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Rainbow colors Miami skyline
A brilliant double-rainbow appeared late Friday afternoon over the skies of Miami - a fitting reprieve after a gloomy week saturated with rain. The rainbow seemed to end at the base of the Port of Miami. Could there be a pot of gold hidden there?
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Sewer pipe errupts in Miami Beach
A 16-inch sewer pipe erupted Friday morning near 69 Street and Indian Creek Drive in Miami Beach.
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Suit challenges new Guantánamo mail rule
A lawyer for a Guantánamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack has filed suit against the prison commander, arguing a new rule subjecting legal mail to a security review is unconstitutional and amounts to illegal intelligence monitoring of a U.S. citizen.
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CUBA
Sen. Feinstein singles out Cuba as potential drug smuggling point
A California senator who chairs a congressional caucus on international drug trafficking warned last week that Cuba could become a significant hub for illegal drugs entering the United States in the near future.
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Deerfield Beach
3 dead, including child, in standoff at Deerfield Beach RV park; two others badly hurt
When a standoff that began at the Highland Woods RV Park Thursday evening finally ended early Friday, three people were dead including a 9-year-old boy. Two others, a woman and a 7-year-old boy, were badly hurt.
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BROWARD BULLDOG
Sweet deal for owners of Hallandale newspaper that features mayor as columnist
Hallandale Beach newspaper that features the mayor as a columnist received loan with hefty forgiveness percentage from the city.
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Need a job? Univision’s nightly job bank could help
Univision and other community organizations in South Florida this week launched a campaign to help viewers looking for work.
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Liberty City
Police identify man killed by Miami Beach officer in Liberty City
Miami-Dade police on Thursday released the name of the man shot and killed in Liberty City as he fled from officers.
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Palm Beach County
Polo magnate’s kids, adopted girlfriend, share $300M trust fund, court told
Palm Beach County polo mogul John Goodman’s two natural children — and his newly adopted 42-year-old girlfriend — are the beneficiaries of a $300 million trust, it was revealed in court Thursday.
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Miami-Dade Schools
Student, 18, charged in Barbara Goleman Senior High stabbing
Frank Oreste Acosta told police that he felt bullied by the other student and didn’t think the small...
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Capitol Buzz: Quiet day expected in Tallahassee
It’s a light-day at the Capitol: Both the House and the Senate are not in session, and there are no ...
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Lotteries
Saturday’s $310 million Powerball jackpot sets a Florida record
Powerball’s recent price increase to $2 per ticket has sparked the richest lottery we’ve ever...
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Weather
More damp weather ahead, followed by a cool, sunny Sunday
Although the Sunshine State has been murky for most of this week, the overcast skies and rain should give w...
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Opa-Locka mayor’s relatives arrested in corruption probe
Miami-Dade prosecutors on Thursday arrested the husband, son and sister of Opa-Locka Mayor Myra Taylor for ...
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Fla. fair is unorthodox host to Cabinet meeting
Starting the day with an impromptu square dance and a crack of a bullwhip, Gov. Rick Scott celebrated the o...
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Ali among hundreds attending Dundee funeral
Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee was remembered Friday as a master motivator and a man who left a legacy of kin...
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Official: Ukrainian coach found dead in Pa. cell
A Ukrainian hockey coach was found dead of a suspected suicide while in custody in Philadelphia on child-mo...
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Gonzaga beats No. 16 Saint Mary's 73-59
For the first 30 minutes of Thursday night's game, Gonzaga and No. 16 Saint Mary's fought basket-for-basket...
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Budget deficit drops to $27 billion in January
The federal budget deficit fell sharply in January compared to a year earlier, as an improving economy lift...
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$25B settlement reached over foreclosure abuses
A landmark $25 billion settlement with the nation's top mortgage lenders was hailed by government officials...
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Bernanke: Weak housing has hurt consumer spending
Ben Bernanke says declines in home prices have forced many Americans to cut back sharply on spending and wa...
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Summary Box: NYSE Euronext 4th-qtr profit shrinks
DEAL COSTS: NYSE Euronext on Friday said costs related to its collapsed merger with German stock market Deu...
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NYSE Euronext looks beyond failed merger
The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, after losing a bruising battle with European regulators ...
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Summary Box: Portugal wins German bailout support
SHOW OF SUPPORT: German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told his Portuguese counterpart that Berlin is ...
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Nissan recalling 39,000 Versa small cars
Nissan is recalling 39,000 Versa small cars because the transmissions can be shifted out of park without th...
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Explosion at horse center kills worker
An explosion at an equine rehabilitation center in north Florida's horse country has killed a worker and a ...
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Death row man now turns to US Supreme Court
A man who was denied a stay of execution by the Florida Supreme Court now is asking the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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First lady talks nutrition in Florida
Michelle Obama is assuring kids and parents that hamburgers and chicken nuggets aren't completely off-limit...
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RI School of Design creates US Morocco embassy art
Students at the Rhode Island School of Design are teaming up with a sculptor to create artwork for a new U....
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First lady's trips boost health _ and her husband
In just the past few days, she's danced with cheering school kids, chatted with troops, swapped ideas with ...
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Bernanke: Weak housing has hurt consumer spending
Ben Bernanke says declines in home prices have forced many Americans to cut back sharply on spending and wa...
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SC lawmakers off hook for redistricting testimony
Two of South Carolina's top legislators will not have to testify about their debate over redrawing the stat...
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Feds investigating Nagin travel, family business
People with direct knowledge of the investigation say federal authorities are looking into longstanding que...
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Argentina: UK sent nuclear sub to Falklands
Argentina said Friday it has information that Britain sent a nuclear-armed submarine to the South Atlantic ...
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AP sources: US says Syrian elite want out
The Obama administration says it is seeing signs that the Syrian elite, including people close to President...
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NHTSA: BMW fined $3M for untimely 2010 recalls
Federal safety regulators say automaker BMW has agreed to pay $3 million for delays in reporting safety def...
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NH 14-year-old shoots self in face in cafeteria
A 14-year-old shot himself in the face in a New Hampshire elementary school cafeteria filled with dozens of...
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Fla. sheriff: 3 dead after RV park standoff
Authorities say three people are dead and two critically injured after a hostage standoff at a quiet Florid...
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Witness: LA detective's DNA matched bite mark
A criminalist has told a Los Angeles jury that DNA taken from a former police detective matched saliva from...
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Argentine rights workers to Spain: Lay off Garzon
The president of the Argentine human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo said Friday that Spain's pro...
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Italy: Wrecked cruise ship moves in rough seas
Italian officials say rough seas have increased movements of the crippled Costa Concordia and are thwarting...
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Swiss detain man over gun linked to German murders
Swiss police have detained a man in connection with a gun used by a German neo-Nazi group suspected of kill...
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Jordan to contest EU extradiction ban on preacher
Jordan says it will contest a European ban prohibiting Britain from extraditing to the kingdom a radical Is...
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Europe's cold close zoo outside Paris
A count who operates a zoological park on the grounds of his chateau outside Paris says some of his animals...
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Egypt's military warns of plots on eve of strike
Egypt's military rulers warned Friday that the country faces conspiracies that seek to topple the state and...
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Thousands in Slovakia protest corruption at top
Thousands of Slovaks are protesting in the capital to demand that top politicians accused of corruption ste...
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'Big Valley' star Peter Breck dead at age 82
The actor who played a son of ranch owner Barbara Stanwyck on the 1960s Western "The Big Valley," has died....
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Madonna: Not happy about M.I.A.'s gesture
The British hip-hop artist M.I.A. has apologized to Madonna for making an obscene gesture during the Super ...
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How Jason Wu picks models, tweaks looks for runway
Casting and fitting models for a fashion show is more art than science, but, says designer Jason Wu, there'...
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Mary J. Blige rocks at concert for charity
Mary J. Blige brought out plenty of emotion as she performed in front of a packed house to support one of h...
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Stephanie Blythe redeems mediocre Met `Aida'
In 1872, a dissatisfied opera-goer who had attended a performance of Verdi's "Aida" in Parma, Italy, wrote ...
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