'Homeland' star sells SoHo loft for $5.58M

Emmy Award-winning “Homeland” star Claire Danes, 33, just sold her apartment on Wooster Street for a hefty $5.58 million – just a little less than her $5.99 million asking price. Danes, a Yale drop-out who is currently pregnant, lived there with her movie star hubby Hugh Dancy. They have since bought and closed on a larger, more family friendly apartment...

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Case-Shiller: Miami, U.S. home prices up again

The good news keeps coming for housing.Miami area home prices rose 7.4 percent in September from a year earlier, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.Home prices in Miami inched up 0.1 percent in September from August, the report, issued by S&P Dow Jones Indices, said. Seasonally adjusted, Miami posted a 0.3 percent gain in home prices in September...

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Bomb squad investigating suspicious package at Miami airport

The Miami-Dade police bomb squad is investigating a suspicious package at Miami International Airport.Concourse J was partially evacuated when a piece of luggage was flagged at a TACA airlines ticket counter around noon Monday. The security sweep is not affecting any outbound flights, according to Greg Chin, an airport spokesman. One ticket counter for Concourse J remains...

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Beyonce to Debut Self-Directed Documentary

Beyonce will make her filmmaking debut in February with "an intimate, revealing" documentary about her music career and personal life. The multiple Grammy winner, entrepreneur and actress has assembled footage providing unprecedented access to her life as a superstar, wife and mother, as well as behind-the-scenes glimpses of her music performances. The feature-length documentary will premiere...

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$5M bail for massive insider trader

A former hedge fund portfolio manager accused of enabling a quarter of a billion dollars in profits through inside information is free on bail.Mathew Martoma appeared in a New York court Monday for the first time and was released on $5 million bail after his 12-minute appearance before a federal magistrate judge.Martoma was arrested last week on charges...

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Shifting tides of Panama real estate echo Miami trends

PANAMA CITY, Panama — As a real estate agent shows off a model apartment — white leather sectional, stainless steel appliances, open concept, ocean views — in the 59-story Yacht Club Tower, and touts its fitness center and pool deck designed to mimic a ship floating on the sea, he makes a telling statement:“We tried to emulate the Miami style in this building.”Approaching...

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South Florida responders returning home from Sandy recovery work

A group of South Florida medical responders are returning home Sunday and Monday after spending two weeks assisting with Hurricane Sandy recovery in New York.The team of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and mental health experts are expected to arrive at local airports. While in New York, the medical responders staffed a field hospital in Long Beach providing first...

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Larry Hagman Dies

Larry Hagman, best known for playing Dallas villain J.R. Ewing, died Friday morning from complications stemming from his recent battle with cancer.He was 81 years old.Video: Larry Hagman Talks 'Dallas', Cancer and Veganism "Larry was back in his beloved Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved most," his family said in a statement via The Dallas Morning News. "When he passed, he was surrounded...

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McCain says Rice could change his opposition to her possible Secretary of State nomination

Senator John McCain, a vocal opponent of Susan Rice's possible nomination as Secretary of State, said on Sunday that the UN ambassador could change his mind after she explained her statements on the attack on the US mission in Benghazi."Sure. She can - I'd give everyone the benefit of explaining their position and the actions that they took," McCain said...

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Is the electric car dying again?

A second administration of President Barack Obama will be forced to revisit the issue of subsidies for renewable energy and, with it, those for electric vehicles. Despite the millions of dollars spent on government incentives, marketing and promotion, sales of fully electric cars are well below projected targets. Investment in vehicle charging infrastructure also has fallen...

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