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At 5 p.m. Tuesday, the tropical depression was about 330 miles south-southwest of Miami, Florida. STORY HIGHLIGHTSTropical storm warnings cover southeastern Florida, Caymans, parts of Cuba, BahamasIt is expected to be over or near Florida by Wednesday afternoonBut the storm is expected to dissipate by the end of the week (CNN) -- Tropical storm warnings covered southeastern Florida, the Cayman Islands and parts of Cuba and the Bahamas on Tuesday as a tropical depression formed in the Caribbean and took aim for land, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is expected to cross Cuba on Tuesday night and be over or very near southeastern Florida by Wednesday afternoon, the center said. The tropical storm warnings -- meaning tropical storm conditions can be expected within 36 hours -- were in effect from Jupiter Inlet, Florida, southward to East Cape Sable and Florida Bay .. more»

By Eliot Kleinberg Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Updated: 5:32 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 Posted: 3:13 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 The tropical depression that formed this morning isn't quite Nicole yet, and while it is on a beeline for South Florida, as dramatic as that sounds, it is forecast to be more of an inconvenience than a major weather event. While a tropical storm warning is in place from Jupiter Inlet south to the Keys and a tropical storm watch north to Sebastian Inlet as well as for southwest Florida, the National Weather Service is predicting that, at most, sustained winds in Palm Beach County will be in the 25 mph to 35 mph range, with gusts up to 45 mph. Four to eight inches of rain could fall on South Florida, with the heaviest rains expected south and southeast of Lake Okeechobee, according to .. more»

Gunman opens fire at UT in Austin, kills himself By KELLEY SHANNON (AP) – 15 minutes ago AUSTIN, Texas — A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask opened fire Tuesday with an assault rifle on the University of Texas campus before fleeing into a library and fatally shooting himself. No one else was hurt.The shooting began near a fountain in front of the UT Tower — the site of one of the nation's deadliest shooting rampages more than four decades ago, when a gunman ascended the clock tower and fired down on dozens of people.Within hours of Tuesday's gunfire, the school issued an all-clear notice, but the university remained closed, and the area around the library was still considered a crime scene."Our campus is safe," school President Bill Powers said.Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo expected the school to be "completely open and back to normal" by .. more»

1 p.m. Update: Investigators now say there is no second suspect in Tuesday's shooting at the University of Texas at Austin where a gunman opened fire inside a library with an AK-47 before fatally shooting himself Tuesday morning, Austin police say.   The gunman is believed to be a student at the university, though officials said they are waiting on a medical examiner's identification of the person to be sure, according to KXAN-TV in Austin. "University of Texas Police Department Chief Robert Dahlstrom said at 12:30 p.m. that their search for a potential second gunman or suspect turned up nothing - and that initial witness speculation that there may have been two threatening individuals appear to be false. He also said that multiple descriptions of the same person led to the belief of that second person," KXAN reported. Noon Update: Police are still conducting an investigation and search to eliminate the possibility of a second suspect .. more»

Recent TV shows have drawn attention to the heretofore little-noticed issue of hoarding. While serious cases get more attention, hoarding is really an age-old problem that’s just recently gotten the attention and research needed, said Dr. Jeff Szymanski, executive director of the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation based in Boston. “Hoarding has been unknown, unrecognized, because hoarders don’t seek treatment and, up until recently — the early ’90s — no one knew what to do with it,” Szymanski said. “It has not been well-addressed previously, but it’s been around since the beginning of time.” What is hoarding exactly? In the simplest terms, hoarding is when someone has too much stuff and that stuff gets in the way of living his or her life, Szymanski said. It’s when a person cannot stop accumulating. The ill effects of hoarding are that it affects day-to-day living. “The dining .. more»