An FAMU student who died in a car crash on Florida’s Turnpike on her way to college will be remembered at a service in Northwest Miami-Dade Saturday.
Timbrina Thomas, a junior honor student and member of FAMU’s Marching 100 band, died from her injuries after the crash near Melbourne on March 17.
Thomas studied psychology, according to FAMU student newspaper The Famuan, and played the saxophone.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on March 23 at Bethel Apostolic Temple, 1855 NW 119th St.
A teen waited outside a Northeast Miami-Dade apartment building for an unarmed burglar to leave and then shot him to death.
The lawyer for a former student said the Miami Archdiocese knew about a school music teacher abusing students. The archdiocese denies it.
A Miami-Dade County supervisor who oversaw street lighting projects is charged with accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a contractor who cooperated with the FBI and Florida Office of Inspector General.
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