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Joseph Hatchett, whose groundbreaking career included becoming the first Black justice on the Florida Supreme Court, died Friday at age 88, the Supreme Court announced Saturday.

The Minnesota Democrat was President Jimmy Carter's vice president and the Democratic nominee for president in 1984. He's lauded for humor and transforming the vice presidency, but also for decency.

Madoff died Wednesday in a North Carolina federal prison, where he was serving a 150-year sentence. He defrauded thousands of investors out of tens of billions of dollars over nearly two decades.

Over decades he became a revered figure fighting on behalf of Miami’s Hispanic and minority communities. Soto, who suffered from Parkinson’s disease, died Saturday of natural causes at age 91.

"I love spending time with bright people," said the longtime game show host. Trebek began hosting the trivia show in 1984 and continued for nearly four decades, even through bouts of chemotherapy.

More than 18,000 people in Florida have now died from COVID-19. We’re remembering one of them, José Antonio Reyes, who moved from Cuba to Miami in 1980, with his wife and daughter.

Nearly 15,500 people in Florida have died from COVID-19, which is not just a statistic, but a number that represents people in our communities. People like Shadel Hamilton, a Miami-Dade Transit worker and pastor at his church in Miami Gardens, who died from COVID-19.

The Miami night has been left without its “Queen”.Martha Flores, one of the leading figures of Miami’s Cuban exile radio, who for decades cooed with…

A key ally of Martin Luther King Jr., Vivian was one of the major organizers of the civil rights movement. His work took him across the South, and through it all, the minister preached nonviolence.

Stiller performed in a comedy duo with wife Anne Meara and appeared in films and on Broadway and television. Onscreen, he was George Costanza's father; in real life, he was dad to actor Ben Stiller.

The singer is known for a roster of hits that included the songs "Dance With Me" and "No Pain No Gain." She died following a battle with cancer.

The South Florida theater world is mourning the loss of one of its giants.Theater and film director Joseph Adler passed away Thursday, after a long battle…