(nbc) Broward Drops Charges Against Plax.  A technicality helps Burress beat four traffic tickets. 

(wsvn) Was Air France Flight 447 downed by wind and hail from towering thunderheads? By lightning? Or by a catastrophic combination of factors?

(cbs4) GM Selling Hummer Brand. Move Comes One Day After Filing For Bankruptcy Protection.

(wplg) A Miami-Dade County prosecutor was arrested Saturday evening, accused of [...]

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Miami Herald- Three people were shot outside Miami’s Club Space early Monday morning, police said. The three — a woman and two men — were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital and were in stable condition. A group of men who had been inside the club began arguing outside the building about 4 a.m., said Kenia Alfonso, a [...]

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MIAMI —  Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway causing significant traffic delays.
The Florida Highway Patrol received the report during rush hour Friday morning, Lt. Pat Santangelo said. A private contractor brought a front-end loader and a dump truck to the half-mile stretch of highway. Workers were able to clear at least one [...]

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The Miami Herald suffers from a sickness called “PC” syndrome. Every victim group gets a quota of gushing PC stories that no one gives a shit about. Almost all the stories all have a touch of bias or predictable lfet wing slant. The paper is run by elite liberals who insult and degrade their [...]

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His middle name is “insane”
Miami gang leader Manuel ”Insane” Balbin believed a young member swiped his PlayStation 2. He spared the teen’s life, prosecutors say, but not before he:
• Jolted the teen’s right testicle with a Taser stun gun.
• Carved gang initials into the teen’s back, then used Axe deodorant spray and a lighter to torch [...]

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Miami is home to some street savages. how are you going to kill a mom selling fruit?
Soon we will not be able to leave the house without a gun….
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) — A street vendor has died after two gunmen robbed and shot her.
Mariem Frissolo, 47, was about to go on her first vacation [...]

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Talbot gets arrested 
Police said they found Gregory Talbott, a wealthy developer, sleeping in the car, slumped over in the driver’s seat and drunk. Officers said Talbott grabbed their arms and resisted after he was asked to give them his keys, hang up his cell phone and get out of the car.
“I’m just kind of weirded [...]

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Tony Villegas, accused of killing attorney Melissa Britt Lewis, appears in court Wednesday morning.
Police say the phone’s movement mirrored that of Tony Villegas, 44, the estranged husband of Lewis’ best friend. Read story

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DORAL, Fla. (WSVN) — Police have sealed off the Dolphin Mall while they search for two suspects wanted in a home invasion nearby the mall. The theft and robbery situation in Miami is getting ugly…..

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Message to New York murderers: Avoid the Miami-Dade area.
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who police say stabbed a woman to death in a Manhattan supermarket has been arrested in Florida. New York police say 42-year-old James Gonzalez was arrested Monday in Miami after the television show “America’s Most Wanted” received a tip. Gonzalez [...]

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The Miami-Dade Police Department has asked the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to use a small unmanned surveillance aircraft for law enforcement.
The department says, if granted permission, it would employ the drone only in “tactical” situations that present a danger to officers on the ground.
According to the FAA, Miami is one of only two big-city [...]

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A little something for the pussy ass gun control lobby 
 
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A resident shot and killed one of two intruders who tried to break into his southwest Miami-Dade County home early Tuesday morning, police said.The fatal shooting occurred at about 2 a.m. outside 5851 SW 118th Ave.Miami-Dade police said it appeared two men [...]

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Ringo Cayard, a longtime Haitian-American activist and Miami-area political kingmaker, was arrested Thursday night on more than 20 charges of racketeering, theft and money laundering — including charges that he used fake records of a social-service agency’s board meeting to give himself a $300,000 bonus.
Cayard, the director of the Haitian American Foundation Inc., or [...]

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As soon as next month, you’ll need more than sobriety to get past DUI checkpoints in Miami-Dade.
You’ll need a driver’s license that isn’t suspended.
Miami-Dade police and the Florida Highway Patrol are cracking down anew on the county’s quarter-million people driving with invalid licenses.
Under the working plan, police will more closely look at the status [...]

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1. K-9 Officer Accused Of Starving Dog To Surrender
A Miami K-9 officer is expected to surrender Monday to face animal cruelty charges for allegedly starving his police dog to death. More

2. $250,000 reward offered for arrest of lawyer’s killer
PLANTATION, Fla. — A law firm that lost one of their partners at the hands of a [...]

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1. The sight of star quarterback Tom Brady wearing a protective boot over his right foot Monday had New York tabloids buzzing and Patriots followers fearing the worst, but the injury is not serious. boston.com

2. Miami- A dollar store clerk is shot in the shoulder by two men who tried to rob the store. More

3. [...]

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Stepha Henry, an aspiring attorney and a recent John Jay College honors graduate, had been in South Florida over the Memorial Day weekend to celebrate her 16-year-old sister Shola’s birthday. After a night out she never came home. Some said her story didn’t get play because she was black. Everyone was focused on the Stacey [...]

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The new best friend of law enforcement officers who are a little trigger happy has taken another life. The false impression given by their superiors that the Taser Gun is harmless may be a  green light to use it whenever they face an out of control citizen.
A man in his 20s died after a Coral [...]

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1. Man puts out fire with aunt’s XL undies.
He ran them under the faucet and tossed them onto the flames, successfully smothering the fire, a spokesman for the Cleveland Fire Brigade said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy. Lines’ swift thinking saved the kitchen - but left his aunt’s [...]

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1. Miami: Bouncer shot dead at New Years Party. wplg10
2. Miami: Man bonds out after shooting and killing boy on New Year’s Eve. wsvn7
3. Florida Remains Home Of Bizarre News. nbc6
4. Boy Reels In Bull Shark; May Set New Record. cbs4 
5.  Miami’s Year in Art. New Times
6.  Near-record cold to hit S. Florida Wednesday. Sun [...]

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Can one imagine how many men are in prison right now because of some mental case accusing them of rape and the prosecutors falling over themselves to believe the victim. It is every mans nightmare. It is also bad for women who have really been raped when lawyers can blame the victim by pointing to [...]

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Miami…. what does one think of when you say Miami? Most people think Sun, Hot, Beach and Sex. Maybe not in that order, but those are synonymous to Miami. You would also think that with all the crime in Miami,like Brinks trucks getting held up almost daily, Banks being robbed every other day, NFL players [...]

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Family members mourn the death of Sean Taylor, top. Taylor, center right, died Tuesday after suffering a gunshot wound to the groin. Taylor’s girlfriend, Jackie Garcia, center left, was in the home at the time. Redskins fans reflect, bottom.

“He was one of the most positive young men I’ve ever been around,”
“He wasn’t a perfect kid, [...]

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What does one expect this guy to do? He already had to share his winnings with 17 other people and you know the wife was going for her share. He must of had a mid-life crisis.. There must some kind of award for crappy husbands. Well at least he didn’t do a Drew Peterson…
For as [...]

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Police said three people were taken into custody in connection with the shooting of a teacher outside Miami Carol City Senior High School.According to police, two teachers walked off campus to smoke cigarettes when someone approached them and demanded money. When they refused, that person shot one of the teachers in the lower extremities.The [...]

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MIAMI — A man suspected of fatally shooting a Philadelphia police officer has been apprehended in South Florida.John Lewis, 21, was taken into custody Tuesday at about 7 a.m. in Miami. Details of his apprehension were not immediately available.An employee of the Greyhound bus station at 1012 NW First Ave. told federal authorities Lewis was [...]

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Miami police are looking for five males, dressed in black and cloaked in hoods, who abducted a woman and drove her around until she surrendered the key and security code for her house.
They showed up at the woman’s workplace in the 1300 block of block of Southwest 24th Avenue at 11 a.m., placed her [...]

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Update:  The female driver of a garbage truck lost part of a leg after surgeons needed to amputate the limb to extricate her from being trapped under the truck’s cab Friday.
Police said Gwendolyn Hightower, 36, of Miami, flipped the truck while making a turn in a residential area at 140th Avenue and Taft Street.It took [...]

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With armed robbery totaly out of control in South Florida what does one expect. It is great how WSVN says “would be” thief. I think if someone comes to rob my store he “would be” Shot.
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) — A would-be grocery store thief died while in transit to Jackson Memorial Hospital Tuesday [...]

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MIAMI – Convicted sex offender John Couey fled Georgia after kidnapping, raping, and killing nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford in northern Florida, it took authorities almost a month to track him down.
A pedophile with a long history of abusing children, Mr. Couey was one of almost 60 sex offenders whose whereabouts were unknown to authorities in Citrus [...]

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This is a major story which the main stream media will ignore because the Haitians have no political power.This is more common than one would think in South Florida. We all see the everyday smiling faces on the street but behind the curtain there are those who have no respect for their fellow Human [...]

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must be some panicking  in Hollywood
A Hollywood man was arrested after a half-million dollars worth of marijuana was seized from a grow house at 2822 Washington St., the Broward Sheriff’s Office says. More

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 Don’t expect any sympathy from us. It looks like Zack got flipped.
(CBS4) MIAMI Three years ago when Zack Preble stood on a Miami corner, the horizon was very different.

He thought $355,000 for a 1/1, 850 square foot apartment was a steal he could flip.
“There were those that said it was going to collapse, [...]

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The shirts look like they came from the Don Ho Collection
When Miami-Dade Aviation Director José Abreu told commissioners near the end of their meeting Tuesday of a generous offer by Britto to fill the airport with almost cost-free art, they unanimously accepted.
But when the director showed them his vision of workers donning Britto’s brightly colored [...]

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I thought it was men who couldn’t keep a secret. This wife from hell should have kept her mouth shut.
When Bernice Heslop opened the paper that Sunday in 1995 and saw the six Lotto numbers, her first thought must have been: ”I can’t believe it. I’m RICH!” And then, the evidence suggests, another thought [...]

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 We at miamipress implore the Dolphins to continue their quest to match (in an opposite universe) the ‘72 (17-0 )Dolphins and take the 0-16 ‘08 season as a chance to get the #1 pick and begin the new Dolphin Dynasty. So, although a win would make us happy, we will not cry over another loss. [...]

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Imagine your purse gets snatched and you fill out a police report for the Miami Police Dept. Well,  you might consider yourself the victim of a crime, but were you really the victim of a crime?
The woman told police she was in Model City when a thief grabbed her pocketbook, which held a set of [...]

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Jorge Perez marketed Miami as a condo haven for rich South Americans. Now Florida’s real estate hangover has him looking for riches in South America.
Jorge Perez vividly recalls the day he was forced to flee Cuba. He was 10 years old, and his dad, a businessman who had worked for Eli Lilly & Co. [...]

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 Our friend at Real Living Properties Lucas Lechuga has this interesting test to see if you are more inclined to buy a Condo instead of House
Come Home to Condo Living
Looking for a place to call your own but without some of the traditional hassles of home ownership – like yard work? Then you may want [...]

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