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Government attorneys said Friday an evaluation of suspected al-Qaeda operative Jose Padilla has found him competent to stand trial on terrorism charges. |
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The steps of the former Versace mansion on Ocean Drive. Bungalow 3 at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles. With hundreds of slot machines, a tropical lagoon pool, restaurants and nightclubs, a celebrity death spot may not be the type of tourist attraction the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino wanted to become. |
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Surveillance tapes. The 911 call. A police report. Search warrants. Witness statements. All of these, once made public, reveal details of how investigators piece together evidence to solve a crime or a suspicious death. |
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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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Forget the squeaky clean driving record. With some insurers, a white-collar job and college degree can get you a lower rate on your auto insurance. |
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A new mini-park is coming to downtown Miami -- or, more accurately, an old one is being resurrected. City commissioners Thursday unanimously instructed City Manager Pete Hernandez to begin planning the demolition of a shuttered sub sandwich restaurant at 46 W. Flagler St. |
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Back in World War II, as former sailor John Pedersen tells it, the enlisted men distilled torpedo fuel into liquor in the engine room of a Navy warship, the USS Gridley. |
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''How're you doing today?'' he said. ''Hello, citizens.'' And, putting some bass into it, ``Be good!'' The man in the suit was Terry Lobzun, who lives in Canada and works for an auction company. Once, for his job, he donned a dinner jacket and drove James Bond's Aston Martin down Toronto streets. The reasons he put on an expensive costume and drove a Batmobile up A1A in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday were several. |
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Swayed by public speakers, Miami-Dade School Board members decided against a change that would have curtailed the public's right to speak at the board's televised monthly meetings -- a move that surprised board Chairman Agustin Barrera. |
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A daylong standoff between Miami-Dade police and affordable-housing activists ended abruptly Thursday when top county officials backed off arrest threats. |
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The latest attempt to extend Metrorail directly into Miami International Airport appears to be faltering. Miami-Dade Transit's own consultants are concluding that a rubber-tired automated people mover that would run from the airport to the Miami Intermodal Center is a better option, according to a draft report obtained Thursday by The Miami Herald. |
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This kind of Heat is welcome at South Florida schools come FCAT time. For the third year, the Miami Heat basketball team, including star players Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade and head coach Pat Riley, will deliver encouragement and tips for doing well on the FCAT -- via video. |
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Trying to escape, an assault-rifle-wielding kidnapper drove the wrong way on Interstate 95, hitting a car driven by secretary Sandra Gilmore, police said. |
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Following months of planning, Miami-Dade police unveiled an aggressive strategy Thursday to flood North Miami-Dade streets with uniformed officers in response to the area's high rate of violent crime. |
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Brazen daytime murders and a growing death toll have plagued the Haitian community in recent months. A group of parents, students, clergy and community leaders say they have had enough. |
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Miami police are searching for leads in a recent string of rapes in which victims accepted rides from a man who then assaulted, robbed and abandoned them near Northwest 79th Street. |
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Solved: The Case of the Vanishing Giant French Fries. Two years ago, a 31-foot abstract sculpture with a tangle of yellow metal limbs was quietly taken apart and removed from its longtime perch at the South Miami Metrorail station, intended to make room for the proposed Hometown Station office complex. But a search for a new site stalled, and the county-owned artwork, titled Paciencia, became a hostage in a dispute between the county and Hometown Station's developer, Raul Masvidal, as the plan for... |
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The disc jockey who calls herself Dr. FreeCell estimates that two listeners tune in during her midnight to 3 a.m. shift -- although a nearby prison population is no longer allowed to phone in song requests, so the number may actually be higher. |
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Ask Miami's sanitation workers what their work is like, and ''life-threatening'' might not be the expected answer. Yet city garbage workers say that's been an accurate job description for the past couple of years. |
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Working under the code name ''Return to Sender,'' federal agents have been rousing some wanted undocumented immigrants from their beds, sparking renewed fears of random raids against those living in South Florida without the proper papers. |
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