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    News Fugitive arrested for 2009 murder during party in Florida City

    Police officers arrested a 38-year-old murder suspect, who detectives had been searching for since 2009, on Thursday afternoon at the Miami International Airport. Petro Plaisime, of Homestead, was wanted for the murder of Elmas Pierre and the attempted murder of three other men after a shooting...
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    News Hitching up; Landmark restaurant Wagons West in Pinecrest is for sale

    South Miami-Dade’s iconic breakfast restaurant Wagons West is up for sale, but thankfully, it will not be closing its doors. After 42-years in the kitchen, Wally Muench is selling the legendary diner on South Dixie Highway. He told Local 10 News he’s still there seven days a week, greeting...
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    News WATCH: Florida man seen climbing into drive thru window, stealing cash drawer

    Orlando police are looking for a man they say was caught on camera climbing into a Wendy’s drive thru window and stealing a cash drawer. Investigators released surveillance video of the robbery that happened at a Wendy’s Restaurant near Universal Orlando in June, in hopes of catching the man...
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    News EXPLAINER: What's next for 3 other ex-cops in Floyd's death

    Now that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to federal prison, attention turns to the fates of three fellow ex-cops who are still working their way through a complicated web of state and federal court proceedings arising from the killing of George Floyd. Tou...
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    News Uvalde mayor: Police didn't get early chance to end massacre

    The mayor of Uvalde on Friday disputed a new report that alleges missed chances to quickly end the massacre at a Texas elementary school, again reflecting the lack of definitive answers about the slow law enforcement response to one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history. Mayor...
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    News 1 person shot in Hollywood, police say, could be possible road rage

    Hollywood Police are investigating a possible case of road rage. According to police, officers were called to the 2100 block of Sheridan Street just after 12:30 p.m. Friday. Sky 10 was over the scene where video captured a car riddled with bullets. According to police, 1 person was...
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    News EXPLAINER: 5 key takeaways from the June jobs report

    Inflation is raging. The stock market is tumbling and interest rates rising. American consumers are depressed and angry. Economists warn of potentially dark times ahead. But employers? They just keep hiring. The Labor Department reported Friday that America’s dinged and dented economy managed...
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    News Family of journalist killed in West Bank lashes out at Biden

    The family of a Palestinian-American reporter killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank lashed out at President Joe Biden in a letter released Friday over his administration's response to her death. Relatives of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh expressed “grief...
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    News ‘Jurassic Quest’ returns to Broward County for 1 weekend only

    Get ready to go back to prehistoric times this weekend as “Jurassic Quest” returns to the Broward County Convention Center. Dinosaur fans will get to see awesome moving and roaring replicas of the thunder lizards that once ruled the earth! You will also get to see real life fossils and take...
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    News Russia sticks US, UK embassies with 'unrecognized' addresses

    Moscow has taken a page out of Washington’s playbook to troll both the U.S. and the U.K. by renaming the streets in front of their embassies in the Russian capital. The streets are now officially named for the two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine where fighting is now the fiercest. Russian...
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    News Report finds 'unnecessary' force by agents at Rio Grande

    U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback engaged in “unnecessary use of force” against non-threatening Haitian immigrants but didn't whip any with their reins “intentionally or otherwise," according to a federal investigation of chaotic scenes along the Texas-Mexico border last fall that sparked...
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    News Larry Storch, zany Cpl. Agarn on TV's 'F Troop,' dies at 99

    Larry Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl. Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, died Friday. Storch was 99. Storch died of natural causes early Friday in his New York City apartment...
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    News US sending $400 million in military aid to Ukraine

    The U.S. will send another $400 million in military equipment to Ukraine, including four more advanced rocket systems, a senior defense official said Friday, in an effort to bolster Ukrainian efforts to strike deeper behind Russian frontlines in the eastern Donbas region. The aid comes as...
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    News Wildfire grows near famed Yosemite grove of sequoia trees

    Part of Yosemite National Park has been closed as a wildfire quintupled in size near a grove of California's famous giant sequoia trees, officials said. The fire forced park officials on Thursday to close Mariposa Grove, which has the largest sequoia grove in Yosemite and features more than 500...
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    News Correction: Student Loans-Public Service story

    In a story published July 6, 2022, about a program that forgives student loan debt for public service workers, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the program cancels federal student loan debt after 10 years of public interest work, or 120 payments. The story should have said that...
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    News A look at high-profile political assassinations this century

    Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday by a gunman who opened fire on him as he delivered a campaign speech on a street in western Japan, shocking the country. Here's a global look at other high-profile political assassinations in the 21st century: — Oct. 15 2021...
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    News Louisiana abortion ban allowed to proceed; judge lifts stay

    Louisiana can now enforce its ban on almost all abortions under a judge’s order issued Friday amid a flurry of court challenges to state “trigger” laws crafted to take effect when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The decision came the same day President Joe Biden issued an...
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    News EU, Morocco renew migration deal after Spanish border deaths

    The European Commission vowed Friday to step up its work with Morocco to fight human smugglers who are using “new, extremely violent methods" — a move that comes two weeks after 23 people died at the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. EU Commissioner for Home Affairs...
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    News City of Miami’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program to soon end

    The City of Miami’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program will end next week, the city announced on Friday. The last day and time applications will be accepted will be Wednesday, July 13, at 5 p.m. The city announced in a news release that they are forced to stop accepting applications as “all...
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    News Gov. DeSantis unloads on Gavin Newsom after the California Governor released campaign ad in Florida

    The war of words is growing between the Governors of the Sunshine State and Golden State. This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom began running a television ad in Florida which takes shots at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his policies, while drawing a contrast with California. “Freedom, it’s...
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