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  Survey Finds Millennial Renters in Miami Are Nowhere Close to Buying a Home

  November 19 at 10 a.m.

  With sea levels and student debt on the rise and fears of another recession around the corner, millennials in Miami aren't exactly optimists when it comes to the possibility of owning a home anytime soon.

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  Former Bolivian Leaders Back in Court in Miami Over Human-Rights Abuses

  November 19 at 8 a.m.

  As Etelvina Ramos Mamani recovered from giving birth in her home in the rural highlands of Bolivia, a military sharpshooter fired a single bullet through her small bedroom window, striking her 8-year-old daughter Marlene in the chest. The woman held her daughter as she died.

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  Miami Herald Says Columnists Shouldn't Have Union Protection

  November 18 at 2:57 p.m.

  With only two days to go before votes are counted in an election on whether to unionize employees in the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald newsrooms, Herald reporters have denounced a decision by management to exclude five of their colleagues from union protection.

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  Dancers Sue Hialeah Strip Club Over Unpaid Wages, Labor Violations

  November 18 at 9 a.m.

  The basic rules of employment are simple: Show up for work; get paid. Repeat over time. But when Nancy — who has been stripping for almost two decades in various clubs in Oregon and Florida — shows up for work, she has to pay to be there.

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  Feds Say Delray Man Targeted Foster Children as Recruits in Sex-Trafficking Scheme

  November 15 at 12:38 p.m.

  Offering fancy clothes and luxury cars as bait to recruit vulnerable girls into years of prostitution, William Foster used South Florida as a home base for an expansive sex trafficking operation for at least 15 years, federal agents alleged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in the Southern District of Florida.

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  Critics Start Recall Petition to Remove Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez From Office

  November 14 at 1:18 p.m.

  When voters get pissed off enough about what their local politicians are doing, they can try to oust them. It happened in March 2011 when then-Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez was removed from office following a high-profile campaign bankrolled by billionaire car dealer Norman Braman.