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In James Fallows’ 1997 book about media ethics, Breaking the News, he argues that journalists are often so blinded by their devotion to the nebulous idea of “objectivity” that they often forget to act like real people. Fallows cited a decades-old TV program in which war correspondents were asked whether they’d jump into combat to save a wounded soldier. Many of the reporters said — out of concerns for their neutrality — they would not save a dying American, to the horror of the TV show’s audience.

The video is dark and grainy, but according to the family and attorneys of Junior Prosper, it shows a Miami-Dade Police officer fatally shooting him as he crawled away along I-95. The footage — obtained from a nearby business — is a key piece of evidence…

For two years, neighbors in Buena Vista Heights have signed petitions and waited. Gone to meetings and waited. Forwarded emails and waited. Consulted attorneys and waited. In 2015, residents learned a developer wanted to rezone a parcel in their residential, working-class neighborhood to build a five-story parking garage for Design District visitors. Since that time, they’ve watched — and, yes, waited — as the garage has gone through the slow process of city approval. Roughly 400 people have signed petitions circulating online and on paper asking commissioners to vote down the garage.

Stanley Glaser swats at mosquitoes outside his weatherbeaten house, which is shaded by towering mango trees and lush tropical ferns. Glaser learned to till a few small fields while living here in the early ’80s. Now the home sits at the center of an 20-acre South Miami-Dade oasis that churns…

With a confident grin, Mark Gold strides into a Broward County courtroom and waltzes up to a podium. Dressed in a dark suit and silver striped tie, the five-foot-five attorney tells Chief Magistrate Brenda Di Ioia that his client, a man caught speeding in his mother’s 1995 Saturn, will not…

There were plenty of references to tiny hands — one sign even featured a pair of moving doll hands — and to nasty women.

A Miami company pairs tourists with professional photographers who document their trips. “If you don’t put up a picture of where you went,” the founder says, “it’s like you didn’t go.”