Irene Is Season's First Hurricane | WPBF

Hurricane Irene has formed and is moving over Puerto Rico with its projected path expected to take it toward the U.S. East Coast later this week.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said early Monday that Irene has maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. It's centered about 25 miles west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is moving west-northwest near 12 mph...

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Brother of Saints' Hargrove killed in stabbing, according to police | WWL

Florida police say Terrence Maurice Hargrove, the brother of Saints defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove, was killed in a stabbing early Thursday morning. The stabbing reportedly occured in North Port, Florida, a community near Sarasota...

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Cholera oyster outbreak sickens 11 in US | AFP

As many as 11 people have reported getting sick from eating raw oysters contaminated with cholera bacteria in northern Florida, officials said on Tuesday. The oysters came from Apalachicola Bay, near Panama City in northern Florida, about 300 miles (482 kilometers) from New Orleans along the Gulf of Mexico coast, and the US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning not to eat them...

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NakedPizza signs 50-unit deal | Nation’s Restaurant News

NakedPizza, the single-unit healthful pizza concept that has attracted heavy-hitting investors, has signed a 50-unit development deal for South Florida, including Miami.

The deal is with Florida NKP LLC, which a Naked Pizza spokesman said on Monday is led by an international team of multi-unit foodservice veterans who have operated more than 77 fast-food, casual and fine-dining concepts throughout Latin America and Florida. At press time, information on the executives involved and the brands they have operated was unavailable.

Founded in late 2006 as one small store in New Orleans in an area that flooded during hurricane Katrina, NakedPizza (originally named World's Healthiest Pizza) was launched as an ambitious business model that seeks to change the nutritional profile of fast food in America. By way of example, NakedPizza is demonstrating that pizza does not have to be part of the problem in our national epidemic of obesity and chronic disease, but in fact can be part of the solution.

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