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At five-foot-five and 99 pounds, Sonya Thomas was sandwiched between more than a dozen hungry, burly men who towered over her tiny frame. |
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In Old Havana, La Bodeguita del Medio is the stuff of legend -- the haunt where Ernest Hemingway is said to have nursed mojitos as the sun faded into twilight, and where other literary luminaries stopped to toss one back and hold court. |
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C.D. Flash, organizer of the ninth annual Medical Marijuana Benefit at Tobacco Road, was nowhere to be found but surely around somewhere: near the stands selling incense and Tupac portraits and Indonesian mangosteen juice shots or mixing with the crowd or stealing a toke? |
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The kid, wearing a white ball cap with ''CONCHTOWN'' written across the front, attempted to console his hometown boxing hero, Timmy Leonard, who was bloodied, bruised and emotionally battered. |
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Born Nov. 14, 1913, in Atlantic City, N.J. Moved to Miami in 1919. Became student body president at Miami Senior High School and at the University of Florida, where he also was president of his fraternity, captain of the basketball, track and debate teams. |
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AND TODD WRIGHT Miami's Community Redevelopment Agency, in its mission statement, pledges to improve quality of life in some of the city's downtrodden neighborhoods, ``thereby achieving the complete eradication of slums and blight.'' |
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Equal representation and evocations of the civil rights movement have become prominent campaign themes leading up to Tuesday's strong-mayor vote in Miami-Dade County. |
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The accused killer bawled at the police station. His name is Tyree Patrick Walker and he rode a bicycle to escape the crime scene. A Northwestern High sophomore, Walker is just 16. |
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Healthcare executives have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the campaign for Miami-Dade's strong-mayor proposal, leaving some employees of the state's largest public hospital concerned about political interference. |
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Demonstrators clashed briefly at a rally Friday in support of Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban exile militant facing federal prosecution in Texas and possible deportation if the United States can find a country willing to take him. |
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Do you remember, too? Dozens of Miami Herald readers -- escorted on a chilly trip down memory lane by a Friday story chronicling the 30th anniversary of a morning when snow fell in Miami -- responded by posting their own recollections on MiamiHerald.com. |
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For a man who built a career getting ''yes'' out of politicians, prominent Miami-Dade lobbyist and businessman Rodney Barreto said he finds himself saying ''no'' constantly as chairman of the Super Bowl Host Committee. |
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Since the Cleveland Orchestra announced its Miami residency two years ago, there has been great excitement, as well as some degree of controversy. |
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A Pompano Beach businessman pleaded guilty to a scheme to sell inferior aircraft parts to NASA for the space shuttle program, authorities said Friday. |
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National Guard Staff Sgt. Carlos Lazo, who couldn't visit his sons in Cuba two years ago because of U.S. policy, wrapped up a lobbying mission to Washington this past week that culminated with an appearance on CNN. |
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(AP) -- Three winners of Fantasy 5 will collect $80,645.05 each, Florida Lottery officials said Friday. The winning tickets were bought in West Kendall, Hialeah and Punta Gorda, lottery officials reported. |
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The Miami Children's Museum will be open free of charge from 3 to 9 p.m. today, the first of 12 free nights offered by the museum and Target. |
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Marcos Ceballos felt left in the dark. Four streetlights on his Hialeah block, including one right in front of his home, had been off since July. |
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Forecaster Ray Biedinger looked at the screen of his trusty weather radar in the wee hours of Jan. 19, 1977, and knew what he had to do. The bitter cold front barreling south across the state left him no choice but to hold his breath and issue one of Miami's most unusual forecasts: ''Cold with rain showers and the possibility of snow.'' |
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An ally of Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles turned over a stockpile of illegal machine guns, dynamite and a grenade launcher to federal agents this week in a bid to reduce his prison sentence, several sources familiar with the arms surrender said. |
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