🌱 Co-Work LatAm Expanding Footprint + Kendall Narcotics Drug Bust

Morning, Miami! Here's everything you need to know to get this Thursday started off right.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny; breezy, nice. High: 80 Low: 75.

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Here are the top five stories today in Miami:

1. Co-Work LatAm, a rental co-working space company which has 18 locations in Chile, its country of origin, five in Colombia, two in Uruguay, one in Mexico and now one in Brickell, is expecting to double its footprint in 2022 to 50 offices across the Americas, the company recently announced. An additional 50 locations over the next three years are expected, the company said, focusing on Tampa, Orlando, Houston and Atlanta. (Miami Today)

2. A South Florida man says he was the victim of a hate crime and was beaten up in front of his home because he is gay. The assault occurred last Sunday, around 8 a.m., outside of his condominium on A1A, near 27th Street in Fort Lauderdale. (WSVN)

3. A car crashed into a Sunrise canal late Tuesday night, leaving both the driver and the teen who jumped into the water to try to rescue him dead, authorities said. The incident happened at the Residence of Sawgrass Mills neighborhood, located off Northwest 12th Street and Silver Palm Boulevard, around 11 p.m. Tuesday. (NBC Miami)

4. Five people have been arrested in connection with a haul of narcotics near a school in Kendall. Miami-Dade PD confiscated the drugs on April 15, after setting up surveillance in a parking lot at 9360 SW 72 Street, right across the street from the charter school, True North Classical Academy. (CBS Miami)

5. A Palm Beach County Chihuahua has set a new record as the world's oldest living dog. TobyKeith was born January 9, 2001 and verified as being 21 years and 66 days old on March 16, according to Guinness World Records. (Miami Patch)

Today in Miami:

• My Name Is Maryan – Public Exhibition Tour With Curator Of Education Amanda Covach at Museum of Contemporary Art. (1:00 PM)
• Switch It Up! Thursday Gaming Day at Shenandoah Branch Library. (4:00 PM)
• Adult Chess Club at Miami Beach Regional Library. (5:00 PM)
• Taller Del Club De Padres at YMCA Village Of Allapattah Family Branch. (5:30 PM)
• Think Tank Thursday Tech Month Edition at The LAB Miami. (5:30 PM)

From my notebook:

• The NAWLEE (National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives) Conference is taking place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Downtown Miami now through April 22nd. (Facebook)
• A Brightline train collided with a vehicle on the tracks in Oakland Park on Wednesday morning, adding yet another crash to the growing list of accidents involving the train company. (WPLG Local 10)
• Join Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners today at 9:30 a.m., for its CDMP & Zoning Meeting, which will be held in-person and LIVE on Facebook and Twitter. (Twitter)
• Miami Beach's Department of Public Works is working to keep Miami Beach safe and clean. It shared photos of the Public Works Streets team repairing a road after the Water team completed a portion of work on 51st Street and Pine Tree Drive earlier this month. (Twitter)
• Although Miami-Dade has bucked the national trends of sharp increases in homicides, domestic homicides have increased, alarming activists. (Subscription: Miami Herald)

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— Carlos Hernandez

About me: Hello my name is Carlos Hernandez and I am a food writer with over 10 years of experience in the industry. I write the food blog Carlos Eats (http://www.carloseats.com) and also contribute to several newspapers and magazines with food-related blogs and articles.