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Check out what I found interesting in this morning's news feeds.

A- Palm Beach Post: Polaroid's newest idea.

The national testing ground for a new kind of photo store is suburban Delray Beach.

The Fotobar, a retail concept being unveiled by Polaroid, will open its first store next month at the Delray Marketplace, a shopping center at Atlantic Avenue and Lyons Road.

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The idea is that the Fotobar will turn cellphone photographers into artists capable of making their own family portraits and living room wall hangings. The store will offer photos mounted on a variety of materials that range from heavy-stock paper to canvas, wood, metal, acrylic and bamboo.

The non-paper reproductions will be handled by the company’s manufacturing facility in Boca Raton and later sent to customers.

The Fotobar store will be part gallery of amateur photographs, part arts-and-crafts store and part classroom for anyone looking to become more tech-savvy when it comes to photography, Struhl said. And it will host parties and provide a portrait studio for customers to use.

B- South Florida Business Journal: Lauderdale's trolley service expands.

Fort Lauderdale’s Sun Trolley has expanded its Beach Link Route to seven-day service, according to the city of Fort Lauderdale.

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Sun Trolley is a wave and ride service. Passengers flag the driver anywhere along the route to board. The fare is 50 cents for one trip or $2 for all day, hop-on-hop-off service.

C- South Florida Business Journal: The top-rated Zagat restaurants in South Florida.

D- South Florida Business Journal: The Top 25 South Florida law firms.

E- CBS4: More trouble for Rickenbacker cyclists?

KEY BISCAYNE (CBS4) – The westbound lanes of Key Biscayne’s Bear Cut Bridge will close indefinitely for necessary repairs, Miami-Dade County officials said Thursday.

The move comes after a Florida Department of Transportation report claimed the side of the bridge is in serious disrepair, according to CBS4 News partner The Miami Herald. The repairs may take up to a year to complete.

F- NBC Miami: Life in South Florida.

A Hallandale Beach woman has been arrested on charges she went on a scream-filled tirade on State Road A1A, threw a traffic cone at a car and spit on one of the men who restrained her, police say.

Arlene Mena, 25, was taken into custody Wednesday morning on charges of battery and criminal mischief, according to Hallandale Beach police arrest report.

At Mena’s first court appearance Thursday, Broward County Judge John “Jay” Hurley listened as she provided her account of the incident.

“With all due respect, I was just trying to do artwork,” Mena said. “The driver misunderstood. I was walking with my boots on. I hurt my leg.”

The judge asked Mena what she did for a living, to which she replied she was a “dancer,” or “stripper.”

G- WSVN: The trouble with walking along Las Olas.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A car crashed into the outside dining area of Trata Greek Taverna along Las Olas Boulevard and Southeast 11th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.

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The employee said several people had reservations to eat on the outside patio but canceled. "On a busy day might've killed four, five, six people," said the employee.

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