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For nearly five months, Angela Terrell never saw a penny from her unemployment payments. She still hasn’t. She quickly found herself in a financial crisis, relying on family to pay her rent and bills for her apartment in the Little River neighborhood.

Sen. Jason Pizzo, D-North Miami Beach, requested $66 million (Senate Form 1182) to shift property owners from septic tanks to a sewer system in the low- to-moderate income Little River area of Miami, where 1,650 parcels are vulnerable to rising groundwater.

Miami-Dade County will host two meetings, on Tuesday and Thursday, to get input from residents and property owners about fixes to deal with increased flooding driven by sea rise.

This week on The Florida Roundup...On Thursday, Governor Rick Scott announced that at least five people had contracted the Zika virus in Miami's Little…

Nine people were shot and wounded at West Little River Park while playing basketball Monday afternoon.The shooter allegedly opened fire from the passenger…