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Ellen Latham Took Orangetheory From Home Business to Fitness Empire

Today, Orangetheory Fitness is the fastest-growing women-owned company in the U.S., an exercise phenomenon with 750 studios and half a million members. But it started much more humbly, when Ellen Latham began offering Pilates classes in a spare room at her Pembroke Pines house. The year was 1996, and Latham,...
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Floridians Are Getting Too Fat to Be Soldiers, Military Study Warns

These days, the U.S. Army predominantly recruits from Southern states. According to 2013 enlistment data, Georgia and Florida have two of the nation's highest per-capita rates of locals joining the Army. However, a study released earlier this month by researchers at the Citadel, one of the military's major universities, issues a warning.
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Florida Will Lose 6,000 Historic Sites to Sea-Level Rise by 2100, Scientists Warn

If you've been delaying your visit to Miami's Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, the Ernest Hemingway house in Key West, or the 18th-century Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, now is the time to make arrangements. The same goes for scientists: If you're planning, say, a study of the indigenous civilizations that lived in the Everglades thousands of years before Europeans arrived, start digging tomorrow.
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas Would Have Been Proud of Parkland’s Students

This week, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High returned to school — to the hallways and classrooms where they had watched people die, where many of them thought they, too, would probably die. It's impossible to imagine what that place must feel like to them now, once an average part of everyday life, now something wholly different.
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The Best Free Events in Miami This Week

It's Monday again, and with it comes yet another long workweek. But there's plenty of green beer at the end of the tunnel: St. Patrick's Day is Saturday. There is no shortage of parties and drink specials on the horizon for the holiday this year, but there are also many alternative events for those who've outgrown the debauchery or want to avoid the crowds.
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The Miami Heat Is the Talk of the NBA

The Miami Heat's famously hard-working culture is back in the news, which is always a good thing because it usually means the team is winning basketball games. This time, though, the rest of the NBA and much of the media seemed to be finally realizing this isn't just a catchy...
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Miami Marlins 2018 Season Preview: Welcome to the Jeter Era

Meet the new Miami Marlins! To say a few things have changed since last season would be a Giancarlo Stanton-sized understatement. It would be like taking a two-week vacation to get a bunch of plastic surgery done on your face, then coming back and pretending nothing happened. On...
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Fort Lauderdale Police Found Missing Man’s Body but Never Told Family

On November 26, Fort Lauderdale Police found Bob Karpinen slumped over dead on a bench at Colee Hammock Park. Identifying the body wasn't difficult — the 58-year-old had an ID in his wallet and a pill bottle with his name and his doctor's name listed on the side. Officers Jesus Gonzalez and Scott Bellinger filled out a report, jotting down contact information for Karpinen's 77-year-old mother in Delray Beach.But for some reason, neither officer bothered contacting her or anyone else in the family. Within hours, Karpinen's body was hauled off, his property seized, and the report closed out.
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How Florida Prepared for Hurricane Irma: The Most Memorable Images

You know the usual hurricane preparations: hanging shutters, boarding up your windows with plywood, stacking sandbags. But in Florida, nothing's ever that boring. Plenty of Floridians put their own spin on storm prep — often with hilarious or head-scratching results. Best Meme: The internet's favorite meme made an IRL appearance...
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday Things that are now 33 years old: The original Wrestlemania. Pictionary. Back to the Future. And, locally, the Community Arts Program's (CAP) Summer Concert Series! The series' 33rd year will kick off Thursday with a snazzy performance by CAP's All-Star Jazz Ensemble, rockin' out to everything from Glenn Miller...
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Miami-Dade Police Admit They Might Not Be Reporting Hate Crimes Properly

Last week, the FBI released its yearly log of hate crimes reported across the nation. In Florida, the data appears to show that hate-crime reports jumped 33 percent between 2015 and 2016. But that wasn't the entire story: Many of both the Sunshine State's and the nation's largest police departments appear to be neglecting to report hate crimes to the FBI.