An innocent childhood game turned nearly fatal on Saturday after a 13-year-old boy shot his six-year-old sister during a game of hide-and-go-seek. The incident happened Saturday night around 7 p.m. at the family's home in Oakland Park.

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Residents of the Opera Tower, a 55-story bayfront condo, awoke Sunday morning to a scene straight out of Scarface: Blood pooled in an elevator and splattered around a lobby, three men seriously wounded, and police swarming a crime scene that stretched 30 floors.

This morning, police are still searching for a motive and a gunman as the three victims recover at Jackson Memorial.

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Kiera Wilmot

There are a lot of reasons Kiera Wilmot's story has exploded online this week. First, there's the sheer weirdness of a 16-year-old getting in huge trouble for a science experiment gone wrong. Then there's the racial aspect: A black girl -- exactly the type of kid underrepresented in the scientific studies -- getting heavily punished for her curiosity. But craziest of all, most of the web seems to agree, are the legal charges she's facing: two felonies for, in essence, a project that didn't hurt anyone.

The potential charges are even more galling considering that same prosecutor who gave police the OK to arrest Wilmot elected not to charge a 13-year-old just three weeks earlier for fatally shooting his younger brother.

See also:
- Florida Teen Girl Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad

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Apparently regular old dog fighting isn't inhumane and horrible enough for some people.

Miami-Dade County Animal Services say they have rescued a group of dogs from the Goulds area used in a form of dog fighting called "trunking."

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Hialeah Police Sgt. Tomas Muñoz wants you to know he's not some sort of coke fiend. He's merely an innocent public servant who happens to be dating a prostitute with an evil pimp.

Muñoz was arrested over the weekend on charges of possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia after drugs and a crack pipe were found in a hotel room he had rented with the woman.

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Gibson Belizaire's brother, Wesley, and sister, Guerlyne, at the site of his death in 2010.

In August 2010, three Miami police officers fired at least 130 rounds into 21-year-old Gibson Belizaire, who died from his wounds behind a Little Haiti shop. Belizaire was the sixth young black man killed that year by MPD under then-Chief Miguel Exposito. Belizaire's mother then sued the city, the officers involved, and Exposito in federal court, claiming they'd used excessive force on her son and that Exposito had created an "unofficial policy" tolerating such abuses.

Now a federal judge has ruled on the case, and though he dismissed claims against Exposito and the cops who shot Belizaire, he ruled Belizaire's family can continue with their claims against the city.

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- Gibson Belizaire: Victim or Criminal?
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Dominican officials unveil $3.4 million in drug money during a press conference last week

For Miami power couple Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, wealth has begotten cultural influence. The Cuban immigrants have built a business empire and used the profits to assemble one of the best private art collections in the country.

Last week, however, the De la Cruzes' wealth became a liability when the family's yacht was used in a $3.4 million cocaine deal in the Dominican Republic. Investigators say, however, that the De la Cruzes are not suspects but victims of corrupt local officials.

"Just to have your name in the same article [as a drug bust] is enough to hurt," says family attorney Joaquin Monserrate. "But things have been cleared and we want to help in that matter."

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A week after Rick Scott signed into law legislation outlawing video gambling machines, Miami Police raided gas stations, cafes, and bars around the city, arresting six men and confiscating ten maquinitas. Unsurprisingly, the operation occurred just as politicians attended the public crushing of 48 such machines.

The publicity stunt wasn't without hiccups, however. When cops swept into Wynwood bar Gramps, they mistook four vintage video games for illegal gambling machines.

"They were particularly concerned with my RoboCop arcade game," said bar owner Adam Gersten when contacted by Riptide. The cops eventually left, but not without getting a quick demo on how to beat the ED-209.

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Twenty immigrants who were trying to pretend they had dry feet were caught red-handed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounded up the suspects yesterday for posing as Cuban immigrants in order to take advantage of the U.S. amnesty policy. The arrests are part of a growing trend in which immigrants buy forged Cuban documents to claim amnesty in America.

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A thermos-size "suspicious device" caused panic on Key Biscayne this morning. The device was discovered unattended near the shoreline on the sands behind the Sonesta Hotel on 350 Ocean Dr. earlier today.

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