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    News Africa looks to private sector to fund ocean climate action

    Countries on Africa's west coast are increasingly turning to climate funding initiatives to boost livelihoods of oceanside communities, aid biodiversity and take climate action. On the margins of the high-level political forum on sustainable development currently underway at the United Nations...
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    News Israeli museum finds sketches hidden in Modigliani painting

    Curators at an Israeli museum have discovered three previously unknown sketches by celebrated 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani hiding beneath the surface of one of his paintings. The unfinished works by Modigliani, an Italian-born artist who worked in Paris before his death in 1920, came...
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    News WATCH: Stunt driver jumps bridge in Florida Keys

    A stunt driver does his latest dangerous drive on a bridge in the Florida Keys and it was all caught on camera. Travis Pastrana received the green light from the Marathon City council to jump across what used to be the bridge to Boot Key on Marathon on Tuesday. Pastrana drove the 1983 Subaru...
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    News Man dressed up as Spider-Man robbed woman in Broward, police say

    Officers arrested a man who was dressed as Spider-Man on Monday night in Hollywood. A woman told police officers she was outside a laundromat, at 1410 North Federal Highway, when she saw a man wearing the symbiote costume, also known as the Black Suit. The woman said she approached him, asked...
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    News Man injured during shooting in Miami’s Little Haiti, police say

    A man was injured during a shooting on Tuesday night in Miami’s Little Haiti. Officer Michael Vega, a spokesman for the Miami Police Department, said the shooting was in the area of Northeast Miami Place and 65 Street. Officers responded to the shooting shortly after 9:10 p.m. after witnesses...
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    News Federal investigation into New York man’s fatal fall in Coral Gables continues

    Elmer Cruz Solis told his family and friends he loved his job. The 43-year-old married father of four girls enjoyed the view from above as he washed the windows of all kinds of buildings. It was a job he did without incident for 25 years. Esmeralda Cruz, his sister, said he traveled from Long...
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    News Teenage boy’s murder remains unsolved 9 years later in Broward

    It has been almost a decade since a 16-year-old boy was shot in the head in Broward County and detectives haven’t arrested the culprit. Jacob Rivera was brain dead after his killer ambushed him on July 12, 2013, near Johnson Street and North 66 Avenue in Hollywood. He died in the hospital days...
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    News Video shows crash near to street shooting injuring FIU student

    Surveillance video shows a driver crashing into a pole and five people running out of a white Mercedes — including one who appeared to be holding a rifle. The group abandoned the car. The crash was a half-mile away from where a June 13 shooting injured Ashley Rodriguez, a 21-year-old Florida...
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    News Ann Shulgin, pioneer of psychedelics in therapy, dies at 91

    Ann Shulgin, who together with her late husband Alexander Shulgin pioneered the use of psychedelic drugs in psychotherapy and co-wrote two seminal books on the subject, has died at the age of 91. Shulgin had been in ill health because of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, her daughter...
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    News Yosemite wildfire grows, but giant sequoias remain protected

    A wildfire on the edge of a grove of California’s giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park grew overnight but remained partially contained Tuesday. The 6-day-old fire was not expected to make a significant advance into the famed Mariposa Grove, an official told a community meeting Monday...
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    News Exclusive: Video shows Monroe deputies arrest Miami-Dade police officer after chase

    Video from deputies’ body camera and dash cam shows when an off-duty Miami-Dade police officer was arrested last month in the Florida Keys. Officer Donovan William Rojas was relieved of duty without pay as a result of the June 12 arrest and he is facing charges in Monroe County. According to...
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    News Pompano vice mayor’s apology for cursing at cop kicks off raucous meeting

    Supporters and detractors of Pompano Beach Vice Mayor Beverly Perkins packed the city commission chambers Tuesday as the official at the center of a traffic stop controversy apologized for her conduct, kicking off a heated meeting. The saga began after the release of body camera video from an...
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    News Henry E. Kinney Tunnel to temporarily close next week in Fort Lauderdale

    Officials are temporarily closing The Henry E. Kinney Tunnel in Downtown Fort Lauderdale. Starting on Monday, July 18, workers will close U.S. 1, between Southeast Seventh Street and Broward Boulevard. The area will reopen on Friday, July 22. ”We scheduled this to come in the middle of the...
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    News Man who lost $52K in valuables to woman he met at bar wants suspect caught

    A Fort Lauderdale man who police said was robbed out of $52,000 worth of valuables, including a $40,000 Rolex watch, by a woman he met at a bar tells Local 10 News he wants to see the suspect behind bars. Fort Lauderdale police put out a bulletin seeking information on the woman Tuesday. On...
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    News Judge denies Parkland shooter defense team’s request to bar state from using assessment questions

    Days before opening statements were set to begin in the penalty phase of the trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz, defense attorneys tried unsuccessfully Tuesday to get Judge Elizabeth Scherer to bar prosecutors from using questions from a psychological assessment during the trial...
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    News Twitter sues to force Musk to complete his $44B acquisition

    Twitter said Tuesday it has sued Elon Musk to force him to complete the $44 billion acquisition of the social media company. Musk and Twitter have been bracing for a legal fight since the billionaire said Friday he was backing off of his April agreement to buy the company. The chair of...
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    News Angry mom speaks out about vulgar road rage incident caught on camera in southwest Miami-Dade

    An angry mother recounts the moments she and her daughter became victims of a road rage encounter in southwest Miami-Dade. Natasha Garcia says she was driving on Bird Road and 127 Avenue on Friday, when a driver began tail-gating and honking at her. Her cell phone recorded the moments when the...
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    News Price Center in Wilton Manors offers free monkeypox vaccines

    Michael “Mike” Nicotera and his husband D. Michael Irad, who both live in Broward County, decided to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus. Nicotera had a card showing he got his smallpox vaccine years ago to show that vaccines are how you eliminate diseases. “I think you have to get...
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    News Victim of brutal Rodeway Inn rape speaks following $16M settlement

    The victim of a vicious beating and rape at a northwest Miami-Dade hotel in 2021 spoke exclusively to Local 10 News Tuesday after she secured a massive settlement from the hotel and its security company. Her lawsuit accused employees of standing by and watching it all happen. The assault and...
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    News Hawaii national park gets land where ancient villages stood

    Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island on Tuesday was given new land in a deal that will protect and manage an ocean bay area that is home to endangered and endemic species and to rare, culturally significant Native Hawaiian artifacts. Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit land...
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