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''The hottest ticket in South Beach'' had cold water poured all over it by Miami Beach code-compliance officers who shut down a $1,000-a-head Star Island party. |
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A local barber sought in the murder of a 17-year-old in Allapattah in December was booked into a Miami-Dade jail this week after authorities found him in New York City, police said. |
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Until the 9,200-ton U.S. Navy destroyer cut through the morning mist Friday, a knot of spectators along the shore in South Beach was cracking wise. |
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Don't be alarmed if you happen to see a warship off the Miami Beach coast this morning. We're not under attack. The USS Gridley, the newest Navy destroyer to join the U.S. fleet, is tying up at the seaport here in Miami. It'll serve as a backdrop for some Super Bowl festivities, then take center stage with its own coming-out party a week from Saturday. |
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Miss May 1998 was in town, courtesy of Playboy. She'd taken a lounge in the South Seas Hotel on Collins Avenue. Sony had filled the lounge with PlayStations and big-screen televisions. What Deanna Brooks, Miss May 1998, wanted more than almost anything, if her publicist was to be believed, was to play video games with members of the news media before Super Bowl Weekend. |
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Miami homicide detectives this week interviewed Cincinnati Bengals star receiver Chad Johnson as part of an investigation into the shooting death of a 27-year-old man in Brownsville, police confirmed Thursday. |
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Martial arts fighter Eduardo Procoro and Guy Jester, the young Porsche-driving son of a Coconut Grove businessman, crossed paths on a dark two-lane road. |
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Gov. Charlie Crist has reappointed Miami businessman Rodney Barreto to the state's wildlife commission. Barreto, a real estate investor and founding partner in an influential lobbying firm, was among 283 people whose appointments by former Gov. Jeb Bush to state boards were canceled by Crist when he took his place in office last month. |
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Frustrated again by stalled contract negotiations, Miami's police union plans to stage protests today at two Super Bowl parties. Another protest is planned for Saturday, and union organizers may even hold a rally on Super Bowl Sunday. |
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Miami police are preparing to close several city streets for Super Bowl weekend events. If gridlock paralyzes the area, police and the Florida Department of Transportation are prepared to close temporarily the eastbound MacArthur Causeway from Interstate 95, forcing beachbound drivers to use either the Julia Tuttle or 79th Street causeways. Watch for overhead electronic message boards and temporary signs for road closure notices. |
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A $5 million grant from a real estate developer will be used to set up a center to address one of South Florida's most vexing problems: the endless commute that many teachers, nurses and other workers endure because of a lack of moderately priced housing near their jobs. |
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Florida International University and Barry University both chose insiders this week for high-profile jobs leading their schools' academic missions. |
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Funeral services are today for a former Miami man killed Monday in a terrorist attack at a bakery in Israel. The body of Israel Zamalloa, 25, was flown to South Florida, where his parents and a sister still live, the Consulate General of Israel said Thursday. |
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After seven years of last-minute political defeats, the plan to help the Florida Marlins build a new ballpark with the help of state funds got a major boost Wednesday when Gov. Charlie Crist announced he is a fan of using taxpayer money to subsidize sports stadiums. |
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Good news, sports fans: Super Bowl ticket prices are dropping fast. The bad news: Experts say $1,500 per seat will still qualify as a bargain on game day. |
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Two weeks after he nearly blew his father, his father's girlfriend and their high-rise condo neighbors to smithereens, Itai Polatnick remains behind bars. |
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The TV cameras came to this lot of cardboard houses, captured James Sands' face and left. About 25 reporters, many in town for the Super Bowl, came to get a 15-minute glimpse of Umoja Village, the shantytown built at 6201 NW 17th Ave., where 46 homeless people are squatting on public land. |
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John Sutton got so frustrated with the slow pace of the prosecution against the man accused of killing his wife that he recently offered to help pay defense costs out of his own pocket. |
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A Miami man was almost killed by his coffee Wednesday morning, but a strangler fig tree saved him. IHOP coffee cup in hand, Jose Puerto was driving to work at 6:45 a.m. in the 3600 block of Southwest 75th Avenue when he spilled the hot drink onto his pants. When he looked down to survey the spillage, he veered off the road, heading directly toward a canal guardrail. |
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The man who barricaded himself inside the newsroom of El Nuevo Herald in November pleaded no contest to assault and burglary charges and received two years of probation Wednesday. |
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