said in a statement via The Dallas Morning News. "When he passed, he was surrounded...

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The week's winners and losers

WINNERSMARIANNE LAKETapped by Jamie Dimon as JPMorgan CFO on departure of Doug Braunstein.JEFF BEWKESTime Warner announces CEO's contract has been extended through 2017.THOMAS RABEBertelsmann CEO close to reeling in mystery partner for BMG Rights music biz, replacing KKR.LOSERSSTEVE COHENSAC chief implicated in Preet Bharara's $276M insider-trading case...

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Is the electric car dying again?

A second administration of President Barack Obama will be forced to revisit the issue of subsidies for renewable energy and, with it, those for electric vehicles. Despite the millions of dollars spent on government incentives, marketing and promotion, sales of fully electric cars are well below projected targets. Investment in vehicle charging infrastructure also has fallen...

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