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• Heavy police presence expected as Miami prepares for its 23rd annual Ultra Music Festival Final preparations were underway at Bayfront Park as Miami’s 23rd annual Ultra Music Festival kicks off Friday night. The annual electronic music fest is expected to attract more than 165,000 partiers. Miami will have one of its busiest weeks of the year as the city prepares to host Ultra, the Miami Open and the ongoing surge in spring breakers taking over South Beach. Sky 10 flew above the crowd earlier in the day, capturing images of festival-goers pouring in, on Day 1 of this three-day event. With large crowds comes a heavy police presence. “We’ll have plenty of officers on…
• Miami firefighters work to extinguish blaze at abandoned building City of Miami firefighters worked to extinguish a fire that erupted at around 1 p.m. Thursday afternoon at an abandoned three-story building. The building is located in the area of Southwest Sixth Street and Seventh Avenue in the city’s Little Havana neighborhood. According to police, no injuries were reported. Because the building was abandoned, firefighters chose to use what they call a “defensive attack” — continuing to douse the building with water, but not going inside. “We determined that it was unsafe for the firefighters to be inside and we established that there was no life safety hazards because it…
• Century-old Miami high-rise suddenly deemed unsafe, but some tenants unconvinced A normal Thursday work day inside a Miami high-rise came to a sudden halt when everyone was forced to evacuate without notice. Everyone in the historic Huntington Building in downtown Miami, with its 100 years of history outlined in the lobby, is now in the process of moving out because the structure was deemed unsafe last week. Firefighters flooded the hallways while working to clear the offices inside the building, located at 168 SE First St. One firefighter could be heard asking what the problem is. “So why is it a condemned building?” he’s heard asking. “It was a big…
• Permitless gun carry bill passes Florida House Lawmakers in the Florida House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would allow gun owners to carry a concealed firearm without a state permit. After the House’s 76–32 vote, HB-543 will next go to a final floor vote in the Senate before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs off on it. Although Florida does not require a permit to purchase a firearm, gun carriers still need to apply for a license to carry a concealed firearm, a process that currently involves specific background checks and training. Though gun purchase laws remain in place, the elimination of concealed carry permits means…
• Is the David porn? See for yourself, Italy ask Fla. parents The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign. Florence Mayor Dario Nardella also tweeted an invitation for the principal to visit so he can personally honor her. Confusing art with pornography was “ridiculous,” Nardella said. The board of the Tallahassee Classical School pressured Principal Hope Carrasquilla to resign last week after an image of the David was show to a sixth-grade art class. The school has a policy requiring parents to be notified…