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A Miami-Dade parents group has identified a third book that they say paints a false picture of life in Cuba. But this time, they're taking matters into their own hands. |
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Today's highly publicized hearing about the competency of terror defendant Jose Padilla may be focused on his mental fitness to stand trial in April. |
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Think your life is busy? Try stepping into Martha Stewart's garden clogs for a day. Safe to say the lifestyle mogul's brain wasn't idle those five months behind bars. |
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Six years after she left the little school in Liberty City for the last time, Beverly Nixon returned to Martin Luther King Elementary on Wednesday evening to see a room dedicated in her honor. |
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Two top-ranking Miami-Dade police officials chose to retire instead of being demoted, the department said Wednesday. A third police officer, a major, accepted a demotion to captain, officials said. |
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A man faces carjacking and possibly manslaughter charges after he crashed into another vehicle early Wednesday, killing the other driver, Miami-Dade police said. |
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The Miami-Dade School Board on Wednesday accepted a special magistrate's recommendation to pursue a controversial performance pay plan for teachers, despite staunch opposition from the union. |
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Hillary Rodham Clinton chose Liberty City Tuesday for her first public appearance in Florida as a presidential candidate, signaling that she won't forfeit black voters to Democratic rival Barack Obama. |
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Sounding like a boom-time leader, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez endorsed massive new construction plans in his State of the County speech Tuesday, acknowledging no fears that a stumbling real estate market and proposed tax cuts could strain budgets. |
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The cost to build the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts jumped by $12.5 million -- to a total of $472.97 million -- because of additional work by subcontractors, unforeseen overhead and changes to construction schedules made to complete the cultural landmark by August 2006. |
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Miami Dade College won approval Tuesday for its third four-year program -- a bachelor's of science in nursing. The school plans to accept its first 30 students in Spring 2008 and eventually enroll a total of 150 at its medical campus near Jackson Memorial Hospital, said K.K. Bentil, president of MDC's medical campus. |
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Everyone in court agreed Tuesday that Silvia ''Maggie'' Locascio was bludgeoned and stabbed to death by her brother-in-law, Michael Locascio. But this week, Edward Locascio -- Michael's brother and Maggie's husband -- is on trial for the murder. And jurors don't know it, but they will be asked to recommend that Edward Locascio pay a higher price.
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The Miami Herald's Debbie Cenziper won one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious journalism awards for her stories last year exposing how the Miami-Dade Housing Agency squandered millions on developers who failed to build promised homes. |
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Paola Varela and Carlos Bedoya, once little-known beyond their native Colombia, are now stars in South Florida: she as a top Spanish-language television personality, he as an acclaimed ''digital artist'' revolutionizing the recording industry. |
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Hands and feet bound, smashed with a hammer and a nail driven through her skull, 14-year-old Eileen Adams was found slain in a rural Michigan field in 1968. Years later, inside a deserted Miami-Dade County restaurant, detectives found a bound Spider-Man doll hanging from the ceiling with a needle stuck through its head. Two discoveries. Two distinct places. One DNA link, police say.
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Miami Herald editorial cartoonist Jim Morin is the 2007 winner of the Herblock Prize for distinguished news cartoons. Morin will receive a $10,000 award at an April 4 ceremony in Washington, D.C. Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw will deliver the keynote address at the Library of Congress. |
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As dozens of firefighters put out a powerful house fire in Southwest Miami-Dade, neighbors standing in the cold early Monday urged the firefighters to go back in and search again for the man who had lived alone in the wooden home for decades. |
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In his first major address since winning broad new powers last month, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez will deliver a State of the County speech today that will be long on his vision for the county's new government and short on new initiatives and programs. |
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United States has had a long history of attracting the world's most talented immigrants. But it's only since passage of the Immigration Act of 1990 that a sustained processing system has been in place to expedite immigrant visas for people who meet the tough requirements. |
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P aola Varela, 29, arrived in the United States from her native Colombia on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. But that chaotic beginning did not deter her. Varela has become one of Telemundo's rising stars. |
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