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ESPN identifies Miami football biggest 2024 question mark
Roster depth is "Post-spring Top 25 teams' biggest question marks heading into the fall" for the Miami football program in an ESPN article earlier this week. Mario Cristobal has worked hard to improve the Miami roster entering his third season as head coach. Miami ranked 12th in the 2023 247Sports...
Miami Heat Among 14 Teams Being Sued For Alleged Musical Copyright Violations
According to 14 individual complaints filed in the United States District Court in Manhattan, NBA teams, including the Miami Heat, allegedly used copyrighted music in promotional videos on social media platforms without expressed written permission.
Severino and three New York Mets relievers team up for a 1-0 shutout against the Miami Marlins
Luis Severino and three relievers teamed up to pitch a four-hit shutout as the New York Mets defeated the Miami Marlins 1-0 on Saturday. Pete Alonso doubled in the fourth inning with one out and scored the game’s only run when Francisco Alvarez grounded into a fielder’s choice with the bases loaded.
South Florida at the 2024 Summer Olympics: Meet more than 50 locals competing in Paris
A summer of international athletics continues this week with the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Wednesday night. The U.S. Olympic Team features nearly 600 athletes, including many who are from or have current ties to South Florida's Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. As the countdown to the...
Self-professed 'Wolf of Airbnb' sentenced to over 4 years in prison for defrauding landlords
NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man who boasted that he was the “Wolf of Airbnb” was sentenced Monday to over four years in prison for defrauding New York City landlords and a federal pandemic-relief government program. Konrad Bicher, 32, of Hialeah, Florida, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Lorna G. Schofield. The prison term of four years and three months came after Bicher pleaded guilty a year ago to a wire fraud charge. He was also ordered to forfeit $1.7 million and pay $2.2 million in restitution. He declined to speak at the sentencing. Prosecutors said Bicher operated at least 18 Manhattan apartments as “mini-hotels” while using the pandemic as an excuse not to pay landlords more than $1 million in rent from 2019 to April 2022. They said he also got government-guaranteed loans through a program meant to provide relief to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Laredo, East LA and Hialeah, among the Latino-heavy cities with the highest poverty rates in the U.S.
A new study of the ten census-designated cities with 100,000 or more residents and high Latino populations showed their poverty rates are 50% higher than the national average. The ten communities, which include Laredo, Texas; East LA and Hialeah, Florida had an average poverty rate of 18.7%, considerably higher than the national poverty rate of 12.5% and the overall Latino poverty rate of 17.2%, the report by Axios shows.
211 Big Bend hoping to improve response times for 988 suicide crisis hotline
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - 211 Big Bend, a Tallahassee based suicide and crisis prevention hotline, is hoping to improve response times for the 988 suicide crisis hotline. The three-digit 988 was launched nationwide in 2022 to replace the old 1-800 number. The State of Florida is struggling to meet a...
RIVA Spain and UM School of Architecture Launch Design Studio
RIVA Spain, a luxury flooring solutions brand and leader in European wood manufacturing, is happy to announce a dynamic collaboration with the University of Miami School of Architecture to establish the RIVA Spain Material Innovation Design Studio. This groundbreaking initiative, spearheaded by esteemed Professors Shawna and Chris Meyer, will provide architecture students with unparalleled, hands-on experience in material innovation over the course of three years.
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