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Miami-Dade School Board Votes On New Police Chief
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Miami-Dade County Public Schools has a new top cop. The Miami-Dade School Board approved Miami Police Maj. Ian Moffett to the position of police chief during its meeting on Wednesday. He has been a major for the last three years with the City of Miami Police Department and has been responsible for the Miami Police Department's Training & Personnel Development ...
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Pocket-dialing 911 leads to Fla. murder charge
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -; Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed ...
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Cerabino Appellate court preserves West Palm Beach prostitutes’ right to ‘wave’ ‘saunter’
Somebody needs to address the etiquette issues involved in holding sidewalk discussions with streetwalkers in West Palm Beach.It's never a topic covered in articles about manners or decorum, and so one never quite knows what to do when that ambulatory practitioner of the world's oldest profession gives a friendly wave as an invitation for some impromptu ...
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Back to the drawing board for PBSC after veto of state funding for Loxahatchee campus
In baseball, it's three strikes and you're out. In the criminal justice system, it's three strikes and you face more prison time.But administrators say three vetoes in three years by a Florida governor won't stop Palm Beach State College from building its planned campus here. Instead, it will merely make the school consider all its options about how to pay for ...
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Two investment funds accuse Digital Domain of misleading them
Two investment funds that bought shares of Digital Domain Media Group three months before it collapsed now accuse the animation firm of misleading them about its finances.The investors, Iroquois Master Fund and Kingsbrook Opportunities Master Fund, paid $1 million each for stakes in Digital Domain in June, when former Chief Executive John Textor's dream of creating a taxpayer-backed ...
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Judge rules lesbian couple cant live together
The ruling says Carolyn Compton and Page Price can’t continue to live together because Compton’s 10 and 13 year old daughters live there as ...
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Officials target retailer say novelties that play on booze drug use ill-considered
Pam Bondi and 22 other attorneys general are demanding that Urban Outfitters quit selling accessories they say are glorifying drug use and "undermining" efforts to combat prescription drug abuse.The trendy company is targeting the hipster crowd with a line of tongue-in-cheek products that riff on prescription drugs, including a set of syringe-shaped shot glasses along with shot ...
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Homeowners air beefs against insurers at forum say state officials not doing enough
Homeowners asked Florida's insurance consumer advocate for help with problems involving state-run Citizens and other insurers at a Palm Beach County forum Wednesday that also featured criticism that state officials are not doing enough.One West Palm Beach woman said her family borrowed from retirement savings to pay off a mortgage because she could no longer tolerate premiums that climbed ...
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Police arrest Sturdivant again
Sturdivant became infamously dubbed 'Tower Man' in August of 2011 after climbing the Clear Channel radio tower outside of FOX23 studios and staying on the tower for five ...
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Oklahoma Survivors Heroes Survey Damage
Just two days after a deadly EF5 tornado ravaged Moore, Oklahoma many survivors and heroes are returning to their beloved community. (May ...
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Miami-Dade audit Affordable-housing developer falsified invoice lacked permits in North Miami
An affordable-housing developer submitted a falsified invoice for reimbursement from the county, employed unlicensed contractors and failed to obtain construction permits to renovate a North Miami condominium, according to an audit by the Miami-Dade inspector general’s office.In September 2011, the county approved $570,000 in public funding for developer Venice Park Gardens to rehab 36 of ...
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Miami Commission could allow high-paid city execs to collect salary pension
Miami city commissioners, who in recent years have cut severance pay and pensions to balance budgets, could vote Tuesday to allow four of the city’s highest earners to return from retirement and collect their pension on top of their hefty salary. The plan could mean millions of dollars of extra pay over the long haul for the city clerk, auditor, city attorney and the city manager. But it ...
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Fred Grimm Broward may be Koch brothers’ own “deal from hell”
As puns go, the caption was pretty vapid. “Sun Sentinel doesn’t need a Koch problem.” (Pronounced, by the way, “coke.”)The banner held by a small band of demonstrators also featured a caricature of those infamous (or famous, depending on one’s political leaning) brothers with money bags and vampire teeth.Plainly, the protesters were alarmed by unconfirmed news ...
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Immigration activists protest Sen. Marco Rubio after gay couples left out of reform bill
A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to ...
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Feds tell Fla. court immigrant cant be lawyer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that Florida should deny a law license to anyone who enters or remains in the country without legal permission.Federal authorities were asked last month by the Florida Supreme Court to help it decide whether federal law precludes the court's admission of an undocumented immigrant to the Florida Bar.Attorneys for the Department ...
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New Miami-Dade Schools police chief named
The school board appointed Ian Moffett on Wednesday. He was most recently a law enforcement trainer at the Miami Police Academy and previously worked for the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department for 15 ...
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Students battle FIUs Wall of Wind
South Florida high school students battled Florida International University's Wall of Wind as they looked for ways to reduce hurricane damage to ...
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Donation Dropoff Locations for Oklahoma Tornado Victims
On the day after a massive tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma, families returned to bear witness to the damage as search and rescue teams kept picking through debris looking for survivors. President Barack Obama, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and tornado survivor Katrina Ellerd spoke about the aftermath of the ...
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Woman Throws Roll of Toilet Paper at Court Camera
A woman who was recently convicted of stealing a banana showed her displeasure with a Broward judge's bond decision by grabbing a roll of toilet paper and throwing it at the camera. Watch the remote interaction between Gerhonda Snell, 24, and Broward Circuit Judge John Hurley in this ...
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Man Arrested for Murder After Pocket-Dialing 9-1-1
A Pompano Beach man is being held without bond on homicide charges after he pocket-dialed 9-1-1 while talking to someone about his murder plans, police ...
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Miami Beach Police Ready for Urban Beach Weekend
This Urban Beach Weekend, partygoers on Miami Beach seem to be on their best behavior. They tell NBC 6 that this year's festivities seem safer with the additional police ...
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Cops will crack down on seat-belt scofflaws during holiday weekend
Memorial Day weekend is coming up and state troopers are cracking down.Their target: those who refuse to wear seat belts. Last year, there were 205,633 of you.And that doesn't sit well with ...
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Murder suspect mistakenly dials 911 discusses plot BSO says
Broward sheriff's homicide detectives on Tuesday arrested Scott Simon, 24, of Pompano Beach, pictured, on a charge of first-degree murder in the May 5 killing of Nicholas Romondo Walker, 33, of Lauderhill, the Broward Sheriff's Office ...
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Sale of Dania Jai-Alai complete Argentine group owns majority
In 2011, Boyd announced a sale to Dania Entertainment Center LLC for $80 million, but the deal fell through. The four buyers were listed as Harris Friedman, Louis Birdman, Barton Seidler and Steven ...
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Florida's Exploration Park keeps state ahead
NASA’s new Space Life Sciences Lab and the adjacent Exploration Park, which is still under development, are testaments to Florida’s ongoing leadership in the exploration and understanding of space travel and the world beyond Earth’s stratosphere.
Florida has long been at the forefront of space travel internationally, it is here, at Cape Canaveral, that NASA’s shuttles take to the skies headed for the moon, or, more commonly, the International Space Station. Read more
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