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Charr threatened to behead the rabbi outside his synagogue. Local 10 reported: A man is facing charges after harassing a rabbi outside the Ohev Shalom Congregation in Miami Beach, police said. According to the arrest report, Diego Chaar, 24, first yelled out “Allahu akbar,” which is translated from Arabic as God is great or God is greater. Police said the Rabbi David Weberman and a witness ignored Chaar, at which point he yelled, “Heads will be cut off” and “I will cut your head off.” The victim feared for his life at that point and called 911. The witness followed...

....Broward mom of two Lori Geller Bender reacted rather well to her close encounter with Oprah’s SUV Saturday night in Miami Beach. She took a selfie with the queen of television talk (above) moments after the Cadillac Escalade ran over foot on Ocean Drive!

While locals fled in anticipation of the annual celebration of violence and chaos during Black Beach Week over the Memorial Day holiday in Miami Beach, large-scale black mob violence erupted in Jacksonville, Rochester, West Bloomfield, and Baltimore. A lot of it on video. The Jacksonville Beach riot started much like the other examples black mob violence documented in “White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it.” When initial reports came in that police closed a section of the shore at Jacksonville Beach, police assured the media that it wasn’t much: Just a...

The family of a Boynton Beach man who died in a hail of police gunfire on Miami Beach two years ago over Memorial Day weekend filed a wrongful death suit against Miami Beach and cities whose police officers were involved in shooting. The shooting took place around 4 a.m. on May 30th, 2011. Police said Ray Herisse, 22, was driving erratically and tried to hit an officer with his car on a crowded Collins Avenue when they tried to pull him over. “There was an indication he may have been driving under the influence. But if it is Miami beach’s...

MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) — A 23-year-old Miami-Dade man is being held on $251,000 after police say he severely beat his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son. The child remains in critical condition at Miami Children’s Hospital and one veteran officer says the story “breaks your heart.” Sgt. Bobby Hernandez of the Miami Beach Police Department tells CBS4’s Peter D’Oench, “It breaks your heart. It really breaks your heart because a child is so innocent. He can’t even defend himself.” The judge in bond court on Friday was so concerned that the child might not survive that she raised bond for the defendant, Gabby...

Philadelphia weatherman John Bolaris lost $43,712.25, his job and, arguably, his dignity from one fateful trip to Miami Beach.

A Miami Beach police officer accused of hassling the sister of pop star Beyoncé in a dispute over an inflated banana has had 16 internal affairs complaints filed against him, and 33 documented incidents of using force to make an arrest in his 16 years with the department. Officer John Pereira was suspended for 120 hours in 2005 for using excessive force, and has been reprimanded three times, including once for violating the department's rules for integrity, records show. Pereira, who was in uniform working an off-duty shift at Club Cameo in South Beach, allegedly intervened when Solange Knowles was...

Sexy Eastern European women dubbed "B-Girls" seduced touristy businessmen at a half-dozen South Beach nightclubs, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges on their credit cards for expensive bottles of champagne and other booze without their knowledge, federal authorities said Wednesday.

How does a city lose 2,500 feet of tunnels under its streets? North Miami Beach would like to know. Over a four-year period, the city contracted with a construction company to build 254 manholes -- the tunnels that run down from street level to utility pipes 8 to 10 feet below.

Fort Lauderdale heir Novack's widow arrested in 2009 murderThe widow of Fort Lauderdale millionaire Ben Novack Jr. is among four people who will be charged in his brutal July 2009 murder in an upstate New York hotel room. Narcy Novack was arrested early Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, and later made an appearance in a South Florida Federal courtroom, where she was denied bond. According to indictment documents, Narcy Novack, her brother and two accomplices will face charges in New York including stalking and conspiring to commit interstate domestic violence. Federal prosecutors in New York plan to hold a news conference...

Miami Beach's newest socialite, Conchita, lives in an $8.3 million Sunset Island mansion, owns a Cartier diamond necklace and has a $3 million trust fund to support a lifestyle of designer duds, massages and pedicures. What makes Conchita different from other Miami Beach socialites: She's a Chihuahua. Conchita came into her wealth upon the March death of her owner socialite Gail Posner, the daughter of late corporate raider Victor Posner.

May 12, 2009 Note: The following text is a quote: Leader of Liberty City Six Convicted on All Counts, Four Others Convicted on Multiple Counts, and One Defendant Acquitted on Charges of Conspiring to Support Al Qaeda, Attack Targets in the United States After a three-month trial, a Miami jury convicted five men of multiple charges that include conspiring to provide material support to the al Qaeda terrorist organization and conspiracy to levy war against the U.S. by discussing and planning attacks on targets in the U.S., including the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI building and other federal...

Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower -- the city's first Cuban-American mayor -- has been called out by Miami Republican State Rep. Juan Zapata for a comment she made at a city commission meeting last month referring to Colombians as drug dealers. Zapata, a Colombian-American who chairs the Miami-Dade legislative delegation, called for Bower's resignation Wednesday. ''Those kind of comments just perpetuate those stereotypes. You don't know the experience Colombians go through, even when they walk through the airport,'' said Zapata. After having what he described as a ''heartfelt'' conversation with Bower later in the day, Zapata backed down. ''I...

MIAMI BEACH -- The normal bus fare in Miami Beach is a buck and a half. But a massive limo bus tooling through South Beach during the weekend charged a lot more -- and offered a lot more, as well. Undercover Miami Beach detectives Sunday busted a brothel-on-wheels, which charged $40 admission and offered sex for sale inside. On board: prostitutes, fully stocked bars and the bus' madame -- Christine Morteh, 29, of Miramar. Cops have charged Morteh with engaging in, directing others to and deriving support from prostitution, as well as operating a business without license. She was held...

MIAMI BEACH -- Gunfire erupted outside a popular South Beach restaurant early Memorial Day, leaving two men dead on one of the city's busiest weekends, police said. The men were shot in the parking lot of David's Cafe II at 1654 Meridian Ave. near Miami Beach's Lincoln Road around 5:30 a.m., said restaurant manager Bertha Handevadt. One died at the scene and the other shortly after being taken to a hospital, Miami Beach police spokesman Sgt. Bobby Hernandez said. Both were in their 20s. One man, an Orlando resident, was identified, but his name was not being released until relatives...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- 41st Street is closed between Prairie Avenue and Pine Tree Drive. Police are advising residents in the area to remain inside after two threatening phone calls were recieved to release a bank robber who is in custody. A caller claimed that they would start shooting everyone if the suspect was not released.Anyone in south Florida have any information on this? I can't get to a TV, and one of our centers is actually across the street from the bank. We did get a call from our administrator there stating there was SWAT on our roof and...

Vanity - request for comments from Americans regarding strange translation of town name.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- The newest police detective on Miami Beach won't be hard to find -- he's 7 feet 1 inch tall, and weighs more than 300 pounds. Miami Heat star Shaquille O'Neal took his official oath Thursday afternoon. Local 10 was on hand to exclusively cover O'Neal's swearing it at Miami Beach Police Headquarters. Shaq has completed more than 1,200 hours of training and he attended the police academy in Los Angeles before passing his exam. He said it has been his dream since childhood to be a police officer, but "winning the athletic lottery a couple times"...

When Bill Gralnick arrived in Miami in the early '80s, he considered Palm Beach County a no-man's land for Jews."You couldn't even get a decent bagel in this county," Gralnick says.Today, Gralnick, the Southeast regional director of the American Jewish Committee, sees a vastly different landscape.He points to the "multiple synagogues" in such cities as Boynton Beach and Boca Raton, where he established his main office in 1990. To a range of Jewish organizations that provide "cradle-to-grave services." And to nearly a half-dozen Jewish schools in Boca and West Palm Beach.But the most startling evidence of Palm Beach County's transformation...

<p>MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Shaquille O'Neal has been credited with an assist away from the basketball court, following a suspect who allegedly assaulted a gay couple and alerting police.</p> <p>The 7-foot-1 Miami Heat center, who is in the process of becoming a Miami Beach reserve officer, was driving on South Beach about 3 a.m. Sunday. That's when he saw the man, riding as a passenger in a silver Honda, yell anti-gay slurs at the couple, said Bobby Hernandez, spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department.</p>