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    News Uber robber is dangerous, needs to be off streets, police say

    There is surveillance video and it is crystal clear that the man in the video is Francois Romain, according to police. Police have been looking for him since July and they are concerned because of the violent nature of his crimes. It begins with an Uber trip. He’s picked up in Homestead and...
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    News Kobe Bryant's widow says crash photos turned grief to horror

    Vanessa Bryant testified Friday that she only beginning to grieve the loss of her husband basketball star Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna when she was faced with the fresh horror of learning that sheriff's deputies and firefighters had shot and shared photos of their bodies at...
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    News ‘Conduct unbecoming’: Miami firefighter canned over anti-cop rant after officer’s death

    Miami Fire Rescue officials terminated a firefighter Friday over an anti-police rant posted to social media in the wake of the shooting death of Miami-Dade police Detective Cesar Echaverry. The announcement came one day after the post surfaced online, generating outrage from fellow first...
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    News US protections for Idaho salmon, steelhead are here to stay

    A five-year review by U.S. officials has determined that Endangered Species Act protections for ocean-going salmon and steelhead that reproduce in the Snake River and its Idaho tributaries must stay in effect. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries division review made...
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    News Weston middle school on lockdown, city says due to ‘student threat’

    Broward Sheriff’s Office is at the scene of a middle school in Weston investigating what has been reported as a “student threat.” The city of Weston tweeted that Falcon Cove Middle School is currently on lockdown due and that the lockdown will be lifted once the investigation is completed. The...
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    News Authors and friends rally and read for Salman Rushdie

    Friends and fellow authors spoke out on Salman Rushdie's behalf during a rally Friday on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library, one week after he was attacked onstage in the western part of the state and hospitalized with stab wounds. Rushdie's condition has improved, and...
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    News Don't dawdle with latest iPhone update. Here’s why and how

    Apple regularly issues updates to the software powering the iPhone, and sometimes it’s OK to dawdle when it comes to installing them. But that’s not the case with its latest — an upgrade that Apple released Wednesday to close a security hole that could allow hackers to seize control of iPhones...
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    News Q&A: Bardem is excited for US arrival of 'The Good Boss'

    Javier Bardem is confident that audiences in America will enjoy “The Good Boss” as much as moviegoers in Spain when the film arrives in the U.S. later this month. “When we were doing screenings in Los Angeles and New York and some other places in the states, when we were presenting the movie...
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    News Masters hopeful for McConnell support in Arizona Senate race

    Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters said Friday he hopes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will back his close campaign in Arizona, striking a magnanimous tone toward the GOP leader he fiercely criticized during the primary. “I think he’ll come in and spend. Arizona’s gonna be...
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    News More than 9,500 jobs up for grabs at Broward County job fair

    The Mega South Florida Job Fair is being held this week in Broward County and organizers say there are more than 9,500 jobs available from 100 different employers. The job fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at FLA Live Arena (formerly BB&T Center) at One Panther Parkway...
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    News Jobs' Apple-1 computer prototype auctioned for nearly $700K

    An authenticated Apple-1 Computer prototype from the mid-1970s has sold at auction for nearly $700,000. The prototype was used by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1976 to demonstrate the Apple-1 to Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first personal...
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    News Judge won't let Graham delay testimony in election probe

    Sen. Lindsey Graham can't put off his appearance before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia, a federal judge said Friday. Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May ordered...
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    News Grand jury recommends DeSantis remove 4 Broward school board members

    A state grand jury released a report on Friday recommending that Gov. Ron DeSantis remove four seating Broward County Public Schools board members. The school board members — Ann Murray, Donna Korn, Laurie Rich Levinson, and Patricia Good — face accusations of “incompetence and neglect.”...
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    News Russia's Gazprom to shut gas pipeline to Europe for 3 days

    A key pipeline conveying Russian natural gas to Europe will shut down for three days at the end of this month to undergo “routine maintenance," Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom said Friday. In a statement posted online, Gazprom said the only operational turbine at a key compressor...
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    News Buttigieg warns airlines to help travelers or face new rules

    Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has warned airlines that his department could draft new rules around passenger rights if the carriers don’t give more help to travelers trapped by flight cancellations and delays. Buttigieg is asking airline CEOs to, at a minimum, provide lodging for...
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    News Walmart expands abortion coverage for employees

    Walmart, the nation’s largest employer, is expanding its abortion coverage for employees after staying largely mum on the issue for months following the Supreme Court ruling that scrapped a nationwide right to abortion. In a memo sent to employees on Friday, the company said its health care...
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    News Wainwright's new music takes inspiration from turning 75

    Loudon Wainwright III points out that the first line of the first song on his first album, released when he was 23, is about aging: “In Delaware when I was younger.” So it's no stretch that the folk singer's first album of new compositions in eight years, “Lifetime Achievement,” is loosely...
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    News WATCH: Moments after police car passes by, porch pirate helps himself to Amazon box

    It’s only seconds after a Miramar police cruiser drives through a townhome complex that a Ring doorbell camera captures a man in a white T-shirt, long pants and flip-flops walking up to a door and helping himself to an Amazon package. A woman wrote to Local 10 News and sent the video of the...
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    News Sheriff: 85 arrests in California-Florida drug flight scheme

    Eighty-five people have been arrested and millions of dollars in illicit drugs seized in a smuggling operation that used checked bags on commercial flights from California to Florida, investigators said Friday. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference that the drugs were hidden...
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    News Foot found in Yellowstone hot spring linked to July death

    Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park earlier this week is believed to be linked the death of a person last month, park officials said Friday. The July 31 death is being investigated but officials do not suspect foul play, park officials said...
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