The Cooler

Just a few things from the mainstream media outlets this morning.

A- Sun-Sentinel: Something to look forward to.

It's already a bottleneck and a magnet for accidents. But using the Ives Dairy Road interchange at Interstate 95 is about to become even tougher for commuters.

A $7.5 million upgrade of the traffic-choked interchange — the one frequently used by drivers to get to Aventura Mall and Sun Life Stadium — begins Wednesday and will last for the next nine months.

"People are going to be affected by this work, said Tish Burgher, a project spokeswoman. "The volume of traffic that goes through the interchange every day is huge."

B- Sun-Sentinel: And then he should go after the media.

Tyler Weinman is suing the county and a prominent animal rights organization for botching the high-profile investigation that led to his arrest.

Tyler Weinman, the youth once accused of mutilating 19 cats across South Miami-Dade, is suing the county and a prominent animal rights organization for botching the high-profile investigation that led to his arrest.

Miami-Dade prosecutors dropped felony animal abuse charges against Weinman in November 2010, an embarrassing conclusion to a highly publicized case.

Relying on the opinions of employees of the county's animal services department, Miami-Dade detectives had built a circumstantial case that collapsed when a defense expert discovered animal bite marks, likely from a large dog, under the fur of eight preserved cat carcasses.

Named in the lawsuit: Miami-Dade County, including Detective Dominick Columbro and former Animal Services Director Sara Pizano; and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the University of Florida, which employed forensic veterinarian Melinda D. Merck.

C- Sun-Sentinel: Chan Lowe.

D- CBS4: Life in South Florida.

PEMBROKE PINES (CBS4) – A car slammed into a worker cleaning up debris along a canal in Pembroke Pines Wednesday sending the worker and the car into the water.

A police officer who happened to be in the shopping plaza and several Good Samaritans jumped in to help rescue the worker and the elderly female driver.

E- NBC Miami: Video, the updated Miami Casino.


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