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Published: Miami Herald Date: June 26, 2008 Abstract: Through the years, tens of thousands of property owners in Broward and Miami-Dade counties have made fraudulent homestead exemption claims. As local governments slash budgets with the downturn in the real estate market, Broward and Miami-Dade counties are more aggressively pursuing and punishing people who make fraudulent…
Published: The Miami Herald Date: Monday, March 17, 2003 Ambrose Mitchell fastens his seat belt and sets in motion an 85,000-pound bulldozer whose silver-spike wheels rip apart unwanted objects. From record players to wedding photos. From wooden door frames to fans. Mitchell’s job site is the county landfill. When he first started in 1990, the…
Difference Now I feel a difference Nowhere near “They have blue eyes and I have brown.” Not just looking different But not as extreme as me being crazy. A “different” that can be considerable in a world where everyone strives to be the same. A “different” as in I want to be the only one…
Published: Fort Worth Star Telegram Date: May 13, 2002 Slowly, to prevent mistakes, Mallory Pristernik strikes the letters on the keyboard with the skinny side of her left arm, which looks like a folded wrist. Mallory’s hands were amputated when she was an infant. She had to learn early on how to crawl, write and move through…
Published: Miami Herald Sunday Final Edition Date: July 18, 1999 Anthony Hernandez, who will enter Coral Reef High School in the fall, has leukemia. In less than three years, he has been hospitalized more than 20 times, many involving stays in the intensive care units. Classmates at Cutler Ridge Christian Academy, where he just graduated,…