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Roughly 260 sex offenders have registered as their residence the intersection of Northwest 36th Court and 71st Street, on the edge of Hialeah and Miami.  The closest house is four blocks away and the only buildings here are squat warehouses. They start to roll in around 9:30 p.m., just in time for curfew. By the end of the night, around 50 people fill two dozen tents

A tent community in northwest Miami-Dade is a place people call home but it’s not a place most of them would want to live. The community is the last resort for people like Bret, who would only give his first name. “Absolutely not, I wouldn’t even come into this part of town if I didn’t have to be here,” he

Seven years after Miami-Dade County shut down a camp housing about 100 homeless sex offenders under a bridge in Miami, it’s now trying to deal with an encampment on the outskirts of Hialeah that has almost three times as many residents registered to live there. Police and social workers on Monday night visited the roughly 30 tents set up near

The Sabine Parish Coroner has released the identity of a man shot to death when answering the door. The body of 72-year-old Jerry Wayne Scott was found in the doorway at his home in the 1300 block of Matthews Lodge Road in Many on Saturday morning, according to Sabine Parish Assistant Coroner Ron Rivers. Rivers said that Scott’s body was found

Some of the youth workers were having sex with the underage boys in their care. Others were smuggling drugs, money, cellphones and porn. A top administrator reportedly sent a kid to the hospital during a violent restraint, bragging: “You gonna learn; this my program.” But if conditions at the Highlands Youth Academy in Avon Park were not exactly conducive to