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1 day ago | wlrn.org | Helen Acevedo

The city of Hialeah is naming a street after the late Lincoln Diaz-Balart. The Cuban-American Republican politician and attorney from Havana, Cuba died last month following a battle with cancer. After representing Miami-Dade County in both chambers of the Florida Legislature, Diaz-Balart was elected to Congress in 1992 and remained until 2011. He was an advocate for immigrants and staunch critic of Fidel Castro’s Regime in Cuba.

1 day ago | wlrn.org | Joshua Ceballos

As the City of Hialeah celebrates 100 years since its founding, city officials are looking to stay true to the community's moniker: "The city that progresses." On Tuesday, outgoing Mayor Esteban Bovo Jr. gathered with city council members and U.S. Representative Mario Díaz-Balart to kick off a new infrastructure project in one of the city's eastern neighborhoods that will update roads, sidewalks and storm drainage in an area that was plagued by flooding. "The residents have complained.

2 days ago | wlrn.org | Helen Acevedo |Sherrilyn Cabrera |Alyssa Ramos

Two young boys, dressed in Abercrombie sweaters and steeped in a sepia filter, sit in front of a piano and introduce their song about standing up to bullies. They warble about sticks and stones breaking their bones but words won’t break them down. “Stand Up,” as the song is called, is just one of many in their adolescent discography. “There's another song called ‘Redemption’ about redeeming your love for someone. And we're like 12, so it's pretty funny,” said Boca Raton native Justin Koolik.

2 days ago | wlrn.org | Joshua Ceballos

Frustrated and angered with the city of Miami commission’s failure to vote on a tree ordinance, a group of local groups — who oppose the measure — are demanding a vote this Thursday or that it be withdrawn from consideration.

3 days ago | wlrn.org | Emiliano Rodríguez Mega |James Wagner

A group of lawyers filed a suit Thursday against Costa Rica, claiming that it has violated the rights of dozens of minors deported from the United States by detaining them for nearly two months and by holding them in conditions “that could cause irreparable harm.” This is the second high-profile legal challenge against a Central American nation that has agreed to take in hundreds of deportees expelled by U.S. authorities — the result of the Trump administration’s effort to get other countries...