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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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In 2005, Northwestern High running back Antwain Easterling was quietly arrested for having a knife on school grounds. The school suspended him and recommended expulsion, allowing him to return only after meeting academic and behavioral goals. |
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A few hundred Miami-Dade County residents will be asked this week if they can be fair and impartial -- and willing to recommend the death penalty -- in the trial of John Couey, the man accused of kidnapping, raping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 in Central Florida. |
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Some of South Florida's neediest residents were expecting 2007 to be another year of lacking what many others already had: money to get by, health, a sturdy home. |
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg touted the importance of a diverse student body during a visit Saturday to Florida International University to cap off a three-day celebration of the law school's new state-of-the-art building. |
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A 13-year-old girl did this and her Army dad came home from Iraq. A 45-year-old spinster did it and found true love with a FedEx deliveryman. |
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With the blast of a foghorn and a belch of exhaust, the most agile, lethal naval destroyer the Pentagon has yet produced joined the American fleet in a ceremony on Saturday at the Port of Miami-Dade. |
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An excerpt from a speech Saturday by Frank Jimenez, General Counsel of the Navy, at the commissioning of the USS Gridley at the Port of Miami-Dade: |
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A few hundred Miami-Dade County residents will be asked this week if they can be fair and impartial -- and willing to recommend the death penalty -- in the trial of John Couey, the man accused of kidnapping, raping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 in Central Florida. |
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The body of Master Sgt. Shawn A. Richardson arrived at Miami International Airport an hour behind schedule. It was 1:30 a.m. He was greeted by firetrucks and a row of Miami-Dade police officers, an impromptu honor guard that carefully draped the American flag over his casket and escorted the sergeant from the runway. |
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For the second time in six months, the Miami-Dade grand jury has condemned the county's Housing Agency for wasting millions of dollars and allowing delays to overtake badly needed building projects while thousands of families searched for an affordable place to live. |
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Citing poorly maintained financial records in the housing agency's computer systems, Miami-Dade housing officials now deny claims they are sitting on a trove of unspent cash for a federal rental-assistance program. |
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It took years to get through the Florida Legislature and lots of hardball politics, but today Florida International University will inaugurate its $40 million law school building, named after Rafael Díaz-Balart, the grandfather of U.S. Reps. Mario and Lincoln Díaz-Balart -- and in an only-in-Miami twist, the former father-in-law for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. |
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It's as inevitable as sitting through Hamlet's soliloquy: At some point in the school year, the students in Dan Holmes' English class will endure what has become known at Braddock High as the ``bamboo talk.'' |
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President Bush's temporary worker proposal has a better chance of passing in Congress this year, and if it does, it will be as significant a milestone in U.S. history as the civil rights movement, the head of the immigration and citizenship agency said Friday. |
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A Miami-Dade jury convicted Bryant Williams of conspiracy to commit murder on Thursday for his efforts to obtain a bomb to blow up Circuit Judge Peter Lopez. |
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The alleged ''bronze bandit'' spent Friday getting acquainted with a different type of metal -- jail bars. Coral Gables police arrested a man Friday morning they think is responsible for stealing numerous bronze plaques and bronze letters from buildings in the City Beautiful during the past six months. |
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A trail of blood led a county worker in Buena Vista this morning to an abandoned newborn boy nestled under bushes, crying, its umbilical cord still attached. |
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Former President Bill Clinton will be speaking to the University of Miami's graduating seniors in a convocation speech March 1. His speech will follow former Vice President Al Gore's speech on campus by one day. Neither event is open to the public. Details on how students and faculty can get tickets will be announced next week. |
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A federal judge in Miami ruled Friday that parole authorities should stop supervising cult leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh because of his terminal cancer. |
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