Regulators agree to give FPL four-year rate deal

TALLAHASSEE The Public Service Commission on Thursday agreed to award Florida Power & Light a $358 million base rate request that includes a series of rate increases over four years and rejected a call from the public counsel that the company scale back its rates.After a morning hearing discussing the nuts and bolts of a proposed settlement, the five-member commission...

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Crime Watch: Be careful when giving to charities

Many of our neighbors in South Florida have fallen on hard times, and there are many organizations trying to help those with great needs such as food, school supplies, clothing and toys now for the holidays.Well, we all need to be extra careful to make sure we are dealing with real charitable organizations and not phony solicitations, and many of you asked what to look for.Let’s...

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Facebook revises privacy controls in effort to make them more accessible, comprehensible

SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook is trying to make its privacy controls easier to find and understand in an effort to turn the world’s largest social network into a more discreet place.The fine-tuning announced Wednesday will include several revisions that will start rolling out to Facebook Inc.‘s more than 1 billion users in the next few weeks.The biggest change will be a new “privacy shortcuts” section...

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New 'G.I. Joe' Trailer: Channing Tatum & Dwayne Johnson Retaliate

The President of the United States has the world on edge with a super-destructive weapon at the touch of a button, but something's not right: Is the Commander-in-Chief real, or an impostor? It's up to Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis and the G.I. Joe team to save the world – and look ultra-cool doing it. Watch the brand-new G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer featuring new Channing Tatum footage!Video:...

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Cops find getaway car used in brazen Midtown hit

The NYPD have found the getaway car linked to the execution-style slaying of a Los Angeles man in broad daylight in midtown Manhattan, cops told The Post.Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday that the car has been found in Queens after police questioned the couple who rented the car early this morning. Investigators told The Post don't believe...

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The first wave of Windows 8 PCs

We’ve been benchmarking and field-testing new Windows 8 systems, including all-in-one desktops, traditional clamshell laptops and convertible laptops with displays that flip or twist around to form tabletlike devices. Dell XPS One 27 Rating: 4 stars out of 5 (Excellent) The good: Boasts the highest-display resolution among Windows 8 all-in-ones, and...

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FBI investigating Miami cops in bookmaking case

At least a half-dozen Miami Police officers have been targeted by the FBI for their alleged roles in providing protection for a Liberty City sports gambling operation that was uncovered more than a year ago, according to authorities familiar with the case.At least one Miami officer has been relieved of duty in connection with the investigation into the bookmaking business,...

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The Secret to Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon's Marriage

Award-winning actress Kyra Sedgwick has been married to Kevin Bacon for 24 years in what's shaping up to be of the most enduring and beloved relationships in Hollywood, and in the latest issue of Good Housekeeping, The Closer star dishes on what keeps the two so committed to one another."I don't know how he does it, but he always makes me feel like I'm the most beautiful woman in the room – the only...

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Ex-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi to be freed from prison Wednesday

ALBANY --Disgraced ex-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi will be freed from prison tomorrow morning after serving 20 months in a pay-to-play pension scandal, authorities said..The fiscal watchdog turned felon has been serving time at the Mid-State Correctional Facility in upstate Oneida County. He will be released about 8 a.m.Hevesi, 72, was granted a second...

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Diageo moving office to Coral Gables

Diageo will move its Miami office to Coral Gables in the fall of 2013.The world’s leading spirits company will move from its current office at Blue Lagoon when its lease ends and relocate to 396 Alhambra Circle in Coral Gables. Diageo has 175 people based in its Miami office, the majority of whom work for the Latin American and Caribbean region that is headquartered in Miami....

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