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 rip-off that sent about ...

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.

Transportation

Shutdown of Miami’s State Road 112 canceled

A scheduled shutdown of State Road 112 on Wednesday and Thursday has been postponed, Miami-Dade Expressway ...

Columnist

Jews observe Tisha B’Av to reflect on past with hope for future

On Tisha B’Av, which is the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, Jews throughout the world will com...

Health care

Florida Medical Association endorses Medicaid expansion

The Florida Medical Association unanimously endorsed expanding Medicaid in the state, a key part of the Aff...

Palace of 'Queen of Mean' goes on block for $65M

The Connecticut mansion that belonged to Leona Helmsley is on the market for $65 million after a three-year...

Doctor who contracted Ebola in grave condition

Kent Brantly always wanted to be a medical missionary, and he took the work seriously, spending months trea...

FBI, Postal Service nab hoaxster who sent hundreds of powder-laced letters

Again and again for more than five years, police, sheriff’s deputies and moon-suited hazardous mate...

2 military satellites launched on Delta 4 rocket

A Delta 4 rocket has lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying two satellites for the U...

All tickets claimed for LeBron's homecoming show

LeBron James' Ohio hometown says fans quickly claimed the thousands of tickets available for the homecoming...

Conservative federal appeals court strikes down Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban

Appellate judges on Monday struck down Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban, further teeing up the marri...

Alabama man accused of lighting ex on fire

An Alabama man has been accused of dousing his ex-girlfriend in gasoline and lighting her on fire.

Lost in Afghanistan: U.S. can’t track weapons it sends

The Pentagon has shipped Afghan security forces tens of thousands of excessive AK-47 assault rifles and ot...

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

The U.S. military filmed troops searching captives’ Qurans inside Guantánamo’s prison buildi...

UN presses for Mali peace talks starting Aug. 17

The U.N. Security Council on Monday welcomed agreement on a roadmap for negotiations between the Malian gov...

Sunni politician’s abduction, rescue raise question of who controls Shiite militias

In southern Baghdad Saturday, a federal police commander was expounding to a visiting reporter on the cont...

Brazil's leader calls Gaza conflict 'a massacre'

Brazil's president is calling Israel's conflict with Hamas "a massacre."

Dominican officials destroy 2,000 seized guns

Authorities destroyed roughly 2,000 firearms Monday and plan to use the mangled metal to build a monument p...

Ukraine official: Black box shows missile shrapnel downed Malaysian airliner

Evidence from the black box of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 indicates that shrapnel from an exploding missi...

France offers asylum to Christians of north Iraq

France is ready to open its door to Christians from northern Iraq who were hounded out of their homes by ex...

U.S. sales to Russia have only risen since sanctions imposed

In the months since the United States imposed sanctions on Russian businesses and close associates of Pres...

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...

Dinner in Minutes

Pile this orzo pilaf onto your plate

Here is a light, vegetarian summer supper that will keep your kitchen cool — no need to turn on the ...

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

Marlins 4, Astros 2

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

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 th...

Miami Marlins notebook

Continued surge could put Miami Marlins in buy mode for a starting pitcher

Giancarlo Stanton hasn’t played in many meaningful games with the Marlins, who have finished last in e...

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...

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.

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

The Situation due in court for assault charge

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) – The Situation is due to have his day in court.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Equinox acquiring Sports Club/LA, including club on Miami’s Brickell Avenue

Equinox is bulking up.

AT&T activates 7 more South Florida cell sites

AT&T has activated seven more cell sites in South Florida.

Apollo Bank receives final approvals to acquire First Bank of Miami

Apollo Bank said Monday that it has received all the final regulatory approvals for its planned acquisition...