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  Construction Workers Are Dumping Mountains of Garbage Around Miami-Dade

  August 21 at 8:57 a.m.

  If you dump more than 500 pounds of garbage around Florida, you could be charged with a felony. Florida is one of the few states with a felony litter law, and Miami-Dade Police officers are using it: In the past three years, 53 people have been arrested for dumping excessive amounts of trash wherever they feel like it.

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  Miami Won't Have to Give Javier Ortiz Back Pay for Ultra Detail After His Ban From Festival

  August 17 at 8 a.m.

  After Ultra Music Festival's organizers had to shell out $400,000 to an innocent concertgoer who was thrown to the ground, beaten, and tasered by Miami Police officers who lied about their actions in official reports, festival organizers understandably asked the city to send different cops next time.

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  South Florida Priest Murdered in Cuba Outed as Part of Pennsylvania Child Porn Ring

  August 16 at 3:12 p.m.

  The utterly bizarre and horrid tale of Pennsylvania-turned-Florida-turned-Cuban priest George Zirwas has taken an even darker turn this week. More than 15 years ago, New Times published a meticulously reported feature delving into Zirwas' 2001 murder in Havana, where he was injected in the neck with an overdose of muscle relaxant...

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  North Miami City Clerk Caught Blowing Taxpayer Cash on Crazy Road Trip to Mount Rushmore

  August 15 at 4:41 p.m.

  North Miami City Clerk Michael Etienne might have just committed the most wholesome theft of public money in American history. Sure, people steal a few thousand dollars in taxpayer cash all the time — but instead of using that money to cover something heinous, like dog-track gambling debts, Etienne legit stole some money to stare at Abraham Lincoln's giant head...

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  Twenty-Five-Year-Old Miami Woman Caught With 26 Pounds of Weed in Her SUV

  August 15 at 8 a.m.

  When 25-year-old Cuban native Danay Ojeda got into her car last Wednesday afternoon, she had no idea she was being watched. By the time Ojeda loaded 26 pounds of marijuana into the back of her 2017 Dodge Durango, the cops had already been tailing her for weeks.

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  Colombian Anti-Corruption Head Pleads Guilty to Taking Bribe at Dolphin Mall

  August 14 at 5:54 p.m.

  Bribing the head of an entire nation's anti-corruption task force is apparently cheaper and way less glamorous than you might think. Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, who was the director of Colombia's Office of Anti-Corruption, admitted in court today that he could be bought with about $132,000 and that he'd taken a portion of that money inside a bathroom at Miami's Dolphin Mall.