Last Top Stories: Adrian Diaz's second-half burst lifts FIU Panthers over FAU Owls

• Adrian Diaz's second-half burst lifts FIU Panthers over FAU Owls

  

  You can’t coach big. And you can’t defend free throws.Because of the first sentence, FIU senior center Adrian Diaz had Florida Atlantic at his mercy once the Panthers started feeding him in the second half, and Diaz showed the Owls no mercy. He scored FIU’s first 11 second-half points, 20 of the first 22 (and assisted on the remaining layup) and 23 overall in the Panthers’ 76-59 victory over FAU in front of about 300 at FIU Arena.Diaz said the last time he took over a game offensively in such a ..

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• Betty Castor: Return to an elected — and accessible — Florida ...

  

  Next week the annual session of the Florida Legislature begins. Two courageous legislators have filed bills that will allow Floridians to regain control of our public education system. HJR 767 and SJR 942 would return Florida’s commissioner of education to an elected position. Floridians who want change must speak out forcefully in the weeks ahead. HJR 767 (House Joint Resolution) by Rep Debbie Mayfield, R-Vero Beach, and SJR 942 (Senate Joint Resolutio..

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• Former Gov. Bush, in home-state Florida, pans Clinton, Trump

  

  State Rep. Jose Oliva of Hialeah, a likely future Florida House speaker and one of the local Republicans to take the microphone before Bush’s arrival,saidconservatives shouldn’t pick presidential candidates “who look to exploit our anxieties” or “who don’t have the experience for the presidency but let their ambitions overtake them”.The former Florida governor seemed unfazed.Bush and Trump have traded barbs throughout the campaign. He also showered insults on Bush, who has called for his party t..

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• Trump picks latest tweet war with photo-shopped Bush

  

  His national campaign manager is gone, along with his communications director, and while his New Hampshire camp staffers said state-level operation will be unaffected, Carson put out a statement saying, “It is necessary to invigorate my campaign with a strategy that aggressively shares my vision”. Trump’s campaign is trolling Bush, however, by way of things like a Jeb Web (hey, that rhymed) domain –jebbush.com – that redirects to Trump’s Web site.The former Florida governor commended the Nevada ..

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• Autoridades de Miami advierten que no tienen recursos para ...

  

  Autoridades de Miami advirtieron que no tienen suficientes recursos para atender la constante llegada de cubanos, cuando están a la espera de que los cerca de 8.000 varados en Costa Rica comiencen a ser trasladados hacia Estados Unidos.Los gobiernos locales "no están preparados" para recibir una ola de cubanos, dijo el alcalde de Miami, Tomás Regalado, en declaraciones publicadas en vídeo porEl Nuevo Herald."A menos que le Gobierno federal reconozca primero que hay una crisis y que esto requiere..

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• ALMA invertirรก mรกs de C$130 millones en drenaje pluvial

  

  Para el 2016, en los distritos I, III y VI la Alcaldía de Managua (ALMA) desarrollará la mayor cantidad de proyectos de mejoras para el drenaje pluvial de la capital, que año con año es duramente golpeada por las precipitaciones durante el invierno.En total, la inversión en los siete distritos de Managua será de C$132.7 millones, para 87 proyectos de mejoras al drenaje pluvial. La justificación es reducir las afectaciones en las zonas críticas de inundación, golpeadas cuando hay altos volúmenes ..

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• Ebola-free Guinea clear for international soccer matches

  

  ByAssociated PressJanuary 4 at 8:58 AMCAIRO — The African soccer confederation says it has ended a ban on Guinea hosting international matches after the country was declared free of Ebola.Health concerns forced Guinea to play its first home qualifying match for the 2018 World Cup in Morocco.CAF wrote to Guinea’s soccer federation on Monday lifting a ban which was imposed in August 2014 and applied to national and club teams. CAF says it acted after the World Health Organization confirmed last we..

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• E-cigarette may become available on NHS

  

  Media captionHywel Griffith reports on new EU laws to be introduced on e-cigarettesThe UK medicines regulator has approved a brand of e-cigarette to be marketed as an aid to help people stop smoking.The decision means e-Voke, produced by British American Tobacco, could be prescribed on the NHS.Public Health England says e-cigarettes are far less harmful than tobacco and help smokers quit.But some experts, including the British Medical Association, say the benefits and harms are not yet known sin..

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• Chick-Fil-A Takes a Five-Day Break Following DOH Inspection

  

  The Midtown outpost of love-it-or-hate-it chain Chick-Fil-A wasclosed over the weekendso that the management could make some necessary upgrades to the operations.On December 24, aDOH inspector found 59 violation points— enough for a "C" grade — including four "critical" violations for things like cold food held above 41 degrees and evidence of filth flies. Here's the rap sheet from the DOH homepage: Chik-Fil-A's operators did not have to close the restaurant after this inspection, but a..

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• Excess Sugar Consumption Linked to Breast Cancer

  

  Excess sugar consumption has been linked to breast cancer, in a recent study featured on January 1 in the journal Cancer Research.Four randomized controlled studies involving laboratory mice were conducted by a team of experts led by Dr. Lorenzo Cohen, at the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.During the experiments, funded by the National Institutes of Health, four groups of animals were assigned to different type..

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