Shula’s Golf Course is hosting a “Thursday Night Shootout” beginning Thursday, September 3, and will run every Thursday at 5 p.m. until November 5. The shootout will take place at Shula’s Senator Course at the golf club, located at 7601 Miami Lakes Drive, and is open to anyone with an established handicap or GHIN number. The event is $25 per person and covers carts, green fees and the weekly cash prize pot with...

  The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has declined to conduct an independent investigation into a hit-in-run accident involving Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi, who briefly left the scene after he crashed his car into a large oak tree. The agency’s decision comes a month after Town Councilmembers  requested the probe after hearing discontent from residents for the way Miami-Dade police handled the June 15 accident,...

  It’s not every day that an author comprehensively covers a variety of legal theories so well in one article that the article ranks in the Top 10 for downloads in ten separate categories.  That was the distinction for St. Thomas Law professor Patricia Moore.  Her forthcoming article, “The Anti-Plaintiff Pending Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Pro-Defendant Composition of the Federal...

  Catholic Hospice, located in Miami Lakes, has been selected as one of 140 hospices nationwide to participate in the Medicare Care Choices Model, announced recently by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell. The model aims to increase choice and quality by enabling individuals to receive palliative and curative care concurrently. The model provides Medicare beneficiaries who qualify for coverage under the Medicare...

  The residents of Country Club of Miami care about their community. When the neighborhood’s homeowners association initiated a clean-up project, their County Commissioner Barbara Jordan, the local Boy Scouts and the Greater Miami Service Corps, joined the initiative, getting dirty, grabbing rakes, shovels and other cleaning tools to spruce up the area on two Saturdays last month. Now, the neighborhood looks “great.”...