Miami
High Food Prices Prompt Local Rice Restrictions
Submitted by MichaelVail on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 5:58pm.
MIAMI --
Some stores in South Florida and across the U.S. are placing rice restrictions on their customers after an Australian drought crippled rice production.
Throughout the U.S. and in Miami, merchants and restaurateurs said the price of rice is high.
SWAT raids another wrong home, calls error ''mistake"
Submitted by MichaelVail on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 6:10pm.
NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Authorities are chalking up an Immigration and Customs Enforcement SWAT Team's misunderstanding of a street address and subsequent wrongful raid as an "honest mistake."
US Southern Command(SOUTHCOM) And 19 Other Nations Participating In PANAMAX 2007 Exercise
Submitted by MichaelVail on Mon, 09/03/2007 - 1:46pm.
MIAMI — Navy warships held maneuvers Sunday near the Panama Canal in PANAMAX 2007, an exercise being billed as one of the largest multinational military training events of the year.
Radio station fires ten employees in wake of contestant's death
Submitted by MichaelVail on Wed, 01/17/2007 - 9:52pm.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ten employees of KDND were fired Tuesday and the "Morning Rave" morning radio show has been cancelled in wake of a water-drinking contest Friday that left a woman ill hours before she died, apparently of water intoxication.
Woman loses life over a Wii
Submitted by MichaelVail on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 2:42pm.
SACRAMENTO - Contestants in a radio stunt called ''Hold Your Wee for a Wii'' have revealed new details about an on-air water drinking contest that left a 28-year-old mother of three dead.
Jennifer Lea Strange died after drinking well over a half gallon of water Friday during the ''Morning Rave'' program on KDND-FM. About 18 contestants vied for a Nintendo Wii gaming console by drinking as much water as they could without going to the bathroom; Strange took second place.
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