A DNA match led police to a man who raped and killed a Miami woman almost three decades ago, authorities said. Police said Bruce Albert Tessier, 69, confessed to the 1980 killing of 20-year-old Dana Maria Lindenberg. Miami-Dade cold-case detectives obtained an arrest warrant on second-degree murder charges for Tessier, who was already in a Florida prison for killing another woman in 1989.
Last year, cocaine production fell by 28 percent in Colombia. In addition, security forces seized and destroyed a record 200 tons of the stuff. The main causes for this decline are a drop in demand from the 17 million cocaine users world-wide. Another side effect of the global recession.
“1989, the number, another summer,” so goes Public Enemy’s renowned rap anthem. But it wasn’t just another summer for American cinema. Twenty years ago this week, the year that “Do the Right Thing” exploded onto the screen was a pivotal one
The Related Group, headed by Miami developer Jorge Perez, is turning over control of the 420-unit CityPlace South Tower condominium to an investor group in a ”friendly foreclosure” facilitated by its lenders, the company said Wednesday.
Among the hotel’s more unusual features are two Andy Warhol originals flanking the reception desk, blown-up original photo portraits of musicians on every floor (the 18th floor features Beyoncé Knowles), and room doors that resemble bank vaults because, according to sales and marketing director Meire Ramos, “when you open the door, you unveil the treasure of South Beach.”
Property appraiser’s offices in Miami-Dade and Broward counties reported a substantial decline in the taxable value of properties on Wednesday. Figures released by Miami-Dade show that between 2008 and 2009, the taxable value of existing properties dropped 13 percent. When adjusted for new construction, that represents a decline of nearly $32 billion in taxable value.
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