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A TV Martí executive charged with failing to disclose about $112,000 in kickbacks he pocketed from a video vendor pleaded guilty Tuesday in Miami federal court. |
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Citrus County Circuit Judge Ric Howard denied a motion filed by The Miami Herald to allow the publication of the names and photos of jurors in the trial of John Couey, accused of killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in Homasassa. |
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A recent census of people living on the streets of Miami-Dade recorded the lowest number in a decade of those without any shelter on a given night, according to the county's Homeless Trust, which released results this week. |
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(AP) -- Two Oklahomans who moved to Oregon lost all their possessions when their moving van was stolen, but people in their new home, and Miami Dolphins quarterback Joey Harrington, are helping the couple recover from their losses. |
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Professor Stephen Haggerty retrieves a 730-carat black diamond -- the size of an apple -- from his desk. It's nearly impossible to cut, potentially billions of years old and, he believes, a product of outer space. |
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Miami-Dade County leaders see a pot of gold at the end of a runway. It's a not-so-long, largely ignored airport runway in the far northwest corner of the county now used for drag racing instead of takeoffs. |
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The chocolate cupcakes had neon green skewers shaped like palm trees. But for the three community activists handing out the cupcakes to drivers moving slowly through a busy Biscayne Boulevard intersection, it was more of a protest than a party. |
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In another country, in another time, Emilio ''Millo'' Ochoa made a difference, and on Monday -- surrounded by fellow exiles and loved ones -- he was honored for his contribution. |
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Ten years from now, Hialeah, the self-styled ''City of Progress'' may look vastly different than it does today, with its one-story strip malls, family-owned cafeterias and mini-markets named after Cuban cities. |
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Jury selection in the trial of John Couey, the man accused of killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in Central Florida, began Monday with 52 potential jurors, including a well-known Miami investor under investigation for his dealings with the Miami-Dade Housing Agency. |
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The Miami-Dade commission will debate giving itself more control over the county's $6.9 billion budget -- the latest development to affect the county's balance of power following last month's passage of the strong-mayor referendum. |
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A former top Miami-Dade schools administrator has sued Superintendent Rudy Crew alleging that he maliciously blocked her bid for a new job with the Early Learning Coalition of Miami-Dade/Monroe. |
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It was a good run for Riley, but the North Miami Beach pup won't be taking home America's most prestigious doggie award. The 19-month-old Glen of Imaal terrier won best of breed but lost at the next level of competition Monday night at the 131st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. |
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Queen Brown lost her youngest child in a senseless slaying. Eviton Brown, 24, a Florida A&M student, was murdered in October, his body found in front of a Northwest Miami-Dade car dealership. No one has been arrested in the case. Brown still grieves. But she's turning tears and anger into action. |
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Herman Martinez fled when right-wing death squads targeted him and many other leftists in El Salvador. He sneaked into the United States in August 1980, and remained undetected until immigration agents detained him at a Homestead tomato farm in May 1985 and placed him in deportation proceedings. Martinez asked for asylum, but immigration authorities did not believe his story and pressured him to voluntarily return home. |
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A 14-year-old boy missing for a week was found murdered and wrapped in trash bags inside a garbage bin in Little Haiti, police said Sunday. |
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A rookie Miami-Dade police officer shot and killed a motorist he pulled over in a traffic stop in North Miami-Dade early Sunday, authorities said. |
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It is, on its face, a highly unusual coalition: hard-core environmentalists arm-in-arm with tourism boosters and the development interests that dominate most chambers of commerce. |
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More than the scent of shaving cream, the feel of a hot towel against the chin, the whirl of electric shavers, loud basketball games on television, or the chance to pick up bootleg movies and music, it is the camaraderie that draws legions of black men to a favorite gathering place -- the barbershop. |
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Gunshots injured five people at a party in the 7500 block of Northwest 11th Avenue about 6:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. |
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