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• Marlins Could Look To Trade Haren: Report

  15-12-2014 23:58 via nbcmiami.com
  
  The Marlins reportedly will look to trade Dan Haren if he refuses to pitch for the team
  
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• Group of Men Charged With Sexually Assaulting Teen

  15-12-2014 23:58 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A group of men is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
  
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• Hoop Phi Hoop program brings basketball to Miami Gardens

  15-12-2014 23:52
  
  After receiving a donation from the City Council, the basketball organization will host a two-day tournament in Miami Gardens. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Horses Die in Davie After Eating Contaminated Food

  15-12-2014 23:48 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Four horses have died since October due to a contamination inside the horse's food.
  
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• Photo Gallery: Barks & Bubbles Holiday Doggie Wash | Dec. 13, 2014

  15-12-2014 23:39
  
  The Humane Society of Greater Miami held a Barks & Bubbles Holiday Doggie Wash on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014. For a $5 donation, four-footed family members enjoyed an outdoor bath, towel dry and brushing. The event also offered “Paw-casso” Holiday Paw Prints (think finger painting for dogs using their paws), pet boutique holiday specials, music, games, refreshments and a visit by Santa. The donations will benefit the Humane Society of Greater Miami, a “no-kill” nonprofit
  
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• Officials release 3 eagles at Michigan power plant

  15-12-2014 23:30
  
  Three weak, emaciated eagles that were nursed back to health at a Michigan raptor rehabilitation facility have been released back into the wild.
  
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• Grieving relatives find comfort at annual vigil by Compassionate Friends

  15-12-2014 23:25
  
  Compassionate Friends Miami Chapter held its annual candle lighting event at Miami-Dade County Fair & Exposition Goode Building. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Shenandoah Park gets $200,000 renovation from city of Miami and Coca-Cola

  15-12-2014 23:21
  
  Coca-Cola and the city of Miami have teamed up to renovate Shenandoah Park. Coca-Cola donated more than $200,000 in a grant to help the city expand the park’s playground, build an outdoor fitness equipment area and upgrade its tennis courts. … Click to Continue »
  
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• California artists say they hung black effigies

  15-12-2014 23:21
  A group of anonymous artists took responsibility for hanging three life-size cardboard images of black lynching victims at the University of California, Berkeley, leading campus authorities to say Monday they no longer...
  
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• Chicago thieves adopt 'crash-and-grab' tactics

  15-12-2014 23:14
  
  All the burglars use the same audacious tactics: A vehicle crashes through a storefront in the wee hours and up to six people in dark clothing and ski masks pour out, grabbing whatever they can with the speed of a NASCAR...
  
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• Photo Gallery: Toy Drive at Marlins Park | Dec. 13, 2014

  15-12-2014 23:12
  
  More than 3,000 children from low-income households participated in a toy drive at Marlins Park organized by Kiwanis Club of Little Havana on Dec. 13, 2014. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Sydney siege ends; 3 dead, including gunman

  15-12-2014 23:01
  
  SYDNEY -- The deadly siege began in the most incongruous of ways, on a sunny Monday morning inside a cheerful cafe in the heart of Australia's largest city. An Iranian-born gunman burst in, took 17 workers and customers hostage, and forced some to hold a flag with an Islamic declaration of faith above the shop window's festive inscription of "Merry Christmas."
  
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• Photo Gallery: Children's Holiday Celebration at Miami Dade College | Dec. 13, 2014

  15-12-2014 23:00
  
  Children get to sit with Santa and enjoy South Florida-style sledding at this year's Children's Holiday Celebration at Miami Dade College's on their North Campus Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Coral Gables Commission to swear in new city manager at Tuesday’s meeting

  15-12-2014 22:19
  
  The Coral Gables Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday at City Hall. Items on the agenda include a review of a settlement agreement regarding the Oak tree on Lisbon Street, a discussion of Controlled Choice and the findings from an FBI audit of the police department. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Vice Mayor Manny Cid to President Barack Obama: Miami Lakes wants its own ZIP Code

  15-12-2014 22:14
  
  For more than a decade, Miami Lakes has been vying to obtain its own ZIP Code from the United States Postal Service. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Stronger start for Obama's health law this year

  15-12-2014 21:51
  
  Sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law is off to a stronger start this year, even as Americans remain skeptical that the government's newest social program is right for the country.
  
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• Man charged in Auburn killing was on probation

  15-12-2014 21:49
  
  An east Alabama man was already on probation for separate crimes when he was charged with killing an Auburn University football player in a shooting eerily similar to a triple killing two years ago.
  
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• City of Miami Announces New Chief of Police

  15-12-2014 21:47 via nbcmiami.com
  
  The City of Miami will be announcing its new chief of police at a news conference Monday.
  
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• Miami Gardens delays vote on hiring zoning firm

  15-12-2014 21:32
  
  The City Council deferred their decision to the next meeting to hear more on the three firms being considered. Staff also gave an update on the Jazz in the Gardens music festival. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Study: Your all-electric car may not be so green

  15-12-2014 21:11
  People buying all-electric cars where coal supplies the power may think they are helping the environment. But a new study says those plug-in vehicles can be making the air dirtier and worsening global warming.
  
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• At least 13 arrested in Oakland police protest

  15-12-2014 20:59
  Oakland officers have made at least 13 arrests as people protesting police killings chained shut the main entrances to the agency's headquarters and blocked downtown roads.
  
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• Humane Society of Broward County to match every donation made

  15-12-2014 20:57
  
  The Humane Society of Broward County announced a giving challenge, which will last 72 hours.
  
  During the challenge, which begins Tuesday morning, every single dollar that is donated will be matched by funding secured by the Humane Society.
  
  The 8,000 animals helped last year was supported solely on the donations given to the society.
  
  Click here if you'd like to join in on the giving challenge.
  
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• 6 dead, suspect on loose in suburban Philadelphia

  15-12-2014 20:57
  
  PENNSBURG, Pa. -- A man killed six people and seriously wounded another in three different homes outside Philadelphia and remained at large hours after the shootings, authorities said Monday.
  
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• Gold teeth donated to Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign

  15-12-2014 20:54
  
  Maj. Tim Williford, the development officer for the Salvation Army, says he has never seen anything like it before.
  
  When his volunteers were counting the dollar bills and coins that were collected over the last few weeks from bell ringers and red kettles in Orlando, they found four gold teeth.
  
  "I've never gotten teeth before," Williford said.
  
  Right now, he doesn't know how much they're worth. That's because he's been working to find out how much some other odd but welcome donations are valu
  
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• 4 arrested in brawl at Big Bear Brewing Company

  15-12-2014 20:49
  
  An employee who works at a popular brewery in Coral Springs was seriously injured Sunday after he tried breaking up a fight between patrons and a waiter, police said.
  
  Coral Springs police were called to Big Bear Brewing Company, 1800 N. University Drive, after receiving multiple 911 calls from employees who feared for their lives.
  
  Police arrested Claude Galland, 29, and Michael Laguerre, 29, on complaints of aggravated battery and disorderly conduct after witnesses alleged the men assaulted
  
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• Artists take credit for hanging black effigies

  15-12-2014 20:49
  Authorities at a Northern California university no longer view the three cardboard images of black lynching victims found hanging on campus as a hate crime after a note claimed responsibility.
  
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• 3 arrested in brawl at Big Bear Brewing Company

  15-12-2014 20:37
  
  An employee who works at a popular brewery in Coral Springs was seriously injured Sunday after he tried breaking up a fight between patrons and a waiter, police said.
  
  Coral Springs police were called to Big Bear Brewing Company, 1800 N. University Drive, after receiving multiple 911 calls from employees who feared for their lives.
  
  Police arrested Claude Galland, 29, and Michael Laguerre, 29, on complaints of aggravated battery and disorderly conduct after witnesses alleged the men assaulted
  
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• Mayor Carlos Gimenez introduces Employ Miami-Dade initiative

  15-12-2014 20:34
  
  A spirited crowd filled the auditorium of the D.A. Dorsey Educational Center as Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced his Employ Miami-Dade initiative.
  
  The focus will be on construction jobs, taking advantage of the booming commercial real-estate market.
  
  Through the county's Ready, Set, Build program, the first graduating class is ready to work.
  
  "It's just a better life," graduate Marquis Turner told Local 10 News.
  
  As with many programs, there has been pushback from the communit
  
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• 5 shot in Overtown expected to survive; Miami cops working on motive

  15-12-2014 20:31
  
  Police said the five people shot in the courtyard of an Overtown apartment complex Sunday night have survived. They’re still interviewing witnesses to try and determine motive and who the target. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Century later, Jewish soldier may get top medal

  15-12-2014 20:31
  
  Nearly a century ago, Sgt. William Shemin raced across a World War I battlefield three times to pull wounded comrades to safety. With all the senior leaders of the platoon wounded or killed, the 19-year-old survived a...
  
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• Man gets 80 years in teacher's oil-patch killing

  15-12-2014 20:28
  A Colorado man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for killing a Montana teacher in the Northern Plains oil patch.
  
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• Police: 3 dead, including gunman, in Sydney siege

  15-12-2014 20:27
  
  SYDNEY -- A swarm of heavily armed police stormed a cafe in the heart of Sydney early Tuesday, ending a siege by an Iranian-born gunman who had held an unknown number of hostages for more than 16 hours.
  
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• Driver behind cyclist's death to return to prison for probation violation

  15-12-2014 20:23
  
  MIAMI -- A driver who hit and killed a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway in Key Biscayne almost three years ago learned his fate Monday.
  
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• Police search for persons of interest in fatal liquor store shooting

  15-12-2014 20:22
  
  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Police are searching for a suspect and multiple persons of interest in a double shooting that occurred at a Hollywood liquor store Friday night.
  
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• Driver accused of fleeing with man on car who died

  15-12-2014 20:19
  Police in Springfield, Oregon, believe a driver hit a pedestrian and fled with him on top of her car, carrying the man for 11 blocks before removing him and leaving him in the street to die.
  
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• 3 Broward schools locked down after bomb threat

  15-12-2014 20:10
  PLANTATION, Fla. -- Seminole Middle, Plantation Middle and Parkway Middle are all on lockdown after someone called in bomb threats to the schools.
  
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• Police surround 2nd home after suburban shootings

  15-12-2014 19:49
  
  Police have moved to a second home outside Philadelphia where they believe a man may have gone after killing people at multiple homes.
  
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• City of Miami to Announce New Chief of Police

  15-12-2014 19:48 via nbcmiami.com
  
  The City of Miami will be announcing its new chief of police at a news conference Monday.
  
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• Police seek shooter who killed woman, injured another outside Hialeah nightclub

  15-12-2014 19:42
  
  Hialeah homicide detectives are looking for the shooter who killed one woman and left another in critical condition outside a Hialeah nightclub. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Police seek shooter that killed woman, injured another outside Hialeah nightclub

  15-12-2014 19:42
  
  Hialeah homicide detectives are looking for the shooter who killed a woman and left another in critical condition outside a Hialeah nightclub. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Man arrested after shooting outside of Pembroke Pines bar

  15-12-2014 19:35
  
  PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- One man is in custody after allegedly shooting another man outside of a bar in Pembroke Pines Monday.
  
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• Driver behind cyclist 's death to return to prison for probation violation

  15-12-2014 19:35
  
  MIAMI -- A driver who hit and killed a cyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway in Key Biscayne almost three years ago learned his fate Monday.
  
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• Michele Traverso headed back to prison for probation violation

  15-12-2014 19:32
  
  The man who fled from the fatal crash of a bicyclist on the Rickenbacker Causeway almost three years ago is headed back to prison for violating house arrest.
  
  A Miami-Dade County judge sentenced Michele Traverso to another two years in prison. He had served a sentence of less than a year in jail and was on house arrest.
  
  According to the Department of Corrections, a spot check on him last week found he was just coming home from a beach trip with his girlfriend at 5 a.m.
  
  "I was shocked, honest
  
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• Police altering tactics after killings, protests

  15-12-2014 19:10
  
  With tensions running high over the killings of blacks by police, departments around the country are changing policies and procedures.
  
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• Man faces sentencing in teacher's oil-patch death

  15-12-2014 19:00
  A Colorado man faces sentencing Monday in the killing of a Montana math teacher in a case that has emerged as a chilling example of the social changes accompanying an oil boom sweeping the Northern Plains.
  
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• Police arrest 7 suspected of sexually assaulting South Florida teen

  15-12-2014 18:49
  
  MIAMI -- Police have arrested a group of men who they allege sexually assaulted a South Florida teen.
  
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• No November global heat record, but hottest fall

  15-12-2014 18:49
  Federal meteorologists say last month was only the globe's seventh warmest November on record. That's the first time since July that a month hasn't broken the record for heat.
  
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• Man Shot at Shops at Pembroke Gardens, Suspect Arrested

  15-12-2014 18:46 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A man was hospitalized after he was shot outside a Pembroke Pines bar early Monday, officials said.
  
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• Parents of Pinecrest journalist beheaded by ISIS will light Hanukkah candle in his honor

  15-12-2014 18:46
  
  The parents of Steve Sotloff, a journalist beheaded by ISIS in September, will remember their son by lighting the first Hannukah candle at a community celebration Tuesday in Southwest Miami-Dade. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Rare northern white rhino dies at California zoo

  15-12-2014 18:42
  A northern white rhinoceros that was only one of six left in the world died Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, zoo officials said.
  
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