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• UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

  Gift to expand Cuban collection

  A $2.4 million grant from a foundation named after the former head of Coca Cola will help enhance UM's Cuban Heritage Collection.

• UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

  University of Miami campus locked down over BB-gun scare

  Thousands of students, faculty and others at UM's Gables campus were forced to remain indoors until police could apprehend four suspects reportedly firing a BB gun.

• EDUCATION

  Miami Dade College faculty member named top Florida professor

  Sandra L. Schultz, a 30-year Miami Dade College North Campus professor, has been named the 2009 Florida Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

• WAR ON TERRORISM

  Sears Tower plot leader gets 13-year prison term

  The ringleader of the `Liberty City Five' received 13 1/2 in prison and a lecture from a U.S. District Court judge.

• VIRGINIA KEY

  Old Miami landmark Jimbo's faces a crackdown

  A freewheeling bait shack and watering hole on Virginia Key faces a deadline to remove the junk that some say gives the place its character.
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  CORAL GABLES HIGH STABBING

  Accused teen in Coral Gables High stabbing claims self-defense

  At a bond hearing, a lawyer for Coral Gables High student Andy Rodriguez, accused of killing a fellow student, suggested his client acted in self-defense.

• MIAMI-DADE GOVERNMENT

  Miami-Dade leaders' foreign travel may get more scrutiny

  Calls for tighter controls follow reports that a Miami-Dade trade agency has spent freely but produced little.

• MIAMI

  Ex-Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones to run again

  Suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones formally announced that she will run for her vacant seat.

• MIAMI POLICE

  Miami's new top cop vows to raise morale

  Outside Miami City Hall on Thursday, officials announced Miami's new police chief: Maj. Miguel Exposito, a 35-year department veteran.

• Miami Dade College students protest deportation plans

  Dozens of Miami Dade College students and some of their professors staged a rally Thursday demanding that federal immigration authorities free two Venezuelan brothers facing deportation.

• Free swine flu shots available Saturday

  The Miami-Dade Health Department will offer free H1N1 swine flu vaccinations Saturday to people who fall in high-priority groups.

  The vaccine will be available from 8 a.m. to noon at the Miami-Dade County Fair Expo Center Fuchs Pavilion, 10901 Coral Way.

• Metrozoo jaguar dies during medical procedure

  One of Miami Metrozoo's two jaguars died Wednesday during a medical procedure designed to stop his stomach problems. He was 3 years old.

  Palenque, who weighed 129 pounds, was one of the star attractions at the zoo's newest exhibit, Amazon and Beyond, said Ron Magill, the zoo's spokesman. Jaguars are solitary animals, so he was kept separate from his betrothed, Reina -- a female who was not yet ready for an intimate relationship.

• Miami Beach's Maria Mayer won't challenge election loss

  The loser in Tuesday's Miami Beach Group 2 City Commission race said Thursday she would not contest the results.

  Maria Mayer, who lost Tuesday to Jorge Exposito by 320 votes in a heated race, had said she might contest the results based on allegations of improper electioneering at the polls by Exposito's camp.
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  SCOTT ROTHSTEIN SCANDAL

  'Juice scam' victim: I was lured into Scott Rothstein deal

  A Coconut Grove businessman says he invested $2.16 million with Scott Rothstein after a friend solicited him to buy into a high-profit deal -- that returned nothing.

• LEMON CITY CEMETERY

  Newly discovered Miami cemetery may become memorial park

  Recently discovered Lemon City Cemetery won designation as a historic site, and plans for a memorial are advancing.

• LIBERTY CITY SEVEN

  2 more Liberty City terror suspects get prison terms

  Two more members of the original `Liberty City Seven' group were sentenced Thursday in Miami to lighter sentences than federal prosecutors had sought.

• MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS

  Concert to benefit arts in Miami-Dade schools

  Young performers will put their talent to work Friday to raise money to support arts and music programs in the schools.

• LITTLE HAVANA

  Cuban son group in historic Little Havana performance

  Cuba's historic son group Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro is scheduled to play the Little Havana club Hoy Como Ayer.
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  HOLIDAY TRAVEL

  Thanksgiving travel: myth or reality?

  The Wednesday before Thanksgiving might be getting a bad rap: It's not quite the travel nightmare you probably think it is.
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  MIAMI

  Veteran cop Miguel Exposito likely pick for Miami police chief

  Maj. Miguel Exposito, a 35-year Miami Police Department veteran with deep ties to Mayor Tomás Regalado, is expected to be named chief on Thursday.

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