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She was covered in filth, and an infection left a cloudy film over her big brown eyes, but Kimba knew right away her days on the streets had ended. |
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Miami police spokesman, describing Overtown shooting A Miami police officer patrolling Wednesday afternoon in Brownsville heard shots, then saw a wounded man run down the street, collapse and die. |
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Another suspect was arrested and accused of battering a key witness in the case against suspended Opa-locka City Commissioner Terence Pinder. |
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A Jewish man injured in a February 2002 terrorist attack could get up to $48 million after a federal jury awarded damages Wednesday in his lawsuit claiming the attack was backed by the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization. |
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Federal agents on Wednesday dismantled a multimillion-dollar ring accused of illegally supplying hundreds of undocumented immigrants without required workers' compensation insurance to general building contractors during Florida's building boom. |
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Gov. Charlie Crist's promise to slash property taxes for beleaguered homeowners would apply to only about two-thirds of the taxes most homeowners pay, top aides told legislators Tuesday, igniting criticism from Democrats that the tax-cut plan could be a ``bait and switch.'' |
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Food helps define South Florida's cultural mash-up, with old-line Cuban cafeterias in Little Havana, nouvelle cuisine laboratories on South Beach and fresh-from-the-ocean recipes that birthed the Floribbean style. |
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Miami-Dade School Board officials will decide Thursday on a measure that would curtail public speakers at televised monthly meetings. |
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South Florida hospitals would stand to lose more than $300 million annually under a Bush administration plan to slash funding for facilities that do the most for the poor and the uninsured. |
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Accompanied by a tenacious phalanx of supporters at the federal courthouse in Miami, the husband-and-wife leaders of a Brazilian evangelical megachurch pleaded not guilty Tuesday to currency smuggling and other charges. |
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Call him the bronze bandit. He is a brazen crook who has swiped more than a dozen plaques from Coral Gables buildings over the past six months. |
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A man who accidentally shot and killed his high school pal pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter. As part of the plea deal, Andres Gonzalez, 21, will serve 10 years of probation and lecture senior and middle school students on gun safety every three months. |
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The apparatus room of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Station 31, in North Miami Beach, held just one giant ladder truck -- chartreuse, not red -- and zero Dalmatians. It also held a number of firefighters who readily admitted they respond to more car accidents and reports of chest pain than fires, as has been the case for many years. |
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Nearly four years after building inspectors found glaring problems with the smoke-evacuation systems at a large Miami-Dade jail, more than $7 million in repairs have failed and the County Commission is poised to approve as much as $14.6 million more to finish the job. |
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President Bush's proposed 2008 federal budget pledges $56 million to plug holes in the aging dike that rings Lake Okeechobee. And it contains money for continuing efforts to rescue the Everglades. But environmentalists say the money for Everglades restoration doesn't go nearly far enough. And with Bush's budget calling for deep cuts to Medicare and Medicaid spending, the Democrats who now hold the majority in Congress did little Monday to hide their disdain.
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South Florida elections officials will have to prepare quickly to transform their voting systems and manage the mechanics of a 2008 presidential election that will be scrutinized across the globe. |
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Talks over a controversial performance pay plan for teachers broke down Monday with Miami-Dade school officials declaring an impasse with the United Teachers of Dade after a 90-minute bargaining session. |
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U.S. prosecutors on Monday flatly refused to identify a man who has accused a former Liberian president's son of torturing him in the African country in a federal indictment. |
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Fire closes 10 blocks of Biscayne Blvd. Emergency responders have shut down 10 blocks of Biscayne Boulevard in response to a large fire near Northeast 83rd Street, a Miami Fire Rescue spokesman said. |
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The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is locked up in a maximum-security cell in downtown Miami awaiting trial. The charges: torturing a man in his father's homeland. |
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