News Roundup: Scoop That Poop, or Face the Police

  • The same water filtration system that may or may not be linked to cases of Legionnaire's disease at the EPIC, has been found in three other condo buildings in Miami. [CBS4]
  • Jackson Health System is teetering on the edge of a financial emergency. [Herald]
  • Somebody is a math superstar: "Well if we average 51 dogs a day in the park, it could bet up to 8,000 pounds of dog waste annually." Officials in Bayfront Park blame the downtown boom on all the extra dog poop they have to deal with, and might start calling the police if you don't scoop the poop. [CBS4]
  • The Big Orange, Miami's answer to the Times Square ball, which rises and not falls, was tested yesterday. [JustNews]
  • It will probably be comfortably warm for NYE, but chilly again by Friday. [Herald]
  • Here's some servicey tips about taking public transit on NYE. [Herald]
  • A 210 foot freighter will be sunk off the coast of Key Biscayne. [JustNews]
  • There is nothing right about this sentence: "Clearwater Police Department detectives say the 11-year-old girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend poured gas on her mother's bedroom floor and bed while she slept in it and then lit it." [CBS4]
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  • Only one Dolphins player made the Pro Bowl: Jake Long. [NBCMiami]

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Kyle Munzenrieder

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