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...Sept. 12, with 17 games left in the regular season, the New York Mets led the Philadelphia Phillies by seven games in the National League's Eastern Division. No team in baseball history had ever blown that big a lead, that late in the season. Until now. After the Florida Marlins whipped the listless Mets 8-1 on Sunday, and the Phillies finished off the Washington Nationals 6-1, the team's faithful were on the verge of a collective meltdown...
...arsenal of financial firepower unlike ever before. It used to be that a candidate who did well in Iowa and New Hampshire had a period of some weeks in which to use the good buzz to bring in new donors and contributions. But this time, big states like Florida and California will be holding their contests right on the heels of Iowa and New Hampshire, which means candidates must already have their operations in place...
...string of phone calls placed by a man known as the “serial whisperer,” who targeted female students by calling dorm numbers consecutively, often saying that he needed company or asking lewd questions. In 2001, HUPD ultimately traced the calls to South Florida, where local police ordered the man to cease and desist. The phone calls then stopped temporarily. In the fall of 2003, however, students again began receiving morning calls from a whispering man. There were more reports of inappropriate phone calls in 2004. Catalano cautioned against assuming that the “serial...
...South Florida, along with the rest of the Southern U.S., where guns are easier to come by, has been particularly hard hit. In the past six weeks, two officers have been killed, and one recently got off life support after a gunman on a motorcycle shot him in the head. On Sept. 13, Miami-Dade police Sgt. Jose Somohano died and three other officers were injured by an assailant armed with an AK-47, three years to the day after the expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons ban. On August 6, a motorcyclist shot Broward Sheriff's Det. Maury Hernandez...
...counter the criminals, of course, is to match their firepower. But Fred Shenkman, professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Florida, thinks a better idea would be for police to focus more on training and improving their accuracy, since they miss their intended target some 70% to 90% of the time they fire in the line of duty...