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A Miami Dade College professor took a trip to San Francisco, paid for by a textbook publisher. Weeks later, his three-member committee selected the publisher's book as required reading for all anatomy students at MDC's Kendall campus and the department chairman approved. |
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Suspicion, politics and accusations of personal snubs have tainted the federal government's attempt to play a greater role in overhauling Miami-Dade's troubled housing department. |
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It took Stuart Blumberg an hour Thursday night to make the usually quick, seven-mile drive from Miami Beach's Lincoln Road to his North Bay Village home. |
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Prisoners -- and the guests who visit them -- have rights, too. So when a complaint came in that visitors weren't being treated right at Dade Correctional Institution, Problem went to check it out. |
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A significantly watered-down version of a proposed ordinance to strip Miami-Dade police of powers to investigate corruption at County Hall passed a key committee Thursday after being endorsed by the mayor and police director. |
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Cigarettes saved Betty Conley's life on Thursday morning. The cook at the Shantel Lounge and Restaurant in Little Haiti was baking a dozen sweet potato pies when a burgundy pickup truck with a man, woman and two little girls aboard smashed through the wall. |
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Nestor Garcia, a veteran officer who mentored Overtown schoolchildren, organized a graffiti cleanup and busted drug dealers was honored Thursday as Miami's 2006 Officer of the Year. |
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For many, the image of El Salvador is defined by its troubles -- the wars of its past and the gang problems of its present. Photographer and teacher Barry Gordon sees the small Central American country differently. |
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Banish the thought of a concrete jungle. There won't be one next year, after the makeover of a large chunk of Biscayne Boulevard is complete. |
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There will be a shout out to the Palmetto High cheerleaders who hang out at the Howard Johnson's malt shop on Kendall Drive, an arch nod to the kids watching the submarine races at pre-naked Haulover Beach and of course plugs for that cherry '65 GTO on display at the 163rd Street Shopping Center. Tiger Radio lives! |
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Miami-Dade: Closed Monday Broward: Closed Monday Monroe: Closed Monday COURTS County, circuit, state and federal courts: Closed Monday |
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Chilly weather setting in today will be reality in South Florida for more than a week. The far western edges of Broward and Miami-Dade will feel coldest, with temperatures bottoming out in the mid-30s Friday night and Saturday morning. Frost is possible. Warmer points should expect lows in the mid-40s and highs in the 60s. |
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The largest charter-school operator in South Florida will run five new schools in Miami-Dade County in August, despite a district audit that accuses the company of engaging in ``illegal acts and questionable business practices.'' |
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When the amateur chemist charged with causing an explosion at a Miami high-rise walks out of jail this morning, he will be released into the custody of his girlfriend's grandparents. |
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Miami-Dade County Commissioner Katy Sorenson announced plans Wednesday to sponsor a resolution urging President Bush to halt detentions and deportations of immigrants who have no criminal convictions. |
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Bass player Mark O'Toole of the British New Wave band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, best known for its 1984 dance hit Relax! (Don't Do It), can't relax. |
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Madeleine Hernandez stood at the microphone and told the crowd of 100 Miami-Dade and Broward taxpayers gathered at a town hall meeting about the toll her rising property tax bill has taken: |
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The federal government's public-housing chief wants Washington to play a larger role at Miami-Dade's housing agency and has told local leaders he may try to take control of the troubled department or push for an independent board to run it. |
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A wing under construction at St. Brendan Catholic School in Miami harbors a pile of goodwill -- some of it withering in the dank humidity -- that was meant to be delivered to Cuba's needy. |
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The view south from Vizcaya's terrace: fountains, elegant gardens and -- someday soon, perhaps -- three condo towers rising as high as 410 feet. |
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