Big Sugar can stay longer but will have to start paying to farm taxpayer-owned land intended for Everglades restoration, according to a new lease deal approved on Thursday.
U.S. Sugar Corp. can keep farming about 9,000 acres of citrus land through 2018, but in November will start paying $25 per acre per year, the South Florida Water Management District board decided.
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A child survived a drive-by shooting that left one man killed and a woman injured in Miami Gardens.
The nation’s airports bore the brunt of the sequester, but the federal budget cuts hurt the elderly and poor, too.
You may not see them, but they’re still there: pay phones. Most, though, in Miami are old and boring, with small ads for mineral water or a clothing line. Should they stay or should they go?
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