LEGISLATURE 2014

House, Senate settle on $47 million in new money for child welfare

The proposal gives Gov. Rick Scott only about $21 million of the $39 million he had asked for to expand chi...

LEGISLATURE 2014

Bill to reduce greyhound racing in Florida dies

A bill to give dog track owners a break by allowing them to perform fewer live greyhound races fell victim ...

POLITICS

Charlie Crist blasts Rick Scott in speech as a ‘disaster’ for Florida

Charlie Crist was all business as he challenged the crowd to help him defeat Gov. Rick Scott, who has said ...

LEGISLATURE 2014

Pension reform championed by conservatives running into trouble

As Tuesday’s Florida Senate Appropriations Committee meeting showed, pension reform is hardly a cons...

2014 Legislature

Charter school bill wins support in Florida House

The state House gave its approval to a bill that would change the way schools systems enter into contracts ...

Environment

At a rare field hearing, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson calls Miami Beach ground zero for sea level rise

Hoping to draw the national spotlight to rising sea levels, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson convenes a rare field hea...

Downtown Miami

Developer wants to take control of three Miami streets

Developers of downtown’s massive Miami Worldcenter project want to assume control over some city str...

Former defense attorney and prosecutor butt heads at Robainas’ tax-evasion trial

A testy exchange between the former defense attorney for Julio and Raiza Robaina and prosecutors marked the...

Fugitive killed in Oregon had 'moveable dungeon'

Authorities say a man fatally shot by a Portland officer last month had been stalking young women in a van ...

Cardinals player to be sentenced for assault plea

Arizona Cardinals linebacker Daryl Washington is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for his guilty plea to...

Missouri executes inmate for 1993 farm slaying

Soldier faces hearing in killings of Iraqi boys

A U.S. soldier accused of deliberately killing two unarmed teenage boys as they herded cattle in Iraq seven...

Harris channels 'Hedwig' when audience acts unruly

Judge to mull Chelsea Manning name change request

A Kansas judge on Wednesday will consider Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning's petition to legally change her name f...

Republican activists push party on gay marriage

As bans against gay marriage crumble and public opinion on the issue shifts rapidly, some Republicans are p...

Federal judge to hear Oregon gay marriage case

A federal judge in Oregon is ready to hear arguments about the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marri...

Former Iron Curtain still barrier for deer

The Iron Curtain was traced by an electrified barbed-wire fence that isolated the communist world from the ...

SKorea ferry toll hits 150 as search gets tougher

The grim work of recovering bodies from the submerged South Korea ferry proceeded rapidly Wednesday, with t...

Some drama off-camera in Mideast conflict film

An American director's short film about an Israeli army raid in a Palestinian refugee camp ends with a surp...

Pope John XXIII launched Vatican II and then some

Anti-Obama protesters clash with police in Manila

Philippine police armed with truncheon, shields and water hose clashed Wednesday with more than 100 left-wi...

Sherpas leave Everest; some expeditions nix climbs

Sherpa guides packed up their tents and left Mount Everest's base camp Wednesday in an unprecedented walkou...

Toyota sells 2.58 million vehicles, outselling GM

Toyota kept its position at the top in global vehicle sales for the first quarter of this year, outpacing r...

Pirates rob Singapore tanker in Malacca Strait

Pirates stopped a Singapore-owned tanker in the Malacca Strait and stole several million liters of diesel f...

dinner in minutes

Dinner in minutes: Easy gyro sandwiches with tzatziki

Gyros are pita bread sandwiches filled with meat, lettuce, tomatoes and the yogurt sauce tzatziki. They wer...

Fiction

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

Fiction

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

Sleep

To sleep well, adjust what you eat — and when

Sleep. Oh, to sleep. A good night’s sleep is often a struggle for more than half of American adults....

wine

Fred Tasker on wine: Italian wines for your best meals

Years ago, preparing to go abroad, I bought a 300-page book on Italian wine and painstakingly wrote down th...

Plastic Surgery 101

Mohs cancer surgery tries to spare tissues

Q. I was just told by my dermatologist that I would have to undergo a Mohs surgical procedure. I had a frie...

Going green with the smoothie

JJ Smith has inspired thousands to try her ‘10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse'

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Spotlight on | Golf

DAGA/First Tee still flourishes for young golfers

The Dade Amateur Golf Association has an illustrious alumni list of golfers and, in addition, successful pe...

Marlins 1, Braves 0

Jose Fernandez strikes out 14 to help Miami Marlins beat Atlanta Braves

Jose Fernandez frustrated the Braves with his breaking ball, and the Marlins ended their franchise-worst 0-...

Water Polo | FHSAA Finals Round 1

Cypress Bay boys, Westminster girls advance to FHSAA Water Polo second round

Cypress Bay’s Andres Schmidt has carried his Lightning team with his prolific goal scoring, and came t...

Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins WR Mike Wallace excited about new offensive system

Wednesday’s Game 2: Charlotte Bobcats at Miami Heat, 7 p.m., SUN, TNT

Veteran Miami Heat players ready for grind of NBA playoffs

The Heat’s playoff-tested veterans said the postseason is a time to rest and prepare for the grind to ...

In My Opinion

David J. Neal: Playoff favor falls on Miami Heat so far

Anybody else think the most amazing thing about the NBA playoffs so far is how perfectly they’re falli...

Lacrosse | FHSAA Finals Round 1

St. Thomas Aquinas ousts Cypress Bay in first-round boys’ lacrosse match

Louis Yovino scored five goals, R.J. Curtin added four goals and two assists, and St. Thomas Aquinas used a...

Water polo

Chelsea Johnson sparks Ransom to rout of Krop in state water polo play-in game

Seven goals in the first five minutes was all the Ransom-Everglades girls’ water polo team needed to s...

Celebrity roundup

Ex ‘Ice Road Truckers’ star faces felony charges

Well, this reality star didn’t get vetted too well: Tim Zickuhr, who used to costar as a one of the ...

Bieber seeks delay in Fla. DUI trial

MIAMI (AP) – Justin Bieber is seeking a delay in his trial currently scheduled to begin next month o...

La vida local

Mag: Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods’ ex wife are friends

Radar

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Scene in the Tropics

Lil Wayne parties with Euro at Cameo

Celebrities

George Lopez no ‘Saint’ but plays one on TV

George Lopez wants to feel like a 10-year-old. That’s the intent of the Mexican-American comedian&#x...

Celebrity roundup

Lindsay: I had a miscarriage

Venezuela

Venezuela says it has detained Florida man on weapons charges

Amid ongoing protests, Venezuela officials say they’ve arrested a 32-year-old Florida man for having...

WAR COURT

Will CIA comply with Guantánamo judge’s order? Agency won’t say

The military judge’s order to the CIA to disclose information to defense attorneys in the USS Cole c...

WAR COURT

Special prosecutor confirms FBI investigation, says it’s not about KSM document

The FBI’s questioning of a 9/11 legal defense team member doesn’t concern publication of commenta...

CUBA

A Wi-Fi network for Cuba? Maybe

USAID paid to develop the Internet program for the island, but it’s not clear how far along it has g...

CUBA

Former CIA agent, now in Havana, discusses Gadhafi’s ‘secret world’

Frank Terpil says he once tried to hire two Cubans from Miami to assassinate an enemy of former Libyan dict...

IN THE CAMPS

Long-held Guantánamo prisoner a no-show for parole hearing

Gabriel García Márquez

Nobel laureate Garcia Márquez’s Colombian hometown hopes to make magic out of his legacy

Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez is being remembered Monday in his adopted country of Mexico...

CUBA

Cuba moves to end condom shortage by selling stock with ‘wrong expiration dates’

POLITICS

Charlie Crist blasts Rick Scott in speech as a ‘disaster’ for Florida

Charlie Crist was all business as he challenged the crowd to help him defeat Gov. Rick Scott, who has said ...

2014 Legislature

Charter school bill wins support in Florida House

The state House gave its approval to a bill that would change the way schools systems enter into contracts ...

2014 Legislature

Voucher bill brought back to life, while immigrant tuition dying in Senate

A Senate panel revived the proposed expansion of the school voucher program. But it did not give a second c...

Fla. Rep. Dane Eagle arrested on DUI charges

Democrats eye 15 cities, including Miami, for 2016 convention

President Barack Obama's hometown and Hillary Rodham Clinton's home base as a senator are among the 15 citi...

Politics

In a nod to changing demographics, Gov. Rick Scott airing early Spanish-language campaign ad

Rick Scott did better than many expected with Hispanic voters in 2010, and by starting his ads earlier in t...

2014 Legislature

Florida Senator hopes to keep immigration tuition bill alive

A state senator has a strategy to keep the immigrant tuition bill alive in the upper chamber.

Education

South Miami-based charter school management company under federal scrutiny

As legislators consider revising the law governing charter schools, the U.S. Department of Education is scr...

Former AP photographer Harry Koundakjian dies

Harry Koundakjian, a former photographer and photo editor for The Associated Press in the Middle East and N...

Francis Moore, father of Michael Moore, dies at 92

Francis Richard Moore, father of filmmaker Michael Moore, has died at age 92.

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, boxer wrongly imprisoned 19 years, dies at 76

When Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was at his best as a boxer, it would have been impossible to foresee Nelson M...

University of Connecticut hoops ex-star dies at 84

The first University of Connecticut men's basketball player to score 1,000 points has died. Former Husky Vi...

Anti-junta Myanmar journalist Win Tin dies at 85

Win Tin, a prominent journalist who became Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner after challenging m...

Anti-junta Myanmar journalist Win Tin dies at 85

Win Tin, a prominent journalist who became Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner after challenging m...

Prizefighter Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter dies at 76

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter never surrendered hope of regaining his freedom, not even after he was convicted o...

Canadian author Alistair MacLeod dies at 77

Alistair MacLeod, the award-winning Canadian author who was best known for his short story collections and ...

WORK/LIFE BALANCING ACT

In our hectic, time-crunched society, religion has become less of a priority

In our hectic, time-crunched society, making time to attend religious services has become less of a priority.

Miami-based Rubell Hotels adds Baltimore property

Rubell Hotels has added a property in Maryland, growing its portfolio to include five hotels.

REAL ESTATE

South Florida home, condo prices rose in March, despite growing inventory

South Florida house hunters have a lot more to choose from, if they can pay the sharply higher prices.

Technology

Coding schools putting down roots in Miami

As Miami’s first development boot camp, Wyncode, gets ready to begin its first class next month, a s...

BUSINESS PLAN CHALLENGE

Challenge announces 29 semifinalists

From tech to logistics to food and games, these businesses or business ideas passed the first round in the ...

Tech Talk

Launched, grown, sold: What’s next for .CO co-founders?

PINK, Perry Ellis Cubavera join H&M as newest retailers heading to Miami International Mall

Along with H&M, which previously announced it is opening at Miami International Mall in May, other retailer...

Real Estate

Colombo teams with Russian developer on Brickell Flatiron condo