Pregnant store clerk roughed up by robbers as 6-year-old daughter watches

All 6-year-old Trina Khondaker could do was wave her hands and pleaded with the robbers as her pregnant mom was beaten up at work.

On Monday, Deangelo Joyce, 16, along with two other men who are at large, entered Quicke Food Mart in Northeast Miami and demanded cash from store clerk Murshiva Khondaker.

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Prosecutors: George Zimmerman ‘profiled’ Trayvon Martin

Sanford — George Zimmerman went from 45 days of being a hunted man in seclusion to eating Jolly Ranchers and killing time with puzzle books in a 67-square-foot cell.

He’ll be having breakfast at 4 a.m. and getting yard time three hours a week.

A man who seven weeks ago studied criminal justice and dreamed of becoming a cop is jailed without bond on a second-degree murder charge, accused of profiling and slaying an innocent teenager. He faces the prospect of life in prison.

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George Zimmerman in court today; Trayvon Martin’s mother says shooting ‘an accident’

Saying she believed the shooting death of her 17-year-old son was “an accident,’’ Sybrina Fulton revealed on NBC’s Today Show her opinion in the case for the first time Thursday.

“I believe it was an accident,’’ Fulton said. “I believe that it just got out of control, and he couldn’t turn the clock back.’’

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Medley councilman a guardian for at-risk kids, despite previous arrest

After a bizarre arrest on grand theft charges, a bitter, long-running legal fight with his ex-wife and stinging reports from a court magistrate, Medley Councilman Gerardo Silva lost the right to see his two young daughters.

He can, however, represent the interests of abused and neglected children in Miami-Dade’s dependency court system.

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