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🌱 Doral Academy of Technology earns a spot among Florida's best

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In today's newsletter:

  • Doral Academy of Technology earns a spot among Florida's best
  • From shipboard service to SOUTHCOM, a future Navy lawyer finds direction
  • Doral phone-sale meetup leads to kidnapping and robbery charges

Also on today's calendar: Hawks Cay Turkey Trot 5K and 10 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 86 and low of 72 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Thursday: A thunderstorm in spots, temps: high: 84, low: 71.
  • Friday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 76 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. U.S. News Just Ranked Florida's Best Middle Schools, And These 10 Came Out On Top (newsbreak.com) — Doral Academy of Technology appears among Florida's top middle schools in a roundup based on U.S. News rankings. The public charter serves grades six through eight with a focus on STEM and applied learning, alongside arts facilities and activities that give students options beyond science and technology.
   

2. From the bridge to the bar: Kelsey Mira charts a path to Navy JAG (miami.edu) — At SOUTHCOM headquarters in Doral, Navy officer Kelsey Mira helped attorneys address national security and humanitarian law, including earthquake relief efforts in Venezuela. The University of Miami law student's summer internship built on her experience advising shipboard leaders and strengthened her ambition to become a Navy JAG officer.
   

3. Apple Crime Log: Backseat Bandits and Bold Carjackers (idropnews.com) — A repeat iPhone transaction in Doral became an armed robbery and kidnapping, according to an arrest report cited by WSVN. The victim escaped, and police arrested Nunez-Martinez on charges including kidnapping and armed robbery. The account does not identify the alleged accomplice or establish whether that person was arrested.
   

4. Florida hotel worker finally buys a home with a yard — now she leaves for work at 4:40 am (newsbreak.com) — Some buyers priced out of Doral are looking to southern Miami-Dade, according to a homebuilder's sales executive. Hotel worker Donna Miller's experience illustrates the trade-off: after years of searching, she bought a home with a yard but now leaves around 4:40 a.m. for her Coconut Grove job.
   

5. District 27 recount nears end after judge rejected Rodriguez campaign lawsuit; Salazar maintains narrow lead (wsvn.com) — A congressional recount at Miami-Dade's elections office in Doral continued Tuesday with Republican incumbent Maria Elvira Salazar ahead of Democrat Eliott Rodriguez by less than half a percentage point. A federal judge rejected Rodriguez's request to remove elections supervisor Alina Garcia over alleged bias, while criticizing her public comments about the race.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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