Friends and Neighbors

Friends and Neighbors: Campaign raises money to feed hungry school children

Local food banks want to help children who often go hungry get what they need to thrive in school. Communit...

Friends and Neighbors

Florida Mayors join forces to say no to bullies

Looking back at my growing up days, I can remember how school bullies tried to made life miserable for me a...

Crime Watch

Crime Watch: How to protect your children online

School will be starting soon and many of you emailed me regarding the social network sites that your kids w...

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

From Africa to FIU, young leaders find some inspiration

Under an Obama administration initiative, 25 young African leaders learned public administration and other...

Youth Fair

Battle between FIU and Miami-Dade Youth Fair over location goes public with dueling letters

The presidents of the youth fair and FIU sent letters to their constituents to build support for their oppo...

Crime

Questions remain in shooting death of FSU professor

Murder investigation

Phone records lead to arrest in murder of Miami-Dade teen

Politics

Curt Clawson becomes latest Flori-duh rep over India gaffe

They don't call us Flori-duh for nothing.

California to have 4 governors in 4 days next week

How many governors does it take to run the state of California? Next week, the answer's four.

Veterans' response to senator's PTSD remarks mixed

The talk in American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War halls and barrooms across Montana has been about Se...

Defense Department employee gets 2 years in prison

A federal judge has sentenced a Defense Department supervisor who oversaw construction and service contract...

North Dakota industrial fire cleanup to take weeks

Cleanup efforts at the still-smoking site of an oil field supply company in North Dakota that caught fire e...

AP source: Former AG subpoenaed in McDonnell trial

Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is a possible witness in the upcoming corruption trial of f...

86 family members disenrolled from Oregon tribe

An Oregon woman says 86 members of her family have been disenrolled from an American Indian tribe that oper...

AP National News Calendar for the month of August

Eds: Major scheduled events for August 2014. Note that many events, especially court appearances, are subje...

Judge rules feds wrongly protected bearded seals

A federal judge on Friday ruled that a federal fisheries agency improperly listed bearded seals as threaten...

AP News Alert

EU extends Ukraine sanctions to hit Russian intelligence officials, rebel leaders: documents.

Israel: 12-hour Gaza cease-fire to start Saturday

The Israeli military says a 12-hour humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza will start Saturday morning.

War crimes commission takes aim at Islamic State

The head of the independent U.N. commission on Syrian war crimes said Friday that commanders of the Islamic...

Russia delivers combat aircraft to Iraq; experts wonder whether it will help or hurt

The Iraqi government Friday confirmed that Russia has begun delivery of attack helicopters and warplanes a...

France to host meeting on Gaza cease-fire talks

More than a half-dozen foreign ministers including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will hold a meeting i...

Russia finds friend in China as world focuses on blame for Ukraine crash

Ukrainian president: Confidence vote Thursday

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says the government of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will face a vo...

Yemen's Shiite rebels pull out of northern city

Yemen's Shiite rebels battling their conservative Sunni rivals from one of the country's largest tribes hav...

Quick trips: Mexico

The culinary magic of Mexico City

The travel troubleshooter

Resort won’t accept my Travelzoo voucher

Q: I recently bought a Travelzoo voucher for pet-friendly accommodations at Yosemite Lakes RV Resort. I ma...

Ask Nancy

Ask Nancy: What to do when your elderly neighbor needs help

Q. My next-door neighbors for the past 30 years are two elderly women who are now in their eighties. One ha...

Condo Line

How do condo owners find a competent manager?

Q: We are a small condominium and have been having a problem in finding a competent management company. We ...

Southern Cross Stargazer for July 27-Aug. 2, 2014

By nightfall ruddy Mars and silver Saturn drift close in the southwest. Mars lies between Spica (right) in ...

Fiction

A single mom, her kids and a tech millionaire in trouble hit the road in Jojo Moyes’ comic ‘One Plus One’

Kids’ nutrition

Healthy eating options are plentiful, and fun, when giving children food for life

When Sheah Rarback, the director of nutrition at the University of Miami’s Mailman Center for Child ...

Healthy kids

Music, games make kids’ exercise fun

Hospitals are getting kids on a healthy track through exercise and educating them about food choices.

UM FOOTBALL

Miami Hurricanes players dazzling with speed and strength

Marlins 2, Astros 0

Miami Marlins top Houston Astros with Brad Hand in control

Brad Hand pitched into the eighth inning, allowing only three hits in his second strong outing in a row, as...

MIAMI DOLPHINS | TRAINING CAMP

Miami Dolphins’ Stephen Ross intends to be boss for long time

FIU

With stability in Conference USA (finally), FIU and others ready to establish rivalries

Everybody needs somebody to hate. Now, maybe Conference USA schools have a chance to build more of those s...

Marlins notebook

Mini-slump frustrates Miami Marlins’ Casey McGehee

Players don’t normally come under questioning after they have gone three games without a hit. Three-...

IN MY OPINION

Armando Salguero: More questions than answers for Miami Dolphins

IN MY OPINION

Greg Cote: Year 3 means proving ground for Miami Dolphins’ Ryan Tannehill

Mike Wallace is one of the few guys in the Dolphins locker room willing to let his personality come out and...

DOLPHINS NOTEBOOK

Miami Dolphins’ revamped offensive line off to sloppy start at training camp

If the Dolphins open the season with the same starting offensive line that took the field for the first day...

Celebrity birthdays on July 26

Actor James Best (“The Dukes of Hazzard”) is 88. Singer Darlene Love is 73. Singer Mick Jagge...

Celebrity roundup

Sofia Vergara & Joe Mangianello heat things up in the Magic City

Scene in the Tropics

Sean Combs’ girlfriend Cassie Ventura poses for vodka shoot

Cassie Ventura, recording artist and girlfriend of Diddy, was spotted Wednesday at the SLS South Beach, pos...

At the movies

Willem Dafoe: He’s got range

The music scene

Vine star Shawn Mendes finds breakthrough on pop charts

Flashback Friday

Jennifer Lopez is still smoking as she enters middle age

Good Grief! Lifetime drops reality TV show on Texas mortuary

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – The Lifetime TV network says it dropped a reality show about a Texas mortua...

Celebrity birthdays on July 24

Haiti Reconstruction

Congress passes law promoting transparency in Haiti’s reconstruction

Concerned about the slow disbursement of U.S. dollars in Haiti and problems with projects, U.S. lawmakers p...

Latin America Media

Venezuela’s Telesur television goes bilingual with English programming

Over the last nine years, Venezuela-based Telesur has become a leading voice in Latin America. Now, the cha...

Panel clears Kuwaiti ‘forever prisoner’ for repatriation from Guantánamo

WAR COURT

Judge drops 1 of 5 defendants from Guantánamo’s 9/11 case

A military judge has ruled that one of five prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay Navy base charged in the S...

Haiti

Borrowing from Hillary Clinton, Haiti Prime Minister raises profile

As an ongoing political stalemate in Haiti fuels an electoral crisis, many are focusing attention on Haitia...

Venezuela

Venezuela moves to close down Torre David, a 45-story ‘vertical slum’

The Venezuelan government is moving more than 4,400 squatters out of Torre David — the countryȁ...

International trade

Study: No Trans-Pacific Partnership would be a setback for U.S., Latin America

The U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries are negotiating the trade and investment pact but it’s expecte...

World Cup legacy

No World Cup boost for Brazilian president’s reelection bid

The recently held World Cup in Brazil boosted the country’s global image but didn’t do much t...

Climate change

Florida poll: More than 7 in 10 voters concerned about climate change, back EPA action plan

A majority of Florida voters polled say the favor limits on carbon pollution from power plants.

Politics

Why won't Florida GOP leaders talk about trips to King Ranch in Texas?

The trips to historic King Ranch in Texas were financed all or in part with contributions from Florida ...

Redistricting

Judge skeptical about changes to Florida congressional districts before election

A Leon County judge said he was unsure he could redraw the state’s congressional map before the elec...

Guantánamo detainee severed from 9/11 trial

The decision delivers another in a series of delays to the government’s effort to prosecute Ramzi Bi...

Politics

From secret Rick Scott deposition to Charlie Crist’s tie to Ponzi schemer, Florida governor’s race has more ‘mudslinging’

The Democrats are using a website to highlight a sealed deposition Rick Scott gave before running for gover...

Politics

Poll: Libertarian Adrian Wyllie helps Gov. Rick Scott catch Charlie Crist

Crist and Scott are essentially tied in the latest Quinnipiac University poll, in good part because Liberta...

Politics

Charlie Crist about to get millions in campaign subsidy

The former governor will get millions in campaign cash under the state’s public campaign financing p...

Politics

From ‘huckster’ riff to math dis, Florida CFO Jeff Atwater and N.Y. Gov. Cuomo have war of words

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is running a misleading ad campaign aimed at luring business to New York from Fl...

'Up the Down Staircase' writer Kaufman dies at 103

Bel Kaufman, the witty and spirited fiction writer, educator and storyteller whose million-selling "Up the ...

Veronica Timpson, 64

Charter bus entrepreneur, educator Veronica Timpson dies at 64

Bill Thompson co-starred on 'Wallace and Ladmo'

The man who played Wallace Snead on the "Wallace and Ladmo Show," a children's program that aired on Phoeni...

THOR HALVORSSEN, 71

Venezuelan executive, human-rights advocate Thor Halvorssen dies in South Florida

Thor Halvorssen, a Venezuelan telecom executive and human-rights leader, died on Sunday in North Miami. He ...

Edward Duffie, Sr., 77

From bank security guard to vice president, Edward Duffie Sr. dies at 77

Some names become a brand, and in the Edison area of Miami, Edward Duffie Sr. commanded attention, if not o...

Deaf educator and pioneer Robert Panara dies at 94

Robert Panara, who lost his hearing as a child and became a leading educator of the deaf and a pioneer of s...

Dan Borislow, magicJack inventor, dies at 52

Dan Borislow, the inventor of magicJack and a pioneer in developing phone calls over the Internet, died Mon...

Dan Borislow, magicJack inventor, dies at 52

Dan Borislow, the inventor of magicJack and a pioneer in developing phone calls over the Internet, died Mon...

TOURISM

Convention center overhaul forcing travel trade show out of Miami Beach

Travel trade show IPW, which was scheduled to be held in Miami Beach in 2016, will instead meet in New Orle...

Norwegian Cruise Line adding more craft to cocktail program

Norwegian Cruise Line is expanding its partnership with one of Miami’s top mixologists.

BankUnited reports lower second quarter profit, exits auto lending

Miami Lakes-based BankUnited (BKU) reported a 10 percent decline in second quarter earnings to $48.5 millio...

International Finance Bank pays $70,000 fine for alleged deceptive advertising

Miami-based International Finance Bank agreed to pay $70,000 in a civil money penalty after regulators said...

Norwegian Cruise Line giving away cruise in hunt

Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line is launching a social media scavenger hunt Friday — and giving awa...

Carnival Cruise Line huddles up with Dallas Cowboys

Carnival Cruise Lines announced a new teammate Thursday: the Dallas Cowboys.

Developers buy 6.2 acres along the Miami River, including Finnegan’s River, with plans to create Miami Riverwalk

New York real estate investors Chetrit Group and Miami developer Ari Pearl have bought 6.2 acres on three b...

SEC files charges against two South Florida men allegedly involved in a boiler room scheme

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday announced a second round of charges against individuals,...