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By TIMES WIRES
Published September 28, 2006
Shaq drops in, looking to buy About a dozen members of the Eustis Business and Professional Women's Club were in a meeting at the Lake Eustis Chamber of Commerce recently when they heard a knock at the back door. "How much do you want for this fair city?" It was Shaquille O'Neal, mega-star Miami Heat basketball player and budding real estate tycoon. He was kidding about buying Eustis. He was actually asking for directions to the nearby community of Harbor Shores, where he might buy some property, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Shaq recently started the O'Neal Group to invest in projects, including a $1-billion residential, hotel and retail complex in Miami. Teen flees U.S. for 'special girl' in Cuba A 14-year-old West Miami-Dade boy ran away from home last week and wound up in Cuba. Tenth-grader Alfredo Diaz cleared an American Airlines security check and boarded a Miami-to-Nassau flight on Thursday, even though the carrier requires escorts for anyone under 15. From there he probably used his Cuban passport to fly to Havana. "I can't believe my son was able to go through all that security and no one stopped him or asked him about being so young and traveling alone," father Alfredo Diaz told the Miami Herald. Alfredo may have been caught up in some typical teenage angst. He had met a special girl during a visit to Cuba this summer, his father said. And in school, he was accused of cheating to try to win the class presidency. Dad wants his son back and has hired a lawyer to help. Woman charged with letting son grow pot Why would a Tampa woman allow her 15-year-old son to grow marijuana? It was "a nice-looking plant," she told deputies, according to an arrest report. Not a good excuse. Esther Victoria Soto, 49, was arrested Tuesday on charges of marijuana possession and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. OVERHEARD "Don't be fooled by anybody that they know what's going to happen in two weeks. We don't know if this pattern is going to go or stay." - Lixion Avila, a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, on the weather patterns that have kept hurricanes from forming and steered the few that have developed away from Florida. For Florida, this is the height of the hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30.
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