Friday, July 21, 2017

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  • Miami police rack up favorable rulings after high court decision on ...

    Miami police rack up favorable rulings after high court decision on ...
    Miami officials ought to reinstate pre-recession salaries and pension benefits for their 1,300-member police force after improperly imposing cuts on employees seven years ago during a financial crisis, according to a state hearing officer. Joey Rix, wading once again into the long-running legal saga between the city of Miami and its police union over unilateral cuts made by city commissioners in 2010, recommended Thursday that Florida’s Public Employees Relations Commission tell the city to res..
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  • Miami was once a murder capital. The gunfire deaths this year tell a ...

    Miami was once a murder capital. The gunfire deaths this year tell a ...
    Is Miami, once labeled “Paradise Lost” by Time magazine because of a searing homicide rate fueled by a crippling drug trade, now one of the safest major cities in the U.S. when it comes to gunfire deaths? Of the 26 homicides over the first six months of this year in Miami, only 16 were due to gunfire, records obtained from the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner and the city’s police department show. Both numbers represent historic lows for a city that often racked up close to 300 homicides during the ..
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  • Overtown nonprofit ditches CEO, loses contract after Herald ...

    Overtown nonprofit ditches CEO, loses contract after Herald ...
    An Overtown nonprofit has lost a million-dollar government contract and parted ways with its president after a series of reports by the Miami Herald detailing a suspicious land deal and forged signatures used to bill taxpayers. St. John Community Development Corp., a respected nonprofit that builds and runs affordable housing in Miami, informed Ola Aluko this week that his expiring contract would not be renewed. The church-affiliated nonprofit suspended and then cut ties with Aluko one month af..
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  • Police investigating after man shot in Southwest Miami-Dade

    Police investigating after man shot in Southwest Miami-Dade
    Miami police responded Thursday night to a fatal shooting in Southwest Miami-Dade. A man in 30s was killed in the shooting, which happened at about 8 p.m. at Southwest 122nd Avenue and 200th Street, police said. Police say a man was walking westbound on Southwest 200th Street when he noticed three men approaching him from 122nd Avenue. Jennifer Capote, a spokeswoman for Miami-Dade police, said there was a “verbal altercation” and then the man, who was by himself, pulled out a gun and fired. One..
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  • Babson College plans to launch Miami campus for graduate programs

    Babson College plans to announce Monday that it is expanding to Miami, where it will begin offering some of its top-ranked graduate programs in the fall of 2018. Babson’s newest hub, which will be located at the Cambridge Innovation Center at 1951 NW 7th Ave., will build on its base of 1,300 area alumni, the institution’s fourth largest alumni group, and a growing relationship in Miami’s entrepreneurship community. Miami will be Babson’s third location outside its main campus in Wellesley, Mass..
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  • More trains for Miami? Non! Gimenez is our own Marie Antoinette ...

    More trains for Miami? Non! Gimenez is our own Marie Antoinette ...
    The working summer vacations in Europe are paying off for Carlos Gimenez. The Miami-Dade mayor has acquired a certain je ne sais quoi about him, a flair that allows him to deliver bad news to hard-working, traffic-choked commuters with such charm that the room melts around him. “The art of the impossible,” Gimenez dubs the act of pleasing those pesky constituents who want clean, safe, reliable and speedy public transportation. In his sales pitch on the budget this year, there’s almost a Jean Pa..
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  • Miami chief: no leads, suspects in young boy's opioid death

    Miami chief: no leads, suspects in young boy's opioid death
    Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer Published 1:31 p.m. ET July 20, 2017 CLOSE President Donald Trump campaigned across the country promising to fix the opioid crisis, but public health advocates say his early moves are poised to make it far worse. USA TODAYMiami Police Chief Rodolfo Llanes, left, talks to reporters during a news conference, as Craig Radelman, right, Miami deputy fire chief for operations, looks on, Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Miami. Investigators ..
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  • Dolphin Expressway wants to open shoulder to carpoolers using ...

    Dolphin Expressway wants to open shoulder to carpoolers using ...
    Forget Lexus Lanes. Miami-Dade’s busiest toll road wants to create Lyft Lanes. A plan by the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority would convert the left-hand shoulders on the Dolphin Expressway into express lanes reserved for shuttle buses as well as private cars selling carpooling services through the Uber and Lyft apps. The arrangement would let Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing companies avoid regular traffic on the clogged toll road in an effort encourage people to change habits and leave their ..
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  • State grants Miami track's request to let the dogs out, play jai-alai ...

    State grants Miami track's request to let the dogs out, play jai-alai ...
    Florida gambling regulators this week gave a Miami dog track permission to ditch greyhound races but keep more lucrative slot machines and card games, in a first-of-its-kind ruling. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation on Wednesday granted a request from West Flagler Associates, which operates Magic City Casino in Miami, to replace dog races with jai-alai matches, as part of a drawn-out legal dispute over a controversial “summer jai-alai” permit. It’s the first time a pari-mu..
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  • Miami Herald's Mimi Whitefield wins award for Latin American and ...

    Miami Herald's Mimi Whitefield wins award for Latin American and ...
    Mimi Whitefield of the Miami Herald was honored Friday for her reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean with the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize, which acknowledges excellence in coverage of the region. Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced this year’s winners of the award, the oldest prize in international journalism. The other winners were Argentine writer Martín Caparrós, Brazilian filmmaker and columnist Dorrit Harazim and Nick Miroff of the Washington Post. ..
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