Saturday, April 16, 2016

Workers injured when garage partially collapses at Miami Dade... and other top stories.

  • Workers injured when garage partially collapses at Miami Dade...

    DORAL, Fla. - Two workers were injured Friday afternoon when a garage under construction at Miami Dade College in Doral partially collapsed.Investigators told Local 10 News reporter Michael Seiden that a concrete beam fell on the workers about 2:45 p.m. at Miami Dade College's West Campus.The garage was being constructed to replace one that collapsed in October 2012, killing four workers.Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said one person suffered a leg injury in the collapse. 1 of 4 2 o..
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  • Miami Hurricanes 2016 Spring Game Primer

    Miami Hurricanes 2016 Spring Game Primer
    With the conclusion of Spring Practice coming tomorrow with the Spring Game, here's a primer on how to watch, and what to watch for. For the Miami Hurricanes, spring practice for the 2016 season comes to an end on Saturday  afternoon with the Spring Game. Before we get into a couple things to look for, let's deal with the what/where/when of the game. Where: Lockhart Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale (google map for this location)Time: Parking Lots open 8AMGates open and autograph voucher di..
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  • small plane from Lauderdale crashes off Miami-Dade

    small plane from Lauderdale crashes off Miami-Dade
    Luckily for the three people aboard a Cessna that crashed offshore after leaving Fort Lauderdale Friday morning, nearby yachties saw the aircraft splash into the ocean and raced to their rescue.With an eye on the plane's tail protruding from the water, the luxury yacht's captain gunned it full throttle for 10 minutes until they got to the survivors bobbing in a life raft and plucked them from the sea, the yacht owner said. The trio — a man, woman and a teenage girl from Bimini — were in good co..
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  • New Zika virus infection in Miami-Dade raises statewide total to 88 ...

    New Zika virus infection in Miami-Dade raises statewide total to 88 ...
    As spring quickly turns to summer in the Sunshine State, Florida health officials on Friday confirmed one new case of Zika virus in Miami-Dade County, raising the statewide total to 88 people who have contracted the infectious disease since February.Miami-Dade has the most Zika cases in the state with 36 people infected, according to the count kept by the Florida Department of Health. Nearly all of Florida’s cases were acquired by people traveling outside the country, except for one case of sex..
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  • A Mexican bureaucrat and his family's $8.2 million Miami condo ...

    A Mexican bureaucrat and his family's $8.2 million Miami condo ...
    On a single day in 2005, an official of Mexico’s powerful teachers’ union and his relatives spent $6.3 million on 11 luxury condos at a Brickell high-rise.Bernardo Quezada Salas, now a congressman in Mexico, may have paid cash for the luxury units at the Espirito Santo Plaza. The deals were done through Florida companies owned by some combination of Quezada Salas, his wife, his sister-in-law and his brother-in-law.The year before the Brickell deals, his wife, Jessica Peredo Rincon, had paid $1...
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  • Miami-Dade flooding could double as engineers start identifying ...

    Miami-Dade flooding could double as engineers start identifying ...
    With sea rise projections growing ever grimmer — the latest predicts up to eight times as much flooding around Miami-Dade County by 2045 — the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has launched an ambitious plan to come up with a comprehensive assessment of risks that could easily run into the billions of dollars.Covering 10,000 miles of vulnerable shoreline from North Carolina to Mississippi, the study for the first time tries to unify what has so far been a patchwork of sea rise assessments.You’ll hav..
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  • Tax relief: Returns due Monday

    Tax relief: Returns due Monday
    Procrastinators rejoice: tax day is a bit later this year and if you still can’t make that, there’s still time to file for an extension. The IRS traditionally requires that taxes be filed each year on April 15, but because that falls on Emancipation Day this year, the deadline was extended to April 18. And taxpayers in Maine and Massachusetts, where Patriots’ Day is observed on the 18th, have until the 19th to file. If that’s still not enough time, the IRS makes it fairly easy to get an extensi..
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  • Children found inside condemned Miami apartment

    Children found inside condemned Miami apartment
    MIAMI (WSVN) -- Police are investigating after they were called to a condemned apartment building in Miami to find two toddlers all alone.According to Miami Police, they had responded to the apartment near Northwest Seventh Street and Third Court, early Friday morning, after reports of a domestic dispute.Neighbors said the mother of those children ran out into the street screaming and flagged down an officer. The woman, who had sustained severe injuries, was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospi..
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  • Heat coach Spoelstra to get married July 1

    Heat coach Spoelstra to get married July 1
    The Miami Heat had better not linger in the NBA playoffs for too long.Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has one of the most important moments of his life scheduled for July 1.He is getting hitched that day, he told a source at a Heat-related charity function last week at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.Who’s the betrothed?His fiancĂ©e, former Heat cheerleader Nikki Sapp. They’ve been an item for at least four years.“Spo knows a seven-game finals could go until June 19,” the source said. “He’d have..
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  • Former Miami-Dade cop, others imprisoned in 'pirate' towing scam

    Former Miami-Dade cop, others imprisoned in 'pirate' towing scam
    A former Miami-Dade County police officer, who collaborated with a public service aide and two tow-truck operators, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Thursday for his role in a bribery scheme involving payments of thousands of dollars to gain the inside track in profiting off stranded motorists.Yuri Millan, who was on the county force for a decade, and the two towing operators, Oriel Ugardes and Jose Guim, were charged with conspiring to commit bribery in November, while the former serv..
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New Zika virus infections confirmed in Miami-Dade .Kobe Bryant's farewell a hotter ticket than Warriors' run for the record .
3 suspected gang members arrested in slaying of Miami Gardens ... .Masked gunmen tie up employee during Miami... .

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