Miami Springs News

So what did you do over the Christmas holidays? Shopping? Putting lights up? The usual holiday stuff? Anybody happen to scale to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa? Believe it or not, that's exactly how local residents Benny Torres and Alan Espino spent their December, and what a December it was.

Millions watch it every night and a large number of those folks can only dream about participating.

Last Saturday morning, under a cloudless sky with the temperature in the upper 60s - the kind of day Mother Nature regularly delivers to South Florida at this time of year - the Miami Springs/Virginia Gardens Optimist Club ordered up their 2nd Annual BBQ Blast Throw-Down at the Circle in Miami Springs.

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The attorney for the Miami police officer arrested at gunpoint and charged with driving recklessly in his marked patrol car at speeds of more than 120 mph on Florida's Turnpike in Broward County said Monday that the allegations against his client are false.

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