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The attorney for the man sent to Death Row for raping and killing 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce more than a decade ago is expected to testify next week that he told his client to lie on the stand because he was on medication and ''disoriented'' during the trial. |
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Brazilian mega-church leaders Sonia Moraes Hernandes and Estevam Hernandes-Filho spent the last two decades building one of Brazil's largest evangelical empires. They're now spending their time at a federal detention center in Miami. |
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Confusion and panic marked the final moments of Bryan Pata's life, as his girlfriend and another man screamed for emergency dispatchers to send help to the University of Miami football player who had been shot. |
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Outraged that prosecutors and judges in Miami-Dade have planted fake documents in public court files, and worried it may be happening elsewhere, the state's public defenders are asking the Florida Supreme Court to halt the secret practice. |
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A Miami-Dade fire inspector will pay the county $118,000 after pleading guilty Thursday to charges that he lied on overtime records while working at Miami International Airport. |
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Federal immigration officials will issue free work permits for as many as 1,000 Cubans who were unable to obtain them because of a computer glitch, the nonprofit Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center plans to announce today. |
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TV crews from ESPN2 will be at the outdoor ring at Mallory Square for Rumble in Paradise III. The sports channel's presence signifies that professional boxing -- long a staple of Key West's history, but missing for most of the past two decades -- is back and on solid footing. |
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Henry Cuman ''Co'' Munroe, a co-owner of Munroe-Zeder Chrysler-Plymouth in Miami-Dade and a World War II veteran, died Jan. 15 at his home on Hutchinson Island near Fort Pierce. He was 92. |
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Kathleen Cunningham, a fixture in South Florida GOP circles and an avid traveler who took more than 60 cruises across the world, died Saturday of uterine cancer. She was 65. |
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Police have arrested a 23-year-old chemistry student in connection with the explosion that rocked a Miami condo building early Tuesday. |
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An FBI informant who is a key witness against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles discovered a pipe bomb attached to the bottom of his pickup truck Sunday and drove it to the Hialeah Police Department, law-enforcement authorities say. |
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A few feet away, among hundreds of middle-schoolers, Miami's own Keandra Johnson's small hands lay atop her pulsing heart Wednesday morning outside Miami's Allapattah Middle School. ''I'm so inspired to meet the fastest woman in the world, the fastest woman on Earth!'' Keandra, 11, said, giggling and gasping in awe. ``I'm just, like, in shock.'' Lauryn Williams -- the reigning women's 100-meter world champion and Olympic silver medalist -- spent another day making a difference in children's lives. |
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Refusing to rule out a big-government, California-style health insurance plan for Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday tapped an admirer of the proposal to be the state's first surgeon general as well as the state's health secretary. |
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When Robert and Judi Prokrop Newman donated millions to build the new University of Miami alumni center -- which will bear their names -- the projected cost was $26 million. Today, it's up to $34 million, UM says. |
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Joseph Gedeon, father of a murdered son, wanted to speak out for justice Wednesday. Carrying large photos of his dead son, Gedeon stood alongside a crowd of politicians who gathered inside El Portal's Village Hall to urge an end to recent gang violence. |
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A Muslim imam, the archbishop of Miami, a rabbi and a Protestant minister met at a Miami Beach synagogue Wednesday night to talk about a religious figure who inspired them all: Pope John Paul II. |
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A majority of likely voters say they support Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez's drive to create a strong-mayor form of government, a poll released Wednesday suggests. |
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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was reluctant to throw away his water bottle at a Miami International Airport security checkpoint Wednesday morning. |
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Amid fears that code enforcement might shut down birthday parties and backyard wedding receptions if the city imposed new restrictions on the commercial use of private residences, Miami Beach commissioners Wednesday night sent a proposed ordinance back to the Land Use and Development Committee for more study. |
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Accused of skimming cash from tennis fans looking for parking at last year's NASDAQ-100 Open tennis tournament on Key Biscayne, two Crandon Park employees gave a novel explanation, investigators say: Sure, they took about $3,500, but they spent it all on tools and repairs that were desperately needed at the park. |
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