Healthcare

Medicare spends nearly $2 billion in South Florida

Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, spent the most on office visit...

LEGISLATURE 2014

Senators want public to help pay for legal battle between car dealers and makers

The dispute is over a 2008 Florida law which allows dealers to charge a higher retail rate for repairs in w...

Federal courts

Judge gives FBI more time in Sarasota 9/11 case

A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale gave the FBI another week to turn over documents about its investigation...

Ultra Music Festival

In an effort to stay in Miami, Ultra hires Miami Beach’s police chief Ray Martinez

Miami-Dade Schools

Computer glitch disrupts FCAT testing for 1,200 Miami-Dade students

The state Department of Education is unaware of a computer glitch that affected FCAT testing occurring anyw...

Soccer in Miami

Soccer stadium at PortMiami location would cost $50 million more, David Beckham group says

Despite the heftier price tag, representatives for retired English soccer star David Beckham say they still...

POLITICS / ANALYSIS

Immigrant tuition bill opens rift in Republican party

The abrupt announcement that a bill to give some undocumented immigrants in-state tuition would not get a v...

Miami-Dade

Miami-Dade firefighter charged with sharing sexual images of underage girls — on Twitter

Boston prepares for huge wave of marathon visitors

With an expanded field of runners and the memory of last year's bombings elevating interest in one of the w...

Scenes from the never-dull Clinton White House

Glimpses into behind-the-scenes workings of President Bill Clinton's White House, as revealed in newly rele...

Man pleads guilty in Alaska flight diversion case

A 38-year-old man arrested after what was described as unruly behavior that caused a Tokyo to New York flig...

Quotations in the News

"I am sorry to the people of South Korea for causing a disturbance and I bow my head in apology to the fami...

Autopsy to ID dead boy; body cast off side of road

All Massachusetts authorities could say for sure is that they found the lifeless body of a small boy, appar...

Looming, creeping landslide splits home in Wyoming

A slow-motion disaster is unfolding in the Wyoming resort town of Jackson as a creeping landslide that spli...

4 questions about missing Malaysian plane answered

Travelers at Asian airports have asked questions about the March 8 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Fligh...

2 charged in Montrose County motorcycle death

Two men face charges in the death of a motorcyclist who ran into a rope and chain the men had allegedly str...

Strong earthquake strikes off Papua New Guinea

A powerful earthquake has struck off the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea. There were no immediate ...

Famous television host in Pakistan shot by gunmen

Police in Pakistan say gunmen have shot a famous television talk show host amid a wave of attacks on journa...

Ministry: 2 killed in apparent Bahrain car bombing

Authorities in Bahrain say an apparent car bombing has killed two people and wounded one west of the capita...

Alleged fraudster visits Austrian police, arrested

A German sought by authorities for alleged fraud has been arrested in Austria — after dropping into ...

Egypt's el-Sissi visits Coptic pope before Easter

Egypt's former military chief and presidential front-runner has visited the Coptic pope ahead of Orthodox E...

Egypt archaeologists find ancient writer's tomb

Egypt's minister of antiquities says a team of Spanish archaeologists has discovered two tombs in the south...

Iran denounces US ruling to sell property

Iran has condemned a ruling issued by a U.S. federal judge approving plans to sell a 36-story Manhattan off...

Confusion, anger as sunken ferry's relatives wait

The informal briefing by a South Korean coast guard rescuer started calmly enough. He stood on a stage in f...

Southern Cross Stargazer for April 20-26

By nightfall Spica follows fiery Mars, in Virgo, higher in the east. Telescopes reveal the white ice cap sh...

Cruises

Contrasting cruises big and small:Intimate SeaDream, energetic Norwegian Getaway

Two recent Caribbean voyages could not have been more different.

Florida: Orlando Cabaret Festival opens April 25

Come to the Cabaret

The travel troubleshooter

An empty vacation package from Expedia

Q: I’m writing you about our problems with a vacation package we booked on Expedia to Tamarindo, Cos...

Fiction

Francine Prose reconstructs a Nazi collaborator and Paris in this dazzling historical novel.

History

Book assesses the impact of the Civil Rights Act 50 years later

Fiction

A boy spies on his mom in Mona Simpson’s fresh new novel

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Think before you dial, text, FaceTime, Skype, chat

One of the great wonders of the modern era is the fact that we can pretty much reach anyone at any time, re...

Roundup

Former FIU assistant baseball coach loses battle with prostate cancer

Rolando Casanova, a former assistant baseball coach at FIU, passed away last weekend, losing a long fight w...

In My Opinion

David J. Neal: Role players hold key to Miami Heat title hopes

No matter what media blowhards like me say, individuals don’t win championships, even in the NBA. Not ...

marlins 8, mariners 4

Miami Marlins blow lead but beat Seattle Mariners on Giancarlo Stanton walk-off grand slam

GAME 1 | HORNETS AT HEAT, 3:30 P.M. SUNDAY | ABC

Miami Heat needs Chris Bosh to regain shooting touch in playoffs

After a sizzling start, Chris Bosh’s struggles shooting coincided with the Heat’s poor record dow...

Miami Baseball

Notre Dame is next foe as Miami Hurricanes baseball team aims to extend streak

UM has won 13 games in a row and risen to No. 11 with a home series against Notre Dame on tap.

High Schools roundup

Dade Christian boys’ track relay teams qualifiy for states

The Dade Christian boys’ track 4x100 relay team will head to the State Championship for its second yea...

UM BASKETBALL

Miami Hurricanes forward James Kelly to transfer

State Tennis Championship

Ransom Everglades’ Allegra Hanlon galls short of state title

Everything seemed in place for Allegra Hanlon to end her high-school career with one more tennis championsh...

La vida local

Dylan Lauren: I wish I could eat more candy

As seen on TV

Tatiana Maslany of ‘Orphan Black’ is a hard worker

Kim Novak speaks out against Oscar night ‘bullies’

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Kim Novak says that cruel jabs about how she looked during the Oscar ceremony amo...

Bill Clinton jokes with Spacey at benefit concert

NEW YORK (AP) – Near the end of the first half of Thursday’s 25th Anniversary Rain Forest ben...

The music scene

Talking to music industry legend Bruce Duff on World Record Day

La vida local

Marlon Wayans couldn’t let it rest: he’s back for ‘A Haunted House 2’

Celebrity roundup

Valerie Harper: I’m not ‘cancer free’

Jay Z to bring Made in America music fest to LA

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Budweiser Made in America music festival is coming to Los Angeles, but who is...

Venezuela

Venezuela’s troubled times: Maduro’s first year in power

President Nicolás Maduro took power a year ago today. During the past 12 months, he’s faced a s...

Bay Harbor Islands

Bay Harbor Islands approves resolution supporting Venezuelan demonstrators

Bay Harbor Islands council members have approved a resolution in support of Venezuelan demonstrators.

CUBA

Group says jailed Cuban journalist should be freed

Report says the reporter was jailed because she wrote about alleged police abuse.

World Cup

Miami will be World Cup crossroads

WAR COURT

Outside counsel to probe FBI’s action in Guantánamo 9/11 case

A Justice Department attorney has been named to look into the FBI’s questioning of one member of a 9...

Doral

Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Bill Nelson try to keep U.S. attention on Venezuelan political unrest

In a joint appearance in Doral, Florida’s senators endorsed U.S. sanctions against Venezuelan govern...

WAR COURT

Guantánamo judge to CIA: Disclose ‘black site’ details to USS Cole defense lawyers

CUBA

Condom shortage hits Cuba

POLITICS / ANALYSIS

Immigrant tuition bill opens rift in Republican party

The abrupt announcement that a bill to give some undocumented immigrants in-state tuition would not get a v...

Florida Supreme Court

Court: Fla. discrimination law covers pregnancy

In a 6-to-1 opinion, the Florida Supreme Court overturned a lower court in the case of a woman who worked f...

Doral

Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Bill Nelson try to keep U.S. attention on Venezuelan political unrest

In a joint appearance in Doral, Florida’s senators endorsed U.S. sanctions against Venezuelan govern...

Legislature 2014

South Florida lawmakers ramp up push for needle-exchange bill

South Florida lawmakers are hoping to push a controversial needle-exchange proposal over a final hurdle.

2014 Legislature

Trouble looms for immigrant tuition bill in Florida Legislature

The Senate delivered a blow to a bill seeking to extend in-state tuition rates to undocumented students.

POLITICS

Gov. Rick Scott to Charlie Crist: Win your primary and then maybe we’ll debate

Gov. Rick Scott said he’s not ready to take up Charlie Crist’s challenge to debate, saying it...

2014 Legislature

Miami lawmakers make one more push to extend healthcare to immigrant children

Florida lawmakers haven’t given up hope on extending the state’s subsidized health insurance ...

2014 Legislature

Florida lawmakers consider healthcare law change aimed at Jackson

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize-winning writer, dies at 87

When Colonel Aureliano Buendia faced the firing squad, time slipped away, and his life became a dream. Befo...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and ...

World reacts to death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reaction to death of writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

Works by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was among Latin America's most popular writers and widely considered ...

Gabriel García Márquez | 1927-2014

Gabriel García Márquez: Master of magical realism, Nobel Prize winner dies

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and ...

Harry Russell, 93, Miami-Dade’s champion for the disabled, has died

Harry Russell became Miami-Dade County’s champion for the disabled more than 50 years ago — a...

World reacts to death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reaction to death of writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

Healthcare

Medicare spends nearly $2 billion in South Florida

Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, spent the most on office visit...

Windridge Yacht Charters acquired by Chicago company

Fort Lauderdale’s Windridge Yacht Charters, which owns the Lady Windridge and Windridge K vessels, h...

Economy

Florida leads nation in new job creation

But Miami-Dade’s March unemployment rate ticked up as more people search for jobs.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Florida companies attract $72 million in VC funding in 1st quarter

Sunrise telehealth provider MDLIVE attracted the largest investment in the fourth quarter, The MoneyTree re...

Riviera Focacceria Italiana now open in the Shops of Midtown Miami

A new restaurant, Riviera Focacceria Italiana, is now open in the Shops of Midtown in Miami, offering fresh...

Miami Beach to host town hall meeting to discuss Beckham’s soccer proposal

Miami Beach residents can express their opinions about David Beckham’s proposal to build a soccer st...

Healthcare

UM law students dig into healthcare policy to help a patient get life-saving treatment

Sometimes getting treatment takes more than a healthcare navigator. It takes a lawyer -- or four.

BILLBOARD LATIN MUSIC CONFERENCE

Billboard Latin Music Conference celebrates 25th anniversary next week in Miami

The Billboard Latin Music Conference returns to the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami on Monday to celebrate its...