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• South Florida gets one more day of dry weather before wet weather starts to take hold! https://t.co/omnWlCInSU

  10-05-2018 23:55 via twitter.com
  
  South Florida gets one more day of dry weather before wet weather starts to take hold! https://t.co/omnWlCInSU
  
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• Meet 'Microtends Squared' author Mark Penn at Books & Books on May 11

  10-05-2018 23:47
  In his best-selling book "Microtrends" published 10 years ago, author Mark Penn identified small, counter-intuitive trends that predicted seismic changes in American culture in everything from dating to politics. Penn's … Click to Continue »
  
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• Man Dead After 2 Shot in Car in Opa-locka

  10-05-2018 23:40 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Police are investigating after one man was killed and another injured after they were shot while in a car in Opa-locka Thursday afternoon.Photo Credit: NBC 6
  
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• Pregnant Woman Wins $1M Florida Lottery Before Mother's Day

  10-05-2018 23:37 via nbcmiami.com
  
  A pregnant woman got an early Mother’s Day gift when she won a $1 million Florida Lottery prize just days before the holiday.Photo Credit: Florida Lottery Instagram
  
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• WATCH LIVE SpaceX is set to launch newest version of Falcon 9 rocket designed for human spaceflight, and can be reu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 23:32 via twitter.com
  WATCH LIVE SpaceX is set to launch newest version of Falcon 9 rocket designed for human spaceflight, and can be reu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Mainly dry weather sticks around tonight! A low temperature of 73° is forecast for Miami. https://t.co/MnW0ltB8jU

  10-05-2018 23:26 via twitter.com
  
  Mainly dry weather sticks around tonight! A low temperature of 73° is forecast for Miami. https://t.co/MnW0ltB8jU
  
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• Thieves Take Cash, Tennis Rackets From Unlocked Weston Cars

  10-05-2018 23:19 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Burglars targeted numerous unlocked vehicles in Weston, stealing a $700 recording interface, cash, credit cards and tennis rackets, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Homeless sex offenders lose court fight to keep Hialeah tent camp. Where to next?

  10-05-2018 22:40
  A Miami-Dade judge on Thursday cleared the way for the county to dismantle a tent village of homeless sex offenders outside Hialeah, and a lawyer for some of the residents … Click to Continue »
  
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• 1 dead, another wounded after a car was shot up at busy intersection during rush hour

  10-05-2018 22:36
  A late Thursday afternoon shooting at the start of rush hour at a busy Opa-locka intersection left one man dead and another fighting for his life, police said. Few details … Click to Continue »
  
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• Thieves Armed With AK-47 Rob Miami Convenience Store

  10-05-2018 22:17 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Police are looking for a pair of armed thieves, including one who was carrying an AK-47, after they were caught on camera robbing a convenience store in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood.Photo Credit: Miami Police
  
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• Thieves armed with AK-47 rob Little Haiti store

  10-05-2018 21:41
  Police are investigating an armed robbery of a convenience store in Little Haiti. According to police, two robbers, one of them armed with an AK-47, the other armed with a handgun, approached the store clerks and demanded from inside the register. … Click to Continue »
  
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• Miami police are searching for two robbers who held up a convenience store with an AK-47 on Wednesday.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 21:23 via twitter.com
  Miami police are searching for two robbers who held up a convenience store with an AK-47 on Wednesday.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Broward threatens to sue over traffic plan for American Dream Miami mega-mall

  10-05-2018 21:07
  The largest mall in America plans to open just south of the Broward County line, but developers behind the project insist highways to the north face no "significant" traffic problems … Click to Continue »
  
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• Broward sees wishful thinking in American Dream's traffic study and threatens to sue

  10-05-2018 21:07
  The largest mall in America plans to open just south of the Broward County line, but developers behind the project insist highways to the north face no "significant" traffic problems … Click to Continue »
  
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• Small business owners in Little Havana join forces to fight rent increases

  10-05-2018 20:55
  Alarmed by the increase in rental properties, a group of entrepreneurs from Little Havana has created a new partnership to strengthen business activity and promote the values ​​of that increasingly … Click to Continue »
  
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• Zachary Cruz, brother of Parkland school shooter, wants to move to Virginia bit.ly/2G4uHNE?utm_so… https://t.co/7HfzGPKcZ7

  10-05-2018 20:51 via twitter.com
  
  Zachary Cruz, brother of Parkland school shooter, wants to move to Virginia bit.ly/2G4uHNE?utm_so… https://t.co/7HfzGPKcZ7
  
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• Officers Accused of Drinking on Duty During Hurricane Irma

  10-05-2018 20:48 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Months after Hurricane Irma roared through South Florida, surveillance video from inside the North Bay Village Hall is now the subject of an internal police investigation into whether officers and others...
  
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• Mother's Day, a time to celebrate pioneer midwives, other health professionals

  10-05-2018 20:33
  Giving birth to a baby is one of life’s greatest miracles. Whether in the hospital, at home or elsewhere, bringing a baby into the world is a delicate process requiring … Click to Continue »
  
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• Miami wants to bring Formula One to downtown for 10 years. Some residents aren't happy

  10-05-2018 20:30
  Miami commissioners agreed Thursday to negotiate a contract with international auto racing league Formula One to bring a Grand Prix street race to downtown next year. In a unanimous vote, … Click to Continue »
  
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• Miami is working to bring Formula One to downtown. But you still have time to weigh in.

  10-05-2018 20:30
  Miami commissioners agreed Thursday to negotiate a contract with international auto racing league Formula One to bring a Grand Prix street race to downtown next year, which has some residents … Click to Continue »
  
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• Matriarch celebrates 100th birthday, then goes back to work

  10-05-2018 20:04
  When Claire Howard celebrated her 100th birthday on March 8, she marked the occasion like many of us do. She gathered with friends and family and there was a lot … Click to Continue »
  
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• Nearly $180M in Seized Cocaine Offloaded in South Florida

  10-05-2018 19:51 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Coast Guard officials left six tons of cocaine in South Florida confiscated in several missions.
  
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• Hate Crime Added to Charges in South Beach Gay Beating Case

  10-05-2018 19:41 via nbcmiami.com
  
  The four men accused of beating up a gay couple on South Beach after last month's gay pride parade in an attack that was caught on camera are now facing enhanced hate crime charges, it was announced...Photo Credit: Miami-Dade Corrections
  
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• Awwww, @BurgerKing asked @Wendys to prom. They're so cute at that age. bit.ly/2K8bXPO?utm_so… https://t.co/Z4jt0Bv5N7

  10-05-2018 19:35 via twitter.com
  
  Awwww, @BurgerKing asked @Wendys to prom. They're so cute at that age. bit.ly/2K8bXPO?utm_so… https://t.co/Z4jt0Bv5N7
  
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• Hate Crime Charges in South Beach Gay Couple Beating Case

  10-05-2018 18:44 via nbcmiami.com
  
  The four men accused of beating up a gay couple on South Beach after last month's gay pride parade in an attack that was caught on camera are now facing enhanced hate crime charges, it was announced...Photo Credit: Miami-Dade Corrections
  
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• An aggressive aquarium fish gets plucked from the ocean — and is heading to a new home

  10-05-2018 18:42
  Divers with a Key Largo environmental group helped track and remove a non-native tropical fish from the ocean off Fort Lauderdale last week. Volunteers with the Reef Environmental and Education … Click to Continue »
  
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• New film documents tale behind Miami initiative to reduce pet population and shelter deaths

  10-05-2018 18:11
  Six years ago, Miami-Dade voters overwhelmingly supported a measure touted as a way to save the lives of thousands of cats and dogs and set the county on a path … Click to Continue »
  
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• #BREAKING 4 men accused beating gay couple on Miami Beach charged with hate crime bit.ly/2rym5dK?utm_so… https://t.co/smikBspycz

  10-05-2018 17:58 via twitter.com
  
  #BREAKING 4 men accused beating gay couple on Miami Beach charged with hate crime bit.ly/2rym5dK?utm_so… https://t.co/smikBspycz
  
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• Metromover Resumes Service After Morning Stoppage

  10-05-2018 17:17 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Officials from Miami-Dade Transit said that the system was not being used around 6:30 a.m. due to what has been called a “construction issue”.
  
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• These four people did not hit the Vegas jackpot, and now they're in jail

  10-05-2018 17:12
  Four Miami residents traveled to Las Vegas — but not to bet in the casinos or hit the nightspots. Mario Ernesto Perez, Alain Hurtado Gonzalez, Daynay Perez and Inés Rodriguez … Click to Continue »
  
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• Questions remain about death of Miami soldier in Niger, congresswoman says

  10-05-2018 16:45
  For eight hours last week, Sgt. La David Johnson's family peppered military officials with questions about their son's death during a firefight in Niger last October, an event that raised … Click to Continue »
  
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• Miami soldier showed 'extraordinary bravery' before ISIS killed him, Pentagon says

  10-05-2018 16:45
  Sgt. La David Johnson, a Miami Gardens resident, and his fellow soldiers who died in an October 2017 ambush near the Niger-Mali border displayed extraordinary bravery, though a months-long internal … Click to Continue »
  
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• Charges Dropped in Teen Exchange Student Sex Assault Case

  10-05-2018 16:44 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Marta San Jose had been charged in March with lewd and lascivious behavior for her alleged role in the case with the state offering the now 21-year-old a special program for first time offenders, which...Photo Credit: NBC 6
  
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• Suspects in South Beach gay-pride attack now accused of hate crime

  10-05-2018 16:42
  The four young men accused of attacking a gay couple on South Beach face stiffer penalties after prosecutors charged them Thursday under Florida's hate-crime enhancement law. The group was charged … Click to Continue »
  
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• Exchange student 'brainwashed' by host into sexually abusing her sister won't be charged

  10-05-2018 16:15
  Prosecutors on Thursday dropped the case against a Spanish foreign-exchange student they believe helped her former host in Cutler Bay sexually abuse her own underage sister. The decision, nearly one … Click to Continue »
  
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• Crews Find Body in Florida Pond Where Person Went Missing

  10-05-2018 16:12 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Authorities say they have found a body in a Central Florida pond where they were searching for a person who was reported missing Wednesday and was heard yelling "it bit me, it bit me" by witnesses.Photo Credit: WESHThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Coast Guard offloads 6 TONS of cocaine at Port Everglades bit.ly/2G5kPD8 https://t.co/rY0xnAfejb

  10-05-2018 16:08 via twitter.com
  
  Coast Guard offloads 6 TONS of cocaine at Port Everglades bit.ly/2G5kPD8 https://t.co/rY0xnAfejb
  
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• Be sure to keep rain gear close as you spend Sunday with those special moms. #miami #FLL #FLkeys #flwx #palmbeach https://t.co/DZw6fTKfU9

  10-05-2018 15:52 via twitter.com
  
  Be sure to keep rain gear close as you spend Sunday with those special moms. #miami #FLL #FLkeys #flwx #palmbeach https://t.co/DZw6fTKfU9
  
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• WATCH LIVE Officials in Orlando hold briefing after body found in pond during search for missing teen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 15:33 via twitter.com
  WATCH LIVE Officials in Orlando hold briefing after body found in pond during search for missing teen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• How the Castros can still move the needle in Miami elections

  10-05-2018 15:24
  Fidel Castro is dead and brother Raúl is no longer president of Cuba. But communism can still move the needle in Miami campaigns. Decades after the Cuban revolution spawned an … Click to Continue »
  
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• How the Castros are still moving the needle in Miami elections

  10-05-2018 15:24
  Fidel Castro is dead and brother Raúl is no longer president of Cuba. But communism can still move the needle in Miami campaigns. Decades after the Cuban revolution spawned an … Click to Continue »
  
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• Nearly $180M Seized Cocaine Being Offloaded in South Florida

  10-05-2018 14:44 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Coast Guard officials are leaving six tons of cocaine in South Florida confiscated in several missions.
  
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• Florida woman charged with husband's murder 17 years after his disappearance bit.ly/2rtueA7?utm_so… https://t.co/KH7loClsO3

  10-05-2018 14:25 via twitter.com
  
  Florida woman charged with husband's murder 17 years after his disappearance bit.ly/2rtueA7?utm_so… https://t.co/KH7loClsO3
  
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• Metromover Out of Service in Downtown Miami Thursday AM

  10-05-2018 14:13 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Officials from Miami-Dade Transit said that the system is not being used around 6:30 a.m. due to what has been called a “construction issue”.
  
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• Broward Family Raising Funds as Son Fights Deadly Syndrome

  10-05-2018 14:03 via nbcmiami.com
  
  Sebastian Estevez is a charming, funny, energetic 4-year-old boy - however, he has something only about 500 children in the United States have - Hunter Syndrome.Photo Credit: Jennifer and Mario Estevez
  
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• #BREAKING Metromover in downtown Miami out of service after 'construction incident' bit.ly/2rycVwV?utm_so… https://t.co/Pw7oJvqJq2

  10-05-2018 13:25 via twitter.com
  
  #BREAKING Metromover in downtown Miami out of service after 'construction incident' bit.ly/2rycVwV?utm_so… https://t.co/Pw7oJvqJq2
  
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• Miami-Dade Transit says Metromover to start moving again by afternoon

  10-05-2018 13:11
  Metromover will be back in action by 11:40 a.m., according to Miami-Dade Transit, after being down all Thursday morning. A predawn construction inicident near Metromover shut down the automated elevated … Click to Continue »
  
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• Construction incident shuts down Metromover at morning rush hour

  10-05-2018 13:11
  A predawn construction inicident near Metromover has shut down the automated elevated train in downtown Miami as Thursday morning's rush hour gets started. Miami-Dade Transit announced the problem via Twitter … Click to Continue »
  
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• If 'Florida' is covered, your car tag frame can get you busted. Just ask this driver

  10-05-2018 13:00
  Seemingly everybody in South Florida has a license-plate frame — adorned with logos of your car brand, auto dealer or favorite sports team. They can get you in big-time trouble. … Click to Continue »
  
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• One shot dead outside Miami Gardens house

  10-05-2018 12:25
  A person was shot to death early Thursday outside of a house in Miami Gardens, according to reports. A yellow tarp covered a body in front of a couple's home … Click to Continue »
  
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