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  promposals

  The prom invite you won’t say ‘no’ to

  Promposals, the act of asking someone to accompany you to the school prom, have become over-the-top productions splashed all over social media.
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  Federal court

  Former Hialeah Mayor Robaina and wife released on bond in tax-evasion case

  Ex-Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and his wife have to surrender their passports and limit travel while awaiting trial on tax-evasion charges.
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  Police seek thieves who stole purebred dog from Miami-Dade shelter

  Miami-Dade Animal Services is seeking the public’s help in identifying two people who stole a purebred Belgian Malinois shepherd dog from a county animal shelter on Tuesday.
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  HEALTH/MEDICINE

  University of Miami Hospital sends team to Panama to save NCIS agent’s life

  University of Miami Hospital sent a team to Panama with the special Impella heart pump to help save an NCIS agent’s life.
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  WORKPLACE

  Many workplaces insure domestic partners, some now also pay the tax on benefits

  Many Florida businesses and public institutions provide domestic partner benefits for unmarried employees. Some now also cover the tax on the benefit.
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  Miami-Dade Schools

  New teachers union boss rose from poverty to president

  Fedrick Ingram grew up in the inner city, became Miami-Dade’s teacher of the year and rose to become president of the United Teachers of Dade.
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  Turks and Caicos

  Turks and Caicos authorities drop gun charges against American tourists

  Authorities in the Turks and Caicos have dropped charges against a retired Florida neurosurgeon and Texas businesswoman arrested at an airport after a bullet was found in their luggage.
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  MIAMI-DADE COURTS

  Former UM student to serve three years prison for DUI death

  Ivanna Villanueva, 21, was drunk when she killed Eyder Ayala, a grandmother driving home from work in 2011.
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  Healthcare

  Jackson Health System solvent for first time in five years

  For the first time in five years, Jackson Health System is solvent, administrators say, but many financial challenges remain for Miami-Dade’s public hospitals.

• Miami-Dade

  Hearing clinic opens house Tuesday-Thursday for audio tests

  The Hearing and Speech Center of Florida is be offering free hearing screenings and consultations with an audiologist during an open house May 21-24.
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  Pérez Art Museum Miami

  Miami’s art museum gets anonymous $15 million gift

  An anonymous donor has given $12 million in cash and more than $3 million worth of art to the future Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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  Child welfare

  Miami-Dade mom of tot who died in hot car has DUI history

  A Miami-Dade mom who left her infant son in a sweltering car, where he died, has a history of drug- and alcohol-related arrests.
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  MIAMI

  Charges dropped against brothers in Miami murder scene scuffle

  Brother Antwan Carl Walker, 27, ran under police crime-scene tape, spurring a struggle as officers tried pushing him away from the body.
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  Hialeah ‘Shadow banking’

  Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and wife surrender to authorities on tax evasion charges

  Julio Robaina and his wife are accused of receiving undisclosed cash payments as interest on more than $1 million in personal loans.

• Miami woman killed in Monday’s Keys crash identified

  A Miami woman killed in a head-on collision in Islamorada on Monday has been identified.
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  PORTMIAMI

  Army Corps of Engineers awards contract to deepen Miami port

  A dredging contract ws awarded to make the port’s channels deep enough for the ships that will traverse an expanded Panama Canal
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  RELOCATION

  Future of Herald building site in hands of Genting

  Genting plans to demolish the newspaper’s Miami Herald headquarters as part of its plans to construct a luxury hotel with up to 500 rooms and hundreds of luxury condos.
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  Massive new convention center and hotel in the works for downtown Miami

  A Miami developer plans a massive, privately financed new convention center and hotel on the site of the old Miami Arena downtown, but details remain scant.

• Marijuana

  Miami area leaders discuss marijuana legalization

  The Urban League of Greater Miami and Concerned African Women are hosting a public conversation to discuss the broad impact of the legalization of marijuana, particularly in inner-city communities.

• Friends and Neighbors

  Miami Gardens teen takes scholarship to Embry-Riddle

  Congratulations to graduating senior Emory Douglas Mongbeh of Miami Gardens on receiving the second annual Aero Modelers of Perrine (AMPS) Academic Scholarship. Emory, of American Senior High School, with dual enrolment in George T. Baker Aviation School, will study aeronautical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.

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