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• Judge denies bond reduction for accused hit-and-run driver

  22-09-2015 23:55
  
  A Fort Lauderdale man accused of fatally striking a man who was riding a Go-Ped in May has asked a Broward County judge to lower his $1 million bond.Judge Barbara McCarthy spent the better part of two days listening to testimony and decided Tuesday that the man's bond will remain as is.Scott Roman, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, was arrested Aug. 31 on a charge of leaving a scene involving a death and tampering with evidence.Roman told the judge that he needs his bond lowered so he can care for his ill
  
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• Man Wanted for Robbing Walgreens in Miami: MDPD

  22-09-2015 23:50 via nbcmiami.com
  
  The Miami-Dade Police Department is asking for the public's help identifying the man who allegedly robbed a Walgreens.
  
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• Pope calls on Cubans to live 'revolution of tenderness'

  22-09-2015 23:16
  
  Pope Francis ended his four-day trip to Cuba on Tuesday by calling on Cubans to rediscover their Catholic heritage and live a "revolution of tenderness," powerful words in a country whose 1959 revolution installed an atheist, communist government that sought to replace the church as the guiding force in people's lives.
  
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• The Latest: Pope says life in prison is 'dying every day'

  22-09-2015 23:06
  
  The latest developments in Pope Francis' visit to the United States. All times local:
  
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• Senate blocks anti-abortion bill; new showdown set

  22-09-2015 23:06
  Senate Democrats thwarted a Republican effort to ban late-term abortions on Tuesday as GOP leaders strained to avoid a government shutdown in eight days over the dispute - all against a tangled backdrop of presidential...
  
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• Clinton pushes plan to address rising drug costs

  22-09-2015 23:06
  
  Hillary Rodham Clinton is outlining a sweeping plan to hold down the rising cost of prescription drugs and target drug companies that flood the airwaves with ads.
  
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• Suspects in Custody After Chase in Fort Lauderdale

  22-09-2015 23:05 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Three people are in custody after a police chase in Fort Lauderdale.
  
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• South Florida man cashes checks using stolen identity

  22-09-2015 23:05
  
  Police are searching for a man who used another person's identity to cash checks at numerous locations in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.Miramar police said the man also withdrew money from an ATM in Miramar and a Chase Bank branch at 6860 Miramar Parkway.Police said the victim currently lives in the Davie area but previously attended Miramar High School.Anyone with information about the identity of the culprit is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.  Follow Local 10 News
  
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• Texas man says wife was arrested in China on spying charges

  22-09-2015 23:04
  Phan Phan-Gillis was visiting China last spring as part of an American trade delegation that included the mayor pro tem of Houston and others who were promoting business opportunities in the nation's fourth-largest city.
  
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• Gunman kills Florida deputy outside lawyer's office

  22-09-2015 23:04
  
  A gunman fatally shot a sheriff's deputy outside a lawyer's office Tuesday and then barricaded himself inside a motel, where he exchanged gunfire with other deputies and was killed, authorities said.
  
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• Some tips for patients to reduce odds of being misdiagnosed

  22-09-2015 23:02
  By The Associated Press The Institute of Medicine says patient input is critical as health providers try to figure out the right diagnosis. Here are tips from the IOM's report Tuesday, adapted from...
  
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• Q&A: What is a sage grouse and why is the bird imperiled?

  22-09-2015 23:01
  
  The Interior Department said Tuesday it won't propose federal protections for the greater sage grouse, a chicken-sized bird of the sagebrush that ranges from California to the Dakotas.
  
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• Lawyer for Bulger's girlfriend calls new charge 'vindictive'

  22-09-2015 22:58
  
  A lawyer for the longtime girlfriend and fugitive companion of Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger says prosecutors are being vindictive by charging her for refusing to testify about whether other people helped Bulger...
  
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• Pope Francis arrives in US, faces a polarized country

  22-09-2015 22:54
  
  Pope Francis arrived Tuesday on the first visit of his life to the United States, bringing his "church of the poor" to the world's wealthiest superpower and a country polarized over issues closest to his heart: immigration, social injustice and economic inequality.
  
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• Miami-Dade Bomb Squad Honored with Award from Police

  22-09-2015 22:46 via nbcmiami.com
  
  It was a violent end to an hours-long standoff, which stemmed from a bank robbery in July. The suspect wreaked havoc on Miami Beach, even sparking a bomb scare.Photo Credit: NBC6.com
  
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• Burglar steals iPhones at Hollywood AT&T store

  22-09-2015 22:36
  
  Police are searching for a man who stole two cellphones from an AT&T store in Hollywood earlier this summer.The burglary was reported shortly after 7:30 p.m. July 18 at a store at 3353 Sheridan St.Surveillance video shows the man, who was wearing a blue T-shirt with "Glass America" on the back, enter the store and rip two phones from their security tether at the Apple iPhone 6 Plus display.Police said the thief left in a red Toyota Corolla.Anyone with information about the burglary is asked
  
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• Rock goes through windshield, hits woman in chest on I-95 in Miami

  22-09-2015 22:31
  
  A man told Local 10 News that he was driving south on Interstate 95 Tuesday afternoon when a Miami-Dade County bus kicked up a large rock, which went through his windshield.The man said the rock struck his wife, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, in the chest.The couple drove to a Sunoco station at 10260 NW Seventh Ave., where police completed an incident report.The man Local 10 News reporter Andrew Perez that his wife was OK, but was "in shock."She was taken to a hospital to get check
  
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• Carson blames 'PC culture' for Muslim comment flap

  22-09-2015 22:07
  
  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Tuesday blamed "P.C. culture" for the political fallout over his statement against electing a Muslim president.
  
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• DOJ awards Miami-Dade police $1 million toward body cams

  22-09-2015 22:03
  
  The Department of Justice has awarded the Miami-Dade Police Department a $1 million grant to buy body cameras. The Police Department said it will use the money to purchase 500 body cameras, doubling the number of current body cameras for officers."I commend the efforts of the Miami-Dade Police Department in securing this valuable grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance," said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez. "I have been an early advocate for body camera technology. In fact, I
  
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• Jose 'Pepe' Diaz conveys concern about political career in DUI arrest video

  22-09-2015 21:39
  A Miami-Dade County commissioner pondered his political future as he was being arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Key West last weekend.Jose "Pepe" Diaz was arrested on a DUI charge after he was pulled over on his motorcycle Saturday night on South Roosevelt Boulevard.Key West police body cameras captured Diaz's roadside field-sobriety test."There goes my political career," Diaz said at one point in the video.The police report said Diaz was traveling 74 mph in a 30 mph zone. An officer
  
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• Man Pleads Guilty in Daycare Van Toddler Death

  22-09-2015 21:37 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated manslaughter in connection with the death of a toddler who was left in a daycare van four years ago in Homestead.Photo Credit: Miami-Dade Police
  
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• Whistleblowers: VA inspector general a 'joke'

  22-09-2015 21:20
  The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to retaliate against whistleblowers despite repeated pledges to stop punishing those who speak up, a national group said Tuesday. One called the department's office of...
  
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• The Latest: A rare personal welcome by Obama for the pope

  22-09-2015 21:20
  
  The latest developments in Pope Francis' visit to Cuba and the United States. All times local:
  
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• Judge overturns New York City ban on plastic foam containers

  22-09-2015 21:20
  A New York Supreme Court judge has overturned New York City's ban on plastic foam containers such as egg cartons and to-go cups.
  
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• Gun-friendly West Virginia eyes adding new Capitol security

  22-09-2015 21:20
  West Virginians can carry firearms to many city swimming pools, tennis courts and afterschool centers under gun protections okayed by state lawmakers and their governor in 2014. Now those officials in the gun-friendly...
  
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• Deputy hears sobs, saves drowning kids; their dad is charged

  22-09-2015 21:20
  
  A North Carolina sheriff's deputy says he heard wailing in the darkness and plunged into an apartment complex's pond at night to rescue two young girls who, police say, had been thrown there to drown by their father.
  
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• New duck-billed dinosaur found in Alaska, researchers say

  22-09-2015 21:19
  
  Researchers have uncovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaur in Alaska, according to a report published Tuesday.
  
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• South Florida lobbyist accused of fraud again

  22-09-2015 21:00
  
  In an attempt to manipulate zoning and land use in unincorporated west Miami-Dade County, thousands were spent to corrupt the election process, prosecutors said.Corruption in the area may be related to ongoing friction over the Urban Development Boundary at Miami-Dade County's western land bordering the protected Florida Everglades.It is unclear where the financial backing for the scheme was coming from. David Carcache, 34, who is known for being active in Sweetwater politics, was behind the dec
  
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• In game of political influence, South Florida lobbyist accused of fraud again

  22-09-2015 21:00
  
  In an attempt to manipulate zoning and land use in unincorporated west Miami-Dade County, thousands were spent to corrupt the election process, prosecutors said.It is unclear where the financial backing for the scheme was coming from. David Carcache, 34, who is known for being active in Sweetwater politics, was behind the deceit, prosecutors said. Although Carcache has registered as a lobbyist before, he wasn't registered in this case. He turned himself in Tuesday.Carcache was accused of running
  
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• Women embrace, criticize #ShoutYourAbortion

  22-09-2015 20:23
  
  Women concerned about Republican efforts to take funding away from Planned Parenthood have taken to social media with a hashtag encouraging others to "shout your abortion."
  
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• Microsoft launches Office 2016

  22-09-2015 20:14
  
  Poor Microsoft Office. It is Microsoft's most successful product, but has been stuck in a 90s-era time warp. There are now shinier, more modern ways to get work done, such as Slack, Google Apps and Trello.
  
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• Groupon is laying off 1,100 employees

  22-09-2015 20:13
  
  Groupon will lay off about 1,100 people over the next year, or about 10% of its staff.
  
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• Day care van driver accepts plea deal in toddler's death

  22-09-2015 20:13
  
  A day care van driver accused of leaving a 22-month-old boy inside the van in 2011 accepted a plea deal Tuesday in the child's death.Lelier Perez Hernandez will serve six months in a Miami-Dade County jail, followed by seven years of probation. He has 30 days to surrender.Hernandez was charged with manslaughter and tampering with evidence after Dominicue Andrews was found dead outside the Jomiba Learning Center in Homestead in July 2011.According to court records, Hernandez took Dominicue from t
  
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• Amazon Prime set to go on sale for $67

  22-09-2015 20:12
  
  Amazon Prime is having a sale.Amazon announced Tuesday that its Prime membership would be available for $67 in honor of the 5 Emmys it took home Sunday at the 67th annual Emmy Awards.
  
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• Handgun-wielding man robs Kendall Walgreens

  22-09-2015 20:10
  
  Police are searching for a man who robbed a Kendall Walgreens at gunpoint earlier this summer.The robbery was reported July 19 at a Walgreens store at 14720 SW 88th St.Detectives said the man was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and dark aviator sunglasses.Surveillance video from the store shows the man approach the clerk, asking for cigarettes.Police said the clerk asked the man to remove his sunglasses and show his ID.Detectives said the robber pulled out a handgun and demanded money from the cash
  
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• Miami police searching for missing children

  22-09-2015 19:50
  
  Miami police are asking for the public's help locating two missing children.
  
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• Police: 3 in Custody After Chase in Ft. Lauderdale

  22-09-2015 19:48 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Three people are in custody after a police chase in Fort Lauderdale.
  
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• USCG Repatriates 121 Cuban Migrants

  22-09-2015 19:39 via nbcmiami.com
  
  After nine separate interdictions at sea in the south Florida Straits, the U.S. Coast Guard announces that they've repatriated 121 Cuban migrants back to Cuba within the past week.Photo Credit: USCG
  
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• South Floridians make pilgrimage to D.C. in hopes of catching glimpse of pope

  22-09-2015 19:34
  A group of people from South Florida are making the 22-hour pilgrimage to Washington in hopes of catching a glimpse of Pope Francis on his first American tour."Oh, I'm very excited," one passenger, Carmen, said.  "I couldn't even sleep that good last night because it's like a dream come true."The Archdiocese of Miami is sponsoring the two-day trip to the nation's capital."I always wanted to see the Holy Father, and the main thing is that I don't even have to go to Rome," Carmen said. "I hav
  
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• SoFla Group Heads to D.C. for Pope Francis' Visit

  22-09-2015 19:30 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Calling it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a group from Miami Shores set off Tuesday afternoon for a bus trip to Washington, D.C. ahead of Pope Francis' first ever visit to the United States.
  
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• Miguel Bovar sentenced after trying to sell gold bar stolen in truck heist

  22-09-2015 19:16
  
  A Florida man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for his involvement in the attempted sale of a gold bar stolen in a $4.9 million North Carolina truck heist.Miguel Bovar was sentenced Tuesday in Miami. He pleaded guilty in July to an attempted extortion charge after his cellphone was used to make threats when the sale fell through.Bovar was not involved in the March robbery of 275 pounds of gold bars from a truck along Interstate 95 in North Carolina. But Bovar admitted that h
  
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• FAU, FIU Games Available on Cozi TV

  22-09-2015 18:59 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Several of this season's Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University football games will be aired on Cozi TV starting this Saturday at noon.Photo Credit: Facebook: FIU, FAU
  
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• Emilio Estefan Debuts "We're All Mexican" Video

  22-09-2015 18:40 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Grammy-winning producer Emilio Estefan has released a video for, "We're All Mexican," celebrating the achievements of Hispanic people in the United States.Photo Credit: Greg Allen/Invision/AP
  
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• Study: Diagnosis wrong too often, urgent improvement needed

  22-09-2015 18:37
  Most people will experience at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis over their lifetime, a report predicts, calling diagnostic errors a blind spot in modern medicine that sometimes causes devastating consequences.
  
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• Senate Dems block GOP bill that would curb late abortions

  22-09-2015 18:37
  Senate Democrats blocked Republican legislation Tuesday that would prohibit most late-term abortions, the second time since this summer's release of videos involving Planned Parenthood that they've derailed an...
  
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• Plea deal reached for daycare driver charged in toddler's death

  22-09-2015 18:34
  
  The driver of a Homestead daycare van charged with leaving a toddler in a van accepted a plea deal during a court appearance, Tuesday.
  
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• Local pilgrims head to D.C. to see Pope Francis

  22-09-2015 18:33
  
  A group of pilgrims left Tuesday morning from the Archdiocese of Miami, en route by bus to Washington D.C. to see Pope Francis.
  
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• 'Whitey' Bulger's lover indicted on criminal contempt charge

  22-09-2015 18:31
  
  The longtime girlfriend and fugitive companion of Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was indicted Tuesday on a charge she refused to testify about whether other people helped him during his 16 years on the run.
  
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• PETA sues to give monkey the copyright of selfie photos

  22-09-2015 18:31
  
  By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer A macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs should be declared the copyright owner of the photos, rather than the nature photographer who positioned the...
  
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• Some California fire evacuees return to little more than ash

  22-09-2015 18:14
  
  By JANIE HAR Associated Press Krystal La Plante and her boyfriend returned to the remains of their three-bedroom home to find only a ceramic drip coffee pot and one of her pottery pieces. Her little...
  
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