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In a town house where stray bullets left pockmarks on the walls, where the doors are locked tight and the windows are covered with steel bars, 5-year-old Alex Bruce eyed his blue scooter and asked, ``Can I ride?'' |
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In the 16 years since Miami Vice went off the air, Florida's population has swelled by six million people, South Beach is no longer known primarily as a haven for retirees and bohemian artists, and the only time you will likely catch anyone wearing a sky-blue blazer over a pink T-shirt is on Halloween. |
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With only a tin of hard candy and one water bottle between them, a Miami-Dade couple survived four days and three nights in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. |
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A federal judge on Monday ordered all copies of Vamos a Cuba and 23 other children's books returned to Miami-Dade school libraries, hobbling the School Board's attempt to ban the controversial books. |
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Kostja Roy wanted to be a cop so much he dressed like one and made traffic stops on Bird Road in his Ford pickup truck. He was charged with that last month and released on bond, but never stopped dreaming. |
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Scattered clouds failed to keep the midafternoon sun off Jose Morales' hard hat Monday as he and some of his fellow construction workers prepared to lay a sidewalk west of the University of Miami campus. |
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Four people carried about 60 ancient artifacts from Ecuador into a gated house in Coconut Grove last week. With the pieces spread out in the living room, one of them -- an undercover FBI agent -- placed a call, saying he wanted a museum curator's opinion before finalizing the $2 million deal. |
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Authorities held Travis Jenkins Sr. responsible for what happened two years ago when his 3-year-old son unholstered his father's handgun and shot himself in the forehead. |
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Furious at what he called the most troubling report he has seen since taking office, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez on Monday cited a Miami Herald series that has found millions of dollars squandered on failed housing projects and called for a host of investigations into the troubled Miami-Dade Housing Agency. |
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Miami Vice's East Coast premiere is set for today at the Lincoln Theatre in Miami Beach. How that premiere came to be a fundraiser for a University of Miami urology research foundation begins with Dr. Mark Soloway -- a man who does not shy from mentioning that he's known as ''the Phil Donahue of urology,'' for his habit of prowling conference rooms, microphone in hand, posing questions to the doctors in the audience. |
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In a rundown office in the shadows of the Palmetto Expressway, a novice developer with a skeletal staff and a string of stalled projects is raking in millions of dollars to build homes for the poor. |
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After promising a crackdown on landowners who take advantage of agricultural tax breaks, the Miami-Dade County property appraiser's office has rejected more than two-thirds of this year's applications for the benefits -- including some from prominent developers who sought potentially hefty exemptions. |
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The newspaper said it was a fishing accident, which was almost true. Rob Keith and his big brother Jeff listened to some records at Gary Klemme's and took some Quaaludes and drank some beers and drove to Sunny Isles Bridge, where the snook were. |
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Ysela Llort may not literally be from Miami, but clearly she's approaching her new gig as if she's of Miami. |
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A Miami man was found dead Sunday, almost two days after his fishing dinghy tipped over near Marathon. The U.S. Coast Guard had been searching for Leonardo Pino, 54, since early Saturday. |
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The fighting in the Middle East may be half a world away, but some members of Miami's Jewish community are eager to offer support to members of the Israel Defense Forces. |
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Margaret D. Meyer, a pioneering building contractor who helped develop dozens of custom-made homes in Coral Gables, The Roads and Pinecrest, died Thursday of heart complications. She was 99. |
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Over five years, the MDHA Development Corp. received $16 million from Miami-Dade County, as well as dozens of vacant lots. It's finsihed just one affordable housing project. |
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The dirt lot that cost taxpayers $764,000 sits on a grungy corner just outside Miami, strewn with slashed tires and beer cans and an official white sign, now covered by weeds, announcing Miami-Dade's promise to the poor: |
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As Congress delays action on new immigration legislation, some local governments from Florida to Pennsylvania are drafting measures targeting undocumented immigrants. |
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Miami-Dade commissioners will be facing a very sticky political problem when they return from their summer break: how to finance their half of a $1 billion tunnel for the Port of Miami-Dade amid a fall election season. |
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It was like a big party -- more than a hundred people waving flags, dancing to salsa music and cheering wildly by the Torch of Friendship in downtown Miami. |
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Madonna's latest concert extravaganza takes its name from her current Eurodisco CD, Confessions on a Dance Floor, and these ''confessions'' reveal plenty about the iconic pop star. |
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The Cuban American National Foundation was still in its infancy when it accomplished what would have been unthinkable two years before: A sitting U.S. president flew to Miami for an event that highlighted the fledgling organization's dream for a free Cuba. |
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Two members of the University of Miami football team, including one of the nation's top defensive players, were involved in a shooting early Friday. |
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Federal prosecutors filed a supercharged indictment on Friday against three men accused of being at the helm of a deadly migrant-smuggling scheme, including new criminal allegations of involuntary manslaughter and smuggling for profit. |
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Juan Deshon has prepped his kickball team for today's game as much as he can. ''I try to get people not to drink too much,'' said Deshon, co-captain of the Freeballers, a team of lawyers, doctors and financial analysts who hail from the trendiest parts of Miami. ``You can't play effectively if you're drunk.'' |
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutiérrez Friday gave seven one-on-one interviews, held a news conference, delivered a speech at the Biltmore Hotel, met with Cuban-American community leaders and toured TV Martí. |
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As attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union argued in federal court Friday that the banning of the controversial children's book Vamos a Cuba was a classic case of political censorship, the ban's defenders said it painted life in Cuba as if it were Coral Gables rather than a communist dictatorship. |
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On the Miami-Dade School Board, the future may look a lot like the past. Incumbent Marta Pérez received no opposition, automatically reelecting her to another four-year term, and former board member Renier Diaz de la Portilla was returned to the board when no one challenged him to succeed outgoing board member Frank Bolaños. |
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