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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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  High-speed chase in Miami ends up with suspect hiding under woman’s bed

  A high-speed pursuit that started near Jackson Memorial Hospital and continued onto Interstate 95 ended with a crashed police car and a suspect that bolted from his Toyota Corolla, ran into a house and hid under a woman’s bed.
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  South Beach club operator sentenced to 12 years for “bar girls” racket at Russian-style lounges

  A South Beach club operator was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring with his business partners and “bar girls’’ to rip off male customers at their Russian-style lounges.
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  Teaching program gives helping hand to Miami students

  Teach For America Week targets community leaders to serve as guest teachers in local schools

• Columnist

  Four priests ordained in Miami

  Warm congratulations to the four seminarians who were ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Miami last Saturday at St. Mary Cathedral, 7525 NW Second Ave.

• South Florida group got IRS scrutiny

  When the South Florida Tea Party applied last year for tax-exempt status as a nonprofit group, the IRS demands were probing and relentless:
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  Miami Beach

  Miami Beach commissioners ponder taxpayers’ share of convention center redevelopment

  Miami Beach commissioners got their first look at the public costs associated with revamping the city’s convention center district.

• Seven-car crash sends victims to hospital with serious injuries

  Five people were seriously injured in a seven-car crash that included a Miami-Dade Transit pick-up truck Wednesday morning, Miami police said.

• Miami-Dade Commission to discuss water/sewer fixes

  Miami-Dade Commission Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa has scheduled a special board meeting for 11:30 a.m. Thursday to discuss the county’s multi-billion dollar plan to fix its aging water and sewer system.
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  Courts

  Miami-Dade cop wounded in gun battle testifies

  Detective John Saavedra grew teary when recalling the three bullets that hit him outside a marijuana grow house in late July.
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  Defeated candidate Ricardo Corona says he never hired ‘boletera’ Deisy Cabrera

  After having learned that his name appears next to the amount of $1,500 in a notebook kept by an alleged Hialeah ballot broker, lawyer Ricardo Corona said Tuesday that he never hired anyone to collect absentee ballots on his behalf during his unsuccessful campaign for a Miami-Dade judgeship in 2008.

• Miami-Dade

  Miami-Dade sets Thursday meet to discuss multi-billion dollar water/sewer repairs

  Miami-Dade’s finance committee balked at selling $4.25 billion in bonds to fix the county’s aging water and sewer system.
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  Sun Life Stadium

  Early-vote tally shows Miami Dolphins stadium renovation was failing at polls

  The tabulation showed that among the 60,678 voters who voted by mail or at early-voting sites, 57 percent opposed the Dolphins’ proposal, compared to 43 percent who favored it.

• Coast Guard searching for missing boater headed to Key West

  Coast Guard crews were searching Tuesday night for a man who set out on a boat Monday from Fort Myers and never arrived in Key West.
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  Healthcare

  In Miami, more hospital prices may see light of day

  Hospitals are loath to reveal their prices for fear of giving competitors an advantage. But the disparity in prices for the same procedure at different hospitals — and healthcare reform — could change that.

• Worker dies after falling from Brickell construction site

  A 29-year-old worker died after he fell from the seventh floor of the BrickellHouse construction site Monday morning, police said.
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  Miami Beach

  Two teams, two visions presented for Miami Beach Convention Center redevelopment

  Finalists competing for the billion-dollar project clashed over which plan would most benefit the community, and whether their plans had been copied.

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