Police take down major East Coast heroin network

Federal and state officials in New Jersey say they've cracked a major heroin network.State Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa says the network was selling millions of dollars in heroin in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington.The attorney general says the network operated out of a series of heroin mills and stash houses in Paterson. AP Opium poppies which after processing can...

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AHCA rethinking Medicaid doc pay

An early showdown about how Florida’s political leadership responds to Obamacare may be off. The Agency for Healthcare Administration said Monday evening it was reconsidering its position on whether legislative approval is needed for higher rates for Medicaid primary care doctors starting Jan. 1, as required by the Affordable Care Act. Shelisha Coleman, an AHCA spokeswoman,...

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Pembroke Pines hosts winter camp for special needs kids

The City of Pembroke Pines is accepting registration for its two-week Winter Camp for special needs children ages 6 through 14.Participants will engage in indoor and outdoor activities, games, arts and crafts, and other activities.Participants must be independent in toileting skills and be able to administer, with supervision, their own medications. The...

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Game of Thrones Season Three Graphic Tease

Lower your expectations for this "First Look" because it's just a tease of the new season three graphic, but Game of Thrones has conditioned us to revel even in the smallest moments.RELATED - Peter Dinklage Almost Rejected Game RoleA woman's voice (Melisandre? Catelyn Stark?) can be heard over the title and date reveal, saying: "The great war is between death and life, ice and fire. If we lose, the...

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WATCH: Anderson Cooper reacts to explosion live on-air

CNNAnderson Cooper got jumpy on live TV after a bomb exploded near his report in Gaza.Anderson Cooper had good reason to get jumpy during a weekend newscast.The CNN journalist was broadcasting from Gaza City, when a bomb exploded nearby – lighting up the darkness around him and punctuating its presence with a loud boom.As the bomb exploded, Cooper ducked...

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Growing middle class feeds spirits business in Latin America

Diageo executive Randy Millian is proud of the fact that eight out of every 12 times someone pours a standard or premium whiskey in the Latin American and Caribbean region, they’re drinking one of his company’s brands.That kind of dominance is why the spirits giant is bullish on its future in Latin America, which recently has been the fastest growing region for Diageo worldwide....

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Interfaith Thanksgiving service planned for Wednesday night

Members of various faiths in Coral Gables will come together at 7 p.m. Wednesday in a spirit of unity for the annual Thanksgiving Eve Interfaith Worship Service hosted by Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ, 3010 De Soto Blvd., across the street from the Biltmore Hotel.The Rev. Dr. Laurinda Hafner, senior pastor of the church said, "We invite everyone - no...

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Buzzmakers: Lindsay Lohan Comes Clean & Janeane Marries

What had ET readers buzzing this week?1. Janeane Garofalo: I Didn't Know I was Married!Sometimes what happens in Vegas actually does stay in Vegas -- at least for two decades. Funny girl Janeane Garofalo is claiming she's been married for 20 years, and didn't even know it!The Reality Bites actress told the New York Post that she and Big Bang Theory producer Rob Cohen decided to wed at a Las Vegas...

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Biden to tour storm-damaged New Jersey today

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NJ — Vice President Joe Biden is the latest White House official to visit New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy.Biden is scheduled to tour Seaside Heights and Hoboken on Sunday.President Obama visited storm-wrecked Atlantic City with Gov. Chris Christie before the election. Two Obama Cabinet officers toured a Federal Emergency Management Agency...

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Panama Canal’s $5 billion makeover could be boon for South Florida

PANAMA CITY, Panama -- Huge yellow dump trucks resemble Tonka toys in a sand pile as they haul tons of rust-colored dirt and basalt rock from a 56-foot gash in the earth that will become a new access channel in the $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal.The trucks keep rumbling up muddy terraced slopes as a quick-moving storm blurs the horizon. The rain chases away workers...

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