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New York Food Blogger Busted for Cheating in Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon

Jane Seo blazed across the finish line at last weekend's Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon with a stellar time of 1 hour 21 minutes. The professional New York food blogger's blistering 6:15-per-mile pace earned her second place among the thousands who raced. Seo paraded around the finish line while grinning and gripping a gaudy medal.
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Miami’s Best Concert of the Week: Merchandise at Gramps

Bands with a single common noun as their name are usually either attempting to remain obscure or have a shit idea of what makes for good marketing. Of course, that’s only true until they hit it big and bury both Merriam-Webster and Oxford in Google search results. British bands have...
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Memes and Fake News Are Destroying Our Ability to Fight Zika, Study Says

Miami has seen a lull in Zika cases lately, which makes sense because it's low season for Florida's mosquitoes. But once the weather warms up, clouds of Aedes aegypti will return with the virus. Fighting the virus hasn't been easy. Pesticides aren't very effective and have run up against public pushback. But a new study says another problem has also hampered anti-Zika efforts: the flood of memes, #fakenews articles, and straight-up incorrect reporting that followed the virus.
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Florida Pot Growers May Soon Get Rich

A pudgy man in a white lab coat, protective goggles, and a white hardhat ambles down several long rows of potted marijuana plants. An industrial A/C unit cranks frigid air into the capacious grow room, located inside a 300,000-square-foot warehouse just outside Tallahassee, while an array of high-pressure sodium lights...
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Rich, White Men Dominate Miami Political Campaigns, Study Says

Miami is in the midst of the most spirited debate it's had regarding campaign-finance reform in years. Barring the results of legal appeals and a counter-suit filed this week, a group of activists has forced Miami-Dade County to let its citizens vote on a measure that would cut political donations...
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Nearly 4,000 Demand Frank Artiles Resign for Using N-Word as Protests Begin

Let's all take a moment to formally congratulate state Sen. Frank Artiles, who has long been one of Florida's worst politicians, for shooting himself directly in the foot and all but guaranteeing he'll never win an election again. After years of filing hateful, anti-LGBTQ bills, allegedly punching college kids in the face, smearing Black Lives Matter activists as terrorists...
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Here’s Video of a Bunch of Floridians Running Red Lights This Year

Red-light camera operators are the tow-truck drivers and repossession kings of today's drone-flying, surveillance-obsessed world. Camera companies place tiny, cheap lenses on traffic lights, wait for you to inch too far into an intersection, and cackle into the sky as they and the cities that hire them siphon a few hundred dollars from your wallet. The cameras themselves might not even be legal in Florida.
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Florida Keys Demand FPL Stop Using Leaking Turkey Point Cooling Canals

The Turkey Point nuclear plant sits on the southern edge of Miami-Dade, but that doesn't mean it's the only county affected by the Florida Power and Light plant. Last year, Miami-Dade officials sanctioned FPL and warned that the canals used to cool the plant's wastewater were leaking into Biscayne Bay. Radioactive materials were...
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Can IV Vitamin C Actually Fight Cancer?

Dr. Ivan Rusilko is a strong believer in the power of intravenous vitamin therapy. The Miami Beach physician, who's also a former model, two-time Mr. USA, and erotic-fiction novelist, custom-mixes IV concoctions he says can boost energy levels, improve sex lives, and strengthen immune systems.
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Study: Miami’s Causeways Highly Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise

Miami's cross-bay bridges are a treasure. Some of the city's purest joy comes when you're careening over the Julia Tuttle or Rickenbacker Causeway with the windows down, watching Biscayne Bay sprawling out under you as you laugh maniacally at how cool your life is compared to your college friends' lives up north. It's a small joy Miamians get to experience year-round.
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with music, art, parties, and boozy beverages galore. From Coral Gables to Little Havana to South Beach, these are the best places to be until the sun comes up Monday morning.
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Larry Flynt on President Trump on TV: “He Should Be Disinvited Until He Can Tell the Truth”

Larry Flynt is, to say the least, one of the more polarizing figures in American entertainment history. The 74-year-old Kentucky native is the founder of the infamous Hustler, a porn magazine that since 1974 has pushed the boundaries of the public’s sensitives. It was his contribution to the porn industry that brought him wealth in the form of a diversified empire that now stretches into casinos, hotels, films, and retail outlets.
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DraftKings and FanDuel Could Become Legal in Florida Under Proposed Law

Florida legislators have long fought efforts to expand gambling. But apparently, their steadfast morals vanish when it comes to daily fantasy sports websites such as the controversial FanDuel and DraftKings. Once again, a lawmaker has filed a bill to make daily fantasy sports sites – in which people bet real money on real athletes in real time – fully exempt from state gambling regulations.
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Vote on Election Day and Get Free Food and Drinks (Correction Appended)

Tomorrow is Election Day, which means American will finally be free of the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton show. But seriously, if you didn't take advantage of early voting, the polls open in Miami at 7 a.m., and you can find your polling place at miamidade.gov/elections. And to sweeten the pot...