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Standout University of Miami tight end Greg Olsen, center, celebrates with his youngest brother, Kevin Olsen, 12, third from right, his mother, Susan Olsen, second from right, his father, Chris Olsen, right, his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, front, Robert Bailey, fourth from left, family friend, and John Dooley, second from left, after hearing his name called on television during the first round of the National Football League Draft in Miami Beach, Florida, Saturday, April 28, 2007. Olsen was selected in the first round by the Chicago Bears.
Photo by Jerome T. Nakagawa/Miami Herald Staff
Louis Aguirre (right) rides an indoors bike for 3 hours to help raise funds for Best Buddies Team Miami that provides support and services for people with intellectual disabilities on Saturday afternoon at Olympia Gym located on 20335 Biscayne Blvd., Aventura.
Best Buddies is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment.
Photo by Alexia Fodere / for The Miami Herald.
Miami Dade College's Student Goverment Association's president Christopher M. Miles, points his family out to US President George W. Bush, after introducing Mr Bush, who gave the commencement address, during the Miami Dade College 2007 Commencement ceremony celebrated at the Kendall Campus on Saturday, April 28, 2007.
Photo by Pedro Portal / El Nuevo Herald staff
The homeless squatters who built Umoja Village, a collection of wood and cardboard shacks on NW 62nd Street in Liberty City, are without shelter after the encampment burned to the ground when a candle set a hut on fire. City of Miami police arrested a dozen people who refused to leave the property Thursday.
Video by Chuck Fadely and Candace Barbot / Miami Herald Staff
Capt. Justin, an abandoned salvage boat, sits partially on the shore of Lake Okeechobee's Rim Canal in Clewiston due to low water level conditions on the lake. The boat was being towed two years ago, just before Hurricane Wilma when it was abandoned and ended up in the Rim Canal.
Photo by John Van Beekum / Miami Herald Staff
Pedro Cruz, 10, of Davie, plays softball for the very first time with help from his mother Anna Cruz at Miracle Field in Pembroke Pines, a new custom built facility for children with disabilities. Pedro is among the first members of the newly established Miracle League operated by the West Pines Optimist youth sports club with help from Pembroke Pines special population division.
Photo by Eileen Soler / for The Miami Herald
José Luis De Jesús Miranda -- who teaches that sin and the devil don't exist -- has emerged as an exalted yet divisive figure.
Produced by Battle Vaughan / The Miami Herald Staff
Ethan Bortnick is a 6-year-old music prodigy. He can play over 200 songs from memory, and has already composed several pieces.
Produced by Ricardo Lopez / The Miami Herald Staff
Because of the South Florida drought there is a feast for birds in Conservation area 2 next to Markham park. Here a woodstork flies above the feast. Thousands of native birds feast on dying fish in the low water of the conservation area. The eastern part is the lowest part so whats left of the water is where the fish are. Egrets, herons, woodstorks, vultures, moorehens, roseate spoonbills, ibis', white pelicans and other wading birds have easy pickings during this drought.
Photo by Joe Rimkus Jr./ Miami Herald Staff
Ronnie Holmes died from multiple gunshot wounds on April 10. He was one of Umoja's Village's first residents. Here, Ronnie's sister, Nicole Holmes-Labroche is comforted by Patricia Hodge and Ronnie's niece, Kharisma Labroche. at left is his nephew Pierre Labroche Jr. at interment services at Dade Memorial Park North.
Photo by Al Diaz / Miami Herald Staff
Sam Nettles of Deerfield Beach, pilots "Drift 'n Dream" low over a field of ripe tomatoes being harvested near Krome Avenue and SW 104th street during the 24th Annual Sunrise Community Hot Air Balloon Race at Kendall Tamiami Executive Airport Saturday morning, April 14th. (Photo taken from Mark Fritze's "2nd Wind" balloon from Tallahassee.)
Photo by John Van Beekum, Miami Herald Staff
Herman Rosenblat survived the Holocaust thanks in part to a young girl who tossed him apples and bread from outside the concentration camp. Twelve years later, destiny would bring them together again.
Produced by Ricardo Lopez and C.W. Griffin
James Good, a Miami engineer, photographs downtown Miami from his remote-controlled airplane.
Produced by Ricardo Lopez / The Miami Herald Staff
Tears roll down the cheeks of Marie Thelusma as she talks about her son and husband in Miami. Thelusma was deported from the United States and now lives in a friends home in La Plaine, Port au Prince, Haiti. She rarely leaves the house fearing the crime and kidnapping that has engulfed the city. With little resources to deal with her situation she feels hopeless without family.
Photo by Charles Trainor, Jr. / Miami Herald Staff