Healthcare

Medicare spends nearly $2 billion in South Florida

Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, spent the most on office visit...

LEGISLATURE 2014

Senators want public to help pay for legal battle between car dealers and makers

The dispute is over a 2008 Florida law which allows dealers to charge a higher retail rate for repairs in w...

Federal courts

Judge gives FBI more time in Sarasota 9/11 case

A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale gave the FBI another week to turn over documents about its investigation...

Ultra Music Festival

In an effort to stay in Miami, Ultra hires Miami Beach’s police chief Ray Martinez

Miami-Dade Schools

Computer glitch disrupts FCAT testing for 1,200 Miami-Dade students

The state Department of Education is unaware of a computer glitch that affected FCAT testing occurring anyw...

Soccer in Miami

Soccer stadium at PortMiami location would cost $50 million more, David Beckham group says

Despite the heftier price tag, representatives for retired English soccer star David Beckham say they still...

POLITICS / ANALYSIS

Immigrant tuition bill reopens rift in Republican party

The abrupt announcement that a bill to give some undocumented immigrants in-state tuition would not, in eff...

Miami-Dade

Miami-Dade firefighter charged with sharing sexual images of underage girls — on Twitter

NY judge upholds charges against financier's kin

A judge has declined to toss out federal fraud charges against the brother of a one-time billionaire hedge ...

Fire destroys 3 homes at Jersey shore community

Providence, RI, sues firms over stock trades

Providence, R.I., is suing dozens of Wall Street banks and other financial companies over high-frequency tr...

Officials probe potential threat on Delta flight

Officials say a Delta Air Lines plane on a flight from Detroit to Denver reported an unspecified potential ...

Autopsies done on 7 Utah babies found in garage

The Utah State Medical Examiner's Office has completed autopsies of seven infants found in cardboard boxes ...

APNewsBreak: Medicaid paid $12M for Illinois dead

The Illinois Medicaid program paid an estimated $12 million for medical services for people listed as decea...

Plane spotted in Iran is registered to Utah bank

An airplane that mysteriously ended up in Iran is registered to a Utah bank under an arrangement for aviati...

A look inside the Clinton White House

Glimpses into behind-the-scenes workings of President Bill Clinton's White House, as revealed in documents ...

On upcoming trip, Obama will try to pivot to Asia - again

AP Photos: Latam Catholics pay tribute to Christ

Magnitude-7.2 earthquake shakes Mexican capital

A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday, sending panicked people in...

Magnitude-7.2 earthquake shakes Mexican capital

Blast in busy Cairo square kills 1 police officer

An explosion rocked a busy square in central Cairo late Friday, killing one police officer and causing pani...

Officials: 24 more abducted Nigerian students free

Twenty-four more Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists have escaped and 85 still are missing,...

Pensive pope at Good Friday Colosseum procession

Desperate migrants, suicidal failed business owners, battered women, torture victims and all people sufferi...

N. Korea criticizes 'human rights racket' of US

A North Korean spokesman is blaming the United States and its allies for a "human rights racket" a day afte...

Fiction

Francine Prose reconstructs a Nazi collaborator and Paris in this dazzling historical novel.

History

Book assesses the impact of the Civil Rights Act 50 years later

Fiction

A boy spies on his mom in Mona Simpson’s fresh new novel

A Fork on the Road

A Fork on the Road: Choices Cafe gives vegans plenty of flavor

Holiday cooking

Miami chefs put a twist on Easter classics

Cook’s Corner

Cook’s Corner: Behold the new colors of Easter eggs

The Edgy Veggie

Edgy Veggie: Eggless ‘Egg Salad’

This must be the egg industry’s favorite time of the year. There’s Easter eggs, egg-rich Easter c...

Fit tip: Get enough water

Q: How much water should I be drinking throughout the day?

IN MY OPINION

David J. Neal: NCAA ruling on meals is really food for thought

Brother, can you spare a dime? Because Daddy Coach needs a new tray of hamburgers.

Miami Baseball

Notre Dame is next foe as Miami Hurricanes baseball team aims to extend streak

UM has won 13 games in a row and risen to No. 11 with a home series against Notre Dame on tap.

Marlins | Tom Koehler

Miami Marlins’ Tom Koehler doing his part amid the losing

Unheralded righty Tom Koehler has given the struggling Marlins a complement to ace Jose Fernandez so far th...

Roundup

Former FIU assistant baseball coach loses battle with prostate cancer

Rolando Casanova, a former assistant baseball coach at FIU, passed away last weekend, losing a long fight w...

In My Opinion

David J. Neal: Role players hold key to Miami Heat title hopes

No matter what media blowhards like me say, individuals don’t win championships, even in the NBA. No...

GAME 1 | HORNETS AT HEAT, 3:30 P.M. SUNDAY | ABC

Miami Heat needs Chris Bosh to regain shooting touch in playoffs

After a sizzling start, Chris Bosh’s struggles shooting coincided with the Heat’s poor record dow...

Track and field

Westminster’s James achieves rare sprint triple at regionals

Westminster Academy’s Andrew James showed the Region 4-1A field at Dade Christian why he’s become...

Baseball | GMAC Championship: Killian 5, Columbus 4

Killian rallies in bottom of seventh for championship

It’s becoming clear that Killian will be one of the most dangerous teams in the upcoming Class 8A stat...

La vida local

Dylan Lauren: I wish I could eat more candy

As seen on TV

Tatiana Maslany of ‘Orphan Black’ is a hard worker

Kim Novak speaks out against Oscar night ‘bullies’

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Kim Novak says that cruel jabs about how she looked during the Oscar ceremony amo...

Bill Clinton jokes with Spacey at benefit concert

NEW YORK (AP) – Near the end of the first half of Thursday’s 25th Anniversary Rain Forest ben...

The music scene

Talking to music industry legend Bruce Duff on World Record Day

La vida local

Marlon Wayans couldn’t let it rest: he’s back for ‘A Haunted House 2’

Celebrity roundup

Valerie Harper: I’m not ‘cancer free’

Jay Z to bring Made in America music fest to LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Budweiser Made in America music festival is coming to Los Angeles, but who is...

Venezuela

Venezuela’s troubled times: Maduro’s first year in power

President Nicolás Maduro took power a year ago today. During the past 12 months, he’s faced a s...

Bay Harbor Islands

Bay Harbor Islands approves resolution supporting Venezuelan demonstrators

Bay Harbor Islands council members have approved a resolution in support of Venezuelan demonstrators.

CUBA

Group says jailed Cuban journalist should be freed

Report says the reporter was jailed because she wrote about alleged police abuse.

World Cup

Miami will be World Cup crossroads

WAR COURT

Outside counsel to probe FBI’s action in Guantánamo 9/11 case

A Justice Department attorney has been named to look into the FBI’s questioning of one member of a 9...

Doral

Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Bill Nelson try to keep U.S. attention on Venezuelan political unrest

In a joint appearance in Doral, Florida’s senators endorsed U.S. sanctions against Venezuelan govern...

WAR COURT

Guantánamo judge to CIA: Disclose ‘black site’ details to USS Cole defense lawyers

CUBA

Condom shortage hits Cuba

POLITICS / ANALYSIS

Immigrant tuition bill reopens rift in Republican party

The abrupt announcement that a bill to give some undocumented immigrants in-state tuition would not, in eff...

Legislature 2014

South Florida lawmakers ramp up push for needle-exchange bill

South Florida lawmakers are hoping to push a controversial needle-exchange proposal over a final hurdle.

2014 Legislature

Trouble looms for immigrant tuition bill in Florida Legislature

The Senate delivered a blow to a bill seeking to extend in-state tuition rates to undocumented students.

Florida Supreme Court

Court: Fla. discrimination law covers pregnancy

In a 6-to-1 opinion, the Florida Supreme Court overturned a lower court in the case of a woman who worked f...

Doral

Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Bill Nelson try to keep U.S. attention on Venezuelan political unrest

In a joint appearance in Doral, Florida’s senators endorsed U.S. sanctions against Venezuelan govern...

2014 Legislature

Miami lawmakers make one more push to extend healthcare to immigrant children

Florida lawmakers haven’t given up hope on extending the state’s subsidized health insurance ...

POLITICS

Gov. Rick Scott to Charlie Crist: Win your primary and then maybe we’ll debate

Gov. Rick Scott said he’s not ready to take up Charlie Crist’s challenge to debate, saying it...

2014 Legislature

Florida lawmakers consider healthcare law change aimed at Jackson

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and ...

World reacts to death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reaction to death of writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

Works by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was among Latin America's most popular writers and widely considered ...

Gabriel García Márquez | 1927-2014

Gabriel García Márquez: Master of magical realism, Nobel Prize winner dies

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and ...

Harry Russell, 93, Miami-Dade’s champion for the disabled, has died

Harry Russell became Miami-Dade County’s champion for the disabled more than 50 years ago — a...

World reacts to death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reaction to death of writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

Works by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was among Latin America's most popular writers and widely considered ...

Healthcare

Medicare spends nearly $2 billion in South Florida

Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, spent the most on office visit...

Windridge Yacht Charters acquired by Chicago company

Fort Lauderdale’s Windridge Yacht Charters, which owns the Lady Windridge and Windridge K vessels, h...

Economy

Florida leads nation in new job creation

But Miami-Dade’s March unemployment rate ticked up as more people search for jobs.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Florida companies attract $72 million in VC funding in 1st quarter

Sunrise telehealth provider MDLIVE attracted the largest investment in the fourth quarter, The MoneyTree re...

Riviera Focacceria Italiana now open in the Shops of Midtown Miami

A new restaurant, Riviera Focacceria Italiana, is now open in the Shops of Midtown in Miami, offering fresh...

Miami Beach to host town hall meeting to discuss Beckham’s soccer proposal

Miami Beach residents can express their opinions about David Beckham’s proposal to build a soccer st...

Healthcare

UM law students dig into healthcare policy to help a patient get life-saving treatment

Sometimes getting treatment takes more than a healthcare navigator. It takes a lawyer -- or four.

BILLBOARD LATIN MUSIC CONFERENCE

Billboard Latin Music Conference celebrates 25th anniversary next week in Miami

The Billboard Latin Music Conference returns to the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami on Monday to celebrate its...