LEGISLATURE 2014

House education panel approves ‘Pop-Tart’ gun bill

The bill offers special protection for “brandishing a partially consumed pastry or other food.”

Peter Lickman, 70

Peter Lickman, longtime Northeast Miami-Dade pastor and lover of animals, dies at 70

ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES

ALF industry hires top state regulator

The state official in charge of finding and regulator senior living facilities that harm residents and viol...

PortMiami

Royal Caribbean says no to Beckham’s soccer plan, while PortMiami heads abroad to recruit other developers

David Beckham’s quest to bring soccer to PortMiami faces competition for the land he seeks. Among th...

Miami Beach

Teen shot by Miami Beach police Taser died of accidental cardiac arrest

Obamas to visit Miami-Dade's Coral Reef High School on Friday

President Barack Obama will arrive Friday in South Florida, where he plans to give a speech at Coral Reef S...

BritWeek

BritWeek Miami celebrates UK’s economic links to Florida

Trade between Florida and Britain amounts to an estimated $2.6 billion a year — a fact that business...

politics

At CPAC, Sen. Marco Rubio presses for assertive U.S. foreign policy

Painting a grim picture of world developments, Sen. Marco Rubio said the United States has an obligation to...

Opening statements to begin in general's sex trial

Opening statements were set to begin Friday in the court-martial of an Army general accused of sexually ass...

5 things to know about Kansas school funding fight

The Kansas Supreme Court will issue a decision Friday in a lawsuit filed by parents and school districts th...

Quotations in the News

"I got nothing to do with it." — Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, the 64-year-old man identified by...

Taxis, limos upset over rules for tech competition

Frustrated and angry, more than 100 cabbies pulled up outside the Colorado Statehouse early this legislativ...

Kansas high court to rule in school funding suit

A much-anticipated ruling in Kansas' school finance lawsuit will come down Friday, determining whether the ...

Darren Sharper returns to court seeking release

Darren Sharper will return to court on Friday where his attorneys will argue that the former NFL All-Pro sa...

On the rocks? 'Ice yachts' sail cold Hudson River

Sharp winds lashed up the Hudson River as sailors launched boats onto the ice. Sails whipped furiously as t...

Experts: Case of burned Texas boy problematic

Now that prosecutors have persuaded a judge that a Texas man accused of setting an 8-year-old boy on fire a...

German president to visit massacre site in Greece

German President Joachim Gauck is to visit a village in northwestern Greece where German troops massacred d...

Ukraine oligarchs get key posts in bid for unity

Entrepreneurship grows in Egypt's flailing economy

In Egypt's newest reality television show, contestants sold fruit juice from push carts in Cairo's busiest ...

Karl Lagerfeld to design Macau hotel

Karl Lagerfeld and a Macau casino operator announced plans Friday for the Chanel designer to create his fir...

Turkish PM threatens to ban Facebook, YouTube

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is fighting a corruption scandal, has threatened further s...

Rediscovered trenches bring WWI to life in England

Two lines of trenches face off across No Man's Land. A soldier marches, rifle in hand, along a ditch. These...

AP PHOTOS: Women brick-makers in debt in Pakistan

Amna Bhatti has spent half a century shaping mud into bricks in a huge kiln south of the Pakistani capital,...

Pistorius neighbor: Bangs too quick to be bat

A neighbor of Oscar Pistorius testifying in his murder trial said Friday that the bangs he heard after a wo...

Nonfiction

Walter Kirn reveals the true, bizarre story of a world-class scammer — and his own gullibility

Film

Culture critic examines the lasting appeal of ‘Network’

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Fiction

A golden brooch inspires a Vietnamese-American in search of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Shark lovers try to save Jaws from Trinidad’s bite

Conservationists say they have launched a shark-saving campaign in the Caribbean country of Trinidad & Toba...

Ask Nancy

When a parent’s bookkeeper is secretive

It’s important to safeguard the finances of an aging family member

Cook’s Corner

‘Best ever’ strawberry cake starts with a mix

Q: When I saw the strawberry cake recipe in your column recently I was so excited, and then I realized it w...

Sunday Supper

Chickpeas a nutritious, delicious pantry staple

Whether you call them chickpeas, ceci or garbanzos, these plump beans offer a lot of goodness in a package ...

Golf | WGC-Cadillac Championship

Jason Dufner, four others tied at weather-affected Doral

Tough weather conditions and a toughened up course at Trump National Doral gave the world best golfers a se...

Miami Marlins

Miami Marlins coach Brett Butler offers expertise in running the bases

Spurs 111, Heat 87

Miami Heat falls flat against San Antonio Spurs

Florida Panthers

Florida Panthers’ Luongo settles into familiar spot

Roberto Luongo spoke of “returning to normalcy” before practicing with the Panthers for the first...

ROUNDUP

American Heritage, St. Thomas Aquinas to kick off 2014 football season

Two of the nation’s best and most tradition-rich programs in Broward County will clash this August to ...

UM notebook

Miami Hurricanes stop for spring break as Al Golden appears pleased

The Hurricanes completed their fourth spring practice session Thursday before being dispersed by coach Al G...

Heat notebook

Miami Heat’s LeBron James plans to attend ceremony for Zydrunas Ilgauskas

LeBron James and a few others in the Heat’s organization are planning a road trip to Cleveland on Satu...

Bacardi Miami Sailing Week: Brazilians maintain lead after rough day on Biscayne Bay

All six fleets managed one or more races in advance of a tornado threat Thursday afternoon in Biscayne Bay ...

Celebrity birthdays on March 7

La vida local

Justin Timberlake celebrates wife Jessica Biel’s birthday in Miami

The style scene

Carolina Herrera’s Spring 2014 collection inspired by Venezuelan artists

MIAMI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine, a guest at the Miami International Film Festival, comes to terms with her career

On the cusp of 80, Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine remains fearless and uncensored.

Celebrity birthdays on March 6

Singer Mary Wilson of The Supremes is 70. Singer-guitarist David Gilmour of Pink Floyd is 68. Director Rob ...

Celebrity roundup

Shayne Lamas recounts health nightmare, losing baby

In her first interview since losing her baby at 20 weeks into her pregnancy, Shayne Lamas opened up to In T...

Celebrity birthdays on March 5

More Bieber videos released by prosecutors

Prosecutors on Wednesday released surveillance video of singer Justin Bieber urinating while at the Miami B...

VENEZUELA

Rubio wants U.S. attention on Venezuela crisis

Sen. Marco Rubio faults the White House for being preoccupied with what is going on in Ukraine and not payi...

CUBA

Cruise ship rescues 24 Cuban migrants in Caribbean

The Carnival Paradise put them ashore in the Cayman Islands, where authorities are likely to return them to...

Venezuela

Country struggling with Chávez’s legacy

Venezuela marked the anniversary of the death of President Hugo Chavez amid tensions at home and abroad. As...

Haiti

Haitian-American officials to State Department: Don’t intervene in cholera lawsuit

Elected Haitian American officials call on U.S. State Department not to side with the United Nations in cho...

VENEZUELA

OAS to convene nations on Venezuelan crisis

The high-level meeting was requested by Panama and amid calls by South Florida lawmakers for action against...

KEY BISCAYNE

Cuban rafter taken into custody after reaching Key Biscayne; two others flee

CUBA

A newly uncovered cyber-spying attack has old Spanish oath embedded in its code

The cyber-spying attack has carefully selected its more than 1,000 victims in 31 countries, including Cuba.

WAR COURT

Guantánamo judge pushes USS Cole trial to Dec. 4

A military judge has ordered jury selection at Guantánamo in October and a December trial date for the...

politics

At CPAC, Sen. Marco Rubio presses for assertive U.S. foreign policy

Painting a grim picture of world developments, Sen. Marco Rubio said the United States has an obligation to...

COURTS

Florida Supreme Court rules immigrant cannot join Bar

The Florida Supreme Court called on the Florida Legislature to intervene to correct what it called an ...

VENEZUELA

Rubio wants U.S. attention on Venezuela crisis

Sen. Marco Rubio faults the White House for being preoccupied with what is going on in Ukraine and not payi...

LEGISLATURE 2014

Vote on controversial abortion bill delayed in Senate

The bill requires doctors to perform medical examinations, including ultrasounds, on pregnant women who see...

2014 Legislature

Big money, powerful lobbying groups push school voucher proposal

A proposal to expand the controversial school voucher program has become a top priority of the Florida Legi...

PolitiFact Florida

Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation’s history,' Florida Democratic Party says

Florida Democrats claim Gov. Rick Scott “oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation’s histo...

LEGISLATURE 2014

Conservative committee opens door to medical marijuana for Florida

A House panel approves a strain of marijuana to be used to treat children with severe epilepsy and other co...

LEGISLATURE 2014

Gov. Rick Scott gets personal and political in State of State speech

Setting the stage for a grueling re-election campaign, Gov. Rick Scott took direct aim at Charlie Crist...

Peter Lickman, 70

Peter Lickman, longtime Northeast Miami-Dade pastor and lover of animals, dies at 70

Sports medicine pioneer Frank Jobe dies at 88

Mildred Merrick, 92

Merrick widow and UM reference librarian Mildred Merrick dies at 92

Agent: Game show host Geoff Edwards dies at 83

Geoff Edwards, the hip-looking 1970s and '80s host of TV game shows including "Jackpot!" and two incarnatio...

'How We Die' author Nuland dies in Conn. at age 83

Dr. Sherwin Nuland, a medical ethicist who opposed assisted suicide and wrote an award-winning book about d...

Justin Kaplan, Bartlett's editor, dead at 88

Justin Kaplan, an author and cultural historian with a taste for troublemaking who wrote a definitive, Puli...

Pioneering Pittsburgh-area DJ Porky Chedwick dies

Disc jockey "Porky" Chedwick, who became a Pittsburgh-area institution by promoting R&B artists in the late...

French filmmaker Resnais dies at 91

HOTELS

Tommy Hilfiger entering hotel business with South Beach’s Raleigh

BritWeek

BritWeek Miami celebrates UK’s economic links to Florida

Trade between Florida and Britain amounts to an estimated $2.6 billion a year — a fact that business...

ECONOMY

Stock and housing gains put U.S. net worth at record

Americans without stock holdings are less prosperous than those with investments.

Staples to close 225 stores as sales move online

The office supply company said it is closing many outlets but isn’t giving up on brick-and-mortar st...

North Miami Beach

Developer can go ahead with scaled-back plans for luxury home in North Miami Beach

In an unexpected twist, two City Council members said they could not vote due to conflicts of interest.

HOUSING

Miami area negative equity fell to 29.8 percent in fourth quarter

The percentage of mortgaged residences in the greater Miami area that were underwater dropped to 29.8 perce...

JOBS

AT&T looks to hire 450 in Florida

AT&T said this week it is looking to hire about 200 people in South Florida and another 250 elsewhere in th...

Miami’s $11.5 million movie/TV studio gets green light

Miami’s Omni Community Redevelopment Agency this week finalized an $11.5 million contract for a New ...