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Live Election Updates: Still No Call for District 26; DeSantis Praises Florida Election Dept
Election Day 2020 has ended and results are still rolling in early Wednesday. We’ll keep you updated here with the latest updates, coverage and results.
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State Official Demands South Florida Public Schools Reopen Ahead of Schedule
Florida’s Commissioner of Education sent a letter to Miami-Dade and Broward superintendents Friday telling them that their plans to reopen for in-person classes, which have previously been approved by the state, needed to be adjusted to start sooner. In letters addressed to Alberto Carvalho and Robert Runcie, superintendents of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, education commissioner Richard Corcoran told the...
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Guide to Florida's 2020 General Election: Everything You Need to Know About Voting
Election day is just days away across the nation, but no two states are alike. Here’s what you need to know about voting in Florida to help you prepare to cast your ballot. For information on who (and what) will be on the ballot, check out our guide to the 2020 Florida ballot. The 2020 general election will take place…
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‘Heat Culture': How Miami's Surprise Season Led to Conference Finals
By the middle of this week, four teams will be left standing in the NBA’s bubble in Central Florida – and the team from the closest city might be the biggest surprise there. The Miami Heat will tip off their Eastern Conference Finals series Tuesday against the Boston Celtics after winning eight of their first nine playoff games played in…
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How Biscayne Bay Reached its ‘Tipping Point'
In early August, videos showing hundreds of dead fish washing up near the Venetian Causeway in Miami began circulating online. The fish were coming from the area’s most iconic body of water, Biscayne Bay. Preliminary investigations found that a combination of low oxygen levels in parts of the water, along with high water temperatures caused the week-long fish kill....
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‘We've Got to Continue to Evolve': South Florida Basketball Training Business Rebounds Amid Pandemic
Dwayne and Gabe Pean have been competing their entire lives. Whether it was playing card games like rummy or spades with their father, or seeing who could finish a book the fastest, the two brothers were always in some sort of head-to-head competition. That mentality followed them onto the basketball courts of youth centers across the country, where they found…
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Miami Mayor Outlines ‘Emergency Steps' Taken to Address Fish Kill in Biscayne Bay
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced on Saturday a series of “emergency steps” taken to address the recent fish kill in Biscayne Bay. The mayor’s announcement followed a week that saw thousands of dead fish wash ashore from North Miami to Virginia Key. In a tweet, Suarez said one of the steps being taken included the deployment of emergency pumps...
