Miami-Dade commissioner wants to remove online posting of county employees’ salaries

Someday, almost every action taken by Miami-Dade County government will automatically be uploaded to the county’s website, available for the public to peruse.That’s the vision, anyway, of some county leaders — including the mayor, at least one commissioner and Miami-Dade’s information technology department — who have been actively pushing to post more information online,...

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App of the Week: Hooked

App Name: HookedPrice: FreeAvailable Platforms: AndroidWhat does this app do? Words with Friends, Angry Birds, Mahjong Connect – these are just a few of the popular apps in the Google Play Store for Android devices. For game app lovers, wading through the possibilities can be daunting.Hooked, a game recommendation app developed by Hooked Media Group, can help.“There are hundreds of thousands of apps...

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Bachelorette Ashley Hebert and JP Rosenbaum are Married

Ashley Hebert is a bachelorette no more!The 28-year-old dentist and her construction manager fiancé J.P. Rosenbaum, 35, walked down the aisle on Saturday in Pasadena, California, reports People Magazine.The ceremony, officiated by Bachelor and Bachelorette host Chris Harrison, was attended by familiar faces from the series including Ali Fedotowsky, Emily Maynard, and Jason and Molly Mesnick.Video:...

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Street honor for heroic NYPD lensman, killed filming Sept. 11 attacks

A police officer killed after he rushed towards the collapsing World Trade Center towers to gather video on Sept. 11 had a street in front of the Police Academy renamed in his honor. Glen Pettit, was an award-winning video journalist before he joined the NYPD in 1997, and began working in the department's Video Production Unit three years later.When the...

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Boat Show may block Miami’s 2016 Super Bowl bid

This winter, the biggest NFL match-up in South Florida might be Super Bowl versus Boat Show. As South Florida readies a bid for the 2016 Super Bowl, it must contend with a major potential conflict on the tourism calendar. The National Football League may move the Super Bowl to Presidents’ Day weekend, already home to the five-day Miami International Boat Show since the 1940s....

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Christmas tree shoppers have more choices this holiday season

Growing up in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, Cami Onolfo and her grandfather traipsed off into the woods every December to chop down their own tree. Even the coldest winters when the temperature dropped to 40 below, they walked through the forest until they found the perfect tree and hauled it back home. Now in her 13th Christmas in mild Miami Beach, this year Onolfo...

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Jamie Foxx Breaks Big News

Nancy O'Dell exclusively sat down with Jamie Foxx, getting the Oscar winner to dish on some big news in an interview continuing Monday.WATCH: The Full Django Unchained Trailer, Uncut!The Django Unchained star has been named the national spokesperson for Big Brothers Big Sisters, and he revealed that his plan to change kids' lives is simple: "What we want to try to do is -- with the help of what you're...

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'Macho' Camacho gets big sendoff in East Harlem

Bolivar Arellano Christian Camacho, 20, with his 14 year old brother Stanley Camacho both sons of deceased boxing Champion Hector 'Macho' Camacho. Here they were riding through the streets of East Harlem where their father was born and raised. It was a goodbye fit for a king of the ring. Boxing legend Hector “Macho” Camacho was given a royal sendoff today...

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Boat Show may block Miami’s 2016 Super Bowl bid

This winter, the biggest NFL match-up in South Florida might be Super Bowl versus Boat Show. As South Florida readies a bid for the 2016 Super Bowl, it must contend with a major potential conflict on the tourism calendar. The National Football League may move the Super Bowl to Presidents’ Day weekend, already home to the five-day Miami International Boat Show since the 1940s....

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Friend testifies foster mom borrowed dog cage for Rilya

A dozen years ago, Geralyn Graham called a friend and asked to borrow a dog cage — where Graham planned to keep her foster child, Rilya Wilson, during the night. Graham “said she was going to use it to keep [Rilya] from doing harm to herself,” Graham’s friend, Detra Coakley Winfield, told jurors this week in Graham’s trial on murder and child-abuse charges. Winfield said...

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