Health officials send mixed signals over Zika visits in Miami Beach
Mariano Corcilli was walking back to his South Beach apartment when he saw a gaggle of reporters crowding the sidewalk. He wasn't sure what was going on as he approached the door of his two-story Art Deco apartment building. Three workers from the Florida Department of Health stood speaking to a camera-shy neighbor about the Zika virus.He was understandably confused. Neither he, his neighbor nor the health workers at his doorstep knew the Department of Health, working through Miami Beach offici..>> view originalMiami-Dade mayor's ad and mailer tab close to $2 million
Incumbent Carlos Gimenez’s reelection effort has spent at least $1.8 million on ads and mailers in the run-up to Tuesday’s Miami-Dade mayoral election, dwarfing rival Raquel Regalado, according to filings released Friday.Gimenez’s campaign and political committee paid $1.2 million to media-buyer G Group of Miami and another $660,000 to a Georgia mail house responsible for sending the kind of glossy, jumbo postcards that arrive daily in some mailboxes during election season. The numbers outlined..>> view originalTropical wave headed for Florida Straits
A tropical wave snaking its way through the Caribbean and threatening South Florida may finally begin rolling across the Florida Straits over the next day, forecasters said Saturday.Wet, gusty weather is expected to spread from the large, messy storm as it rolls across the lower Keys Sunday. At 8 a.m. Saturday, National Hurricane Center forecasters said the wave, located just south of Andros Island and moving about 10 mph, remains disorganized, with winds reaching 30 mph and heavy rain spreadin..>> view originalTunsil and Grant impress while other Miami Dolphins rookies try to ...
The Dolphins’ 2016 draft class already has netted them a likely immediate starter at left guard in Laremy Tunsil, a potentially explosive returner in Jakeem Grant and possibly a soon-to-be starter at cornerback, if Xavien Howard can jump Tony Lippett on the depth chart.But questions swirl around the other draft picks, with quarterback Brandon Doughty, tight end Thomas Duarte and cornerback Jordan Lucas battling to make the roster, and receiver Leonte Carroo and running back Kenyan Drake simply ..>> view originalPolice identify 1 of 2 victims shot dead in Miami-Dade
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Christopher Bradley Francois turned up dead a few blocks away from the Greynolds Park School, 1536 NE 179 St., in North Miami Beach, on Friday morning.About five months after he celebrated his 19th birthday, he was shot dead, according to police. North Miami Beach police covered his body abandoned at the Fulford By The Sea neighborhood. The crime scene was at the tiny Columbia Tot Lot park, where Northeast 177th Street and Northeast 13th Avenue meet. The park faces a ..>> view originalHow Will the Miami Dolphins Fare in the AFC East in 2016?
From top to bottom, the AFC East has consistently been one of the better divisions in football for the last decade. Will the Miami Dolphins have any luck in 2016? Bring up the fact we finished 1-5 in the AFC East last year, I might just punch you in the face. And by punch you in the face, I mean buy you a beer and try to laugh it off. The Miami Dolphins have had a rough stretch in the AFC East over the past 6 years, and when divisional games comprise 37.5% of your yearly win/loss total, you're ..>> view originalRole reversal: Dolphins offensive line now leaving opposition ...
To hear Arian Foster tell it, football is easy.Simply run where the other guys are not.“Colors. A bunch of colors,” Foster said late Thursday night, when asked what he saw on his first touchdown run as a Dolphin. “Trying to find somewhere where there was no colors.”Much more went into Foster’s 2-yard touchdown run Friday night, of course. The left side opened up because the Dolphins successfully blocked down and tight end Jordan Cameron sealed off Falcons defensive end Adrian Clayborn.“There wa..>> view originalSouth Florida high school football scoreboard: FINAL - Booker T. 27 ...
FRIDAY - 11:02 PMBooker T. Washington 27, St. Thomas Aquinas 23 - FINALMiami Beach 7, Reagan 0 - FLaSalle 28, Miami Country Day 7 - FDr. Krop 63, Mourning 0 - FWestern 45, Goleman 7 - F Palmer Trinity 19, Boynton Beach Somerset 0 - FChampagnat 28, Westminster Christian 6 - F Cardinal Gibbons 49, Plantation 0 - FCalvary Christian 31, Pompano Beach 0 - FPiper 55, Northeast 6 - FUniversity School 39, Nova 3 - FSouth Dade 19, Coral Reef 0 - FPace 34, HML 0 - FSouthridge 7, Edison 0 - 2Q/Called-Ligh..>> view originalSelf-defense claim in Tiniko Thompson's shooting of Miami Police ...
Tiniko Thompson, who shot her boyfriend, Miami Police Officer Carl Patrick, at his Pembroke Pines home in May 2014 and left him to die, was convicted Friday of second-degree murder.Thompson, 48, who faces a maximum of life in prison, had claimed she shot Patrick, 53, in self-defense during an argument. Prosecutors say Thompson shot Patrick because he wanted to end their relationship and expose her for faking a pregnancy to stay together. The jury verdict was announced 100 minutes after jurors b..>> view originalMark Richt says 'physically tough' Canes need to be more mentally ...
After a long preseason of mostly upbeat, congenial mentions of his Miami Hurricanes, coach Mark Richt didn’t seem especially enthused about the players on Friday — a week and a day before the season opener at home against FAMU.“I think we’re physically tough,’’ Richt said. “I don’t know if we’re 100 percent mentally tough enough, through every bit of adversity,’’ including the first-teamers “being behind’’ to the scout-teamers in the practice game Thursday, “or the smokin’-hot heat or guys that..>> view original
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
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