Comic Dave Chappelle to perform on Miami Beach next week

Weston

BSO: Weston man kills wife and son with crossbow, then slits his throat

SIME MIA CONFERENCE

SIME MIA an insightful, fun-filled peek into tech’s future

The first SIME MIA brought together entrepreneurs, inventors, investors and futurists for two days of conve...

miami

Amusement-parks giant in talks to buy Miami Seaquarium

Miami Seaquarium, the aging home to Lolita the whale and performing dolphins, might be about to change hands.

Federal investigation

Miami grand jury issues no charges against Sen. Menendez, but probe continues

Miami-Dade Schools

Carvalho’s top honor another accolade for Miami-Dade schools

Art Basel

Artists want Art Basel to pay tribute to killed graffiti artist ‘Reefa’

While Miami artists are busy and excited preparing to welcome Art Basel, one of the largest art shows in th...

MEDICAL MARIJUANA

High court hears medical-marijuana case

Tallahassee’s political establishment has repeatedly blocked legislative votes on medical marijuana ...

10 Things to Know for Today

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

Immigration activists team with women’s movement in push for rights

Immigrant rights and feminist organizations are coming together in an attempt to reframe immigration as a w...

Ariz. links state agency to firefighter deaths

An Arizona commission linked the state's Forestry Division to the deaths last summer of 19 wild land firefi...

The nation's weather

Weather Underground Forecast for Thursday, Dec. 05, 2013

Legal fate of FSU quarterback to be answered

Jameis Winston will learn whether he faces prosecution Thursday when a state attorney finally announces the...

Railroads to offer health care to same-sex spouses

A day after being sued by legally married, gay engineers, the nation's largest freight rail carriers announ...

Skydivers return to Arizona site where 2 died

Skydivers from around the world have returned to the air at a popular Arizona skydiving location that was t...

Judge hears arguments on Utah's gay marriage ban

A federal judge says he'll do his best to rule by early next year on a legal challenge to a same-sex marria...

Nicaragua canal promoter to build Ukraine ports

The Chinese businessman best known for winning a contract to build a canal across Nicaragua announced he wi...

Congolese lawyer appears as suspect at ICC

Germany's Schaeuble eyes new term as finance chief

Germany's powerful finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, is making clear that he'd like to stay in the job ...

China bars banks from handling bitcoins

Bitcoins suffered a new setback after China's central bank said Thursday its banks and payment systems are ...

Bollywood star to face new trial in 2002 case

Aussie FM expresses 'regrets' in Indonesia spy row

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop tried to mend fences with Indonesia on Thursday, saying her govern...

Oil capped near $97 on oversupply possibility

Oil remained above $97 a barrel Thursday on lower U.S. stockpiles but concerns of oversupply in the Middle ...

Freed Jordanian names Filipino extremist kidnapper

A Jordanian journalist has identified the leader of an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group that held him for a ...

A Fork on the Road

Mina’s a passport to Mediterranean flavors on Miami’s Upper East Side

Mina’s Mediterraneo recently opened in a restored 1950s building that has a hip warehouse feel with...

Cook’s Corner

Mercadito chicken gets zing from sauce that’s chock-full of chiles

Wine

Gifts for the wine or beer lover who has everything

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Lover asks for a break in their relationship

Dear Carolyn: You espouse the importance of taking time for yourself to be whole and ready for a new relati...

Dear Abby

Dear Abby: Grandson’s bullying behavior needs professional evaluation

Dear Abby: Our 7-year-old grandson has been a handful since he was able to walk. He has been sneaky and has...

WISH BOOK

Wish Book: MS diagnosis doesn’t break Lauderdale Lakes woman’s spirit

Hasina Roach, who has multiple sclerosis, struggles to pay her bills. For the holidays, she hopes to get h...

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Was it wrong to delay plans with boyfriend?

Dear Carolyn: I wanted to check this disagreement I'm having with my fiance against a neutral third party. ...

Cook’s Corner

Caterer’s 2-hour turkey recipe really works

Football | South Dade

It’s all about family for South Dade’s Garrett Underwood

When South Dade High School opened in 1953, the starting center on the football team was Allan Underwood.

Winston investigation

Jameis Winston investigation complete

The Heisman Trophy and Florida State’s national championship hopes could be hanging in the balance Th...

MIAMI DOLPHINS

Olivier Vernon stealing spotlight from Cam Wake as Miami Dolphins’ sack master

American High and UM alum Olivier Vernon was named AFC Defensive Player of the Week and is tied for fifth i...

Girls’ basketball | Zion Lutheran

Battle sisters have Zion Lutheran making noise in Class 2A

Sisters Kanesha, Brianna and Tyesha Battle have fueled Zion Lutheran with a combined 71 points per game thi...

fishing

Plenty of grouper to go around off Miami

Favorable weather is in the forecast, meaning there should be a lot to catch before the season ends in Sout...

FIU football

FIU Panthers take a step back

A year after firing Mario Cristobal, the Panthers regressed on the field and suffered a drop in fan interest.

Miami Marlins

Miami Marlins eye cheaper deal for Chris Coghlan

Panthers notebook

Florida Panthers hopeful for playoff push

Mathematically, they are obviously right. Florida still has 54 games left in the season so there are plenty...

Celebrity birthdays on Dec 5

La vida local

Zoe Saldana talks, Cindy Crawford wows

The comedy scene

Paula Poundstone to perform in Davie

Paula Poundstone is funny all the time. She just can’t help it. The acclaimed stand-up comedian, aut...

Celebrity roundup

Nigella Lawson: Husband wanted to destroy me

Autopsy: Actor died from impact, fire in crash

LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker was killed by impact and fire in ...

Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson admits cocaine use

LONDON (AP) – Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson admitted Wednesday in a U.K. court that she had taken co...

Celebrity birthdays on Dec 4

Game-show host Wink Martindale is 80. Actor-producer-director Max Baer Jr. (“The Beverly Hillbillies...

Celebrity roundup

Who does Barbara Walters think is the ‘Most Fascinating?’

CUBA

Cuba drops in corruption index

Cuba has dropped five places to now rank 63rd place, indicating continued issues with bribery and corrupti...

CUBA

Kerry: U.S. is “currently engaged” in talks to free Alan Gross

The Secretary of State said he could not reveal details of the effort to remove the biggest stumbling block...

Federal investigation

Feds charge trio with kidnapping, extorting Cuban ballplayer with Texas Rangers

Federal prosecutors say Major Leaguer Leonys Martin Tapanes was victimized by group that smuggled him into ...

Europe rights court hears of secret CIA prisons

The secret network of black site prisons across Europe that the CIA used to interrogate terror suspects got...

Brazil

Brazil’s economy in the doldrums in third quarter

The gross domestic product shrank by .5 percent in the third quarter — the steepest quarterly declin...

CUBA

U.S.-Cuba money transactions could get more complicated

Analysts say bank’s decision to stop handling accounts of the Cuban Interests Section may signal pro...

Haitian Migrants

Bahamas returns Haitian migrants; solution to deaths at sea remains elusive

In the wake of the latest boat tragedy, authorities are seeking solutions to stem the flow of Haitian migrants

9/11 trial

Guantánamo judge lets lawyers take secret photos of scars of accused Sept. 11 ‘mastermind’

MEDICAL MARIJUANA

High court hears medical-marijuana case

Tallahassee’s political establishment has repeatedly blocked legislative votes on medical marijuana ...

Federal investigation

Miami grand jury issues no charges against Sen. Menendez, but probe continues

politics

Charlie Crist’s new campaign manager departs

Bill Hyers, fresh off his big New York City win managing the campaign of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, was sl...

Affordable Care Act

Obama launches defense against critics of Affordable Care Act

President Obama pushed back against critics Tuesday, while repairs to healthcare.gov bring improved perform...

Politics

Elections chief refuses Gov. Scott’s order

Pinellas County’s chief elections official firmly put Gov. Rick Scott on notice Monday: She will re...

Political scene

Public-service ad for Miami-Dade animal shelter wins Emmy

Miami-Dade County’s public television channel doesn’t exactly top the rating charts, with its...

Political scene

Idea to fill downtown Miami slip resurfaces

For decades, a large slip at the south end of Miami’s Bicentennial Park has sat empty, an under-util...

HALLANDALE BEACH

Two senators short-circuit Legislature’s plan to audit troubled Hallandale Beach CRA

Author, journalism professor Roat dies at 67

Author and retired journalism professor Ronald Clair Roat has died at his Ludington home in western Michiga...

War crimes apologist from Franco-Algerian war dies

Correction: Obit-Paul Walker story

In a Dec. 1 obituary for Paul Walker, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Walker's "Fast & Furio...

Award-winning San Francisco chef Judy Rodgers dies

Judy Rodgers, the award-winning chef-owner of San Francisco's Zuni Cafe, has died. She was 57.

Natural history museum diorama painter dies in Vt.

Heffron, of WWII's Band of Brothers, dies in NJ

Egypt's best known satirical poet dies at 84

Ahmed Fouad Negm, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was Egypt's poet of revolution, inspiring protesters f...

Former Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain dies at 85

Former Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain, a Democrat who appointed many women and minorities to government jobs ...

Sabadell United Bank’s parent to buy JGB Bank of Miami

Sabadell United Bank said its parent has reached an agreement to acquire JGB Bank of Miami, consolidating ...

CRUISE LINES

Carnival CEO: Our goal is to exceed expectations

Carnival Corp.’s new president and CEO, Arnold Donald, spoke to the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerc...

SIME MIA CONFERENCE

SIME MIA an insightful, fun-filled peek into tech’s future

The first SIME MIA brought together entrepreneurs, inventors, investors and futurists for two days of conve...

miami

Amusement-parks giant in talks to buy Miami Seaquarium

Miami Seaquarium, the aging home to Lolita the whale and performing dolphins, might be about to change hands.

MUTUAL BENEFITS

Fort Lauderdale lawyer convicted in massive Mutual Benefits fraud case

Fort Lauderdale attorney Anthony M. Livoti Jr., 64, was convicted of conspiring to commit fraud and money l...

BANKING

EU fines global banks $2.3 billion for market rigging

The European Commission has fined a group of major global banks a total of 1.7 billion euros ($2.3 billion)...

TOURISM

Art Basel chief: We’re not going anywhere

Concerns over an extended renovation of the Miami Beach Convention Center had Art Basel considering a move ...

Lennar awarded $1 billion in civil defamation and conspiracy case

A civil jury in Miami-Dade Circuit Court awarded Miami-based Lennar Corp. $1 billion in damages against Cal...