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• Miami

  Miami Mayor Regalado vetoes “double dipping” for retirees in 4 top city posts

  Regalado said Thursday’s 3-2 commission vote was “flawed and unfair” to the city’s rank-and-file employees.
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  Friends and Neighbors

  Basketball game benefits transplant foundation

  The recent sixth annual Miracle Games organized by young teen volunteers proved once again that when a lot of people in a community get together for good, everyone wins.
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  Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina pleads not guilty to tax evasion

  Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina pleaded not guilty to charges that he cheated on his tax returns and lied to federal agents about loans to a convicted Ponzi schemer.

• Water-supply problem shuts down Miami Dade College North Campus

  Classes are canceled Friday at the North Campus of Miami Dade college “due to problems with the municipal water supply.”
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  Child welfare

  Probe into Kendall boy’s death uncovers lie by DCF investigator

  DCF says its investigator falsified a substance abuse screening of a Kendall mom. Her son later died in a sweltering car.
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  Million-dollar Caplow Children’s Prize looks for plan to save children’s lives

  The million-dollar Caplow Children’s Prize hopes to find and finance a plan to save the lives of children under the age of 5.

• Canine training area at MIA to be dedicated to fallen Miami Marine

  Miami International Airport on Friday will unveil a new canine training area for the Miami-Dade Police’s Airport District canine unit.
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  FDOT: Fix for design goof at new Miami airport central train station to cost millions, delay opening

  Fixing an engineering error that left train platforms too short at the new station under construction at Miami International Airport’s transportation hub will cost millions of dollars and could delay opening day by a year, to 2015, state officials said.

• Florida Grand Opera delays ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ replaces with ‘Thaïs’

  Florida Grand Opera has postponed Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde for a season and will be performing Massanet’s Thaïs in its place for the 2013-2014 season.
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  Trayvon Martin case

  Weed, fights and guns: Trayvon Martin’s text messages released

  Murder defendant George Zimmerman’s lawyers Thursday released texts from Travyon Martin’s phone that it plans to place into evidence. A judge will decide if they are relevant.
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  MIAMI-DADE

  Bodies of two men found in West Little River home

  An anonymous call led police Thursday afternoon to a Northwest Miami-Dade home where the bodies of two men were found.
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  Miami-Dade

  ‘Cooking Gents’ serve favorite dishes to hundreds

  More than 400 people attended the 18th annual Cooking Gents Affair charity dinner at the Doubletree by Hilton Miami Airport Hotel and Convention Center on Saturday, May 18. The event featured scores of men from the community cooking their favorite dishes and benefited the Miami Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, which has awarded about $25,000 in scholarships this year and nearly $300,000 to date, according to Lakitsia Gaines, a member of the sorority and chairperson of the event.

• HURRICANES

  Forecasters: Thirteen to 20 storms expected in Atlantic this season

  Hurricane season officially begins June 1, with forecasters predicting an extremely active” hurricane season.
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  The environment

  Vero Beach man tours state to promote clean beaches, waterways

  A Vero Beach man is spending a year touring Florida’s waters to bring attention to the dangers of pollution in the state’s waterways and beaches.

• Crime Watch

  ‘Boot Camp’ helps young felons become productive citizens

  As I have done in the past, sharing information with you, this week I want to share with you a program that has truly made a difference in our community. I want to thank Janelle Hall from the Miami-Dade corrections department, who was kind enough in providing the information for you the readers. Just so you know, what sparked my interest in this program was I met some young men at an event that were part of this Boot Camp, their stories fascinated me and so did their enthusiasm for becoming great citizens!

• Miami-Dade public defender allowed to pull out of cases because of workload

  Describing what it called a "damning indictment" of representation for poor criminal defendants, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Miami-Dade County public defender’s office could withdraw from a large chunk of felony cases because of excessive workloads.

• Miami

  Miami Commission: Some city execs can retire, come back, collect both pension and salary

  Under the ordinance passed Thursday, employees hired to fill one of four top posts will be allowed to collect a pension on top of their salary if they return to work after retiring.

• Columnist

  Church baseball league’s longtime leader retires

  Seventeen years ago, Bob Haworth, a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Miami Springs, organized a coed softball league. And for all of those years, Haworth has served as the commissioner. Comes this summer, the good commissioner will move to Winter Haven, where his wife Diane, has started a new career.
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  Historic Hampton House Motel, part of Miami’s black history, breaks ground on restoration project

  The nearly $6 million project will restore the Brownsville motel to the look of its heyday, when its restaurant and jazz club were the “in spot’’ for performers and black Miamians who were not allowed into Miami Beach and Miami hotels.
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  DEATHS | CAPT. MIKE BURKE, 89

  Capt. Mike Burke, Windjammer founder, dies at 89

  Capt. Michael Burke sailed through life with his unending spirit and romantic outlook, touching the lives of many with his cruise empire, Windjammer Barefoot Cruises.

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