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  Florida Greyhound Racing Has a Complicated Legacy

  Brittany Shammas | January 2 at 8:04 a.m.

  Except for a scattering of white-haired regulars, the grandstand overlooking the old dog track at the Palm Beach Kennel Club is almost empty on a cold-for-Florida December day. Wearing hearing aids and World War II veterans' hats, a group of four...

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  Miami Atheists Demand to Be Heard

  Jessica Lipscomb | December 18 at 8 a.m.

  Kevin was home alone after school one day when two Mormon missionaries came to his doorstep. The 16-year-old opened the door and invited them in. The young men handed him some brochures and asked if they could pray for him. In the living room,...

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  Hate Goes Mainstream With the Miami Proud Boys

  Meg O'Connor | December 10 at 8 a.m.

  Inside a rundown Lauderhill strip mall sits Hair and Such, Nothing but Wings II, and the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office, where ballots are being recounted in three closely watched statewide elections. Outside, about 60 protesters...

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  Miami's Queer Scene Transforms the City's Nightlife

  Jose D. Duran | November 27 at 9 a.m.

  It's an unusually cool August night in downtown Miami, and the hum of cars racing past on the nearby MacArthur Causeway is muted by a boisterous crowd wearing sky-high platform shoes, glitter, and heavy eyeliner. Close to 1 a.m., as the horde...

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  Marty Wolfson Was Broke and Homeless Until a Horse Saved His Life

  Mike Clary | November 13 at 8 a.m.

  Beneath live oaks draped with Spanish moss, the lush grasslands of Marion County roll on for miles, sectioned off by two-lane highways and black wooden fences. From more than 600 farms around here come thousands of equestrian champions, show...

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  Black Residents at South Beach Condo Say Racist Board Members Made Their Lives Hell

  Jessica Lipscomb | November 5 at 8 a.m.

  At least nine former and current residents and employees have come forward with accusations of racial discrimination inside the Mirador 1000, an upscale condo building with its own hair salon and convenience mart where two-bedroom units are...