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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Steam for Linux Launches Its Beta; 60,000 Sign Up in First Week

The creators of Portal, Team Fortress 2, and a ton of other AAA titles announced a few months ago that they were planning to bring their Steam digital distribution service to Linux. It’s basically an app store just for games, and it’s one of the most popular places to buy games for PC or Mac. Now the first wave of outside beta testers has been accepted,...

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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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Pepper-spray attack on bus driver, latest assault on MTA worker

Robert MillerA nutjob doused the inside of this bus with pepper spray in Harlem, in an apparently random attack that sickened the driver and six passengers.A maniac doused a city bus driver and several passengers with what is believed to be pepper spray in Harlem today, in the latest of a string of seemingly unprovoked attacks MTA employees, police said.The...

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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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Florida elections chief: 'We could have done better'

Gov. Rick Scott’s top elections official acknowledged for the first time Friday that the state bears some responsibility for long lines and late vote counts that have once again made Florida a target of national ridicule following a presidential election.“We could have done better. We will do better,” Secretary of State Ken Detzner said on CNN during pointed questioning from...

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Parenthood Together Exclusive Clip

Now that Kristina's learned she'll have to undergo chemotherapy, Tuesday's all-new Parenthood shows The Braverman Family balancing the responsibilities of their daily lives while simultaneously preparing to embark on the next stage of her treatment.RELATED - Monica Potter On Parenthood's Personal StorylineFirst up: organic living!Although, as you can see in ETonline's exclusive sneak peek at the November...

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B'klyn man accused of beating boyfriend to death claims self-defense

A Brooklyn man arraigned today for beating his boyfriend to death killed in self-defense, his defense lawyer said.Devineil Brown, 25, confessed that he did “stab, punch, kick and stomp” Shaun Woolford, 31, to death on Wednesday inside the older man’s apartment, according to the criminal complaint.Brown was charged with second-degree murder and criminal...

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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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