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Why A Growing Number Of Undocumented Immigrants Are Choosing To Leave The U.S. Voluntarily

Over a week ago, immigrant communities in ten major metro areas nationwide - including South Florida - spent days in fear after the Trump administration announced a plan to hold mass roundups of undocumented immigrants. Those raids never materialized.

Candidates Make Pitches To Be Miami Dade College's Next President

Zoo Miami Explores Innovative Techniques To Manage Invasive Pythons

Potential Brightline Stop In Boca Raton Inches Forward

By Brooke Baitinger • 12 hours ago

People living in south Palm Beach County may one day be able to catch an express train to Miami in Boca Raton, saving them the drive to West Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale.

That’s if Brightline officials choose Boca as the location for the train line’s next stop. Officials continue those talks this week.

At Whitney Museum Biennial, 8 Artists Withdraw In Protest Of Link To Tear Gas Sales

By Neda Ulaby • 13 hours ago

More artists are telling the Whitney Museum of American Art they are withdrawing from the museum's high-profile Biennial contemporary art showcase currently underway in New York.

"It was a really easy decision," says artist Nicholas Galanin, who spoke by phone from Alaska, where he lives. Along with three other artists, he told the Whitney on Friday that he wanted his multimedia work pulled from the show.

Former Supreme Court Justice Stevens Lies In Repose

By Brian Naylor • 14 hours ago

Updated at 4:55 p.m. ET

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is lying in repose in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court on Monday. The flag-draped casket was brought into the court as more than 100 of his former law clerks lined the marble steps of the building.

The ceremony was as simple as simple can be.

Justice Stevens, always a modest man, wanted no grand memorial service. So the understated event was televised on C-SPAN, but only the court, Stevens' former law clerks, his family, and the court press corps were invited to attend.

Poll: Americans Not Sold On Trump — Or Democrats

By Domenico Montanaro • 14 hours ago

Updated at 12:20 p.m. ET

Democratic presidential candidates are proposing lots of progressive policies in this election. And while those policies may resonate with the party base, some of those ideas are not popular with a general election electorate, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

WLRN News Wins 13 Sunshine State Awards From Florida Chapter Of Society Of Professional Journalists

By Gerard Albert III • 14 hours ago

WLRN News received 13 awards at the 2019 Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' Sunshine State Awards.

The Sunshine State Awards recognize quality journalism in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands for the calendar year of 2018. Out-of-state journalists judge all entries.

Why It Has Been A Bad Year For Mangoes In Florida

By Robin Sussingham & Janet Keeler • 15 hours ago

A tropical fruit expert said it's been a bad year for mangoes in South Florida.

Speaking at this year’s International Mango Festival in Coral Gables, Dr. Noris Ledesma blamed the situation on the weather. She's the tropical fruit curator at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables.

"It rained almost every week, when we had the blooming,” Ledesma said. “We lost the majority of the crop because of the rainy season."

Equifax To Pay Up To $700 Million In Data Breach Settlement

By Avie Schneider & Chris Arnold • 16 hours ago

Updated at 11:25 a.m. ET

Equifax will pay up to $700 million in fines and monetary relief to consumers over a 2017 data breach at the credit reporting bureau that affected nearly 150 million people.

U.S. Consulates ‘Abusing Their Discretion’ To Stop Legal Immigration, Lawyers Say

By Monique O. Madan • 19 hours ago

For one South Florida man, half a million dollars couldn’t cut it.

In order for the U.S. citizen to bring his parents from overseas on immigrant visas, the Department of State wanted proof that he had at least four times the required amount. In his case, federal law says the man only needed to show $220,000 in assets, but the U.S. demanded proof of $1 million.

Tennessee Man Beats Out 141 Others To Win Hemingway Look-Alike Contest In Key West

By Gwen Filosa • 20 hours ago

ANDY NEWMAN / FLORIDA KEYS NEWS BUREAU via Miami Herald

A white-bearded retired banker beat out 141 contestants in the Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest in Key West at the annual Hemingway Days festival.

Joe Maxey, 68, of Cedar Hill, Tennessee, in his eighth appearance at the contest, said his persistence paid off on Saturday night at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, where the three-round competition was judged by a panel of former winners.

“I love his writing,” Maxey said, after his victory. “He was a great writer and just to be part of this history of Hemingway is just incredible.”

Boil-Water Order Lifted In Most Of Fort Lauderdale And Other Cities

By Susannah Bryan & Johnny Diaz • 20 hours ago

Taimy Alvarez / South Florida Sun Sentinel

Days after a critical water main break caused massive outages in Fort Lauderdale, most customers are back to normal.

Exceptions include Oakland Park and the neighborhoods of Fort Lauderdale around Harbour Beach.

About 5 p.m. Sunday, Fort Lauderdale partially lifted a boil-water order after two days of clear tests. The order was put in place Thursday after a Florida Power & Light subcontractor drilled a 6-inch hole into a water main near Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.