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Morgan Currie gazed at the floor as she explained why she reached for the knife: ''I really love my mom,'' sighed the 14-year-old freshman. ``Seeing her get hit was like watching my world end.'' |
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Miami Herald Metro columnist Ana Menéndez has won the top prize for commentary from the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors. |
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The funeral for Anna Nicole Smith won't happen before Tuesday, the court-appointed guardian for the pinup's baby daughter said Saturday. |
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Justin Timberlake has never been shy about his plans to dominate pop in the way Michael Jackson once did. Like prime Jackson, he works with the hottest producers and he's got pop culture cred (even former Vice President Al Gore was quoting from Timberlake's single SexyBack last year). Unlike Jackson, he seems well adjusted, he's not popping in and out of rehab like too many of his peers and, at age 26, he has transcended his early music. |
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Desperate to counter a rising homicide rate, and more specifically a spate of killings in North Miami-Dade, police unveiled a new tactic last week in the war on crime: a gun bounty. |
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The canned peaches have dwindled and candied yams have all but disappeared, replaced by empty crates piled high inside the Stop Hunger Inc. warehouse nestled at Northeast 120th Street and 14th Avenue in North Miami. |
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Days after an audit criticized financial management at the Miami-Dade Housing Agency, the federal government said it would launch a deeper investigation into the county's troubled public-housing programs. |
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Wilkie Demeritte Ferguson Jr. was born into this world on May 11, 1938 -- and promptly dropped on society's margins. He grew up poor in Miami's Liberty Square public housing project, at a time when he and all other blacks in the South were relegated to second-class citizen status. |
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A Miami federal jury decided Friday that former Haitian army Col. Carl Dorelien -- who once won $3.2 million in the Florida Lottery -- is financially liable for the 1993 torture of a former Port-au-Prince labor leader and the 1994 death of a Haitian resident during a neighborhood massacre. |
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The presentation of the Best Documentary Short award during the Oscar telecast is usually an excellent cue for a bathroom break or a refill of the popcorn bowl. |
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Buddy, the state fire marshall's sniffer dog, was the only investigator eager to get inside the charred hulk of the old Collins Park Hotel Friday. |
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While agreeing with most findings of mismanagement in a new audit, county leaders said it does not justify a proposed federal takeover of the Miami-Dade Housing Agency. |
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If he were alive today, Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. would see an uncommon public building straddling Northwest Fourth Street at Miami Avenue. |
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Calle Ocho, the 23 blocks of ear-thumping, blood-pumping music that has become the largest Hispanic street festival in the United States, will be divided into sections for the first time in its nearly 30-year history -- by music genre. |
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In the battle over three proposed high-rise condo towers near Miami's storied Vizcaya property, a new weapon has surfaced: balloons. |
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Ink and coffee framed the countercultural debates in the cafés of San Francisco, New York and Paris, so Neli Santamarina figures her little joint on Southwest Eighth Street, Tinta Y Café, might help pry open exile Miami's Cuba discourse a half-century later. |
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United Teachers of Dade president Karen Aronowitz has been elected to a second term. Aronowitz, a former high-school English teacher, received 55 percent of the ballots cast Wednesday, enough to avoid a runoff with any of her four challengers. She will serve a three-year term. |
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Carnaval Miami 8K Run: 7 p.m. March 2 at Brickell Avenue and Southwest Eighth Street Carnaval on the Mile kickoff concert: 7 p.m. March 2 at Ponce Circle Park, 2800 block of Ponce de Leon Boulevard |
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Finances were so badly mismanaged at the Miami-Dade Housing Agency that the department routinely overdrew its accounts by millions and covered shortfalls in federal housing projects with local funds meant to build new affordable homes, according to a long-awaited audit released Wednesday. |
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Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Manuel Rosales, who once united that country's conflicted opposition, will accept an award today in Miami Beach from a U.S. political organization that hails him as a ``champion of democracy.'' |
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