With a toppled cement truck that crushed a car and a woman who jumped an expressway overpass and landed in the path of a pickup, the holiday weekend traffic crunch in South Florida got off to a rough start.
Students this year were given a third more time to write their essays (60 minutes instead of last year’s 45), so some of Florida’s improvement could stem from children having more time to organize their thoughts.
Former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina pleaded not guilty Friday in Miami federal court to charges that he defrauded the U.S. government by failing to report potentially millions of dollars in income on tax returns, including receiving cash payments on high-interest loans he made to a convicted Ponzi schemer.
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