Climate change

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

Nearly eight in 10 likely Florida voters want limits on carbon pollution from power plants and as many as 7...

Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade mayor lets higher library-tax ceiling stand

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez won’t veto a higher property-tax rate ceiling for libraries set by c...

Judge orders Coconut Grove salon to give authorities name of groping victim

A Miami-Dade judge on Friday ordered an upscale Coconut Grove salon to reveal to authorities the name of a ...

Party animals, birds, fish, gators kick off Mascot Games for Central Florida’s New Hope for Kids

New Hope for Kids hosts the 21st annual Mascot Games at 12:30 p.m. Friday, July 25 and 2 p.m. Saturday, Jul...

Marine science

Sixth-grader’s science project on venomous lionfish spawns fierce fight over scientific credit

A former FIU biology student says he deserves credit for the media-hyped science project of a Loxahatchee s...

Miami-Dade County

Miami Dade School Board gives nod to a new school budget

The budget includes a slightly lower tax rate and funding for new initiatives such as digital textbooks.

The once homeless return to help clean Miami’s mean streets

Eugene Gordon knows the streets of downtown Miami very well.

City of Miami

Miami Commission sets tax cap, considers hiring more police

Commissioners will consider two budget proposals in September, one that pays for 20 more cops and one that ...

Argentina debt talks deadlocked as default looms

Argentina's negotiations with creditors to resolve a dispute over $1.5 billion in unpaid debts remained dea...

US plans wide seismic testing of Atlantic seabed

The federal government is planning to use sound blasting to conduct research on the ocean floor along most ...

Sheriff: 300 homes burned in Washington wildfire

About 300 homes — twice as many as previously estimated — have burned in a massive wildfire i...

7th Circuit sets hearing on gay marriage ban

Lawyers will argue the constitutionality of gay marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin in about a month.

Disappointing results at Visa, Amazon hurt stocks

Pelvis pix victims must feel trauma to share $190M

Thousands of women whose genitals might have been photographed during gynecological exams can share a $190 ...

Sam Raimi announces planned 'The Last of Us' film

"The Last of Us" video game is becoming a film.

3 sue Pounceys over alleged fight at nightclub

NFL offensive linemen Mike and Maurkice Pouncey have been sued by three people who say the twin brothers at...

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...

AP ANALYSIS: Old story, new twists in Gaza war

The third Gaza war is playing out much like the first one more than five years ago: The harrowing civilian ...

Nigeria confirms first Ebola death

West Africa's current Ebola outbreak has spread to a fourth country, after an ill Liberian man vomited, had...

Russia: McDonald's food has 'too many calories'

Nearly a quarter-century after McDonald's startled and delighted Soviets with their first taste of American...

What happened? The day Flight 17 was downed

It was lunchtime when a tracked launcher with four SA-11 surface-to-air missiles rolled into town and parke...

Venezuela official seeks immunity in Aruba ruling

A judge in Aruba is expected to rule today whether the highest-ranking Venezuelan official ever arrested on...

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.

Florida: Tarpon Springs Hippiefest set for Aug. 16

restaurants

An A-to-Z guide to Miami Spice 2014

HIV/AIDS FUNDRAISERS

Thirtieth anniversary White Party 2014 to be Nov. 29 at Perez Art Museum Miami

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: In-laws say the meanest things

Adapted from a recent online discussion.

Dear Abby

Dear Abby: Guest howls over dog’s attendance at wedding

Dear Abby: Is it acceptable to bring a teacup-sized dog to a wedding? The excuse was, “Well, the wed...

HEAT NOTEBOOK

Miami Heat still non-committal on Michael Beasley, Greg Oden

Even with at least three roster spots to fill, the Heat continues to be non-committal with free agents Mich...

Marlins 3, Braves 2

Miami Marlins come through against Atlanta Braves closer Craig Kimbrel

Jarrod Saltalamacchia got the game-winning hit, Henderson Alvarez had a strong outing and the Marlins beat ...

UM FOOTBALL

Miami Hurricanes players dazzling with speed and strength

UM receiver Phillip Dorsett, coming off a knee injury, has been blazing fast. Others such as Gus Edwards an...

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...

Miami Marlins notebook

Miami Marlins’ Jarrod Saltalamacchia struggling defensively

The season has turned into anything but a pleasant homecoming for Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who is struggling ...

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...

MIAMI DOLPHINS | TRAINING CAMP

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

IN MY OPINION

Armando Salguero: Joe Philbin optimistic about Miami Dolphins despite skeptics

Joe Philbin welcomes a visitor with a warm smile and firm handshake and for the next 30 minutes enthusiasti...

Celebrity roundup

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

The hottest couple in Hollywood is turning up the heat in — where else? — Miami.

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

Celebrity birthdays on July 25

Actress Barbara Harris is 79. Singer-guitarist Bruce Woodley of The Seekers is 72. Supermodel Iman is 59. C...

Celebrity roundup

Kelsey Grammer a new dad, Cynthia Nixon shocked by past family violence, Selena Gomez has a new man

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

Although the parole board published its decision on a Pentagon website Friday, the Kuwaiti can’t lea...

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...

Cuba

Payá family launches new effort for plebiscite in Cuba

On the second anniversary of the death of Cuban opposition leader Oswaldo Payá, his daughter, Rosa Mar...

Climate change

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

Nearly eight in 10 likely Florida voters want limits on carbon pollution from power plants and as many as 7...

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...

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

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

Gov. Scott had stake in pipeline firm whose $3 billion venture he and his appointees backed

Upon his election in 2010, Gov. Rick Scott’s transition team included a Florida Power & Light execut...

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...

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...

Correction: Obit-Thomas Berger story

In a story July 22 about the death of author Thomas Berger, The Associated Press erroneously reported that ...

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,...