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Just a moment to brag on my colleague John Cheves -- SB 167, which would give local politicians power over library boards was both troubling and weirdly specific. So he went and found out what it was about: petty and parochial Pike County politics.
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I have to think this story about how one pol wanted one building, plus the ability to appt cronies -- helped discourage House members from overriding the governor's veto, as happened last night.
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“Who is this guy again?”
Journalists Julie Brown and Emily Michot were in a restaurant in St. Thomas, waiting for a source who called himself Chef James.
His emails suggested he knew a lot about Jeffrey Epstein.
But Emily was getting nervous. 🧵 trib.al/G0YMB2F
Journalists Julie Brown and Emily Michot were in a restaurant in St. Thomas, waiting for a source who called himself Chef James.
His emails suggested he knew a lot about Jeffrey Epstein.
But Emily was getting nervous. 🧵 trib.al/G0YMB2F
Chef James had told Julie, for example, that while Epstein was on work release at the Palm Beach County jail in 2008, he spent over $100,000 in catering bills for his “office.”
A lot of that food went to deputies who were making upwards of $42 an hour monitoring him.
A lot of that food went to deputies who were making upwards of $42 an hour monitoring him.
That night, as they were waiting, Brown was texting with Lauren Book, a Florida state senator and child abuse survivor who had become involved in pushing for a probe into whether there was any wrongdoing on the part of the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office in connection with Epstein.
THREAD// How @JUULvapor ended up settling with @NCAGO in #DurhamNC, the cradle of the U.S. tobacco industry.
Let's start with the setting.
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Let's start with the setting.
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From the start of pretrial hearings, Juul attorneys' arguments that products are a health benefit & its messaging targeted adults weren't successful. (State argued they don't have to prove intent just more youth used product.)
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Here's a video of a Juul attorney taking in a judge's order that gutted the e-cigarette co.'s defense, said it violated the NC Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act thousands of times.
"Is that really what happened?," says shocked Juul attorney.
"Is that really what happened?," says shocked Juul attorney.
A young Black school teacher had picked up her 1-year-old child at her mother’s Liberty City home when she was pulled over by a Miami police sergeant named Javier Ortiz. 🧵 trib.al/qewFyDF
Ortiz told Octavia Johnson that he stopped her because he saw her buying drugs.
When she denied it, he asked how she could afford her nearly new Dodge Charger and what she did for a living.
When she denied it, he asked how she could afford her nearly new Dodge Charger and what she did for a living.
“Get the f--- outta here. Who would hire you with gold and tattoos?” Ortiz responded when she replied.
The traffic stop quickly turned uglier, leaving Johnson under arrest, her face pressed into pavement.
The traffic stop quickly turned uglier, leaving Johnson under arrest, her face pressed into pavement.
(1/3) Powers Properties files thousands of eviction notices in SC courts, including in the Columbia area. Many face eviction month after month. “I think they take advantage of people.” #longread #readlocal thestate.com/news/state/sou…
(2/3) The day his father died in June, Rodrickus Oakes owed his landlord $230 in additional fees for his Columbia-area apartment. So Powers Properties did what it regularly does to its tenants who are late on rent across SC: filed an eviction notice. thestate.com/news/state/sou…
(3/3) “In our situation we were really taken advantage of and we were in a predicament where we were in the palm of their hand," Sterling Hogan said. Watch their story here: thestate.com/news/local/art…
As a historian who would support the reuse of almost any building, I cannot see spending millions on Fort Worth's former Klan HQ as a space of "healing." There are so many better uses of HP $ to support Black communities and history. Thread: a few reasons why 1/10
When the Klan HQ opened on Main Street in 1924 it was a monument to racism and violence, in line with the county courthouse and casting a shadow on Frederick Douglass Park where Black families held Juneteenth celebrations in FW starting in 1895 and… 2/10
McGar Park where the Negro League Baseball held its games that attracted huge audiences. The park closed in 1925, right after the HQ opened, and the field soon after. A THC historical marker is all that remains, noting vaguely that “other factors” led to their demise. 3/10
1/ From east to west, the Panhandle to the border, our nonprofit newsroom is helping Texans navigate this pandemic.
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2/ Here’s a sampling of the Texas stories we’ve told these last two months: @emmaplatoff has featured West Texas, where volunteers are making medical supplies and amateur pilots are delivering them to remote hospitals. bit.ly/3ca7sTj
3/ @alexazura followed the food supply chain to Cactus, Texas — where she found a workforce of migrants risking their lives to keep a meatpacking plant going. bit.ly/2xpWU30
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As the coronavirus spread across the world in early 2020, millions of people found themselves trapped in what is now understood to be one of the most dangerous places during a pandemic: a cruise ship. (THREAD)
Just how many passengers and crew got sick or died is impossible to know.
No global health body or regulatory agency is known to be tracking those statistics.
And the cruise industry has largely stayed silent about the toll.
No global health body or regulatory agency is known to be tracking those statistics.
And the cruise industry has largely stayed silent about the toll.
The @MiamiHerald launched a tracking project, and already the numbers are alarming: 2,592 people have tested positive for COVID-19 during or directly after a cruise, and at least 65 people have died. hrld.us/2xJMSKx
BREAKING: Lu Jing was not trespassing when she twice set foot on the grounds of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, a Palm Beach County jury found Wednesday.
But the six-person jury convicted Lu for resisting an officer without violence. hrld.us/39F38d5
But the six-person jury convicted Lu for resisting an officer without violence. hrld.us/39F38d5
Explore who has gained access to President Trump and Mar-a-Lago through Cindy Yang and her associates: hrld.us/2YZYLo4
Herald reporters @NickNehamas, @Blaskey_S, and @jayhweaver will continue to cover this story as it develops. Support their journalism by subscribing to the Miami Herald today. #ReadLocal hrld.us/2YQLEWg
NEW: The judge said it is unclear how much room she has to maneuver after the Virgin Islands Attorney General last month hit Epstein’s estate with a lien for alleged criminal activity — effectively freezing all of his assets beyond basic bills coming due. hrld.us/380XYYd
Read our full #PerversionofJustice investigation into Jeffrey Epstein at hrld.us/2E24ZN5
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When three students at the Miami Dade College School of Justice noticed a classmate with a bulging belly, they asked her if she was pregnant.
Yes, the 22-year-old cadet told them — and the father was Hialeah Police Sgt. Jesús Menocal Jr. (THREAD) hrld.us/2RVbki3
Yes, the 22-year-old cadet told them — and the father was Hialeah Police Sgt. Jesús Menocal Jr. (THREAD) hrld.us/2RVbki3
The other cadets were well aware something was going on between the student and Menocal, her training adviser at the prestigious law enforcement academy.
She had shown them flirty texts and even said she and Menocal were having sex in his patrol truck, three fellow cadets later told Hialeah Police Department internal affairs investigators in sworn interviews.
BREAKING: The allegations, if validated, broaden the scope of Epstein’s sexual trafficking, and sheds new light on the tactics the former financier used to hide his illicit activities. #PerversionOfJustice hrld.us/3aeg3ne
Read our full #PerversionofJustice investigation into Jeffrey Epstein at hrld.us/2E24ZN5
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein and modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel built the Miami-based MC2 modeling agency. Did the agency help Epstein's 'machine of abuse'? #PerversionofJustice hrld.us/2Zj6LkZ
We've compiled every piece of our #PerversionofJustice investigation into one place, so you can see a clear timeline for yourself of Jeffrey Epstein’s rise and fall: hrld.us/2M9Pjdh
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BREAKING: The Palm Beach Sheriff, who faced blistering criticism for granting Jeffrey Epstein liberal work-release privileges while the sex offender was serving time in the county stockade, has discontinued the work release program. hrld.us/2szD3vq #PerversionOfJustice
Read our full #PerversionofJustice investigation into Jeffrey Epstein at hrld.us/2E24ZN5
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Sheer chaos.
Unfolding on live TV, two armed robbers hijacked a UPS truck after a robbery in Coral Gables, leading to a dramatic police chase and deadly shootout on a busy Miramar street. Four people, including the UPS driver and an innocent bystander, were killed. (THREAD)
Unfolding on live TV, two armed robbers hijacked a UPS truck after a robbery in Coral Gables, leading to a dramatic police chase and deadly shootout on a busy Miramar street. Four people, including the UPS driver and an innocent bystander, were killed. (THREAD)
And the ensuing investigation — at least for the public clamoring to know how a police chase ended in two innocent people shot to death on a busy Miramar street — has been equally confusing. hrld.us/34eCEf4
“Today is the fifth day and I know nothing,” said Luz Apolinario, the mother of 27-year-old UPS driver Frank Ordonez. hrld.us/2EadIeh
NEW: Illegal gold flowing through Miami is a ‘direct threat’ to U.S. national security, Rubio says hrld.us/2OS9CNQ
For more on how America’s demand for gold is helping fuel illegal gold mining in Latin America and propping up regimes like Nicolas Maduro's in Venezuela, read our #SmugglersParadise series here: hrld.us/2YbIs6j
The @miamiherald and @elnuevoherald partnered with @InfoAmazonia, @RunRunesWeb, @CorreodelCaroni and @decorrespondent on the #SmugglersParadise series, which was aided by the Human Rights Foundation and the Dutch Fund for Journalism Projects.
It's #LoveMyNewspaper day! Use the hashtag to share your favorite local newspapers' articles, best stories of the year and news from journalists whose work you never miss. (THREAD)
While you're compiling those lists, here's some of the work we're most proud of here at the @Miamiherald in 2019.
✔️ #SinceParkland. We partnered with nonprofit @thetrace to chronicle the lives of each of the nearly 1,200 children killed with a gun in the U.S. in the year following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. hrld.us/2BfcVaj
NEW: Intruder at Trump’s Palm Beach club leaves prison, faces deportation to China hrld.us/34SnDRj
Explore who has gained access to President Trump and Mar-a-Lago through Cindy Yang and her associates hrld.us/305wQUB
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A Bradenton kindergarten teacher abused some of her students, investigations found But not only was she not charged with a crime by @ManateeSheriff, @ManateeSchools let her keep teaching at another school. Later, she was allowed to retire. 1/ bradenton.com/news/local/edu…
A panel made up of 3 @ManateeSchools bureaucrats reviewed the investigation & instead of recommending she be fired, they called for her to be suspended for 2 days & to be transferred to another school. @SuptCSaunders accepted the recommendation. Why? She wouldn't tell us. 2/
Reporters @JDeleon1012 & @GSabella did get to talk to the school district's attorney, who declined to directly answer a good question: Is a finding of abuse "good cause" to fire a teacher? Instead, he pinned the decision back on the 3 bureaucrats. 3/
News alert: The fight involving dueling defamation suits between Alan Dershowitz and Virginia Giuffre, the victim of Jeffrey Epstein, took another twist Monday in a New York courtroom. hrld.us/382ZQAm
Read our full #PerversionofJustice investigation into Jeffrey Epstein here.
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NEW: 3 women said a Hialeah cop abused them. Prosecutors never spoke to them — and dropped the case. hrld.us/2KG0Sbl
Last week, we reported that four women and girls had accused Hialeah Sgt. Jesús “Jesse” Menocal Jr., a decorated patrol officer and SWAT team member, of sexual abuse.
He faced almost no punishment and was given a raise.
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He faced almost no punishment and was given a raise.
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One day after our investigation, Hialeah's police chief defended his handling of the case at a press conference.
"I want the public to know: Do not worry. We don't cover up for officers."
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"I want the public to know: Do not worry. We don't cover up for officers."
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They live in flimsy tents, cardboard boxes and rusty campers in a rodent-infested lot north of Miami International Airport.
Now the 70 child sex offenders who call the makeshift village home must find a new place to reside. Again. (THREAD)
Now the 70 child sex offenders who call the makeshift village home must find a new place to reside. Again. (THREAD)
Miami-Dade County is giving them until Dec. 5 to leave the encampment, citing illegal camping and unsanitary conditions.
But for a group of people who are considered to be social pariahs, their options for moving are few and far between. hrld.us/2XEsLpe
But for a group of people who are considered to be social pariahs, their options for moving are few and far between. hrld.us/2XEsLpe
That’s because Florida law demands that convicted sex offenders live at least 1,000 feet from a school or any place children might gather. But in some counties, like Miami-Dade, it’s 2,500 feet.
NEW: After the death of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan cell, mismanagement at the Bureau of Prisons was impossible to ignore, and the bureau’s acting director was replaced. But the agency's problems run much deeper, a McClatchy analysis shows. hrld.us/2D5jQ6U
Read our full #PerversionofJustice investigative series on Jeffrey Epstein here: hrld.us/2AruaUY
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