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Ted Caplow and his wife, Pascale, have launched The Caplow Children’s Prize, a $1 million award with the aim of finding and financing a plan to save the lives of children under 5.
After a decade of planning by Pinkney, other activists and Miami-Dade County officials, the Hampton House, among the most significant, still sort-of-standing places for a community whose iconic buildings have been largely wiped out, will be rebuilt to the hilt and reopened for a range of public uses, though not as a motel.
Under the ordinance passed Thursday, employees hired to fill one of four top posts will be allowed to collect pensions on top of their salaries if they return to work after retiring.
Child welfare administrators and prosecutors are looking into allegations that Shani Smith, a child abuse investigator, fudged the substance abuse screening of a Kendall mother who later left her baby to die in a sweltering car.
The Miami Gardens teen's messages — as well as pictures of a semi-automatic pistol and marijuana plants — are part of George Zimmerman’s defense plan to put the 17-year-old posthumously on trial.
President Barack Obama defended his use of drone strikes to kill terrorists as effective, lawful and “heavily constrained,” but he also appeared to be laying the groundwork for an expansion of the targeted killings.
The million-dollar Caplow Children’s Prize hopes to find and finance a plan to save the lives of ch...
Ibragim Todashev was killed by an FBI agent Tuesday. They say he turned violent after confessing to a tripl...
Miami International Airport on Friday will unveil a new canine training area for the Miami-Dade Police’...
Fixing an engineering error that left train platforms too short at the new station under construction at Mi...
Homeowner escapes after being punched in the face repeatedly.
Florida Grand Opera has postponed Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde for a season and will be performing Ma...
"We have a ton of people now. It's just like buying a refrigerator or a stove for your house. You put in a ...
After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery ...
During a hurricane, the storm surge poses the greatest threat to life and land, yet many people don't even ...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was widely felt as it rattled Northern California Thursday night, breaking dishe...
An Interstate 5 bridge over a river collapsed north of Seattle Thursday evening, dumping two vehicles into ...
An East Tennessee pharmacy owner and a customer have been killed during a robbery that left a pharmacy tech...
Queen Elizabeth's youngest son, Prince Edward, has visited Tennessee to promote one of the British royal fa...
Turkey's parliament has passed legislation to ban all advertising of alcohol and tighten restrictions on sa...
A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 ...
South Korean police say a suicidal man jumping to his death killed a 5-year-old girl by falling on her as s...
Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial fligh...
The price of oil was knocked lower Friday by a combination of ample supplies and lukewarm demand.
A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain.
An official says suspected rebels have ambushed and fatally shot three Indian army soldiers in the Indian p...
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I’m pretty sure I just made my first trip to Silver Springs, the old-school tourist attraction in Oc...
SeaWorld Orlando’s new Empire of the Penguin, which has its grand opening Friday, is a fun family ri...
Ray Allen uses misses like the free throw in Game 1 to motivate him.
Archbishop McCarthy won its 20th consecutive playoff game, becoming the first Florida school to win four st...
Rios hit his first homer of the day in the opening inning to give the Panthers (40-16) an early 2-0 lead. T...
Miami struggled on offense, getting its first hit in the fifth inning against UNC pitcher Kent Emanuel, and...
In Epic, opening Friday, Miami’s own Pitbull plays a character that always makes money, no matter t...
CHICAGO (AP) – An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday –...
Blackbird Ordinary hosts a special screening of “Coming Home,” a documentary following DJ EF...
Sociologist finds that more recent Cuban arrivals are not the ‘golden exiles’ of times past ...
At the Pacific Alliance meeting in Colombia, the presidents of Costa Rica and Guatemala said they hoped to ...
Cubans appear to be growing more optimistic about ruler Raul Castro’s economic reforms and large maj...
Seven Cuban migrants have been returned to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, after arriving off the Keys.
Four years after a British firm embarked on efforts to help the Turks and Caicos recover illegally sold gov...
Sarkis Yacoubian says he will plead guilty to one charge, but that he’s innocent of other corruptio...
The four nations of the Pacific Alliance — Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru — are holding a s...
Critics see political donations and heavy lobbying by Heritage Property and Casualty as evidence that Citiz...
The board at Citizens Property Insurance approved a special $52 million deal for a startup insurance firm ...
Senate President Don Gaetz and House Speaker Will Weatherford hit the road to highlight what they see as su...
Gov. Rick Scott completed Florida’s election law about-face, signing a bill to reverse changes to ea...
A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough bat...
From a coast-to-coast bike trail to tuition increases, Gov. Rick Scott vetoed more than $350 million from t...
— For 10 years, political pros have taken it almost as gospel that the strongest statewide Democrati...
Former World War II Army squad leader and Medal of Honor recipient Vernon McGarity has died at age 91, a fu...
Capt. Michael Burke sailed through life with his unending spirit and romantic outlook, touching the lives o...
Georges Moustaki, an Egyptian-born composer, singer and poet who wrote songs for Edith Piaf and other Frenc...
When high school student Zach Sobiech learned he didn't have much longer to live, his mother suggested he w...
Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and ...
The million-dollar Caplow Children’s Prize hopes to find and finance a plan to save the lives of ch...
A Russian oligarch, an English megamodel and a Miami museum group are among art enthusiasts at the initial ...
At the Pacific Alliance meeting in Colombia, the presidents of Costa Rica and Guatemala said they hoped to ...
A settlement agreement has been reached between the homeowners of Sunset Islands 3 and 4, and the developer...
Major cruise companies have agreed to adopt a “Passenger Bill of Rights,” focusing on mechani...
Sarkis Yacoubian says he will plead guilty to one charge, but that he’s innocent of other corruptio...
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Miami-Dade County has finally hired a firm to handle the software conversion of the Venetian and Rickenback...
Past incidents have changed the way the city handles the crush of traffic and crowds of up to a quarter-mil...
A hotly contested city council race in North Miami Beach is ready to be settled for good after results from...
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