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  North Miami Police Arrest Hundreds for Small Amounts of Weed After Adopting Plan to Issue Citations Instead

  September 26 at 9:30 a.m.

  Since signing on to the program, North Miami cops made 214 arrests of people with less than 20 grams of marijuana. The city is just the latest in Miami-Dade County to ignore a legislative push to arrest fewer people for weed possession, as well as a handful of other minor offenses covered by a 2015 county ordinance. Since the ordinance passed in June 2015, North Miami PD has made 549 arrests.

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  Fort Lauderdale's Best Dive Bar Shut Down to Make Way for Boutique Hotel

  September 25 at 5:35 p.m.

  The coolest bar in the known free world closed for good over the weekend. Sure, that was a title the International World Famous Treasure Trove ("IWF Treasure Trove" for short) bestowed upon itself, but the 23-year-old dive a block from the ocean was at the very least the coolest bar in Fort Lauderdale.

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  Miami Beach Wants Its Own Instagram-Friendly Version of Coral Gables' Umbrella Sky

  September 25 at 8:30 a.m.

  All summer, Miamians couldn’t open Instagram without seeing a selfie under Umbrella Sky, the floating canopy of brightly colored umbrellas in Coral Gables. The installation came down last week after a three-month run.

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  How a Miami Model's Pet Monkey Became an Instagram Star With a Million-Plus Followers

  September 24 at 9 a.m.

  Diddy Kong looks a bit like a mini Furby come to life. The 3-year-old monkey stands at just five inches tall — so tiny he gets bathed with a toothbrush. Miami model Gabriella Katia and her boyfriend Matt Crown were obsessed from the moment they saw him at a Fort Lauderdale animal sanctuary.

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  Rundle's Office Drops Charges Against Cop Who Sexually Assaulted Teenager

  September 21 at 9:58 a.m.

  The case of a 19-year-old allegedly assaulted by a Miami Police officer in some ways mirrors that of Christine Blasey Ford, the research psychologist who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted sexual assault.

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  Nightmare Traffic on the MacArthur Causeway Is Over — for Now

  September 20 at 3:49 p.m.

  At the end of July, the Florida Department of Transportation closed two westbound lanes on the MacArthur Causeway, kicking off a two-year, $12.9 million rehabilitation project on one of the two main links between Miami and Miami Beach. The repairs must take place, FDOT says, because the causeway is dangerously corroded, in large part as a result of years of salt spray from Jet Skis blasting the structure.