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Thieves target Habitat for Humanity survey crew in Liberty CityA trio of robbers picked the wrong target in Liberty City on Monday. According to Miami Police, the robbers had targeted a survey crew for a Habitat for Humanity development near Northwest 15th Ave. and 60th St. On first glance, attacking a group from a volunteer organization might seem like a safe target, but looks can be deceiving. The suspects didn't realize that one of the members of the survey crew was packing heat, and as the thieves tried to make off with some survey equipment, one of them was shot...

In the schools, churches and the streets of Liberty City, the weekend massacre that left two teenagers dead and seven others wounded has left a dazed neighborhood thirsty for answers. But the task is proving difficult for law enforcement authorities, who have few tips about a bloody event that unfolded in front of several dozen people late Friday.

MIAMI - The suspected ringleader of a group of men accused of plotting terrorist attacks testified in a federal trial Tuesday that his financial struggles to build a community outreach center, not a desire to attack the U.S., landed him in trouble. Prosecutors had used FBI recordings to portray Narseal Batiste, 33, and six other men as a homegrown terrorist cell aspiring to topple Chicago's Sears Tower as the opening salvo of a broader guerrilla war intended to install a U.S. government based on Islam. The suspected conspiracy never got beyond the initial stages, but Batiste and his six co-defendants...

MIAMI - Minutes after U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta announced indictments on Friday against an alleged terror cell, a Muslim leader took to the steps of the city's federal courthouse and said the suspects "were not known" at either of two mosques near the warehouse in the Liberty City neighborhood where authorities arrested them. Ahmed Bedier, of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said he and other Muslims feared some would try to connect Islam and the men's alleged plot to blow up a slew of federal buildings and the Sears Tower in Chicago. "This seems like some kind of cult group...