Florida governor to feds: Help us fight Zika
On his third visit to Miami since the nation’s first outbreak of Zika, Gov. Rick Scott on Monday once again asked Washington for more help fighting the infectious disease — even as he fended off accusations that he's not disclosing new cases quickly enough. “We are still asking the federal government to be a partner in this,” said Scott, who asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to send an additional 5,000 Zika antibody tests and 10,000 prevention kits to Florida — an order that ..>> view originalAfter shocking shooting on television, a familiar Florida failure
Last month, Arnaldo Rios Soto was swept up in a national spectacle when a North Miami police sniper shot his African American caregiver in the leg as the man lay prone in an intersection. Rios, a 26-year-old with autism, schizophrenia and an intellectual disability, was playing with a toy truck. Behavior aide Charles Kinsey instantly became an exemplar of the Black Lives Matter movement.But for Rios, there is no movement to sustain him, no placards or demonstrations. If he is a symbol of anyt..>> view originalPolice: Miami man violently beat, sexually assaulted women
HOMESTEAD, FLA. (WSVN) - Police have arrested a South Florida man who they are calling a violent serial rapist. According to Miami-Dade Police, 23-year-old Anthony Jimenez has been charged on multiple counts of sexual battery in three different cases. A police report revealed that Jimenez allegedly invited a woman to her bedroom, on Aug. 19, so he can possibly rent it out to her. Once inside the bedroom, Jimenez pulled out his penis and said “I’m going to [expletive] you” to the woman. Accordin..>> view originalState Senate candidate says his rival threatened to 'kick his ass'
The Coral Reef Library polling station in South Dade is a house divided.They’re not divided about Cuba. Or the Middle East. Or even Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump.They’re split over whether Ana Rivas Logan, candidate for the state Senate, yelled at primary opponent Andrew Korge: “I’m going to kick your ass.”About 20 campaign workers present on Sunday morning, with no apparent ax to grind for either candidate — they work for other people on the ballot — were about evenly divided Monday about w..>> view originalBaby born with Zika-related complications in Miami-Dade
MIAMI (WSVN) - A South Florida woman who contracted Zika while traveling in South America has given birth to a baby girl with complications related to the virus. Maria Mendoza’s seven-week-old baby, Micaela, is being treated at a local hospital. Doctors have found scarring in the retina of her eye and calcifications in her brain, calcium deposits that should not be there. Speaking through a translator, Mendoza said she caught the mosquito-borne illness in Venezuela while she was three months pr..>> view originalFor Joe Martinez, a smoothed path back to the County Commission
Joe Martinez served 12 years on the Miami-Dade County Commission, held the chairman’s post until he gave up his seat in 2012 for a failed try to become county mayor. A year later made a splash with a new venture: selling a cardamon-scented cologne he created called The Commissioner. Now Martinez wants his District 11 seat back, and the fight has turned out to be far less heated than expected. Martinez, 58, entered the race as a formidable underdog against incumbent Juan C. Zapata. But on July 1..>> view originalMore of Dolphins offensive line playing out of position
The Dolphins have taken an outside-the-box approach to address their perennial offensive line problems.If, as expected, former Alabama guard Anthony Steen starts at center in place of injured Mike Pouncey on Thursday against Atlanta, and if offensive-tackles-by-trade Laremy Tunsil and Jermon Bushrod again start at guard, that means that three of the five positions will be manned by players who never in their lives played a single snap at those positions in a game before this month.When the Dolp..>> view originalSouth Florida Olympic athletes are golden
Swimmer Ryan Lochte’s “overexaggerated” robbery tale aside, American athletes put on quite a show in Rio — and distracted us from the pressing challenge of electing a president.They also made us proud.Yes, our perennial enemies, the Russians, had a diminished team, but still the United States won 46 gold medals. And some impressive winners hailed from South Florida — from Liberty City, Miami, Homestead, Fort Lauderdale and Wellington.There were 27 athletes with South Florida ties competing in t..>> view originalA safe haven for sex-trafficked women
Jessica Neely lives in a small town in Oklahoma with only one stop sign. It’s a quiet life, and that’s just the way she likes it. Neely could have just as easily spent the remainder of her life behind bars.A prostitute and former pornography actress, Neely ran a brothel in Denver. She traveled the Interstate-70 corridor across state lines with some of her “girls,” renting hotel suites and soliciting a steady stream of business.When Neely discovered she was facing 30 years in prison — she says p..>> view originalZunino, Seager power Mariners to 7-5 win over Yank
The Seattle Mariners hit fewer home runs than the New York Yankees, but got more scoring out of them.Mike Zunino and Kyle Seager each hit a three-run homer and Nelson Cruz added a solo shot as the Mariners rallied to beat the Yankees 7-5 Monday night.The Yankees got two homers apiece from rookie catcher Gary Sanchez and Starlin Castro — all off starter Cody Martin — but three of them were solo shots."You win by the homer, you die by the homer," Mariners manager Scott Servais said. "I think that..>> view original
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
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