🌱 Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix + Roe v. Wade Fate Brings Protesters

Hey, Miami! Let's get you all caught up to start this day off on an informed note. Here's everything you need to know today in town.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and humid. High: 85 Low: 74.

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Here are the top five stories in Miami today:

1. A federal jury in Fort Lauderdale has convicted a 44-year-old former actor and movie producer, Van Eman, of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering related to his role in a financing scheme that defrauded movie and theater producers of more than $60 million. Eman is scheduled to be sentenced on July 21 and faces potentially several decades in prison. (Miami Patch)

2. The Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, taking place this weekend at Hard Rock Stadium, is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people to the area. In anticipation of the increase in traffic, a number of road closures will go into effect beginning later this week. (CBS Miami)

3. South Florida residents are reacting to the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned. Hours after the unprecedented leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion, pro-choice advocates in Miami and in Fort Lauderdale said the abortion rights landscapes already changing in Florida could become unrecognizable. A handful of counter protesters appeared at a Fort Lauderdale rally. (WSVN)

4. Police are investigating a drive-by shooting in a northwest Miami-Dade neighborhood that left a teen dead Wednesday morning. The shooting happened around 10 a.m.in the 7100 block of Northwest 14th Place, just blocks from Miami Northwestern Senior High School. (NBC Miami)

5. Wage growth in the Miami area is below the national average annual increase in large metropolitan areas of 4.8% in compensation costs and 5% annually in wages and salaries. Miami also saw its unemployment rate go up to 3% in March from 2.8% in February. (Miami Today)

Today in Miami:

• 7th Annual Cinco De Mayo Brickell Bar Crawl - Day One at Blackbird Ordinary. (9:00 AM)
• Cinco De Mayo at Toro Toro. (12:00 PM)
• Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at Negroni Midtown. (4:00 PM)
• 5th Annual Cinco de Mayo Wynwood Bar Crawl. (5:00 PM)
• Cinco De Drinko at Tiki Bar Lounge. (9:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• Shvo has revealed plans to renovate the historic Raleigh hotel in Miami Beach and build a condo behind it, in partnership with Rosewood Hotels. (Subscription:South Florida Business Journal)
• Fifteen Miami Dade County Public School students took to the Adrienne Arsht Center’s stage April 21 for the grand finals of Piano Slam 2022. The award for the competition went to four students from two Miami middle schools and one high school earning each student $1,000 in cash. (South Florida Times)
• Miami-Dade County jails charge inmates $2 a day for room and board, a fee that is rarely paid and creates a shadow economy behind bars that administrators want to eliminate. Unpaid inmate accounts total $72 million over seven years. (WLRN)
• The City of Miami Beach will hold a street sign unveiling for Elie Wiesel Way at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 5 along the northwest corner of Pride Park at 1700 Convention Center Dr. (Twitter)

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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.

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