Posts Tagged Florida

Yankees’ Teixeira to play in minors on Wednesday

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira expects to play in his first game since hurting his right wrist in early March, suiting up for a minor-league game with Double-A Trenton on Wednesday.

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Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout

In this Tuesday, May 26, 2009 file photo, motel signs are seen in Lake George, N.Y.  Airlines, hotels and campgrounds are expecting to see more customers in 2013 than in the previous few summers. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — This summer, high rollers are flying to lavish hot spots for their vacations. The rest of us are driving to less luxurious places like nearby campgrounds.

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A-Rod sells Miami Beach home for $30M

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has sold his Miami Beach home for $30 million.

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Hurricane center: Beware of the storm surge

This color-coded graphic made available by the National Hurricane Center on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, shows an example of a map highlighting the greatest risk of storm surge during a storm. The National Hurricane Center will post maps like this on its website starting this hurricane season to alert residents and businesses of areas where storm surge is possible. The hurricane season goes from June 1 to Nov. 30.  (AP Photo/National Hurricane Center)

MIAMI (AP) — During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life and land, yet many people don’t understand the dire warnings from forecasters to get out of its way. So this season, they hope to offer easy-to-understand, color-coded maps and change the way they talk to the public.

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Dissidents find ‘Cuba outside Cuba’ in Miami

In this Friday, May 20, 2013 photo, Cuban dissidents Ladies in White, from left, Laura Labrada Pollan, Berta Soler, and Belkis Cantillo acknowledge the guests at the Freedom Tower in Miami. MDC President Dr. Eduardo J. Padron, far left, presented Soler with MDC’s Presidential Medal in homage to all the Ladies in White engraved, "Guardians of Freedom." Ladies in White is a group of women that began marching peacefully after the arrests of their sons and husbands in a 2003 crackdown on dissidents. They have faced detention and violence from pro-government mobs. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

MIAMI (AP) — When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American community who do not believe in pacific opposition.

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