Two pedestrians were killed in separate crashes Monday morning in Miami-Dade County. The first crash occurred around 5:20 a.m. in the area of U.S. 1 and Southwest 266th Street. According to Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Alejandro Camacho, a gray Honda sedan was heading north on U.S. 1 when a pedestrian walked into the street. The […]
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A woman was fatally shot at a bank in Venice on Monday morning, sheriff’s officials said. The shooting happened just after 9 a.m. Monday at a BB&T bank branch in Venice, which is near Sarasota on Florida’s Gulf Coast, the Sarasota Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. Arriving deputies found the woman dead at
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More heartbreak for Biscayne Bay as schools of mullet were found just before sunrise gasping for breath on the waters off Albert Pallot Park on Saturday. The dead fish could be seen floating on the Bay from the Haulover Inlet to North Bay Village and south to the Venetian Causeway. “Oxygen dropped super fast between
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A gastropod enthusiast in Coconut Grove eyed an odd-looking snail, scooped it up and sent it to the University of Florida. They identified it. The news of its identification isn’t good — not for Florida and not for the United States, according to Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS). Found in India, it
Don Ryce, whose son Jimmy Ryce was murdered after being kidnapped in the mid-1990s, has died. He was 76. On Sept. 11, 1995, Ryce’s then nine-year-old son Jimmy was kidnapped, raped and killed just blocks from his Redland home, becoming a tragedy that rocked South Florida. The tragedy of Jimmy’s death thrust Ryce into the
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Just before leaving The White House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, President Donald J. Trump tweeted an 18-second message, which also came after an experimental drug was administered to the President — OK’d under a “compassionate use request.” The video message was the first tweet since Trump announced around 12:54 a.m. Friday that he and
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Authorities are investigating after a 3-year-old child was shot in the hand in Tamarac Friday. Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said the child was shot at an unknown location in Tamarac around 3 p.m. The child’s parents told deputies they drove the child to the hospital from their home after the shooting. The child was at
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Coral Rock Development Group has snagged a $53.5 million construction loan for the 260-unit residential portion of its mixed-use project in Hialeah. Principal Real Estate Investors provided the debt, according to a release. The project, dubbed Pura Vida Hialeah, will consist of three eight-story buildings and about 11,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. Units will range
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President Donald Trump has canceled plans to travel to Florida Friday for a rally and the upcoming presidential debate in Miami may be in doubt following his positive coronavirus test. Trump had been scheduled to fly to Florida Friday for a rally at the Orlando-Sanford International Airport but canceled after he and First Lady Melania
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Spring break is an institution in South Florida, but two South Florida institutions of higher learning won’t be having it in 2021. The University of Miami and Florida International University both announced that they are canceling the annual reprieve because of the safety risk associated with the spread of COVID-19 if students were to travel