Thursday, January 28, 2016

After Challenger explosion, space's age of innocence ends and other top stories.

  • After Challenger explosion, space's age of innocence ends

    After Challenger explosion, space's age of innocence ends
    This account was published in the Miami Herald on Jan. 29, 1986, a day after the Challenger exploded over Cape Canaveral.It was their moment of triumph, a moment any parent could understand. Ed and Grace Corrigan's daughter, teacher Christa McAuliffe, was on her way into space, into the history books. So they stood in the sunshine Tuesday, Ed and Grace Corrigan, arm in arm in the bleachers at Cape Canaveral, and they watched in triumph. And then in disbelief. And then in horror. Something ter..
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  • Ex-soldier, Miami Heat player's ex-girlfriend among 8 who plead ...

    Ex-soldier, Miami Heat player's ex-girlfriend among 8 who plead ...
    Eight members of a major Molly importation ring out of Miami, including an ex-soldier and an adult film star, pleaded guilty on Monday and face prison time.The ring was run by Jorge Ramon Hernandez, a 37-year-old bodybuilding ex-soldier, who faces up to 15 years in prison after he helped to import the drug Molly into Miami clubs from Chinese chemical labs, the Miami Herald reports. Hernandez received bond after telling the judge that he joined the military after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and se..
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  • Top Jeb Bush backer, Miami Heat's Pat Riley donate to anti ...

    Top Jeb Bush backer, Miami Heat's Pat Riley donate to anti ...
    The New Cuba PAC, a political action committee that supports federal candidates who favor lifting the trade embargo against Cuba, raised nearly $350,000 in the seven months since its founding last May.“Our historic fund-raising haul firmly establishes the New Cuba PAC as a force to be reckoned with in Washington. It shows unprecedented support from Americans in South Florida and across our country who want our representatives to modernize our outdated policies toward Cuba and lift the embargo o..
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  • Michigan lawmakers OK $28M more to address Flint water crisis

    Michigan lawmakers OK $28M more to address Flint water crisis
    The Michigan Legislature voted Thursday to direct another $28 million to address Flint’s water emergency, allocating money for bottled water, medical assessments and other costs in the city struggling with a lead-contaminated supply. The funding received quick and unanimous approval just over a week after it was proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder. The bill now heads to the governor’s desk. “We obviously have a number of issues that we have to deal with, whether it’s infrastructure, whether it’s folk..
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  • Miami Marlins trade rumors: Club seeking left-handed reliever

    Miami Marlins trade rumors: Club seeking left-handed reliever
    Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports The Marlins are not open to adding a left-handed specialist, though. While the Marlins' focus has been on adding another veteran starting pitcher to their rotation, the club is also seeking a left-handed reliever, according to MLB.com's Joe Frisaro. Why this rumor makes sense Miami's focus this off-season was upgrading its starting pitching staff and to this point the organization would still like to add another starter. Since adding starting depth was a pr..
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  • Schools officials: Liberty Square redevelopment could hurt students ...

    Schools officials: Liberty Square redevelopment could hurt students ...
    Miami-Dade County's plan to raze and redevelop Liberty Square could prove detrimental to hundreds of children and the Liberty City public schools fed by Miami's oldest and largest public housing project, the Miami-Dade School District has warned.Weighing in for the first time since Mayor Carlos Gimenez rolled out his Liberty Square Rising proposal one year ago, school district officials say they're concerned about plans to move dozens of families from Liberty City to Brownsville in the project’..
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  • Feds bust dozens in violent-crime takedown in Miami-Dade

    Feds bust dozens in violent-crime takedown in Miami-Dade
    Federal agents led a round-up on Thursday of 55 suspects charged with violent crimes and drug-trafficking offenses that they say have terrorized inner-city neighborhoods throughout Northwest Miami-Dade.Most of the defendants were arrested in the morning or in recent days and will likely have their first appearances in Miami federal court in the afternoon, authorities said.U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer is holding a news conference at 2 p.m. at the Miami-Dade police's northside district station to..
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  • 'Affluenza' teen Ethan Couch returns to Texas

    'Affluenza' teen Ethan Couch returns to Texas
    Ethan Couch, the “affluenza” teen who fled the country in December after missing a probation appointment, returned to Texas this morning from Mexico.Couch, 18, boarded a flight in Mexico City at 8:50 a.m., Mexican immigration authorities said in a press release Thursday morning. The flight arrived at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport before 11 a.m.An SUV carrying Couch arrived in Fort Worth about an hour later at the Tarrant County juvenile detention center.Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Migración sai..
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  • E-cigarette exploded in Florida man's mouth, lawsuit contends

    E-cigarette exploded in Florida man's mouth, lawsuit contends
    A Naples man is suing after his electronic cigarette exploded in his mouth, burning his face, throat and lungs in an accident that left him briefly in a coma.Evan Spahlinger this week filed a lawsuit in Miami-Dade targeting the companies that manufactured and sold him the e-cigarette, which has been billed as a safer alternative to traditional smoking.With millions of users across the country, e-cigarettes deliver vaporized nicotine through a heated liquid solution. But questions about the heal..
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  • Juan Perez appointed director of Miami-Dade...

    Juan Perez appointed director of Miami-Dade...
    MIAMI - Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced Thursday that Miami-Dade police Deputy Director Juan Perez will be the next director of the police department.The announcement came just after the graduation ceremony for the Miami-Dade Police Department Academy.Perez succeeds retiring Director J.D. Patterson, who worked for the police department for more than 30 years.He was appointed director in 2013.Perez begins his duties as director on Monday. Copyright 2016 by WPLG Local10.com - All..
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