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Orchestra Keeps Kids In Tune and Off the Streets (Video)

1000 at-risk kids from the streets of Miami are given an alternative to drugs and gangs, with free musical training in The American Children's Orchestra for Peace. Like a second family, the orchestra program offers support and friendship along with free musical instruments.

Miami Heat Star Scores Off Court

Miami Heat basketball star, Dwyane Wade, who is the leading NBA scorer, heard the plight of a South Florida woman whose nephew accidentally burned down her home—and ruined all the family's possessions... So he helped the family move into a new home, just in time for Christmas, giving Dawn Smith the keys to a new house on Wednesday,

Miami Banker Gives $60 Million to Employees to Say Thanks

After selling a majority stake in his Miami bank, Leonard Abess Jr. took $60 million of the proceeds and gave it to his tellers, bookkeepers, clerks, everyone on the payroll. All 399 workers on the staff received bonuses, and he even tracked down 72 former employees. The bonuses -- based on years of service -- amounted to tens of thousands of dollars, and in some cases, more than $100,000.