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Still weak Tropical Storm Isaac churned toward Hispaniola on Friday morning, a crossing that could blunt the impact on South Florida but prove painful for Haiti, where hundreds of thousands remain homeless in the earthquake-shattered capital.

The moment Kelly Gestring scooped up the strange, slithery fish from a Margate canal he knew he had a record in his net.

For two decades, reports from government engineers and outside experts have reached largely the same conclusion about the Herbert Hoover Dike: The levee ringing Lake Okeechobee is a disaster waiting only for high water to happen.

Oleta Park property pulled from Florida’s “surplus” list  Miami Herald

This account, republished here as the U.S. prepares to mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11, was first printed in the Miami Herald in September 2002, a year after the terror attacks.

Versace’s killer vanished. And the manhunt was on

Of the many engineering atrocities inflicted on the Everglades, the C-111 ranks high on the list. The canal was cut across deep South Miami-Dade in the 1960s for the Aerojet Corp., which was then building moon rocket engines so big they had to be barged.

This article was originally published in the Miami Herald on August 19, 2012 for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew.

Here’s how the encounter went down.

What to know about the sightings.