Criminal probe

Two more suspected victims come forward in Coconut Grove spa groping case

Two more women have come forward to tell authorities that a massage therapist at an upscale Coconut Grove s...

tamiami trail

2 dead in head-on crash west of Miccosukee casino

A head-on collision on Tamiami Trail early Monday morning about 11 miles west of the Miccosukee gaming faci...

In My Opinion

Fred Grimm: Florida politicians are the real quarry on King Ranch

A trip to a hunting preserve on the legendary King Ranch in Texas may evoke lots of adjectives. “For...

Music

For South Florida marching band students, music means discipline — and love

More than 100 marching band students strutted their stuff Monday in Overtown, part of the South Florida Mar...

Healthcare law

Miami jury convicts last two defendants in $200 million Medicare scam

A Miami jury’s verdict ends a long-running probe of a $200 million Medicare ripoff that sent about 4...

Affordable Care Act

Consumers asked to verify income, other information — or risk losing government subsidies for health insurance

Healthcare

Miami nursing home celebrates 70 years and four generations

The Floridean Nursing and Rehabilitation Center turned 70 this year, still being run by the fourth generati...

Northeast Miami-Dade

Anti-Semitic messages pop up on synagogue and cars in Miami-Dade

Synagogues are on alert after vandals defaced a building with swastikas.

Q&A: How Hawaii health care compares to federal

Hawaii lawmakers and other key officials say the state's health care law faces an unlikely threat from the ...

AP PHOTOS: Building boom in N. Dakota's oil patch

President Theodore Roosevelt once came to North Dakota's Badlands to find solitude and solace amid the area...

Oak Ridge cancels class to reduce Southern accents

Some employees at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee complained about a class aimed at teaching...

Feds end effort to reclaim mummy mask for Egypt

A 3,200-year-old mummy mask at the center of a years-long custody battle will stay at the St. Louis Art Mus...

Dad accidentally delivers baby into toilet

A Connecticut baby has arrived with a splash, right into a toilet bowl.

Music aside, Queen of Soul is pumped for fair food

There's something beyond delivering a set packed with her hits that's got Aretha Franklin jazzed about fair...

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,197

As of Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at least 2,197 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a resu...

Corning donates $1.8M in parts for space telescope

Corning Inc. has donated $1.8 million in high-tech components for a telescope a private group wants to laun...

Activists: Syrian rebels detonate tunnels, kill 13

Insurgents fighting in Syria to oust President Bashar Assad detonated bomb-packed tunnels under buildings i...

London's iconic Gherkin building put up for sale

Elegant Louvre Garden in Paris infested with rats

Hamas demands for cease-fire and Israel's concerns

Hamas rulers have presented a list of demands to stop their fire on Israel in the Gaza war. Israel has said...

Nigerian militants bomb bridge, killing 8 people

Witnesses say insurgents blew up a bridge in northern Nigeria, killing eight people, as soldiers stationed ...

Lavrov and Kerry talk about Cold war-era arms deal

Russia's Foreign Ministry says the chief diplomats from Russia and the United States have discussed the sit...

Anti-Semitic graffiti appears in Rome amid turmoil

Rome's mayor has denounced anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas that have appeared across Rome and ordered t...

Myanmar information and health ministers step down

Myanmar's ministers for information and health have been allowed to retire, state television reported Tuesd...

Florida

Crayola to open family attraction in Orlando

Crayon manufacturer Crayola is building a family attraction in Orlando, similar to the one it operates in i...

Seven-day menu planner: Start the week with honey-roasted pork

TRAINING

Wake up your slacking muscles

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Whether the host or the guest, parent can’t relax

Adapted from a recent online discussion.

Dear Abby

Dear Abby: Son’s clumsiness may have a physical cause

Dear Abby: In short, my son is a klutz — to the point that it affects his self-confidence. He’...

Fit Tip

Fit tip: Do compression sleeves work?

Q: I twisted my knee recently. Do compression sleeves work to help recover from an injury?　

Mr. Tidbit

Candy-bar ‘bites’ take a bite out of wallets

In my opinion

Ana Veciana-Suarez: How much sleep do I really need? Or, 7 is the new 8

Suddenly we’re all talking about sleep — how little we get, how badly we do it. When did some...

FISHING

Popular artificial reef and live bait spot Bug Light demolished

UM football | Jake Heaps

UM QB Jake Heaps: ‘I didn’t come here to be a backup’

Jake Heaps, a 23-year-old graduate student who transferred from Kansas to Miami, has the experience the Hur...

DOLPHINS

Miami Dolphins rookie wide receiver Jarvis Landry catching on real fast

MIAMI HEAT

Micky Arison reassures Miami Heat fans: ‘We are not done’

Heat owner Micky Arison, in an open letter to fans, expressed optimism about the team’s future in the ...

Marlins 7, Nationals 6

Miami Marlins’ stunning rally in ninth tops Nationals

The Marlins rallied from a 6-0 deficit and scored four runs in the ninth inning to beat the Nationals and r...

Marlins notebook

Mike Hill: Miami Marlins won’t be sellers

Thanks to the just-completed 6-1 trip, the Marlins don’t look like they will be shipping off any pie...

Marlins 4, Astros 2

Resurgent Miami Marlins cap 6-1 road trip with three-game sweep of Houston Astros

Dolphins

Miami Dolphins running back Lamar Miller hopes to thrive in Bill Lazor’s new offense

First Lamar Miller got bigger. And then he got Shady.

Celebrity birthdays on July 29

In concert

Michael Franti & Spearhead bring Soulshine Tour to Boca Raton

Scene in the Tropics

Soccer stars spotted in Miami

Radar

Hot stuff celebrities love

Celebrity roundup

Piper Perabo ties the knot

Dozens treated for illness at Keith Urban concert

MANSFIELD, Mass. (AP) – Authorities say several dozen people were treated for alcohol-related illnes...

La vida local

Local rocker Brendan O’Hara is a soul man

Celebrity roundup

Jeff Bridges doles out marital advice, Catherine Zeta Jones talks Michael Douglas’ cancer; Paris Hilton’s new guy

Venezuela

Aruba faced potentially ‘severe’ economic pressure over Venezuelan general

Venezuela threatened to extend a flight boycott and sink Aruba’s tourism industry as it fought for t...

CUBA

U.S. report says religious freedom in Cuba is bad but getting better

A U.S. State Department report says religious leaders admit they censor themselves when they preach.

White House: No plan to house Texas border kids at Guantánamo

The Obama administration has no plans to use its pop-up tent city for Caribbean migrants at Guantánamo...

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo filmed guards searching Qurans for contraband, but you can’t see it

A Miami Herald request to obtain and view recordings of guards searching Guantánamo captives’ hol...

Haiti

American Airlines next stop: Cap-Haïtien, Haiti

American Airlines will become the first U.S. major carrier to offer daily, nonstop service to Cap-Haït...

Venezuela

Top Venezuela official accused in drug case averts U.S. extradition, heads back home

Venezuela on Sunday said that the Netherlands had agreed not to send former Gen. Hugo Carvajal to the Unite...

CUBA

Cuban woman fights for Bahamas inheritance

Her husband left her a canal-side house and more but she claims she has received only a small part of the e...

Latin America

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...

Politics

Marc Caputo: Dade Democratic dysfunction emerges in governor’s race

A governor’s race doesn’t seem to go by in Florida without Democrats ending up in a circular ...

Politics

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

Trips to historic King Ranch in Texas were financed all or in part with contributions from Florida’s...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Jay Maeder, 67

Former Miami Herald People columnist, writer of ‘Little Orphan Annie’ strip Jay Maeder dies at 67

Kentucky basketball legend Wah Wah Jones dies

Wallace "Wah Wah" Jones, a multi-sport star who helped Kentucky win the first two of its eight national tit...

Italian tenor Bergonzi dies at age 90

Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi, considered one of the most authoritative interpreters of Verdi's operas, has ...

Former Seattle Mayor Paul Schell dies

'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 ...

Kreps DeMaria PR & Marketing and New York firm form global alliance

Coral Gables-based Kreps DeMaria PR & Marketing and New York-based HWPR, said Tuesday that they have formed...

HOUSING

Miami home price rose 13.2 percent in May, S&P/Case-Shiller reports

Miami area home prices rose 13.2 percent in May from a year earlier. While still strong, the annual pace of...

TECHNOLOGY

Miami startup SportsManias receives $3.5 million in investor funding

A fast-growing sports-fan site has gotten significant backing so it can grow.

Affordable Care Act

Consumers asked to verify income, other information — or risk losing government subsidies for health insurance

Cruise Lines

With new ships, Norwegian second-quarter earnings improve

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings reported higher profits for the quarter that ended June 30.

Bonjour Television Network will offer four channels for French-speaking viewers in the United States

Bonjour Television Network Group, a Miami-based entertainment network targeting the French-speaking market ...

CONDOMINIUM DEVELOPMENT

Latest designer condo: FENDI Château Residences

Miami-based condo developer Château Group is joining with an Italian handbag firm to develop FENDI Ch&...

Study: Miami’s economic recovery ranks No. 18 in U.S.

The longest downturn since the Great Depression officially ended five years ago, and personal finance compa...