A pair of aging manatees named Romeo and Juliet are set to be released from the Florida aquarium where they’ve lived since 1956, often in inadequate conditions. The effort to free them followed a scathing July report by the USDA and campaigns by animal rights groups.
The director of the Miami-Dade Police Department is alert, awake and responsive as he recovers in a Tampa hospital after shooting himself on the side of I-75 in Hillsborough County following a domestic incident in downtown Tampa earlier in the evening.
Already reeling from the prospect of becoming powerless after Miami-Dade residents vote for an elected sheriff, the police oversight veteran tapped to lead the recently formed Miami-Dade Investigative Civilian Panel (ICP) won’t be coming to South .
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The volunteers trudged to the mansion’s front door, their heads covered, most of them wearing the same navy T-shirts they had been wearing all week, their uniform.
It was about four hours shy of eight full days since the men of Hatzalah of South Florida responded to a call about a building in Surfside that had collapsed. When the Orthodox emergency-response volunteers received word from their dispatcher, they did not know how big the building was, or how many people had been inside. They did not know that they were headed toward one of the deadliest collapses in the history of the country. All they knew was that they were on their way.