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• Alternative public transportation attracts thousands of passengers in...

  

  At a time when many South Florida residents have lost confidence in mass transit, a little-known public transportation system is drawing renewed interest.Shuttle bus or circulator routes that carried more than eight million passengers last year in 27 municipalities are the services riders and public officials alike praise as successful transit programs.Last month, for example, the Miami city commission approved expansion of its bus shuttle system, known as a trolley service, into Wynwood, Coconu..

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• 30th Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival is back

  

  AND DISTRIBUTING FREE FOOD AT HIALEAH. AND IT COULD BE RAINING IN SOME AREAS, YOU MAY WANT TO CATCH A MOVIE. THE FESTIVAL IS BAVENLTH YOU HAVE BEEN WITH THE FESTIVAL 28 YEARS AND ONLY MISSED TWO? YES. IT IS IT A WIDE RANGE OF FILMS. WE HAVE FILMS AND WE SHOW IN DIFFERENT CITIES AND FORT LAUDERDALE AND HOLLYWOOD, IT IS. AND TODAY AND TOMORROW ALSO IN THE SUN RISE SPECIFIC CENTER. AND FORM FILMS AND DOCUMENTARIES AND SHORTS. AND THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, WE WELCOME ESTELLE PORTIONS AND WE'LL BE IN THE ..

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• Erislandy Lara moving to 160, targeting Golovkin

  

  Share the post "Erislandy Lara moving to 160, targeting Golovkin"ByChris Williams:With 32-year-old WBA World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (21-2-2, 12 KOs) having exhausted all the possibilities of big money fights in the 154lb division after his controversial 12 round split decision loss to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last year in July 2014, Lara is reportedly going to be moving up to the middleweight division [160] after his title defense this month against 39-year-old #8 WBA ..

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• Teens In Stolen Police Vehicle Shot By Officer In SW Miami-Dade

  

  Follow CBSMIAMI.COM:Facebook|TwitterSOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE (CBSMIAMI)  — A Miami-Dade police officer was involved in a shooting Friday night. According to investigators, the officer spotted what he thought was an unmarked MDPD vehicle, equipped with police lights and a police dispatch radio, which had been stolen earlier in the week.He spotted the white pickup truck leaving a gas station at SW 240 Street and 112 Avenue, at a high rate of speed and then striking a vehicle in the roadway and flee.  ..

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• Doral wins first state championship in swimming

  Doral Academy came on strong at the finish to capture the Class 3A boys’ swimming state championship on Friday in Stuart.The six boys on Doral’s team didn’t win any individual gold medals, but they piled up points in the relay races, which are worth double points.“That’s how we won,” senior Luis Llenin said of the relays.Doral won gold in the 200-yard freestyle relay and silver in both the 200 medley relay and the 400 freestyle relay.With two races remaining, Belen Jesuit led Doral by five point..

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• Mayor blasts manager in latest Opa-locka meltdown

  

  Just days after city officials appealed to the state for help, Opa-locka Mayor Myra Taylor lambasted the man who has been leading the drive to rein in the city’s collapsing finances.She accused City Manager Steve Shiver of leaking embarrassing information about the city's budget woes to the media.She accused him of trying to undermine her authority by turning city commissioners against her.Three weeks after Shiver warned that Opa-locka was steeped in mounting debts, she called for him to be fire..

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• New York City is the 81st best city for veterans

  

  With Nov. 11 being Veterans Day and about 422,000 veterans struggling to find work in the U.S., the personal finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of2015’s Best & Worst Cities for Veterans.Freedom is not free. Protecting that right demands hard sacrifices, including the loss ofmillionsof American lives. Here at home, we have a duty to safeguard the rights of our military personnel by providing adequate benefits — such as health care, housing loans and education assistance ..

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• SWIMMING: Tarpons' Schroeder wins 2 golds

  The senior won the 100 yard breaststroke, the 22^nd event of the night, in a time of 56.41, edging out Julio Horrego of Hialeah Gardens Mater Academy.

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• History of Sunday's Governor's Cup at New Smyrna Speedway

  

  Dave Westerman is a Florida short-track racing authority. He knows more short-track history than IBM’s Watson has circuits. With the Governor’s Cup scheduled Sunday at New Smyrna Speedway, I asked Dave, who announces at NSS and other area tracks, to send me the history of the race and he put this detailed feature together. There are some amazing facts and figures in here. It’s well worth a read if you follow short trackers in Florida.By Dave WestermanNew Smyrna SpeedwayThere are many big Super L..

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• Holiday Time en Disneyland ResortŽ

  

  SORTEO DE TELEMUNDO 52 Y ACCESO TOTAL HOLIDAY TIME EN DISNEYLAND® Reglas Oficiales Del 16 de noviembre del 2015 al 27 de noviembre del 2015 INFORMACIÓN PRELIMINAR:No es necesario comprar. No es válido fuera del áre..

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