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Oops: Miami-Dade forgets to renew gas tax. Drivers get savings, county loses millions

Miami-Dade County administrators realized too late it needed to renew a local gas tax for another 30 years, a lapse that will cost the budget millions of dollars before the 6-cent levy kicks in again next year.

Miami Herald

Florida hospitals will now ask about your immigration status. What to know, how to answer

Hospitals ask patients a lot of personal questions. Medical history? Medications? Preexisting conditions? Smoke, drink or do drugs?

Miami Herald

First-time homebuyers jilted in Miami-Dade. Here’s how to crack pricey housing market

Growing up in Miami, Vince Rives knew he wanted to stay local, because he’s close to his Cuban family. Raised between his parents’ house in Kendall and his grandparents abode in Westchester, Rives, 29, recalled a happy childhood.

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Cop ambush shooter caught, Miami-Dade police say, and officer is out of the hospital

MIAMI — The person who Miami-Dade police say ambushed and shot an officer in the head Wednesday afternoon has been taken into custody, according to Miami-Dade police director Freddy Ramirez.

Miami Herald

‘Extreme injustice’: Homeless man with untreated schizophrenia fights 150-year sentence

MIAMI — The crime that Jared Stephens committed is not in dispute.

Miami Herald

Mike Lindell’s new conspiracy theory: DeSantis’ Miami-Dade win can prove Trump was cheated

Mike Lindell wants to dive into how easily Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won the Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade County in November, and he claims the data could help prove a grand election conspiracy favoring former President Donald Trump.

Miami Herald

As DeSantis injects politics into Florida school boards, parents are getting more influence

MIAMI — In September, a debate over whether the Miami-Dade School Board should recognize October as LGBTQ history month again left board members facing a divided roomful of constituents.

Miami Herald

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Barry Jackson: NFL studies that shed light on Miami’s 15-year decline. And what must change.

MIAMI — The Miami Hurricanes have no business losing to teams without any players that they even recruited, and they have done it now three times in four years with FIU, Louisiana Tech and Middle Tennessee.

Miami Herald

Authorities release scene and evidence photos after OnlyFans model arrested for stabbing boyfriend

Images of Courtney Clenney’s hand, feet and clothes show bloody aftermath of the alleged fatal stabbing of boyfriend Christian Obumseli

The Independent UK

Miami’s star turn in the crypto boom now has an iconic bust: the Heat’s FTX Arena

MIAMI — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried got a thumbs up from Miami Mayor Francis Suarez during a joint appearance last year when an interviewer asked the 29-year-old mogul if a crypto company approaching a $25 billion valuation really had the financial staying power to fund the full 19 years on…

Miami Herald

Nicole, now a Category 1 hurricane, lashes Florida coast with damaging surge, winds

MIAMI — Hours ahead of its expected landfall on Florida’s east coast, Nicole strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Wednesday evening. Its storm surge and high winds had already clawed pool decks, lifeguard stands and some buildings back into the ocean.

Miami Herald

Republicans dominated Florida elections. What happened to Democrats?

An hour after polls closed in most of Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ reelection was guaranteed.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Florida’s purple reign is over. After midterm elections, it’s solidly MAGA red

To understand what Republicans pulled off — and Democrats allowed to happen — in Tuesday’s elections, let’s let the numbers tell the story.

Miami Herald

Florida counties call for evacuations and closures as Tropical Storm Nicole strengthens

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Nicole continued strengthening on Tuesday as Florida’s east coast prepares for a possible tropical storm or Category 1 hurricane later this week.

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Hurricane warning issued for east coast of Florida as Tropical Storm Nicole strengthens

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Nicole continued strengthening on Tuesday as Florida’s east coast prepares for a possible tropical storm or Category 1 hurricane later this week.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: DeSantis hides abuse of power behind ‘executive privilege’

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” — Lord Acton, British historian, parliamentarian and philosopher, 1887.

Miami Herald

3 ex-Proud Boys hired as Miami-Dade poll workers. Insurrection indictment costs 1 the job

MIAMI — Two former members of the Proud Boys — the far-right white nationalist extremist group that has become influential in Miami-Dade’s Republican Party — have qualified to serve as poll workers in Miami-Dade County and will be interacting with voters on Election Day.

Miami Herald

How Republicans’ ground operation with Hispanics could deliver Miami-Dade for DeSantis

MIAMI — Becoming a U.S. citizen was not at the top of Ovidio Rodriguez’s to-do list this year, though the Hialeah resident recently became eligible to apply after leaving Cuba five years ago.

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Questions linger about police shooting in hotel. Kids were in room, bullets cut through walls

MIAMI — In less than 24 hours last month, Miami-Dade police shot and killed two men. One was a suspected armed robber, Jeremy Willie Horton, who led police on a chase in Liberty City before he fatally shot a young Miami-Dade police detective, then was killed himself by other officers.

Miami Herald

Miami-Dade’s mayor wants to pay landlords $10 million to reduce middle class rents

Leasing an apartment in Miami for $3,000 a month could soon come with a new benefit: county rent relief.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Trump and DeSantis put their thumbs on the scale and emerged as winners in Miami-Dade

Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to become an omnipresent force in Florida politics with loyalists at all levels of government who will push his agenda. He’s taken a page out of the playbook of the man whose support thrust him into political stardom four years ago, Donald Trump.

Miami Herald

Miami detective shot in head identified, remains in ‘extremely critical’ condition

MIAMI — With family at his bedside and fellow officers gathered in support outside Jackson Memorial Hospital, Cesar Echaverry — a five-year veteran of the Miami-Dade Police Department — remained in “extremely critical condition” in the neurological intensive care unit on Tuesday.

Miami Herald

What you need to know about dengue, who’s at risk and does it matter where you got bit?

As if COVID, monkeypox and triple-digit heat indices aren’t enough to make you consider sealing yourself inside an air-conditioned hazmat suit, the announcement by Florida’s health department that confirmed the first locally transmitted case of dengue in Miami-Dade County might be enough to get you asking about measurements for such…

Tribune News Service

As Florida home values soar, calls grow to increase Citizens Insurance eligibility cap to $1 million statewide

Inflation is making thousands of Florida houses and condos ineligible for coverage by Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-owned “insurer of last resort.”

Miami Herald

Remote learning apps used in schools tracked kids’ data without their knowledge, report says

When the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional methods of delivering education, school districts across the country and the globe turned to online learning platforms.

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