SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. – Zoo Miami’s beloved bald Eagle Rita has lost one of her hatchlings. On Friday, the zoo announced her third eaglet, which hatched the day prior, did not survive the night. Rita’s first egg hatched just before 10 p.m. on New Year’s Day, and the second one around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday. Zoo […]
Miami is one City Commission vote away from a dedicated MLS soccer stadium. Inter Miami CF and the city struck a deal on a $1 billion project to redevelop the Melreese Golf Course and Country Club into a stadium and surrounding commerce area. The deal, which has mayor Francis Suarez’s backing, must now go before a City Commission vote,
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sex trafficking at the 2020 Super Bowl in South Florida. Edward Walker, 48, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced Thursday in Fort Lauderdale federal court, according to court records. A jury found him guilty in October of sex trafficking
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Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94. Clint Watson, press secretary for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, confirmed to CNN that Poitier died Thursday evening. Poitier overcame an impoverished
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MIAMI – Police are investigating after a man was found with a gunshot wound under an overpass in Miami. 7News cameras captured a charred vehicle underneath an overpass along Northwest 10th Avenue and 38th Street. Authorities said they found a man with a gunshot wound near the burnt car at around 4 a.m., Friday. The
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade expanded the mosquito control area to more than 15 neighborhoods. Three specially-outfitted Buffalo Turbine trucks will apply biweekly treatments to target mosquitoes in their developmental larval stages in standing rain or irrigation water. “Our surveillance program data has shown us a shift in mosquito populations,” Mosquito Control Division Director William Petrie
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OPA-LOCKA, Fla. – A kid was at the Juvenile Assessment Center on Thursday night in Broward County after leading a bi-county police pursuit in a stolen car, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department. The owner of the car reported it stolen in Boca Raton, in southern Palm Beach County, police said. Police officers first spotted the
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade police are investigating a double shooting that occurred Friday morning outside a home in southwest Miami-Dade. According to police, officers were called to a home at 20799 SW 234th St. in reference to two men who had been shot in the front yard. Police said both were pronounced dead at the
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One lucky IMCF fan will be selected for a behind-the-scenes experience to join Chris Henderson and Phil Neville for the MLS SuperDraft 2022 presented by adidas on Tuesday, January 11 The MLS SuperDraft 2022 presented by adidas is set to take place on Tuesday, January 11. Players who are eligible for the MLS SuperDraft include
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade County Public Schools has partnered with the county and health department to offer students and employees free, take-home, rapid COVID test kits on a first come, first served basis at select locations on Thursday. Students and employees must provide their student ID number or employee number and present either a school