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In response to a violent weekend of fatal shootings, the City of Miami Beach has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew beginning at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, March 19, 2023, and lasting until 6 a.m. on Monday, March 20, 2023. The decision was prompted by two separate incidents, one on Friday night in South Beach that left one person dead and another injured, and another fatal shooting that occurred early Sunday morning. The City Manager plans to implement additional curfew restrictions from Thursday, March 23, 2023, through Monday, March 27, 2023, to ensure public safety. A special...

Per Twitter: #BREAKING: We're hearing that about 15 CMPD officers are hurt, with non-life threatening injuries. Reinforcements called out, along with requests for more riot ammo. Police car overturned and demolished. Cnn briefly mentioned this, then went back to its regularly-scheduled Trump Bashing. Rioters blocking a highway. More as it comes in.

Canadians want two things when it comes to the treatment of aboriginals. The first is respect for the principle that no one is above the law. The second is that land claims must be fairly resolved and a way found to address high rates of aboriginal crime, unemployment, poverty, addiction, disease, illiteracy and suicide. The first principle -- no one is above the law -- means aboriginals don't get to shut down rail lines, as one native leader in Manitoba has threatened to do this summer. It means they do not get to hold innocent communities hostage, as has been...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Police and National Guard troops struggled to restore order Thursday in New Orleans, where gunfire, looting and small fires have disrupted efforts to evacuate the flooded city. Authorities started busing evacuees from the Louisiana Superdome Wednesday night but have suspended that operation because of deteriorating conditions there. The stadium has been the shelter for about 30,000 people who did not escape before Hurricane Katrina ripped through the city. Lt. Col. Pete Schneider, of the Louisiana National Guard, said there were reports that several small trash fires were burning around the building and firefighters were having...

Hip-hop dropped Thursday, April 22, 2004 JOE SNAPPER and THE SAGINAW NEWS Outkast's "Hey Ya" grabbed a Grammy Award this year, but Old Saginaw City bars don't want patrons -- as the flamboyant hip-hop group's lyrics go --to "shake it like a Polaroid picture." Under pressure to stem a tide of shootings, some pub owners say they will stop playing the popular dance music widely linked to violence. A fatal shootout last month at Captains Cove and the gunfire outside Shenanigan's Irish Pub two weeks later have stoked fears of gang-related fights regularly spilling into the watering holes. While many...