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L uigi Palma, 40, was granted status as an immigrant of extraordinary ability in 2000. The Italian arrived at Miami International Airport in February 2001 and within three months got his green card in the mail. |
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United Teachers of Dade president Karen Aronowitz is up for reelection this week. But unlike her predecessor, who went two decades without opposition, four other teachers have stepped up to run against her, the latest sign that UTD's fledgling democracy is starting to blossom. |
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Owran Green thought he made a good deal when he agreed more than 13 years ago to plead no contest to assault and battery charges in Broward County in exchange for probation and no jail time. |
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Keith Gaulden -- barber, therapist, financial advisor, brother, friend, cancer survivor -- has been matching hairdos to personalities for 15 years, many from the worn leather chair at his booth inside Miami's USA Flea Market, a bustling place for South Florida's working class. |
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A fledgling activist group of college students plans to erect a mock shantytown on the Florida International University main campus this week to draw attention to the region's affordable housing crisis and show support for 40 squatters living in the Liberty City political protest-turned-homeless commune known as Umoja Village. |
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Carl Dorelien was among high-ranking military officers who overthrew Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 and then served as army colonel in the central command until U.S. troops landed in 1994 to restore Aristide to office. |
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A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed while standing near a Liberty City street corner, police said Sunday. The teenager was shot dead on Northwest 18th Avenue just north of 62nd Street at 11:56 p.m. Saturday, according to Miami-Dade police. |
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson -- one of several Democrats who have opened exploratory committees in potential presidential bids -- is the featured speaker at the Broward County Democratic Jefferson Jackson Dinner Feb. 24. |
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What's out there after high school? The answer for thousands of South Florida high school students lay somewhere among a sea of booths at the Miami National College Fair on Sunday, where recruiters from 150 colleges and universities gathered to woo potential applicants. |
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Five Miami boaters missing for a day at sea were found Sunday morning clinging to their capsized boat about four miles south of Government Cut, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. |
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What: A joint protest of South Florida college students and homeless residents of Liberty City's Umoja Village shantytown to call attention to the affordable housing crisis is planned for today through Wednesday. |
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Six years ago, a sleepy little wine-tasting event on the North Miami campus of Florida International University was reinvented as the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. The sexy new backdrop was supposed to make the bigger, glitzier weekend a slam-dunk success. |
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Carrying signs that read ''Say no to gangs'' and ''Enough is enough,'' a crowd of more than 100 people marched down Liberty City's Unity Boulevard early Saturday morning to call attention to the continuing gun violence among young people in Miami-Dade. |
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Dan Kipnis, veteran Miami fishing captain and familiar face on the tournament circuit, would normally fit right in at the Miami International Boat Show. |
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It'll be a cold one this weekend -- cold, of course, being a relative term, considering that much of the country is shivering and shoveling through the miseries of winter. |
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A sport utility rolled over while driving northbound Friday on Florida's Turnpike, according to the Florida Highway Patrol -- causing at least two deaths and sending three others to the hospital. |
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To an outsider, the individual pieces of the Cuban Memorial might not seem very impressive: foam crosses, bolted to a grass field in Tamiami Park. |
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After a Washington meeting about a possible federal takeover of Miami-Dade's housing agency, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has an open mind and will take no action for at least two weeks. |
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Sections of his skin are grafted, he still has limbs in casts and takes methadone to wean himself off other medications. But 3-year-old Adam Perez-Pinon went home Friday afternoon. |
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For high schools students, selecting a college and applying for grants and financial aid can be daunting. It will be made easier on Sunday at the annual National College Fair at the Sheraton Miami Mart Hotel, 777 NW 72nd Ave. |
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