No Injuries After Fire Erupts Inside Hialeah UPS Facility and other top stories.

• No Injuries After Fire Erupts Inside Hialeah UPS Facility

  

  Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A fire erupted inside a UPS facility in Hialeah early Wednesday morning. Arriving Hialeah firefighters found flames and smoke billowing from an upper window on the side of the building at 6001 East 8th Avenue. Hialeah fire said there are multiple fires in the building. They added that it started in an area of the building with a lot of discarded package material. “I just saw a big fire flame and I tried to prevent it, I tried finding a ..

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• Reportan incendio en un almacén de UPS en Hialeah

  

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• Miami Country Day girls invited back to national tournament

  

  Miami Country Day is heading back to New York.Fresh off winning its fourth consecutive state championship, the Spartans found out officially on Tuesday night they will be competing in the annual Dick’s Nationals Classic as part of the four-team girls’ field that will play March 31-April 1 at Christ The King School in Brooklyn.Miami Country Day (29-1), ranked No. 6 nationally by USA Today, is the top-seed in the girls’ tournament and the lone team from South Florida that was selected this year i..

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• Florida legislators shift proposals from teacher pay raises to bonuses

  

  Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto(Photo: AvatarKnowmad, Getty Images/iStockphoto)TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House and Senate both have plans to expand a bonus program for teachers, but what little chance there was of a teacher pay increase faded Wednesday as the lawmaker who proposed the idea dropped it.Sen. David Simmons, chairman of the PreK-12 Education Appropriations Subcommittee, said he no longer is pursuing his proposal for a $200 million pay increase.Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs, decided i..

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• Education bills advance in House amid differences with Senate

  The House PreK-12 Quality Subcommittee approved legislation aimed at limiting the time spent on testing (HB 773) and safeguarding students' and teachers' religious liberties at public schools (HB 303). By Brandon Larrabee The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Two bills on high-profile education issues that could set up conflicts with the Senate unanimously passed a House panel Tuesday.The House PreK-12 Quality Subcommittee approved legislation aimed at limiting the time spent on ..

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• Education Groups Knock 'Misleading' Fewer, Better Tests Legislation

  

  Florida lawmakers might be calling HB 773 the “Fewer, Better Tests” legislation, but parent groups say the bill’s title is totally misleading and isn’t actually doing anything to eliminate standardized testing in the Sunshine State.  State Reps. Manny Diaz, Jr., R-Hialeah, and Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, and Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, are all touting the legislation as a way to scale back standardized testing in Florida. Not so fast, parents say. “First of all, this [title] is a misnomer,” ..

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• Florida optometry bill clears House subcommittee

  

  It’s been dubbed the Eyeball Wars: Optometrists want to prescribe more medications and perform surgeries and ophthalmologists are standing firm against them.Optometrists gained some ground Wednesday when a House bill cleared the Health Quality Subcommittee with an 8-7 vote and headed to the House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee. “They’ve been pushing to expand their scope of practice since the 1980s and now they’re just all out,” said Dr. Javier Perez, a glaucoma and cataract specialist..

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• Why would candidate Trump's statements be considered in ...

  

  Among the legal arguments being presented in various court challenges about the Trump administration’s immigration ban is one that has the attention of scholars: Can a presidential candidate’s campaign statements later be used as evidence in court? (credit: Gage Skidmore) At least one rationale advanced by a federal judge in Virginia cited a 2005 Supreme Court decision about the Ten Commandments – and opinion from now-retired Justice David Souter -as the basis for considering candidate Donald Tr..

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• Florida House chipping away at Depression-era 'liquor wall'

  

  By Jim Turner / News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A heavily lobbied measure intended to knock down a decades-old prohibition on selling liquor in grocery and large retail stores narrowly continued to advance in the House on Tuesday.The Government Operations & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee voted 7-6 to support an amended proposal (HB 81) that would end a Depression-era law requiring liquor stores and bars to be separated from groceries and other retail goods, an issue co..

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