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  Miami Party Boats Can Be Lethal

  February 5 at 7:07 a.m.

  When Cesar Meneses arrived at the marina and saw the yacht he'd chartered to celebrate his 24th birthday, he tried to cancel. As a Miami resident, he'd rented boats before. This one, a sleek, 91-foot yacht with its name, Miami Vice, spelled out on the stern in the font used...

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  Brenda Snipes Became a National Curiosity After a Puzzling Midterm Election

  January 29 at 8 a.m.

  On a Saturday morning in November 2003, Dorsey Miller called his old friend Brenda Snipes and asked if he could drop by. Miller, an adviser to then-Gov. Jeb Bush, didn't explain his motivations over the phone. He knew he'd have a better chance closing the deal in person. Expecting just...

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  Is a West Palm Beach Doctor Heir to the Indian Throne?

  January 22 at 8 a.m.

  Dr. Lord Lee-Benner has seen the dark side of the Sunshine State: its schizophrenics, neurotics, addicts, depressives, illiterate bipolars, disturbed teens, even psychotic ex-ministers. Many of the indigent patients who come to see him at Community Health Center of West Palm Beach, a nonprofit clinic where he volunteers as a...

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  Miami-Dade Had Evidence Teen Did Not Murder Rabbi but Charged Him Anyway, Lawsuit Alleges

  January 21 at 10:35 a.m.

  The case is one of the biggest black eyes in the history of the Miami-Dade Police Department and State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's administration. In 2015, local cops, elected officials, and Rundle stood at a podium and declared then-15-year-old Deandre Charles had murdered Joseph Raksin, a prominent New York City rabbi. Rundle then revealed an utterly ridiculous witness-drawn sketch.

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  Florida Greyhound Racing Has a Complicated Legacy

  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 long-timers holds court near the top of the stands...

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  Royal Caribbean Knew Zipline Company Was Dangerous Long Before a Newlywed Was Tragically Killed

  Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 8 a.m.

  On her 59th birthday, September 3, 2015, Alyda Chimene departed the Port of Miami on Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas and headed ashore for a ziplining excursion in Roatan, Honduras. Chimene, who is from Austin, Texas, thought the tour would be safe, since – as she would later state...