PolitiFact Florida

After voting for a ban, Charlie Crist now backs gay marriage

After voting for a ban, Charlie Crist now backs gay marriage

POLITICS

Marco Rubio blames President Obama for latest scandals

Rubio mesmerized hundreds in Tampa with a familiar speech that resonated more strongly than ever amid the l...

REALITY TV

Miami police parts ways with popular “First 48” cable show

The popular television show has helped solve Miami homicides, but critics say the cameras can be a distract...

Insurance

Citizens offers cheaper rate option with no fanfare

Homeowners could save up to 70 percent on their insurance premium with a new policy offering from Citizens,...

Miami Beach

Jet-set Miami developers entangled in legal drama over private jet

For sale: a $12.6 million Bombardier Challenger jet presumably grounded at the Opa-locka Airport.

Pedestrian struck, killed by bus at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport

A bus struck and killed a pedestrian at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Saturday afternoon.

One killed, two injured in crash on Florida’s Turnpike in Miramar

Officials say a car stopped in the left lane was struck from behind and caught on fire

Official: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash

The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the resu...

Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US

Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of...

Alaska volcano shoots lava up hundreds of feet

Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano was shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume was thinn...

Alaska volcano shoots lava up hundreds of feet

Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is t...

1 of 2 fires north of LA contained

A wildfire burning in the hills along Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles has been fully contained.

Funeral held for mom, son found dead in home

Funeral services have been held for the New Jersey woman and boy whose bodies were found in their home afte...

Up to 60 injured after car drives into Va. parade

An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain t...

Mexico judge orders prison for suspects in killing

A judge on Saturday issued an order for the imprisonment of two waiters accused in the beating death of Mal...

Dissident ex-general released in Venezuela

Venezuelan authorities have released a dissident ex-general who was jailed on charges of inciting unrest af...

20 flights without bags after Egypt airport strike

Egyptian officials say baggage handlers in Cairo's airport have gone on strike to protest a colleague's dea...

Member of Pakistani cricket star's party killed

Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party.

Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina

It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, an...

Suspected US drone in Yemen kills 4 militants

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once ov...

French president signs gay marriage into law

France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law S...

Florida: Key West Pride June 5-9

A proud tradition

Parenting

Take a seat, tot: choices in potty seats abound

Like so many aspects of life with kids, potty training means gear, lots of gear: Potty-seat choices have pr...

Gulf Coast

On the hunt for the teeth of giant prehistoric sharks

Paul Reinckens kicked slowly over the sandy bottom 30 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico looking for triangula...

The travel troubleshooter

Hotel chain’s just blowing smoke

Let me state my bias up front: Smoking should not be allowed in a hotel room. Ever. Unfortunately, at the t...

Mama Sass

Masters of multitasking — but at what price?

Do your kids toggle?

Quick trips: Virginia

At Williamsburg, history does not repeat itself

I received the message from the revolutionary agent who, despite her 18th century dress and speech, had no ...

Condo Line

Every year, board shirks an audit

Q. Every year the board meets with the owners and recommends to them that no audit be taken on the condomi...

FAU 12, FIU 1

FAU routs FIU Panthers in regular-season finale

The Panthers, who finished with a losing record for the first time in five years, say they can turn it arou...

A PROM NIGHT TO REMEMBER

Dwyane Wade surprises Miami teen at prom

Persistence paid off for an Archbishop Coleman Carroll senior. She asked (and asked) and ultimately receive...

Georgia Tech 10, UM 1

Miami Hurricanes routed by Georgia Tech in regular-season finale

Calder

Close it Out wins Champali Stakes at Calder

IN MY OPINION

Michelle Kaufman: Landon Donovan’s leadership missing as U.S. prepares for World Cup qualifiers

Will Landon Donovan ever rejoin the U.S. national team? Will he play in the Brazil World Cup next summer? T...

Baseball | Class 7A semifinal: Haines City 2, St. Thomas Aquinas 1

Haines City’s small ball ends St. Thomas Aquinas’ season

Haines City’s suicide squeeze in the seventh inning gave the Hornets the winning run against St. Tho...

Diamondbacks 9, Marlins 2

Kevin Slowey gets shelled; Marlins’ losing skid hits six

Arizona slugger Paul Goldschmidt belted two two-run home runs off a suddenly ineffective Kevin Slowey as Mi...

Celebrity birthdays on May 18

Coming to town

Wendy Williams gets blunt at Books & Books

The movie scene

Winona Ryder back in ‘The Iceman’

Report: George Michael in car crash

George Michael was involved in a single car crash in England Thursday. The singer was reportedly airlifted ...

Scene in the Tropics

Katsuya makes cocktail fit for a King (James)

The music scene

Fantasia living the dream

La vida local

Will and Jaden Smith do Miami right

Turks and Caicos

Turks and Caicos authorities drop gun charges against American tourists

Authorities in the Turks and Caicos have dropped charges against a retired Florida neurosurgeon and Texas b...

TRADE

Gov. Rick Scott leads trade mission to Chile

Chile, Florida’s No. 6 export destination for products, was the first Latin American country to sign...

Cuban balsero census being taken by Brothers to the Rescue leader at Cuba Nostalgia

If you are a Cuban balsero and were spotted in the Florida Straits by a Brothers to the Rescue plane betwee...

PORTMIAMI

Army Corps of Engineers awards contract to deepen Miami port

A dredging contract ws awarded to make the port’s channels deep enough for the ships that will trave...

CUBA

Cuban food production drops despite reforms

Part of the decline could be the result of devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in agriculture-rich Easter...

In the camps

Guantánamo hunger strike tally hits 102

Military officials would not comment on whether the current 102 hunger strikers include alleged 9/11 conspi...

CUBA

Cuban dissident says racism remains a grave problem

Manuel Cuesta Morua says Cuban blacks need affirmative action to catch up to whites.

POLITICS

Marco Rubio blames President Obama for latest scandals

Rubio mesmerized hundreds in Tampa with a familiar speech that resonated more strongly than ever amid the l...

Notoriety follows Rivera pal in Nicaragua

Ana Alliegro, the Miami woman at the center of the federal corruption investigation involving former congre...

COLLEGE TUITION

Gov. Rick Scott asks university presidents to lobby for caps on tuition increases

Gov. Rick Scott is reaching out to an unlikely group — university presidents — to build a ca...

TRADE

Gov. Rick Scott leads trade mission to Chile

Chile, Florida’s No. 6 export destination for products, was the first Latin American country to sign...

GAMING

AARP cancels Florida sweepstakes, blames new state gambling law

A new state law cracking down on gambling prompted the nation’s retirees association to eliminate i...

Hialeah ‘Shadow banking’

Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and wife surrender to authorities on tax evasion charges

Julio Robaina and his wife are accused of receiving undisclosed cash payments as interest on more than $1 m...

POLITICS

Analysts: Supermajority not needed on tax cut vote

Legislative analysts flip-flopped on whether lawmakers’ vote on Gov. Rick Scott’s manufacturi...

Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies

Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Spo...

85-year-old wife of Mormon church president dies

The wife of the Mormon church's president shied away from the spotlight, but her lifelong work behind the s...

Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta ...

Human Rights Watch activist Brown dies in NY at 60

Activist Cynthia Brown, one of the guiding forces at the international advocacy group Human Rights Watch, h...

Former General Mills CEO Kinney dies at age 96

E. Robert Kinney, a former chief executive of General Mills who earlier in his career was instrumental in p...

Erika Spaide, 20

Kendall woman struggled with rare disease

Throughout her short life, Erika Spaide was cherished by her mother, sister, friends, teachers, medical pro...

DEATHS

WIOD host, Miami News writer Billie O’Day dies

Insurance

Citizens offers cheaper rate option with no fanfare

Homeowners could save up to 70 percent on their insurance premium with a new policy offering from Citizens,...

Miami Beach

Jet-set Miami developers entangled in legal drama over private jet

For sale: a $12.6 million Bombardier Challenger jet presumably grounded at the Opa-locka Airport.

Retail

Microsoft opens full-line store at Dadeland

Microsoft opens its first full-line store in South Florida, at Dadeland Mall, on Saturday.

New CFO at Royal Caribbean

The top finance job at Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises is in new hands.

WORKPLACE

Many workplaces insure domestic partners, some now also pay the tax on benefits

Many Florida businesses and public institutions provide domestic partner benefits for unmarried employees. ...

Employment

College graduates hoping for pomp — and jobs

The job market isn’t absorbing the entire class of 2013, but hiring’s a lot better than it wa...

The color of money

Michelle Singletary: Calculating the real cost of that speeding ticket

For many drivers, the fear of rising auto insurance rates keeps them from driving too fast or leaving their...