Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Miami-Dade police looking for men who robbed car wash, shot victim and other top stories.

  • Miami-Dade police looking for men who robbed car wash, shot victim

    Miami-Dade police looking for men who robbed car wash, shot victim
    Miami-Dade roberry detectives are investigating a robbery and shooting Saturday at a car wash.According to investigators, two black men with guns approached the business at 3705 NW 35 Ave. around 4:45 p.m. and demanded money from Sergio Salas and Omar Rangel. Salas, 44, and Rangel, 28, handed over $400 and a gold chain, police said, but one of the robbers shot Salas in the leg anyway.Salas, who was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital Trauma Center, is in stable condition. Police were still..
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  • NBA scouts assess Heat at All-Star break

    NBA scouts assess Heat at All-Star break
    With the Heat at the All-Star break, we asked two veteran scouts for other Eastern Conference teams to assess the Heat roster.Their feedback:• For all of the significant growth that Dion Waiters has made - he has been very good over his last 13 games - a scout cautioned against any grand conclusions.“I need to see more,” one scout said. “He's a streaky player, and there’s a track record of him being up and down. He is certainly capable of this, but can he sustain it? I would be surprised based ..
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  • Miami Hurricanes protect home court, defeat Clemson Tigers

    Miami Hurricanes protect home court, defeat Clemson Tigers
    With three of its final four Atlantic Coast Conference games on the road, the University of Miami men’s basketball team acknowledged the significance of Saturday’s noon home contest against Clemson.A loss against an opponent below it in the standings would severely damage the Hurricanes’ NCAA hopes.Playing their second game without suspended starting point guard Ja’Quan Newton, the Hurricanes withstood a pesky effort from the Tigers to pull out a 71-65 victory at Watsco Center.Kamari Murphy led..
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  • Two rare baby birds make history at Zoo Miami

    Two rare baby birds make history at Zoo Miami
    A pair of unique baby birds are the newest additions to Zoo Miami and are the first of their kind in the zoo’s history.The zoo announced that a secretary bird and great blue turaco hatched in the past few weeks. Both birds are native to Africa.The secretary bird, which can grow to be almost five feet tall, hatched Feb. 15. The great blue turaco hatched Feb. 7 and could grow to be about 30 inches long.
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  • Miami-Dade trains with US Army at Port Miami

    Miami-Dade trains with US Army at Port Miami
    MIAMI - The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Special Operations Division and Hazardous material teams were involved in a civil-military maritime hazardous materials drill at the Port Miami on Saturday. "The objective of this drill is to exercise the civil military interface that will occur on a large-scale maritime hazmat incident; such as the arrival of a large container ship that is leaking hazardous materials into the bay," Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Erika Benitez said in a statement.MDFR worked with me..
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  • Recruiting: RB Camron Davis commits to Miami Hurricanes

    Recruiting: RB Camron Davis commits to Miami Hurricanes
    Camron Davis poses with Miami coach Mark Richt. (Twitter) [Looking at Miami’s top 2018 targets] [Beason kicks in $250K for indoor facility] [Richt: ‘May take a minute’ to find next QB] A great 57th birthday for Mark Richt got even better Saturday evening. Camron Davis, a four-star running back prospect who says in his Twitter bio he’s “committed to God,” said he’ll play his college football at Miami. He was the second player Saturday to pledge to the Hurricanes for 2018, when they invited ..
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  • Trump reverts to campaign mode in Florida rally, his first as president

    Trump reverts to campaign mode in Florida rally, his first as president
    President Donald Trump reprised his favorite role — that of a rousing campaigner — on Saturday, holding a massive rally that offered him a respite from the tribulations of his first four weeks in the White House as he tried to regain control of his political message.Faced with a series of early setbacks, including the firing of his national security adviser, the rejection by the courts of his immigration ban and low approval ratings, Trump reverted to the comfort of his candidate stump speech...
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  • Is Heat center Hassan Whiteside the 'whale' in Pat Riley's title dream?

    Is Heat center Hassan Whiteside the 'whale' in Pat Riley's title dream?
    One question of the Miami Heat looms most pertinent at this NBA All-Star break and the reconnoitering that invites.The question isn’t, “Will the Heat make the playoffs?”It isn’t even, “What if any moves will Miami make before this coming Thursday’s trade deadline?”It is simply this:“Is Hassan Whiteside a whale?”It all starts there. Because the answer to that, of course, might help resolve those first two questions, as well as the even bigger one down the road: “What mind-set will the Heat take ..
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  • Two F-15s fly at supersonic speed into Palm Beach airspace

    Two F-15s fly at supersonic speed into Palm Beach airspace
    WEST PALM BEACH Less than fourteen minutes. That’s how long it took for two F-15 fighter jets to fly from Homestead Air Reserve Base to Palm Beach on Friday night, a trip spanning about 110 miles. Their mission? Intercept an unresponsive aircraft flying through restricted airspace above Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s part-time residence and winter White House, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The unresponsive plane was one of eight private aircraft that violated tem..
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  • After his protest at Rio Games, Ethiopian couldn't go home; he's ...

    After his protest at Rio Games, Ethiopian couldn't go home; he's ...
    Feyisa Lilesa has not returned home to Ethiopia since his finish-line protest at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics made global headlines but also made him an exile.Lilesa, silver medalist in the Olympic marathon, does not know when it will be safe for him to return to his native country, where he said the government’s brutal repression of his Oromo people has grown more acute since August, when he crossed his arms above his head as he strode across the finish line. After the race, he said he made the..
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Microsoft explains its plan to win the 'battle for the future' against Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant .Celebrities on the move in Women's March 2017 .
Duke gets defensive, outscores Miami by 23 after halftime: 3 things ... .Tim Cook in Washington: Meetings w/ Sen. Hatch & Dept of Veterans Affairs, dinner w/ Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump .

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