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911 calls from home where Coral Springs boy was found dead are released
Coral Springs Police searched 29 minutes before finding the apartment where a 4-year-old boy was found dead June 10. Investigators say the calls were made by Destene Chardoney Simmons, 23, the mother of Antwan Hope.The first call was received at 11:25 a.m. Police say a soft-spoken Simmons asked the 911 operator, "Can you send someone to this address?" without giving an ...
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Couple in deck collapse sues restaurant
MIAMI -- A couple has filed a lawsuit against a South Florida restaurant where a deck collapsed into Biscayne Bay last week during the fourth game of the NBA finals.A 14-page complaint claims Shuckers Bar & Grill in North Bay Village had a duty to properly maintain its property. The complaint - the first of what will likely be several - was filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court this week by ...
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Miami firefighters rescue kitten trapped in storm drain
Firefighters with Miami Fire Rescue helped save a kitten who was trapped inside of a storm drain. MFR said a man who was walking along the sidewalk near North East 39th Street and Biscayne Boulevard heard the kitten cries and called 911. After 3 p.m. Wednesday, MFR's Technical Rescue Team arrived to find the kitten 10 feet below the street in the middle of the storm ...
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James Gandolfini star of The Sopranos dies at 51
James Gandolfini, best known for his role as Tony Soprano in the HBO series "The Sopranos" has died. An HBO spokesperson says Gandolfini was on vacation in Italy when he died of a possible heart attack. He was 51. Gandolfini starred in more than 50 roles in his career, but he rocketed to fame with his portrayal of Mafia boss Tony Soprano. Most recently, he starred in "Zero ...
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GPS tracks down man accused of stealing $500000 in wine
Reinier Hernandez-Orta, 30, of Miami, is accused of stealing a tractor trailer with $500,000 of imported wine inside. GPS inside the trailer led authorities to the Lake Worth Service Plaza and Hernandez-Orta shortly ...
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Lake Worth man accused of robbing Family Dollar
Carlos Dominguez, 40, of Lake Worth, is accused of an armed robbery at a Family Dollar where employees say he visited daily for coffee, according to an arrest ...
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NSA cellphone records wont help Broward bank robbery suspect feds say
National Security Agency 's controversial program - that has secretly stored millions of U.S. phone records - could help his defense in a Broward bank robbery trial. Terrance Brown, ...
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Delray man facing aggravated assault charges
Delray Beach man is accused of breaking into the hotel room where the mother of his unborn child was staying, dragging her out by the neck and using a large stick to threaten the man with her, according to ...
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Delray officials bicker over nominations to redevelopment agency
Delray Beach City Commission meeting Tuesday, accusations flew after city officials in a 3-2 vote blocked the nomination of former Mayor Woody McDuffie to the Community Redevelopment Agency board.The battle was divided among seniority lines, with commissioners who are serving their last term pitted against those who took office in ...
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Close Miami Heat game leads to battery riot charges
Miami Heat fan turned violent when the child's father stepped in and punched the other man in the face "until his thumbs were hurting," according to ...
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Miami-Dade County street-light supervisor charged with taking bribes
A Miami-Dade County public works supervisor who oversaw the installation of more than 45,000 street lights is behind bars, after being accused of accepting thousands of dollars’ worth of household merchandise as bribes from a lighting-product vendor, authorities said Wednesday.George Brown, 50, of Hollywood, had his first appearance in Fort Lauderdale federal court Wednesday on charges of ...
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Celebrated University of Miami architecture dean champion of traditional design to step down
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the prominent planner and architect under whose leadership the University of Miami’s fledgling architecture school gained a national reputation as an iconoclastically un-voguish center for traditional design and community engagement, is stepping down as dean after an unusually long tenure of 18 years.UM President Donna Shalala, in a statement Wednesday, called ...
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Business coalitions warn Florida’s failure to expand Medicaid will hurt them
TALLAHASSEE -- Two business-backed health insurance coalitions sent a warning signal Wednesday to Florida’s employers about the effects of rejecting Medicaid expansion for the uninsured.In a nutshell: brace yourselves, this is bad for business.They argue that if lawmakers continue to turn away an estimated $51 billion in federal money to pay for expanding Medicaid coverage, companies will ...
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Miami turns to Jorge Perez Stephen Ross to carry out long-stalled Watson Island redevelopment
Can superstar developers Jorge Perez and Stephen Ross reignite long-stalled plans to build a luxury hotel complex, shopping center and mega marina on Watson Island?The Miami City Commission is willing to bet on it.Last week, the commission voted to give the project’s original developer, Flagstone Island Gardens, a lease extension that grants additional time to start construction. The move ...
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Fans Go Inside the Huddle With Dolphins Players
Less than one week after the Miami Dolphins held their final mini-camp of the offseason, their fans got to interact with some of the players on an exclusive conference call tonight. Previously, these conference calls with players, owner Steve Ross, General Manager Jeff ...
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Heavener Rosenberg named UF trustees
Bill Heavener, an alumnus and longtime supporter of the University of Florida and CEO of one of the largest private universities in the country, has been named to fill a vacancy on the UF Board of ...
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Tampa charity sues homeless teens it tried to help seeking repayment
TAMPA -- The Tampa charity Starting Right, Now has earned acclaim and courted donors with a singular formula for helping homeless teens: In exchange for financial aid and the supervision of caring adults, participants sign a contract agreeing to strict rules governing their lives. This tough-love approach has bred success stories, as troubled kids leave behind the chaos of the streets for ...
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Woman accused of illegally practicing dentistry out of Davie home
DAVIE— Police raided a bogus dental office in a home on Southwest 49th Street Tuesday and arrested the woman they say posed as a dentist there.Luz Angela Maria Rios-Ossa, 49, has been charged with practicing dentisty without a license, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Rios-Ossa's ex-husband, John Collazos, 49, was arrested on charges ...
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Hollywood man used bribes from government job to furnish home feds say
Miami -Dade County government job to obtain more than $13,000 worth of bribes – including a new stove, refrigerator and air conditioning system for his home, federal authorities said Wednesday.George Brown, 50, was arrested Tuesday and is being held at ...
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MLB Arizona 3 Miami 1
Cody Ross slammed a pinch-hit three-run homer to back reliever Josh Collmenter's six shutout innings Wednesday in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 3-1 win over Miami. The game was scoreless until the eighth inning, when Miami starter Jose Fernandez issued a leadoff walk ...
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Feds Prison for Ohio woman who buried mom in yard
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Authorities say an Ohio woman who buried her mother in her yard and cashed the dead woman's Social Security checks for 14 years has been sentenced to 30 days in prison.Federal authorities say 66-year-old Marietta resident Patricia Hodges also was sentenced Wednesday in Columbus to six months of home confinement and ordered to repay more than $141,000. Hodges had pleaded ...
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Man gets 35 years for killing former landlady
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- A Tampa Bay area man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for strangling his former landlady and setting fire to her house.A Pasco County judge sentenced 49-year-old Charles Edward Dear on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, first-degree arson and other charges.Authorities say 46-year-old Theresa Jones' body was found buried in a shallow ...
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Facebook fans name Busch Gardens lion cub sisters
TAMPA -- Busch Gardens recently welcomed three lion cubs to the park, a boy and three girls. After a weeklong poll, 6,000 Busch Gardens Tampa Facebook fans voted to name the two lion cub sisters. The winning names for the three-month-old cubs are Shaba, meaning "brazen", and Shtuko, meaning "twitch." The Busch Gardens animal care team has started introducing the cubs ...
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Hillsborough OKs $225K tax break for Amazon
TAMPA -- Hillsborough commissioners could be one step closer to luring the on-line retailer, Amazon, to Ruskin. The company is considering building a warehouse on a piece of land in the South Shore Corporate Park, off of State Road 674 and I-75. On Wednesday, commissioners gave their initial approval on $225,000 in tax breaks for Amazon. They approved the company as a Qualified Target ...
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Analyst Defense should be faster in George Zimmerman traditional voir dire
Legal analyst Jaya Balani says when the attorneys are done questioning the jurors, they will determine if they will use their peremptory ...
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Some residents of Orlando unthrilled by new theme park plan
Tourism is essential to the economy of Orlando, to such an extent that The City Beautiful has become something of the capital city of amusement parks, not necessarily because of their number, but because of the calibre of amusement parks that are located within Orlando. A new theme park proposal for the city, however, has courted the ire of residents.
The three major amusement parks, or theme parks in Orlando are Walt Disney World Resort, SeaWorld Orlando and Universal Studios Orlando, all of which are massive in size and comprise of several different huge parks within themselves. Read more
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