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    News Dog dies after apartment complex catches fire in southwest Miami-Dade

    Miami Dade Fire Rescue units responding to a Saturday evening fire. Cell phone video from drivers captured the bright orange flames, shooting from an apartment along the 13- thousand block of SW 17th Lane in Southwest Miami Dade. Tom Lima who owns the upstairs unit that suffered smoke damage...
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    News Officials: Loud 'boom' heard in north Utah likely a meteor

    A loud “boom” heard across areas of northern Utah was likely a meteor, officials said Saturday. Reports of the loud noise circulated at about 8:30 a.m., with people from Orem to southern Idaho posting that they heard the “boom," The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox tweeted...
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    News 8 Israelis wounded in Jerusalem shooting

    A gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in a suspected Palestinian attack that came a week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza, police and medics said. Two of the victims were in serious condition, according to...
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    News Hundreds drive from Hialeah to Palm Beach to support Trump after FBI search

    Hundreds of people departed a Hialeah Publix headed to Palm Beach in a caravan showing support for former President Donald Trump Saturday in the wake of federal agents executing a search warrant on his Mar-a-Lago estate Monday. FBI agents seized more than two dozen boxes from the estate, some...
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    News Former Deutsche Bank Co-CEO Anshu Jain dies

    Anshu Jain, a former co-CEO of Deutsche Bank, has died, his family said in a statement Saturday. He was 59. Jain died after a battle with duodenal cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 2017. Jain was Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2015, where he helped build the firm's global capital...
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    News Candidates join events as early voters head to polls in Broward

    Signs went up early Saturday morning at 23 sites around Broward County as polls opened for early voting in the Aug. 23 primaries. Across Miami-Dade and Broward, voters will cast ballots in over 75 different elections, ranging from local referenda, to state Senate and House races and primaries...
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    News Florida duo arrested in murder of girl, 3, with multiple ‘cuts, burns, and injuries’

    Police in west central Florida arrested a man and woman accused of murdering a 3-year-old girl in their care, inflicting gruesome injuries all over her body. Citing St. Petersburg police, Tampa ABC affiliate WFTS reports Monica Williams, 33, and Daquan Lindsey, 25, were the caregivers of...
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    News 3 newborn lion cubs a rare joyous sight in war-scarred Gaza

    Three day-old lion cubs were on display Saturday in a cardboard box at a Gaza City zoo, a rare joyous sight for children and adults alike, just days after Israeli aircraft pounded the territory and Gaza militants fired hundreds or rockets at Israel. Veterinarian Mahmoud al-Sultan said each cub...
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    News Crews work to clean up fuel spill at PortMiami

    Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard worked to clean up a fuel spill at PortMiami Saturday afternoon, according to the agency. Just after 2 p.m., the agency tweeted about the spill, saying the responsible party and the local facility were at the scene. The spill appeared to be concentrated near the...
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    News Victim grazed by bullet in Hollywood shooting, police say

    A person suffered a graze wound to the leg after a shooting in Hollywood Saturday afternoon, police said. Hollywood police spokesperson Deanna Bettineschi said officers responded to reports of a shooting near Washington Street and South 21st Avenue at around 12:45 p.m. Police did not say if...
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    News LAPD ends investigation into Anne Heche car crash

    The Los Angeles Police Department has ended its investigation into Anne Heche's car accident, when the actor crashed into a Los Angeles home on Aug. 5. Heche is brain dead and on life support, pending evaluation for organ donation. “As of today, there will be no further investigative efforts...
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    News Hawaii voters picking nominees in race to succeed Gov. Ige

    The candidates running in Saturday's primary election to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. David Ige include a former first lady, a retired mixed martial arts champion and a congressman who moonlights as a Hawaiian Airlines pilot. Democratic U.S. Rep. Kaiali‘i Kahele's decision to run for...
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    News What takes years and costs $20K? A San Francisco trash can

    What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco. That costly, boxy bin is among six trash cans hitting San Francisco's streets this summer in the city's long saga in search of the perfect can. Overflowing trash cans are a common sight in the Northern...
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    News 78 Cuban migrants arrested after 5 landings in Florida Keys

    Authorities arrested 78 Cuban migrants after five separate landings in the Florida Keys over a 24-hour period, a federal official said Saturday morning. Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, who heads the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami sector, tweeted images of three of the five boats. There’s no...
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    News Afghan rights leader heartbroken after year of Taliban rule

    A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country. Samar, a former minister of women’s affairs and the first chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, left Kabul in July 2021...
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    News Florida woman’s dog lost in SC crash found weeks later

    On July 17, a tiny dog from Florida named “Goofuss” ran from a car that had been involved in a crash on Interstate 77 in rural Chester County in South Carolina. There were tears. There were searches. There were Facebook posts. And there were good people doing good things for a stranger they had...
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    News Montenegro mourns after 10 are killed in shooting spree

    Montenegro declared three days of national mourning Saturday, a day after 10 people, including two children, were killed in a shooting spree by a 34-year-old gunman who police said had recently exhibited a “change in behavior.” The attacker used a hunting rifle to first shoot to death two...
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    News Sea turtles hold strong this summer but danger beckons

    As the sun rises on sea turtle nests across the Space Coast, biologists see new rays of hope. Many feared for the future of Florida’s three most prominent types of endangered sea turtles — greens, loggers and leatherbacks — but this year evidence suggests they are rebounding. That’s especially...
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    News Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case

    By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with preferential treatment rather than prosecution after her encounter with Emmett Till led to the lynching of the Black teenager in the summer of 1955. Instead of arresting Donham on a warrant that accused her of...
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    News Shippers prepare for worst as Rhine levels near critical low

    Shipping companies prepared to halt the transport of goods on the Rhine as water levels in Germany's biggest river neared a critically low point Saturday. An ongoing drought affecting much of Europe has lowered rivers such as the Rhine, preventing large ships with heavy loads from passing key...
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