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Girl, 4, shot to death in car in Miami-Dade

Gilma Avalos, Betty Yu and Brian Hamacher, NBC South Florida
NBC South Florida - Miami-Dade Police are investigating after a 4-year-old girl died after she was shot inside a car Saturday night.
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Emma Anderson, 82 on Miami-Dade Metrorail train (Courtesy NBC Miami)

82-year-old pulled from Miami-Dade Metrorail

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NBC MIAMI - Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez issued an apology Thursday to an 82-year-old woman who was pulled from a Metrorail train in Miami last month.
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Cullen Jones teaches kids to swim (AP Photo)

Does a lack of swimming pools in black neighborhoods endanger lives?

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - A South Miami community activist says the lack of access to a pool and swimming lessons in the city’s African-American neighborhood means black kids don’t have the skills to swim, in some cases costing lives...
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Police officers stand together at the AmericanAirlines arena after the memorial service for two Miami-Dade police officers Amanda Haworth and Roger Castillo on January 24, 2011 in Miami, Florida. Castillo and Haworth were killed last Thursday when they were serving an arrest warrant. Today in St Petersburg, Florida two of the city’s police officers were gunned down. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

African-American selected to be Miami-Dade’s senior police officer

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - The new director, J.D. Patterson Jr., was one of six candidates in the running for the county’s most senior cop...
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Chris Brown performs live on stage during Supafest 2012 at ANZ Stadium on April 15, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

No charges against Chris Brown in phone grab

Curt Anderson, Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) - Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown won't be charged with a crime after a woman claimed he snatched her phone when she tried to take his photo outside a Miami Beach club...
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DEA arrest 91 people in synthetic drug raid in South Florida.

DEA arrests 91 in synthetic drug raid

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than $36 million in cash and arrested 91 people in a nationwide crackdown against manufacturers, distributors and vendors of synthetic designer drugs...
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Miami Dade Fire Captain Brian Beckmann (source: Miami-Dade County)

Fireman who slammed Trayvon's parents demoted

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Brian Beckmann, the Miami-Dade fireman who found himself in hot water for controversial remarks he made on Facebook about Trayvon Martin and his parents, has been demoted..
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Co-workers grant Sybrina Fulton vacation time

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Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, will be able to take eight months of paid leave because of generosity of Miami-Dade County employees...
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Firefighter distances himself from 'sh*tbag' rant

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - A Miami-Dade firefighter who ranted about the "sh-tbag parents of our urban youth" in response to charges being filed against George Zimmerman, is now distancing himself from his Facebook post...
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Fire captain on Trayvon case: Blame 'sh*tbag' parents

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - The Miami-Dade Fire-Rescue Department is investigating a Facebook post by one of its captains that seems to blame the shooting death of Trayvon Martin on the 'shi*tbag parents' of 'our urban youth'...
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