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Father's Day plans around the Miami area for all kinds of dads
Check out events on June 14 and 15 that are sure to make for a special day celebrating the father or father-figure in your life.
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‘Salvage what we can': Man awakes to smoke, fire at Hollywood home
One person and a firefighter suffered minor injuries after a house fire in Hollywood on Friday morning, authorities said. Hollywood Fire Rescue responded at around 8:15 a.m. to the 5800 block of Madison Street to a reported electrical fire. Neighbors sent videos showing plumes of smoke billowing into the sky. Aerial images showed at least a dozen units responded to…
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WATCH: Video shows massive fire that destroyed 6 boats in Sunny Isles Beach
Videos showed crews responding after multiple vessels caught fire in Sunny Isles Beach early Friday, leaving a half-dozen boats completely destroyed, officials said. The fire was first reported shortly after 5:15 a.m., near Northeast 163rd Street and Collins Avenue, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said. The scene was behind the condominiums at 400 Sunny Isles Boulevard. When they arrived, fire crews found…
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Cubans detained at Krome Detention Center protest deportations, spell ‘SOS'
Video showed people detained at Krome Detention Center in southwest Miami-Dade holding a protest Thursday in the wake of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. Chopper6 flew over the courtyard of the detention center as dozens of detainees in white spelled out “SOS” with their bodies. They kneeled, clasped their hands together in a gesture of apparent supplication and...
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Person dead, another critical after welfare check in rural Miami-Dade: Sheriff
One person was found dead and a second person was rushed to the hospital after authorities performed a welfare check in a rural area of southwest Miami-Dade early Thursday. It was around 12:45 a.m. when Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the area of 204th Avenue and Southwest 232nd Street for a welfare check at a trailer. When they...
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Man killed, woman hurt in shooting at homeless encampment in downtown Miami
A man was killed and a woman was hospitalized after a shooting at a homeless encampment in downtown Miami early Wednesday, officials said. The shooting happened at an encampment by the railroad tracks next to the Brightline station between Northwest 6th and 8th Street, according to Miami Fire Rescue. The location is not far from where two homeless people were…
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The most relaxing city in the U.S. is right here in Florida, report says
South Florida rules relaxation, many tourists would tell you–but according to one study, there’s another city in the Sunshine State that really takes the top spot. The most relaxing places in the country are green, get lots of daylight hours and have lots to do, all factors taken into account by Sell My Timeshare Now, the company that commissioned...
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Gov. DeSantis signs two animal rights bills: Trooper's and Dexter's laws
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two animal rights bills on Wednesday morning from a rescue organization in Palm Beach County. The bills include Trooper’s Law, which will make it a crime to restrain animals outside during natural disasters and abandon them. It’s named after the bull terrier that moved people across the state when he was found in chest-high...
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‘Blood all over': Person killed in double stabbing near Sunrise apartment building
One person was killed in a double stabbing near an apartment building in Sunrise early Wednesday, police said. The stabbing happened at around 1:40 a.m. at 3000 Northwest 130th Avenue, near The Retreat Sawgrass Village across the street from Amerant Bank Arena, according to the Sunrise Police Department. Two people were hurt, and one of them did not survive, authorities…
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3 arrested after missing Texas teen found being sold for sex in South Florida: MDSO
Detectives were able to track down a missing 15-year-old girl from Texas when they found her being sold for sex in South Florida, according to arrest reports. The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Human Trafficking Squad and Department of Homeland Security Investigations were looking for the teenager who had run away from home and been in their system since May 1, authorities…
