Black Friday is creeping into Thanksgiving evening

Marling Sequeira has her Thanksgiving all planned: turkey, trimmings and pumpkin pie at her boyfriend’s in Miami, then a moonlit drive to Walmart to snag a 72-inch Samsung TV on sale for $800.“It’s more exciting at midnight,” said Sequeira, 22, a medical assistant who is moving into a new Brickell-area apartment with her boyfriend on Friday. “Besides that, the specials are...

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High court ruling on deportation issue does not apply to past cases, Florida Supreme Court says

A Miami man who could face deportation for an 11-year-old drug charge is not eligible to have his conviction thrown out, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.Gabriel Hernandez, now a successful bank administrator, had asked a Miami trial court to toss out his 2001 drug conviction, saying his lawyer failed to properly warn him he could face deportation to his native Nicaragua.Like...

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New York Athletes Use Twitter to Gain Cult Hero Status

If you’re one of the over 20.6 million Americans who has a Twitter account, chances are you’ve stumbled across the official SoccerGirlProblems Twitter handle, @SoccerGrlProbs, at least once while using the popular social media networking site.SoccerGirlProblems, a feed spawned by three New York-based athletes, is a Twitter handle dedicated to the true-life...

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Selena Gomez Misbehaves in New Adidas Ad

Most of the recent headlines about Selena Gomez have speculated on the status of her relationship with Justin Bieber. But the former Disney darling also debuted a new music video for Adidas this week in which she portrays one member of a mischievous tagger gang.Gomez is not shy about whipping out the spray can to plaster a wall with graffiti as she runs through the streets with her crew in the ad...

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$31M Ponzi schemer prison bound

A New York City man has been sentenced to prison for stealing more than $31 million through a Ponzi scheme.Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced the sentence of six to 18 years Wednesday for Joseph Greenblatt of Queens.The Ponzi scheme was run through Maywood Capital, a real estate investment company originally based in New Jersey.Greenblatt...

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Small Business Saturday: the anti-Black Friday

Don’t want to brave the Black Friday craziness? You can get a head start on your holiday shopping, snag some deals and support local merchants by participating in Small Business Saturday.Nestled between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday is focused on promoting small business owners nationwide. Since it was started in 2010 by American Express, the promotional...

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North Miami widow in suspect’s killing claiming self-defense in court

Four years ago, Janepsy Carballo gunned down a suspect in the killing of her husband and the wounding of her toddler son.Did she lure the man there, in cold blood, to shoot him in the back? Or was she defending herself when she killed Ilan Nissim in May 2008?A Miami-Dade judge on Tuesday will consider whether Carballo, 34, acted in self-defense and should be immune from prosecution....

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Amazing Race's James & Abba Talk Moscow Misfortune

The Amazing Race bid farewell to long-haired music industry veterans James LoMenzo and Mark "Abba" Abbatista on Sunday night, and ETonline caught up with the pair to find out how hard it was to have their bags stolen in Moscow, if they ever made it out of Russia, and what they thought of two other teams taking their cash, in an interview filled with lots of laughs.James: (Plays the ET theme song on...

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Mystery man ruled out in Brooklyn serial killer investigation

APPolice have ruled out a person of interest seen in this sketch from the Aug. 2 murder in Bensonhurst.Cops have ruled out a person of interest in one of the murders committed by the Brooklyn serial killer, saying that the subject of a police sketch released in August has no connection to the slayings. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said the man in the sketch...

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Startups take the stage at South Florida events

NewME brought its first Popup Accelerator to Miami last week, and together with the Knight Foundation and LAB Miami, gave 65 South Florida participants a two-night pitch workshop, a one-on-one mentoring session with a Silicon Valley venture capitalist or NewME expert and the opportunity to present their ventures at Demo Night.On Wednesday evening, 38 startup teams pitched...

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