Thursday, January 21, 2016

Video: Mother fights off armed carjackers at Hialeah gas station and other top stories.

  • Video: Mother fights off armed carjackers at Hialeah gas station

    Video: Mother fights off armed carjackers at Hialeah gas station
    A mom driving a red convertible fought off carjackers at a Hialeah gas station this week, an incident captured by surveillance video.Masked men approached the customer at the pumps of at a Tom Thumb store, according to WSVN."She was a mom, and what that bad guy didn't know, in the back seat of that car were two kids," Hialeah Police Sgt. Carl Zogby told the station. The suspects were taken into custody after Monday night’s attempted carjacking.
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  • WATCH: Mom fights off car-jackers, saves children from abduction

    WATCH: Mom fights off car-jackers, saves children from abduction
    News WATCH: Mom fights off car-jackers, saves children from abduction FOX 13 News WATCH: Mom fights off car-jackers, saves children from abduction HIALEAH (FOX 13) - A mother fought off a potential car-jacking, and the possible abduction of her children, near Miami.Surveillance cameras captured the woman fighting off a trio of assailants near a convenience store in Hialeah.Two men tried getting into the car of one woman, but, she locked herself in her vehicle.They moved on to anot..
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  • Homestead's Historic Seminole Theatre Begins Its Third Life as a ...

    Homestead's Historic Seminole Theatre Begins Its Third Life as a ...
    At 95 years old, the Seminole Theatre is beginning a new life. Photo courtesy of Seminole Theatre The Seminole Theatre in Homestead has died twice. Once, fire claimed the theater; another time, it was wind. But somehow, some way, it has been revived and will begin its incarnation as a hub for Homestead cultural life."We also want to make it a place where local acts have a chance to play."Built in 1921 for silent movies and live entertainment, it was the centerpiece of downtown Homestead. Bu..
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  • Gov. Scott Balks At Feds Request To Take In Syrian Refugees

    Gov. Scott Balks At Feds Request To Take In Syrian Refugees
    Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – Governor Rick Scott’s administration has balked at a request from the federal government to resettle hundreds of Syrian refugees in the state. In an email this week Patti Grogan, director of refugee services at the Florida Department of Children and Families, told the U.S. Department of State that the governor had been dissatisfied with what he heard in a recent White House conference call on the situation. “Following the t..
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  • Florida Latinos Say Trump Hurts the GOP Brand

    Florida Latinos Say Trump Hurts the GOP Brand
    MIAMI—Dennis Freytes, an Army veteran and Puerto Rican activist in Orlando, has voted for every Republican presidential candidate going back to Ronald Reagan in 1980. That streak may end if Donald Trump secures the GOP nomination—an outcome he said could prompt him to bolt the party and become an independent. Mr. Trump “is a divisive figure,” said Mr. Freytes, a supporter of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. He said he has been repelled by many of the businessman’s comments about immigrants and His..
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  • Florida House, Senate committees advance open enrollment ...

    Florida House, Senate committees advance open enrollment ...
    Students in K-12 public schools across Florida could attend any public school in the state so long as it's not at capacity, under open enrollment proposals that cleared their first House and Senate committees Wednesday.The House Choice & Innovation Subcommittee advanced House Bill 669 from Rep. Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, despite objections from Democrats. Later, a majority of the Senate Pre-K-12 Education Committee also endorsed Senate Bill 886 from Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers, wi..
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  • dark cloud over Florida's Sunshine law

    dark cloud over Florida's Sunshine law
    Citizens need more access to government, not less. But year in and year out, the Legislature chips away at the state's vaunted Government in the Sunshine Law — inserting exemptions that weaken citizens' rights to monitor actions by their elected officials. This legislative session, lawmakers are looking at a new law that aims to hinder the public's access to public records by erecting another legal roadblock. The measure seems innocent enough, changing only one word in state law, but that would..
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  • Ransom, MAST advance to district final in boys' soccer

    Ransom, MAST advance to district final in boys' soccer
    Michael Colonna, who is 6-5, needed every inch of his impressive frame to score Ransom Everglades’ first goal on Wednesday afternoon.Or, depending on who you ask, Colonna needed another inch or two to truly have gotten his head on the ball, which was delivered to him on a long throw-in by Alex Stuart. “I’ll plead the fifth,” Colonna joked when asked if that was his shot or an own-goal by the Edison Red Raiders. ‘[But] I’d like to think I got the back of my head on that ball.”As it turned out,th..
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  • Friends and Neighbors: Helen Aguirre Ferre named to Florida ...

    Friends and Neighbors: Helen Aguirre Ferre named to Florida ...
    The Miami-Dade County community is honored to have one of our own, Helen Aguirre Ferre of Miami Shores, as one of the three 2016 inductees in the Florida Women’s Hall of Fame. The award was announced by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women and the appointment was made by Gov. Rick Scott. The honorees will be inducted at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 27 on the 22nd Floor of the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee.In addition to Ferre, the two other inductees are Carol Jenkins Barnett of Lakeland and Elm..
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  • Colombian woman replaces 'El Chapo' as DEA's most wanted ...

    Colombian woman replaces 'El Chapo' as DEA's most wanted ...
    She may be not replacing Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán as U.S.’ Public Enemy No. 1, but the arrest of the Mexican drug lord places a little-known Colombian woman as one of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s most wanted criminals. María Teresa Osorio de Serna replaced “El Chapo” as the DEA’s most wanted international fugitives – at least online. The DEA confirmed to Fox News Latino that Osorio de Serna is high on the list of priorities for the agency, though not as high as reports have suggested...
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