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Responding to an international media blitz and outrage from some members of the Cuban-American community, Miami city leaders Tuesday vowed to tone down a proposed large-scale, city-organized public event in the Orange Bowl when Fidel Castro dies. |
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An appellate court on Tuesday restored the U.S. government's fractured terror case against Jose Padilla and two other Muslims by reinstating a key count in the Miami indictment -- conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping and other violent acts in the name of Islamic extremism overseas. |
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Her students call her the leader of the ``Sharperson Super Stars.'' Her students' parents call her a caring and challenging teacher who draws them into their children's education. |
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Players, coaches and commentators are ready for the Super Bowl. But how ready is your super bowl? Sewer departments across the country -- including Miami-Dade's -- are bracing for the so-called Halftime Flush. It's a yearly phenomenon when an estimated 90 million people flush about 350 million gallons of water down the toilet at the same time: during halftime of the big game. |
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Paul Ridgeway's mantra is simple: ``Get people in quickly and safely, and get them out quickly and safely.'' Ridgeway leads a team of transportation and logistics professionals who have been planning for Super Bowl XLI for nearly 15 months. But work in the windowless hotel conference room in downtown Miami that serves as Transportation Central really started ramping up four weeks ago. |
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It's our party and we'll sit in our cars if we want to. Anyone planning to venture near downtown Miami or Miami Beach during Super Bowl weekend should prepare for long delays, scant parking and gridlock. |
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Samuel Davis thought his calling in life was to be a police officer. The 59-year-old spent years fighting crime in his native Bahamas. But one day in 1996 as he was zipping around on his police motorcycle, he got into an accident. |
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A Peruvian national who lived in Miami for 10 years was among the victims of Monday's suicide attack in the Israeli resort town of Eilat. |
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The cold weather is on its way out, but it has left behind another menace: the danger of brush fires. According to preliminary reports, the state's agricultural areas were mostly spared damage from Monday night's cold blast. |
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Clutching her mother's side, 8-year-old Ivette González describes her dad as ''handsome'' and says she gave him lots of kisses. |
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With their fealty to Ché Guevara, their revolutionary discourses peppered with ''proletariat'' and ''comrade,'' and their ''Read Lenin'' and ''Burn Your Bra!'' T-shirts, the Bolívarian Youth seem almost retro, a throwback to a more, well, unwashed time. |
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Is the ambitious plan to bring trolleys back to the streets of Miami running into trouble? In October, city staffers were promising the public that they would be asking commissioners in early December to take a few more procedural baby steps to launch the $200 million Miami Streetcar. Then they pushed it back to late December. Then early January. Now it might not happen before March at the earliest. |
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Chatting in a security golf cart, the husband-and-wife Metrorail guards talked about their two children. About life in Miami. And about moving to Georgia, perhaps, where homes are cheaper and people respect the law. |
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At 37, Susana Betancourt is a successful and politically active Gen-Xer, a rising star in Miami's contentious political scene, working to lure Cuban Americans away from the Republican Party. |
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Break out the long johns, but not for long. An arctic blast of cold air expected to sweep through Florida by this morning was forecast to bring the coldest weather of the year, with temperatures likely to dip into the 30s in inland parts of Miami-Dade and Broward counties. |
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About 30 residents and worshipers gathered recently at Ebenezer United Methodist Church, 2001 NW 35th St. in Allapattah, to tell the world they are tired of murders happening in their neighborhood. |
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The Dade Community Foundation, one of Miami-Dade's biggest philanthropic organizations, announced the addition of Sergio Bendixen and Larry Spring to its board of governors. |
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Get ready for some heavy-duty Super Bowl security. Thousands of officers and agents from more than 50 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies will be stationed at Dolphin Stadium, patrolling South Florida streets and cruising our waterways as the Super Bowl comes to town. |
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One day, very possibly one day soon, ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro will die -- and a nascent committee sponsored by the city of Miami wants to be ready. |
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Miami Heat center and Miami Beach reserve Officer Shaquille O'Neal has done it again -- this time, helping police nab a hit-and-run driver early Sunday. |
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