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Opening day at Countyline Dragway, the first legal drag-racing strip in Miami-Dade County, commenced, as such occasions do, with a speech. |
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Close that window you just opened. Bring in the pets and plants. Brace for bracing temperatures. This morning's chill was just a hint of things to come. Some of the coldest air of the season will arrive tonight -- and that's putting it mildly. |
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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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Watching the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste relax on a folding chair at the storefront office of Veye Yo, a political group he founded in Little Haiti, it is hard to tell the priest was wracked by leukemia. |
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Around 9:30 a.m., the soliciting began: ``We have five prom tickets plus limo service for seniors who scored above a Level 3. . . . Eleventh-graders who show up for the exam can win an iPod! . . . They can all be yours.'' |
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Late Saturday, Miami police began rerouting traffic to accommodate spectator and runners in today's ING Miami Marathon. The race is scheduled to begin at 6 a.m. in front of the AmericanAirlines Arena and conclude in front of Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. |
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Olga Dahl's sons could grow up to be cowboys. The 29-year-old native of Colombia, decked out in a straw hat and black faded jeans and boots, took her sons Sebastian, 6, and Sean, 4, to their first honky-tonk rodeo in Homestead on Saturday. |
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She perfected the pose of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning: Standing erect in her white Miami Dolphins jersey, arm cocked. Legs slightly apart, white sneakers -- and pink shoelaces? |
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The dancers will leap impossible heights, shimmy around the stage to rhythms heavy on drums, the musical heartbeat of the African Diaspora. |
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A recounting of life during an Alabama bus boycott, historic pictures of black barbershops and an exhibit on the influence of jazz are among the offerings at the Miami-Dade Public Library system during its observance of Black History Month. |
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Around 9:30 a.m., the soliciting began: ``We have five prom tickets plus limo service for seniors who scored above a Level 3. . . . Eleventh-graders who show up for the exam can win an Ipod! . . . They can all be yours.'' |
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Buying a python in Florida, a no-questions-asked process today, soon could be more like buying another kind of lethal weapon. There won't be criminal checks or three-day waits as there are for handguns, but new proposals could make it a lot more complicated, and a little more expensive, to buy a Burmese python or five other large exotic reptiles that have found the state an all-too-appetizing place to live. |
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By becoming a U.S. citizen on Friday, Cuban-born Juana Montenegro demonstrated that you're never too old to make your dreams come true. |
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Kende Moses is serving a 60-year sentence for something that is no longer a crime, his attorney says. Moses was convicted of second-degree murder in 2004. Eleven months later, the Legislature amended the state's Castle Doctrine, legalizing what he did -- killing someone he believed was about to hurt or kill him, according to attorney Charles White. |
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Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Rudy Crew may have said no to a job in Washington three years ago, but officials there are apparently not over their crush on the Miami schools chief. |
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Police in Allapattah are trying to figure out who shot a 27-year-old man to death Friday morning outside a duplex apartment. Neighbors called Miami police to the 4500 block of Northwest 13th Avenue at about 1:30 a.m., department spokesman Delrish Moss said. The dead man was identified as Curtis Tavares Dopson of 4522 NW 13th Ave. |
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When Jose Padilla was whisked from a Navy brig to Miami after 3 ½ years of solitary confinement as an enemy combatant, his lawyers and civil liberties groups jubilantly declared that Padilla's rights as a U.S. citizen were finally being upheld and his day in court was near. |
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St. Thomas University named long-time professor and administrator Alfredo Garcia the new dean of its law school. He becomes the only Cuban-American to hold a law dean's post -- beyond serving on an interim basis -- at an American university. |
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Fifty years ago Thursday, ranchers on horseback arrived at the Golden Glades for a ribbon-cutting to mark the arrival of modern superhighway travel with the Sunshine State Parkway. |
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Forget the bulls and the broncs. It takes all kinds to fill up a rodeo arena day and night. This weekend at Homestead's Doc DeMilly Rodeo Arena, folks can meet a 'sumo rasslin' '' clown, even a yodeling cowboy poet. And telling the story of it all will be Texan Wayne Brooks, an award-winning rodeo announcer who gives the lowdown on all the lassoing and roping as if he's at home spinning tales with friends. |
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