News
7:20 am
Wed October 31, 2012

NEWSCAST: Good Night For the Heat, New Rings and Victory Over Celtics

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The Heat beat their archrivals the Celtics Tuesday night 120 to 107.

  • WLRN-Miami Herald News 6:00 AM newscast
 The Miami Heat have begun defense of their NBA title in style as South Florida airports continue to deal with the aftermath of Sandy. 

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Arts
6:00 am
Wed October 31, 2012

Why Florida Is So Scary

Florida is the setting for many mystery novels, detective novels and crime novels. 

It turns out it's also a particularly good place to set a horror novel. 

Author Brian Bandell draws on the "creepiness from the swamp" that is Florida in his new book, Mute.

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T. Susan Chang regularly reviews cookbooks for NPR.org and contributes to the NPR's Kitchen Window series.

For The Boston Globe and the Eat Your Books, a cookbook indexing website, Chang also reviews cookbooks. Her first book, A Spoonful of Promises: Recipes and Stories from a Well-Tempered Table will be released in fall 2011 by Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot.

Chang's blog, Cookbooks for Dinner, features her writings on cookbooks and recipes.

Printing Problems
2:00 pm
Tue October 30, 2012

More Ballot Problems in Palm Beach

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Palm Beach has another ballot printing error.

Palm Beach County has seen yet another printing problem during this election.

According to The Palm Beach Post, "Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher said Monday that she has been forced to send new absentee ballots to about 500 county residents because of a new printing error."

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Miami Heat Season Opener
1:18 pm
Tue October 30, 2012

Heat To Get Championship Rings, Allen To Be Part Of Awkward Sandwich

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Tonight the NBA's reigning kings will finally be crowned.

After knocking the Oklahoma City Thunder out of the box in June, the Miami Heat will receive their championship rings tonight in Miami's American Airlines Arena.  The celebration comes before the season opening game between the Heat and the Boston Celtics.

While Lebron James has been waiting a lifetime for this moment, it's going to put new teammate Ray Allen in an awkward position.

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Topical Currents
1:00 pm
Tue October 30, 2012

Attorney Donna Ballman: How To Stand Up for Yourself in a Hostile Workplace

10/30/12 - Tuesday's Topical Currents is with employment attorney and author Donna Ballman. She’ll discuss common workplace issues, including layoffs, bullying, hostile environments and overtime compensation. Donna Ballman is the author of STAND UP FOR YOURSELF WITHOUT GETTING FIRED: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit or Get Axed.

Links:

http://employeeatty.blogspot.com/

https://twitter.com/EmployeeAtty

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Voting
11:56 am
Tue October 30, 2012

Election Day Polling Location In Broward Closes

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A voting location in Broward has closed for Election Day.

A fire in the First Church of God in Broward (1242 N. Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale) has closed that polling location for Election Day.

Everyone who is assigned to that location will now be voting at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School located at 800 NW 13 Street.

This is a temporary change, which means no one will be issued a voting card for that precinct. Every voter in that precinct should have received a letter notifying them of this change.

If you have any questions or concerns about this change, voters are encouraged to call 954-357-7050. 

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Voting
10:30 am
Tue October 30, 2012

Why Miami's Early Voting Lines Are So Long

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Voters waiting in a two hour line to vote in Miami Dade.

This weekend, thousands of early voters in Miami stood through some very long lines.

And it looks like the line hasn't let up.

On Monday afternoon, a workday, lines where still up to four hours in Miami Dade.

At North Dade Regional Library the wait was three-and-a-half hours. At Coral Reef and West Dade Regional Library it was about three hours, as well. However, the longest lines in the county were at North Dade Regional Library, where the wait time there was a grueling four hours. 

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News
9:30 am
Tue October 30, 2012

Where The Early Voting Lines Are Shortest

The numbers suggest a lot of people are really anxious to get this voting business behind them. According to an AP report this morning, 1.9 million Floridians, about 16 percent of the electorate, have voted already.

Most of those have cast absentee ballots but about a half million have done it in person, often waiting for hours at early voting sites.

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8:05 am
Tue October 30, 2012

NEWSCAST: Strong Turnout For Early Voting

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Some voters waited up to four hours to cast a ballot.

Early voting started over the weekend, and many in south Florida stood in line for hours to cast their ballots.

By Monday, the wait times in Miami Dade hadn't changed much.

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