Miami Gardens officer wounds suspect during shootout and other top stories.

• Miami Gardens officer wounds suspect during shootout

  

  A Miami man was shot by a Miami Gardens officer after police say he pulled out a gun during a traffic stop early Sunday.A marked police car stopped a black sedan at Northwest 183rd Street and 12th Avenue around 3 a.m. Sunday.Miami Gardens Police Chief Antonio Brooklen said the officer and the man, 37-year-old Gary Sprauve, exchanged gunfire, and Sprauve was shot. The officer’s vehicle was also shot on the passenger’s side during the gunfire.Sprauve, now wounded, drove away from the scene. The o..

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• 115 arrest so far on Memorial Day weekend in Miami Beach

  

  Police are beefing up their presence on Miami Beach's sandy shores this holiday weekend, on foot and behind the wheel.Miami Beach Police have made 115 arrests since Thursday. Of those arrests, 58 were on Saturday. Arrests are almost double from the 64 made within the same time frame last Memorial Day weekend. Most of the arrests were drug-related or for disorderly conduct. Police said this year they eliminated DUI checkpoints in favor of a “DUI Squad.”"These officers won't be at a specific poin..

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• Hurricanes extend NCAA postseason record to 44 years

  

  Time for a fresh coat of white paint to change “43” to “44” on the University of Miami dugout — as in “NCAA RECORD 44 STRAIGHT TOURNAMENTS.”Though it was no surprise, on Sunday night the NCAA announced Alex Rodriguez Park’s Mark Light Field in Coral Gables as one 16 national sites to host an NCAA baseball regional next weekend in the first round of the Division I Baseball Tournament.The 44 consecutive years of postseason berths by Miami baseball represents the longest active NCAA postseason str..

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• Officials: Gorilla killed at Ohio zoo had Zoo Miami ties

  

  SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Harambe, the gorilla shot and killed by a response team at the Cincinnati Zoo after he dragged a 4-year-old boy who fell into his enclosure, Saturday, was the son of the very first gorilla born at Zoo Miami, officials said. Dramatic cellphone video captured the 17-year-old western lowland gorilla with the screaming child in his hands. Officials said the boy had climbed through a barrier and dropped 15 feet into the exhibit’s moat at the Ohio zoo. Zoo Miami sp..

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• SW Miami-Dade couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide

  

  SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A death investigation is underway after, police said, a man and a woman were found dead inside their Southwest Miami-Dade home in what is believed to have been a murder-suicide. According to Miami-Dade Police, a call came in about the discovery on the 12900 block of Southwest 50th Lane, Sunday, just after 1 p.m. Investigators described the deceased as a couple. Police identified them as 62-year-old Lisette Iglesias and 50-year-old Pastor Paez. Investigators s..

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