Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Brush Fire Contained Off Turnpike In Hialeah and other top stories.

  • Brush Fire Contained Off Turnpike In Hialeah

    Brush Fire Contained Off Turnpike In Hialeah
    Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter HIALEAH (CBSMiami) — Drivers along the Turnpike had their commute interrupted briefly Saturday morning as a brush fire sparked up, blowing smoke across the highway. Hialeah firefighters began assisting the Florida Forest Service to extinguish the flames, west of N.W. 107th Avenue, near the Turnpike, around 6:30 a.m. “The south edge of the fire has been contained and all efforts are now focused on preventing a northern spread,” officials said later in the..
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  • Police: Hialeah man caught trying to murder former supervisor

    Police: Hialeah man caught trying to murder former supervisor
    HIALEAH, FLA. (WSVN) - A South Florida man is behind bars after allegedly trying to murder his former boss. According to police, a surveillance camera caught 52-year-old Irelio Osorio, Tuesday, attempting to murder his boss. This was after repeated threats through phone calls and text messages, police said. Osorio demanded payment for work he did before being fired due to alleged alcohol dependence. Violence ensued, police said, when the man’s boss met with him at a cafeteria near West 78th Str..
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  • Live roaches under the coffee and climbing the walls put restaurants ...

    Live roaches under the coffee and climbing the walls put restaurants ...
    Restaurants keep opening. Roaches keep living. And 41 restaurants in Miami-Dade have been cited in the last month for not winning the bug battle.Some were cited for roach activity, Others received emergency-shutdown orders. Eight of the 41 restaurants fell into the latter category.The Florida Division of Hotels and Restaurants, Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspects food establishments periodically.READ MORE: Go to the Dining Adviser for reviews and inspection reportsOne of..
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  • Broward County crowns five state championship wrestlers ...

    Broward County crowns five state championship wrestlers ...
    St. Thomas Aquinas has had some exceptional wrestlers over the years, but in the official state record book, junior Grant Aronoff leads them all.And not just alphabetically."He’s right there, right up there at the top," coach Robert Wimberley said. "We have some pretty big names, and he’s equal to them."Aronoff and Josiah Gittman became the latest two-time state champions at Aquinas on Saturday night as both won Class 3A final bouts for the second consecutive year. Aronoff and Gittman made up a..
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  • Retailer hhgregg to close 11 South Florida stores

    Retailer hhgregg to close 11 South Florida stores
    Retailer hhgregg to close 11 South Florida stores The Indianapolis-based retailer also will close a distribution center in Miami March 04, 2017 10:00AM The hhgregg store in Pembroke Pines (Source: Yelp.com) Struggling retailer hhgregg Inc. will close 11 stores and a distribution center in South Florida to stem its losses. The Indianapolis-based retailer of household appliances and electronics will close its distribution center in Miami and stores in Aventura, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, H..
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  • This political leader stormed Florida's capital and made a lot of ...

    This political leader stormed Florida's capital and made a lot of ...
    Richard Corcoran puffed on his cigar, picked up a shotgun and blasted a clay pigeon out of the sky, and then another.As the orange discs broke apart, the speaker of the Florida House reached for another favorite weapon — his iPhone. In the woods of Pasco County, he spoke in hushed tones about his ongoing battle with Gov. Rick Scott over Enterprise Florida’s use of taxpayer money. Riding a golf cart with two of his six kids on a Friday afternoon, he was helping local Republicans raise money whi..
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  • Publix plans to take a bite out of the Richmond grocery scene with its ...

    Publix plans to take a bite out of the Richmond grocery scene with its ...
    APEX, N.C. — Grocery list in hand, Anne Yeager chuckled and hesitated at first when asked how long she has been shopping at Publix Super Markets.“I hate to tell you, because that might tell my age,” she said as she walked down an aisle of a new Publix grocery store in a retail development called Publix Pointe in Apex, N.C., a suburb southwest of Raleigh.“Fifty years, easily,” Yeager said, as her husband, Gresham Yeager, pushed the grocery cart a few steps behind her.The Yeagers are formerly of ..
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  • Brandon Larrabee: Testing debate returns to Legislature

    By Brandon LarrabeeThe News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — The testing wars have returned to Tallahassee.Two years after widespread computer problems undermined confidence in the state’s new standardized tests and sparked a political firestorm, lawmakers are once again floating ideas to reduce high-stakes exams in Florida schools.Critics of the state’s testing system say that reflects the fact that 2015 legislation has done little to tame complaints that children are spending too ..
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  • They used to judge him by his tattoos. Now they judge him by his ...

    They used to judge him by his tattoos. Now they judge him by his ...
    All 30 seats at Jr.’s Gourmet Burgers are full when three more guests arrive for dinner to find a handwritten sign on the door.“If you experience delay, blame Rachael Ray. #SoBeWFF,” it reads.Behind the counter, a man in a silky, red boxing robe, with gray-scale tattoos on his hands and up his neck, directs hamburgers to their tables, eyeing each plate as it comes out of the kitchen window.READ MORE: These restaurants were Miami favorites — then SOBEWFF made them starsJesus de la Torre Jr., 39,..
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  • Tracking legislation that endangers the interests of a free press

    The following is a list of bills the Florida First Amendment Foundation and Historic City News will be tracking throughout the 2017 Legislative Session. These bills have open government and First Amendment implications that could endanger the interest of a free press. During this session, we will report activity on these bills, as well as any new legislation that may be filed. We suggest you keep this pre-session report, as future reports may not contain a complete description of all the bil..
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