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Hollywood resident running car rental business out of home, outraging neighbors

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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Residents of one South Florida street are fuming after a neighbor opened a car rental business at his house. They say constant car washing, customers coming and going and parking a fleet of vehicles has changed a quiet section of Lincoln Street in Hollywood to the point where some are ready to move. A new state law actually protects these home-based businesses, and cities have little say. The rental business offers... [...]

Miami men sentenced to 3+ years in prison for stealing medical ventilators

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MIAMI – Two Miami men were each sentenced to 41 months in prison for stealing 192 medical ventilators that were intended to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients in El Salvador. The ventilators were owned by the U.S. Agency for International Development and were worth about $3 million. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida, Yoelvis Denis Hernandez, a.k.a. Guajiro, 42, and Luis Urra-Montero,... [...]

Driver flees scene, leaving injured woman behind following Fort Lauderdale crash

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A woman was hospitalized in critical condition Friday morning following an early morning crash that occurred in Fort Lauderdale, authorities confirmed. The crash was reported around 1:30 a.m. in the 600 block of West Broward Blvd. According to Fort Lauderdale Detective Ali Adamson, the victim had to be extricated from her vehicle. She was then transported to Broward Health Medical Center as a trauma... [...]

Florida man gets 16 years for spreading terrorist propaganda

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MIAMI – A Florida man has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for distributing Islamic terrorist propaganda videos online. Court records show that Jonathan Guerra Blanco was sentenced last Friday in Miami federal court. Blanco is a Cuban-born naturalized U.S. citizen. He pleaded guilty in December 2020 to attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to court... [...]

Police: Alleged robber returns to same bank day after crime

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2 men allegedly followed victim who withdrew money to laundromat, then he was robbed at gunpoint MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Police said a man involved in the armed robbery of a victim after following him from the TD Bank branch in west Miami Dade returned to the same bank the next day. That’s when bank personnel contacted Miami-Dade police and Larry Jahiem White and Tyrese Lamar Blue were arrested in connection with a robbery on Tuesday,... [...]