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December 24, 2014: Millions Of Floridians Hit The Road For Christmas Holiday

Today on WLRN-Miami Herald News, you heard:

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9:04 Florida schools will get an extra year before they have to start counting the scores of students learning English in public school grades.

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8:43 Christmas season is a good reminder of how much South Florida's Mexican community has grown. We're taking a look from posadas to piñatas.

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8:20 Floridians are traveling by road in record high numbers for the holidays. The American Automobile Association is expecting 4.6 million people to travel by car in Florida over Christmas.

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8:04 Former Miami Dade College President Robert McCabe has died at 86.

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7:43 Thanks to volunteers, some homeless families in Miami are getting to take part in a special holiday tradition.

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7:30 The holiday rush is on at South Florida airports, but it looks like things won't be made worse by a strike at Miami International Airport. MIA restaurant workers have settled on a contract with their employer HMSHost after seven months of negotiations and strike threats.

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7:20 The state's utilities regulator signed-off on a plan that allows FPL to charge its costumers for a $190 million investment into a fracking project in Oklahoma. But the state's public counsel says that's not okay.

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7:04 The first bill expected to quickly pass when the Legislature opens in March would force dog tracks to report greyhound injuries within seven days.
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6:43 Christmas season is a good reminder of how much South Florida's Mexican community has grown. We're taking a look from posadas to piñatas.

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6:30 Triple-A expects this Christmas travel week to be the busiest on record, with about five million Floridians driving more than 50 miles to visit family and friends.

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6:20 Planning and fundraising are underway for Miami's next big green space and recreation project. It would be called the Underline and it calls for redeveloping the linear land under the Miami Metro into inviting green space with safe pedestrian and bike paths.

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6:04 Floridians are traveling by road in record high numbers for the holidays. The American Automobile Association is expecting 4.6 million people to travel by car in Florida over Christmas. That's the highest number of motorists on the road for the holidays since 2006.

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