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  Parkland Commission Chairman's Support of Sheriff Outrages Victims' Families

  December 12 at 4:02 p.m.

  As chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, Bob Gualtieri was supposed to bring accountability to the families that lost loved ones in that school’s massacre on Valentine’s Day. But Tuesday, Gualtieri slapped those families across the face...

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  Reggae Star Buju Banton Released From Prison After Florida Drug Case

  December 7 at 5:04 p.m.

  Jamaican reggae icon Buju Banton was living in South Florida in 2009 when he was picked up on gun and attempted cocaine-possession charges, but after reviewing the evidence in the case, New Times writer Chris Sweeney found that Banton had likely been set up by a corrupt informant. That reporting led to a Tampa judge's decision to throw out Banton's gun-possession convictions.

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  South Beach's Historic Coral Rock House Defaced With Swastikas

  December 6 at 7:43 a.m.

  For over three decades, the coral rock house at 900 Collins Ave. was a medical office run by Edward Roth, one of the first Jewish doctors in Miami Beach. Over the weekend, drawings of swastikas were found on the home.

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  Miami-Dade County Is Worst in the State at Solving Crime

  December 3 at 8:22 a.m.

  Last week, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement published midyear crime statistics that show Miami-Dade County is still the worst place in the state to be a victim of a crime. The data shows that in the first six month of 2018, Miami-Dade County has solved the fewest percent of reported crimes of any county in the state.

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  SEC Charges DJ Khaled With Lying About Cryptocurrency Deal

  November 29 at 6:33 p.m.

  DJ Khaled is many things to many people. Musician. Record producer. DJ. Social media maven. Fashion icon. Business mogul. And now he can add "alleged cryptocurrency fraudster" to his resumé. Today the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the Miami hip-hop star paid $152,725 in penalties and settlements after it...

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  Two Miamians Arrested for Running Fake Dental Clinic on a Bus

  November 29 at 2:43 p.m.

  How desperate are people for dental care in Miami-Dade County? Apparently so desperate that two locals were able to operate a dental clinic out of a bus and a white Toyota hatchback SUV in a parking lot a few feet from State Road 836. Miami-Dade County Police announced today they arrested 37-year-old Daniela Sulbaran Gonzalez and 44-year-old Victor Bernal for allegedly operating an unlicensed bus dentistry service.