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• Family of Little Haiti Murder Victim Asks Public for Help

  18-09-2015 23:53 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A family is desperate for answers after a 44-year-old man was shot and killed on the streets of Little Haiti Wednesday.
  
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• Opa-locka Police search for 2 missing women

  18-09-2015 23:37
  
  City of Opa-locka Police are seeking the community's help to find two missing women.
  
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• Sprint CEO: 'We will have the best network in the next two years'

  18-09-2015 23:35
  
  Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure has made a bold statement: By 2017, its network will perform better than Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile.
  
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• Man Shoots at Dogs During Attack on Pet: MDPD

  18-09-2015 23:28 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A Miami-Dade Police Department public service aide shot at a group of dogs that gained access to his yard and attacked his dog, according to Miami-Dade Police.Photo Credit: NBC6.com
  
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• One dead, 24 sick from multi-state Listeria outbreak linked to soft cheeses

  18-09-2015 23:27
  
  A Listeria outbreak linked to soft cheeses has caused 24 cases of illness in nine states, including one death and one fetal death, the CDC said Friday. Twenty-one of those who became ill have been hospitalized.
  
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• 1 in custody in connection with Plantation bank robbery

  18-09-2015 23:24
  
  One person has been taken into custody in connection with a bank robbery in Plantation.The robbery was reported Friday afternoon at a Chase Bank at 10195 Clearly Blvd.Sky 10 was above the scene about 5 p.m. as authorities blocked off intersections nearby as they searched for the robber.Detective Robert Rettig said Plantation police is working with the FBI to find a second person involved in the robbery.No  injuries were reported. It's unclear how much money was taken in the robbery.Watch Lo
  
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• Emmys: What to watch for Sunday

  18-09-2015 23:18
  
  It's almost time for the Emmy Awards, folks. You know, TV's biggest night! Here's what to expect:
  
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• Attorney: Kentucky clerk interfered with judge's order

  18-09-2015 22:48
  
  The attorney for one of the deputy clerks in Kim Davis' office says Davis disobeyed a federal judge's order when she altered marriage license forms for same-sex couples.
  
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• Child who survived Gables hit-and-run speaks out

  18-09-2015 22:37
  
  A South Florida child is receiving a show of support from an officer who helped his family find justice, after a frightening hit-and-run. Turns out, the officer who helped track down the suspected driver has a special connection to the case. The Nightteam's Rosh Lowe shows us what happened next in tonight's edition of The Lowedown.
  
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• Life in Prison for Man Convicted in Sledgehammer Attack

  18-09-2015 22:24 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A man convicted in a 2011 sledgehammer attack that left a Little Havana grocery store clerk with permanent injuries was given life behind bars Friday.Photo Credit: NBC6.com
  
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• Man sentenced to 3 life terms in sledgehammer beating

  18-09-2015 22:22
  
  A man convicted of first-degree attempted murder was sentenced to three life sentences Friday in the beating of a store owner in Little Havana.Prosecutors said Rodobaldo "Johnny" Sanchez went inside Alex's Mini Market in the 500 block of Northwest 12th Avenue on Dec. 18, 2011, pretending to buy some milk.Instead, Sanchez spayed a chemical on the owner, Cen Yue Kui. He then went around the counter and beat the victim with a sledgehammer, grabbed two cartons of cigarettes and escaped on a bicycle.
  
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• South Floridians head to Cuba for Pope's visit

  18-09-2015 22:09
  
  A South Florida group of nearly 200 people will be heading to Cuba, Friday morning, as part of a Papal pilgrimage led by the Archdiocese of Miami.
  
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• SoFla Businesses Embracing Changes to Cuba Restrictions

  18-09-2015 22:08 via nbcmiami.com
  
  As the Pope's visit to Cuba will near its end, U.S. restrictions on the island will just begin to ease.Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• Warmer weather could further fuel Northern California fire

  18-09-2015 21:54
  
  As crews increase their chokehold on a deadly wildfire burning about 100 miles north of San Francisco, fire officials worry that warmer weather expected over the weekend could flare the flames further.
  
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• The Latest: Family: Hikers killed in flood watched weather

  18-09-2015 21:54
  
  The latest on the deadly flash flooding to hit the Utah-Arizona border region (all times local):
  
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• Photo found after flooding reveals final image of 7 hikers

  18-09-2015 21:54
  Seven hikers in safety helmets, wetsuits and climbing harnesses smiled for a group photo before heading into the mouth of a narrow desert canyon in southern Utah's Zion National Park.
  
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• Official: Mom, boyfriend blame each other in 'Baby Doe' case

  18-09-2015 21:54
  A mother and her boyfriend are "blaming each other" for the death of a little girl who was found dead inside a trash bag on a Boston Harbor beach this summer, a state official said Friday, after a monthslong campaign to...
  
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• Jury deliberates fate of man accused in wife's cliff death

  18-09-2015 21:54
  A federal jury on Friday began deliberating the fate of a man accused of pushing his wife to her death off a remote cliff in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park.
  
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• Investigator: Bergdahl sought to expose problems in unit

  18-09-2015 21:54
  
  Bowe Bergdahl said he walked away from his post in Afghanistan six years ago hoping to spark a massive search and get the attention of a general so he could discuss what he felt were problems with his unit's...
  
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• Dad convicted of hurling child off cliff gets life term

  18-09-2015 21:54
  
  She would be a young woman now, but instead Lauren Sarene Key is forever the 4-year-old child who never returned from a visit to the coast with her father.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Waco police bullets hit bikers in May melee

  18-09-2015 21:54
  Evidence reviewed by The Associated Press confirms that police bullets hit bikers in the deadly shootout involving two rival motorcycle clubs that clashed last spring outside a Waco restaurant, though it isn't clear...
  
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• APNewsBreak: Arkansas execution plan may use UK firm's drug

  18-09-2015 21:54
  A British pharmaceutical company that told Arkansas not to use its products during executions is trying to determine if the state plans to use them anyway, but prison officials are dismissing inquiries about the drug by...
  
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• Alleged church shooter's friend pleads not guilty to lying

  18-09-2015 21:54
  
  Dylann Roof's friend knew about his plans to shoot black church members during Bible study in Charleston and lied to investigators when they interviewed him a day after the massacre, according to an indictment unsealed...
  
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• Trump condemned for not correcting statement Obama is Muslim

  18-09-2015 21:52
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump drew fire from Democrats and some Republicans Friday after declining to correct a questioner at a town hall event who wrongly said President Barack Obama is Muslim.
  
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• 87 of 91 ex-NFL players had brain disease linked to concussions and head trauma

  18-09-2015 21:16
  
  Eighty-seven of 91 former NFL players who donated their brains to science after death tested positive for a brain disease that is believed to be linked with repeated head trauma and concussions, researchers said.
  
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• New Miami Bowling Party

  18-09-2015 21:13 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Monday nights are fun again in Miami Beach with Gio's Total Split Show and his crew of Basement Bowling at Edition Hotel. DJs, dancing, not your regular game of bowling and ice skating. Photos by Jipsy
  
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• With Miami's The Pick Radio Crew

  18-09-2015 21:12 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Visiting Klangbox.fm, one of Miami's popular online radio stations to catch one of their weekly shows The Pick, who highlight Miami in a bit funk, maduros and soul. Photos by Jipsy
  
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• Fla law allows inmates to be billed for incarceration

  18-09-2015 21:10
  
  Jeremy Barrett remembers very little of the assault that would change his life. He was at the end of a three-year sentence in a Florida state prison when he was caught stealing potatoes from the prison kitchen
  
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• All Clear After Bomb Threat at South Plantation High School

  18-09-2015 21:06 via nbcmiami.com
  
  South Plantation High School was evacuated Friday afternoon for a bomb threat, police said.Photo Credit: NBC 6 South Florida
  
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• Fewer Hurricanes? Bring it On!

  18-09-2015 20:56 via nbcmiami.com
  
  I’ll never forget 2005. My exhaustion was like nothing I had felt before. I was chief meteorologist of Telemundo 51 in Miami, a tropically-aware city where any disturbance in the Atlantic basin – even when it’s...
  
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• Police: Service aide shoots at dogs in act of self defense

  18-09-2015 20:41
  
  Miami-Dade Police are on the scene after, they said, an off-duty public service aide was forced to shoot at five German Shepherds after they reportedly attacked his own dog.
   
  
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• Firefighters rescue trapped kitten on Palmetto Expressway in Hialeah

  18-09-2015 19:54
  
  Hialeah firefighters rescued a kitten that was trapped between concrete support walls on the Palmetto Expressway Friday morning.Hialeah Fire Rescue spokesman Cesar Espinosa said it took crews nearly an hour to free the kitten at West 60th Street on the Palmetto Expressway."Using their ingenuity and the Jaws of Life, they were able to free the kitty unharmed," Espinosa said.The kitten is being cared for by a 911 dispatcher until its owner is located.Follow Local 10 News on Twitter @WPLGLocal10
  
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• Man convicted of fatally shooting teen outside Burger King sentenced to life in prison

  18-09-2015 19:53
  
  A man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday in the 2009 shooting death of a 15-year-old boy outside a North Miami Burger King.Jonathan Simon was convicted of first-degree murder last month, which carries an automatic life sentence.According a Miami Herald report, Jason Maharaj was hanging out with his friends on West Dixie Highway when they got into an argument with Simon.Police said Simon chased the group into a Burger King parking lot, where Jason tripped.Sur
  
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• Trapped Kitten Saved by Hialeah Fire Rescue Crews

  18-09-2015 19:38 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A kitten that got pinned inside a support wall of the Palmetto Expressway was rescued by Hialeah Fire Rescue crews Friday morning.Photo Credit: Hialeah Fire Rescue
  
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• MDPD: Man Shoots Dogs During Attack on Pet

  18-09-2015 19:38 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A Miami-Dade Police Department public service aide shot at a group of dogs that gained access to his yard and attacked his dog, according to Miami-Dade Police.Photo Credit: AP
  
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• Miami police officer suspended after handcuffing 5-year-old boy at school

  18-09-2015 19:29
  
  A Miami father is outraged after a police officer pulled his 5-year-old son's ear and handcuffed him at Eneida Harter Elementary School.According to a newly released internal affairs report, the incident happened Feb. 9 after the kindergartner bit another student while they were fighting over a toy.The boy's father, Hector Feliciano, told police that the school notified him of the incident, and he told them he would discipline his son when he got home.However, Feliciano said Officer Paul Gourrie
  
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• Man Gets Life in Prison in 2009 Murder of Teen

  18-09-2015 19:19 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A man convicted of shooting and killing a teen in the parking lot of a North Miami Burger King in 2009 will be spending the rest of his life behind bars.Photo Credit: Miami-Dade Corrections
  
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• Cubans hope visit from pope brings change

  18-09-2015 18:48
  
  Crews have been hard at work Friday morning, getting Revolutionary Square ready for the thousands of people that will come to hear the Pope speak over the weekend.
  
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• Girl asks killer stepdad to let her say goodbye to dying mom during 911 call

  18-09-2015 18:40
  
  It had been a few weeks since Roberto Calixto Gomez and Marcia Vázquez  split up. They had been married for about a decade.Vázquez, 49, was planning to start a new life at 416 E 27th St., Apt 2G, in Hialeah. But instead that was where Gomez, 50, would end her life on the morning of Aug. 15."The couple had no children in common," Hialeah Sgt. Car Zogby told Local 10 News.  "Vazquez' 14 year old daughter was the only other person in the apartment at the time of the shooting
  
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• Homestead murder suspect makes first court appearance after indictment

  18-09-2015 18:28
  
  A 19-year-old man faced a judge for the first time Friday morning after he was formally indicted for first-degree murder.Christian Colon is one of five people accused of ambushing Jose Amaya Guardado, 17, in the woods in June and killing him with a machete.Guardado's body was discovered by his brother a couple days after the murder. His body was found partially buried in the woods near the Homestead Job Corps, where Guardado and the suspects attended classes. His brother told Local 10 News that
  
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• $11.8M in Cocaine, Marijuana Offloaded in Miami Beach

  18-09-2015 18:25 via nbcmiami.com
  
  More than $11 million worth of drugs seized by the Coast Guard in the Caribbean was offloaded in Miami Beach Friday morning.Photo Credit: NBC6.com
  
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• About 200 members of Archdiocese of Miami make pilgrimage to Cuba

  18-09-2015 18:22
  It was an early start for those making the pilgrimage to Cuba Friday morning. Almost 200 members of the Archdiocese of Miami are joined by the faithful from around the U.S. to visit the island for Pope Francis' historical trip."Hope" is the theme among those making the trip.Donna McDonald has been to Cuba before but has been anxiously waiting for this opportunity to once again share her fellowship with the people of Cuba."They're going to see us and say 'Hey, the people of Miami are coming but n
  
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• U.S. Coast Guard offloads more than $11 million in drugs in Miami Beach

  18-09-2015 18:12
  
  The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded more than $11 million in drugs in Miami Beach Friday that were recently interdicted in the Caribbean Sea.The drugs included 254 kilograms of cocaine, worth about $8.5 million and 3,662 pounds of marijuana worth about $3.3 million.Officials said the drugs were seized in two different incidences on Sept. 3.The cocaine was found in a hidden compartment on a Panamanian-flagged boat southeast of Nicaragua.The suspected drug smugglers were taken into custody and were tra
  
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• This app makes sure you never walk home alone

  18-09-2015 18:01
  
  A new app called "Companion" allows you to virtually track a friend's journey home by using GPS. You can ensure that they can easily contact the police in an emergency if they feel unsafe.
  
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• Date Set for Changes in U.S., Cuba Relations

  18-09-2015 17:43 via nbcmiami.com
  
  The Treasury Department announced Friday that the easing of U.S.-Cuba relations will go into effect Monday, making it easier for people in the U.S. to invest, travel and open up business in Cuba.Photo Credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images
  
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• The Latest: Sergeant says he expressed worry about Bergdahl

  18-09-2015 17:34
  
  The latest on the hearing to determine if Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl should face a court-martial on desertion and other charges for leaving his post in Afghanistan six years ago. All times are local.
  
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• Soft cheese linked to listeria death in Ohio

  18-09-2015 17:34
  A California company has recalled several brands of soft cheeses after they were linked to 24 illnesses around the country and a death in Ohio.
  
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• Protests continue over Confederate flag ban at high school

  18-09-2015 17:34
  
  Protests continued Friday over a western Virginia high school's ban on Confederate flags displayed on clothing and cars, but no more students were suspended for the violating the policy and one student said he's...
  
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