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Sun-Sentinel

• Detectives seek alleged serial robber

  Sun-Sentinel – 1 hr 25 mins ago  

  Detectives on Tuesday released a composite sketch of an armed robber who may have recently struck as many as seven businesses in Pompano Beach and Fort Lauderdale. Full Story »

• Attack on teen led to pepper spray incident at Lauderdale Lakes school

  Sun-Sentinel – Tue Dec 15, 6:03 pm ET  

  Three adults inhaled pepper spray at a Lauderdale Lakes school building after a scuffle involving teens left the irritant wafting in the air, an official said Tuesday. Full Story »

• Delray Beach DMV office to close in cost-cutting move

  Sun-Sentinel – Tue Dec 15, 5:18 pm ET  

  Nearest office for south Palm Beach County residents is in Lantana If you live here or in Boca Raton and are looking to get a driver's license, prepare for a drive to Lantana or Deerfield Beach. Full Story »

• Lauderdale Lakes man accused of firing into girlfriend's apartment

  Sun-Sentinel – Tue Dec 15, 3:33 pm ET  

  The Broward Sheriff's Office said Tuesday it is looking for a 20-year-old man accused of firing several shots into his girlfriend's apartment during an argument. Full Story »

• Thief targeted places of worship in Miami Beach

  Sun-Sentinel – Tue Dec 15, 1:34 pm ET  

  Chanukah is already under way and Christmas is next week, but Miami Beach police said a Grinch is stealing from both synagogues and churches alike. Full Story »

Miami Herald

• Watson Island developer wants more time

  Miami Herald – 2 hrs 47 mins ago  

  MIAMI The developer behind a long-delayed luxury resort on Miami's Watson Island wants more time to secure financing for the $640 million venture on city-owned land. Full Story »

• Car license plate leads Miami-Dade police to bank robbery suspect

  Miami Herald – Tue Dec 15, 1:42 pm ET  

  Miami-Dade police have nabbed the man suspected of robbing a SunTrust Bank after an off-duty cop alertly took down the tag number of the thief's getaway car. Full Story »

• Burglary at North Miami-Dade warehouse caught on tape

  Miami Herald – Tue Dec 15, 12:47 pm ET  

  Miami-Dade police on Tuesday released surveillance video of a group of men who broke into a North Miami-Dade warehouse and then tried to hit a police officer with their SUV. Full Story »

• Coast Guard searches for 2 missing Miami boaters

  Miami Herald – Tue Dec 15, 12:12 pm ET  

  Coast Guard crews are searching for two missing Miami boaters who left Haulover Inlet Saturday en route to the Bahamas. Rich Alesia and Edwin Pritchard were supposed to arrive on Sunday, but have not been heard from, according to the U.S. Coast Guard . Full Story »

• Magazine names Miami Dade College president `Floridian of Year'

  Miami Herald – Tue Dec 15, 12:02 pm ET  

  Florida Trend magazine will name Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padrón ``Floridian of the Year'' in its January issue, honoring him for his significant contributions to the state during 2009. Full Story »

CBS4 Miami

• I-Team: Feds Crackdown On Medicare Fraud In Miami

  CBS4 Miami – 45 mins ago  

  Twenty people, including a South Florida doctor in Hollywood, were arrested Tuesday morning as part of a nationwide Medicare fraud sting. This follows on the heels of a four month long I-Team investigation led by I-Team investigator Stephen Stock that uncovered the fact that Miami-Dade County is at the epicenter of the entire country's Medicare fraud scams. Full Story »

• Organics Class Teaches You How To Grow Green

  CBS4 Miami – 49 mins ago  

  The holidays bring with them family, lots of gifts, and many times a few extra pounds we all spend the next year trying to work off. For some, going organic is a way to be kind to the environment and to their waist line. Now, a class is being offered to help you take your kitchen organic. Full Story »

• Students Fight School Zone Speeders

  CBS4 Miami – 1 hr 28 mins ago  

  None of them can drive, vote, or stay out past 11pm, but a group of 7th and 8th graders at Miami Lakes Middle school are still doing things many adults can't. Last week they moved a proposed law to crack down on school zone speeders from their chalkboard to the Florida House. Full Story »

• I-Team: Dade Police Investigated For Security Work

  CBS4 Miami – 2 hrs 18 mins ago  

  CBS4 News has learned that Miami-Dade County's Inspector General, the County Ethics Commission and Miami-Dade Police are investigating outside work performed by a high-ranking mayoral aide and members of the police department. Full Story »

• Stories Swapped Through The Web Push Kids To Read

  CBS4 Miami – Tue Dec 15, 7:01 pm ET  

  A South Florida teacher saw the crumbling economy and decided to save money by going on-line and swapping more than just stories with others. So, Tanya Diaz now teaches a valuable lesson about saving money by having her students read used books. Full Story »

NBC Miami

• Gift Cards: Businesses Love 'Em Even More Than You

  NBC Miami – 2 hrs 30 mins ago  

  Gift cards are insanely popular, and they're a gold mine for stores because people forget to use them! Full Story »

• One Tough Dog! Puppy Survives 2-Mile Drag

  NBC Miami – Tue Dec 15, 4:13 pm ET  

  Now it's Holly's owner who is about to experience a drag Full Story »

• South Beach Grinch Targeting Synagogues and Churches

  NBC Miami – Tue Dec 15, 3:58 pm ET  

  We say ba humbug to this thief Full Story »

• Merhige Gets His "Most Wanted" Close Up

  NBC Miami – Tue Dec 15, 3:28 pm ET  

  The feds are trying to make Paul Michael Merhige a household name Full Story »

• Miami-Dade Police Looking for a Few Dumb Men

  NBC Miami – Tue Dec 15, 2:28 pm ET  

  The dumber the officer, the better the chance at a promotion Full Story »

Local 10 Miami

• Police Test Scores To Be Reviewed

  Local 10 Miami – Tue Dec 15, 6:48 pm ET  

  The mayor has ordered an internal review of the county's contract with Miami-Dade College in light of a problem involving the promotion process at the Miami-Dade Police Department. Full Story »

• Cheeca Lodge Reopens 11 Months After Fire

  Local 10 Miami – Tue Dec 15, 6:48 pm ET  

  The legendary Cheeca Lodge & Spa on Islamorada in the Florida Keys welcomed its first visitors Tuesday after 11 months of construction and refurbishing to fix fire damage. Full Story »

• Coast Guard Searches For Missing Boaters

  Local 10 Miami – Tue Dec 15, 6:18 pm ET  

  The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for two boaters who left Miami Saturday but have not yet made it to their destination in the Bahamas. Full Story »

• Merhige Among '15 Most Wanted'

  Local 10 Miami – Tue Dec 15, 5:48 pm ET  

  The U.S. Marshals Service has named Paul Merhige, the suspect in the Thanksgiving Day killings of four of his family members, as one of the "Top 15 Most Wanted Fugitives" in the country. Full Story »

• Lotto Winner's Wife Evicted From Home

  Local 10 Miami – Tue Dec 15, 5:18 pm ET  

  A South Florida woman whose husband won the lottery and then left her was set to be evicted from her home Tuesday evening. Full Story »

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Florida Keys Keynoter

• Voters to decide on schools chief -- elected or appointed

  Florida Keys Keynoter – 1 hr 6 mins ago  

  The Monroe County School Board on Tuesday made it official: Keys voters will decide next year whether to have the superintendent an elected official, as is the case now, or to have the job one appointed by the board. Full Story »

• Keys man jailed on two manslaughter counts stemming from deadly Nov. 28 car crash

  Florida Keys Keynoter – Sat Dec 12, 10:52 am ET  

  A 28-year-old man was jailed Thursday afternoon on two felony counts of vehicular manslaughter stemming from a Nov. 28 crash in Marathon in which two people died. Full Story »

• Key West vehicular-manslaughter retrial delayed

  Florida Keys Keynoter – Sat Dec 12, 10:52 am ET  

  Financial issues have put on hold until at least the beginning of the new year the vehicular-homicide retrial of Maykel Ramos De La Torre, 29. Full Story »

• Pedestrian struck, killed in the Lower Keys

  Florida Keys Keynoter – Sat Dec 12, 10:52 am ET  

  The Florida Highway Patrol has identified a man killed after being struck by a car on Tuesday as Frank Lotitio, 47, of Braintree, Mass. Full Story »

• Wigington proposes local lobbyist registry

  Florida Keys Keynoter – Sat Dec 12, 10:38 am ET  

  An ordinance proposed by Monroe County Commissioner Kim Wigington would make public record of who's paying who to lobby county officials on Keys issues. Full Story »

Miami New Times

• Miami Dolphins' Tony Sparano is a conservative coach who takes huge risks

  Miami New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:17 pm ET  

  Miami Dolphins coach Tony Sparano stomped off the team plane at 10 o'clock the night of November 29. The round-faced 48-year-old was still wearing the clothes he requires every game day: white cap, white long-sleeved T-shirt, green windbreaker, and pleated khaki pants. Six hours before, th... Full Story »

• Golf porn on ritzy Fisher Island

  Miami New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:16 pm ET  

  Raul Quintana skids his silver Mercedes C550 to a stop in the dirt parking lot outside the trailer housing the management offices of Fisher Island, one of the nation's most expensive residential enclaves. Quintana's salt-and-pepper hair is a mess, his green eyes flicker wildly, and spittle foams ... Full Story »

• Homeless under Julia Tuttle try to pass for sex offenders

  Miami New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:16 pm ET  

  For about two years, Daniel Zajac has lived in a tent tucked behind a big tree along the northern banks of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. "I can't live in a shelter," explains the jittery 47-year-old transient who wears a "New York" hat and a William Taft mustache. "I'm just not the type of person th... Full Story »

• Milton Hirsch removes backers in search of judge's seat

  Miami New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:16 pm ET  

  Milton Hirsch will take Barbara Carey-Shuler's money, but he'll hold off on her endorsement. And the 2010 Miami-Dade judicial candidate doesn't want Angel Gonzalez giving him the thumbs-up either. Hirsch removed their names from the official endorsement list on his campaign website, Full Story »

• Coconut Grove residents ruffled over missing peacocks

  Miami New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:16 pm ET  

  The other day, 44-year-old Carlos Iglesia was jogging in Kennedy Park in Coconut Grove when he heard a strange noise. It sounded like a lady screaming in pain — or intense pleasure? — so he slowed down to investigate and found several wild peahens huddled behind an old fence. ... Full Story »

Broward-Palm Beach New Times

• Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano Is a Risk-Taking Conservative

  Broward-Palm Beach New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:30 pm ET  

  Miami Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano stomped off the team plane at 10 o'clock the night of November 29. The round-faced 48-year-old was still wearing the clothes he requires every game day: white cap, white long-sleeved T-shirt, teal windbreaker, and pleated khaki pants. Six hours before, the team h... Full Story »

• The Inaugural Miami Music Festival Fails

  Broward-Palm Beach New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:29 pm ET  

  If Boca Raton band Stonefox's performance really shone at the Miami Music Festival this past weekend, it only served to underscore the amateurish quality of much of the rest of the event. Planned as a three-day set of simultaneous showcases, à la SXSW, the inaugural edition of MMF was poor... Full Story »

• Electro-House Producer Wolfgang Gartner Stinks Up Mansion With Cheese

  Broward-Palm Beach New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:29 pm ET  

  I went to Mansion on Saturday night to find out what's happened to electro-house. This energetic style, with equal parts electro and indie dance rock, exploded on the international scene in 2006 but lost most of its edge within two years. It was seemingly extinguished by the same intensity that m... Full Story »

• Bilingual Pop Stars Aventura Play the American Airlines Arena on Saturday

  Broward-Palm Beach New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:29 pm ET  

  Aventura is one of the most successful Latin music acts in the world at the moment. Not "arguably" and not "possibly" — it's simple fact. How else do you categorize a group whose most recent album is the biggest Latin seller of 2009, breaking sales records for most consecutive weeks at number ... Full Story »

• Pop n' Reggae Fest

  Broward-Palm Beach New Times – Tue Dec 15, 4:29 pm ET  

  Call up your ganja dealer, pick up a pack of Rizlas, and break out your red, yellow, and green dreadlock cap. So it looks silly on your non-dreadlocked head. Who cares? This weekend is the Pop n' Reggae Fest 2009, and you know you've been waiting for it. Because where else do you get to see Negus... Full Story »

Key West Citizen

• Rooting On The Conchs -- And Competing

  Key West Citizen – Tue Dec 15, 1:15 am ET  

  It was a first place weekend for senior competition cheerleader Lindsey Vinson and her teammates on the Varsity cheerleading squad. The group took first place at the Palm Beach Classic regional... read more Full Story »

• BCCLT is $1.7M in debt

  Key West Citizen – Tue Dec 15, 1:15 am ET  

  Outraged Key West city commissioners on Monday heard from an auditor about the myriad financial missteps taken by a Bahama Village affordable housing nonprofit that operated with grant funding and... read more Full Story »

• Mile Markers

  Key West Citizen – Tue Dec 15, 1:15 am ET  

  FLORIDA KEYS Census hiring locals today The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring Florida Keys residents today and Wednesday to conduct various census operations. The bureau is actively... read more Full Story »

• Today in Keys History

  Key West Citizen – Tue Dec 15, 1:15 am ET  

  20 YEARS AGO The South Florida Water Management District voted to buy the Big Pine wetlands slough that affected 605 acres. The Greater Key West Chamber of Commerce was the sponsor of the... read more Full Story »

• School Board mulls appointed superintendent vote

  Key West Citizen – Tue Dec 15, 1:15 am ET  

  The Monroe County School Board is expected to approve a ballot initiative today that once again asks Florida Keys voters whether their schools superintendent should be appointed rather than... read more Full Story »