Man shot to death in middle of Pompano Beach street

A man was shot dead on a Pompano Beach street, Broward sheriff’s investigators said.

Miami’s Top 5: What you should know Monday

1. The Canes are heading back to a bowl. University of Miami football team will face the Louisville Cardina...

Downtown Miami

Miami wants pedestrian-friendly downtown

WISH BOOK

Wish Book: Injured Brownsville teen, grandmother long for air conditioning

A brain-injured teen and his caretaker live in a home that often adds to their discomfort.

TRAFFIC

Opening of new State Road 826 ramp delayed due to rain

The new southbound State Road 826 to westbound State Road836 ramp will not open Sunday as planned because o...

Smoking

Teens’ use of e-cigarettes is growing

Even as traditional cigarette use has gone down, more minors are attracted to the easy accessibility, the f...

More whales from stranded pod found dead in the Florida Keys

Eleven more whales believed to be part of a pod that was stranded in the Everglades last week were found d...

Marc Caputo: Hollingsworth’s lie about PR degree bad spin for Gov. Rick Scott

Study: Erratic TV violence ratings fail parents

Violent dramas on the broadcast networks carry milder parental cautions than cable shows like "The Walking ...

10 Things to Know for Today

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

Invasive cockroach found in NYC can take the cold

The High Line, a park that turned a dilapidated stretch of elevated railway on Manhattan's West Side into o...

Adventurer Aron Ralston arrested in Denver

Authorities say Aron Ralston, who gained widespread attention when he cut off his forearm to free himself a...

Big storm dumps snow on East Coast, travel dicey

A plodding storm that dumped heavy snow on the unsuspecting Mid-Atlantic region threatened to make roads di...

The nation's weather

Weather Underground Forecast for Monday, Dec. 09, 2013

New American Airlines to emerge as deal closes

American Airlines emerges from bankruptcy protection and US Airways culminates its long pursuit of a merger...

Jury selection begins in newlywed murder trial

Jury selection gets underway Monday in the murder trial of a newlywed bride accused of pushing her husband ...

Merkel seeks party's support for new German gov't

Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking her conservative party's support for a new German government alliance w...

Kuwait court clears 70 over parliament storming

A Kuwaiti court on Monday acquitted 70 members of the country's opposition, including several former lawmak...

Syrian opposition gets lessons in negotiating

Tucked away in a stately mansion in The Hague, members of the Syrian opposition in exile have been given le...

Gunmen kill policeman in Libya's Benghazi

A hospital official in the Libyan city of Benghazi says unknown gunmen have shot dead a policeman.

French come under fire in C. African Republic

French forces in troubled Central African Republic say they came under attack in a neighborhood of the capi...

UN: Israel to allow some materials into Gaza again

The United Nations says Israel has agreed to again allow imports of construction materials into the Gaza St...

US organization optimistic on Afghan elections

An American organization tasked with furthering democracy in developing nations said on Monday that next Ap...

Renewed clashes at Egypt's Al-Azhar University

A security official says police have entered the campus of a Cairo university to quell a second day of prot...

WISH BOOK

Wish Book: Injured Brownsville teen, grandmother long for air conditioning

A brain-injured teen and his caretaker live in a home that often adds to their discomfort.

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Fiction

Fannie Flagg spins her small-town formula once again

Memoir

Roger Rosenblatt takes a walking tour of his past

Experts urge feds to measure, pursue our happiness

Happy or sad? Content or bored? And how many times did you smile yesterday? A panel of experts thinks Amer...

MEDICAL RESEARCH

Face transplants are thriving two years after operations

Medical imaging shows new blood vessel networks have formed, a finding that may help improve future face tr...

Parenting

Expressing gratitude best learned by example

Some of us are still reeling from our attempts to coax a shred of Thanksgiving gratitude out of our kids.

UM football

Miami Hurricanes to face Louisville in Russell Athletic Bowl

The Hurricanes will take on Louisville and quarterback Teddy Bridgewater in Orlando on Dec. 28.

Boxing spotlight

Rigondeaux batters unwilling opponent

With his opponent unwilling to throw punches, Guillermo Rigondeaux played target practice in another domina...

BCS championship game | No. 1 Florida State vs. No. 2 Auburn

It is official: Florida State will take on Auburn in the final BCS Championship Game

Florida State will take on Auburn for the final BCS Championship Game in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 6 as a n...

Tennis | Metropolia Orange Bowl International Championship

Alexander Zverev, Johan Sebastien Tatlot headlines Metropolia Orange Bowl field

It is a few weeks before Christmas, which means it’s time for the world’s top junior tennis playe...

Heat 110, Pistons 95

LeBron James, Miami Heat avenge loss to Detroit Pistons minus Dwyane Wade

LeBron James led Miami to a convincing win against Detroit with Dwyane Wade sitting out on the second night...

Blackhawks 6, Panthers 2

Florida Panthers overpowered in loss to Chicago Blackhawks

Chicago scored a season-high three goals on the power play to halt its three-game losing streak and end Flo...

Dolphins 34, Steelers 28

Wild win for Miami Dolphins over Steelers in snowy Pittsburgh

The Dolphins won their second in a row for the first time since their 3-0 start to the season and kept them...

College basketball | Virginia Tech 61, UM men 60 (OT)

UM men’s basketball team gives up lead, falls to Virginia Tech in overtime

Poor shooting and missing crucial free throws down the stretch plagued UM’s double-digit lead agains...

As seen on TV

‘Sing off’ host Nick Lachey in perfect harmony

La vida local

Demi Lovato a headliner at Y100 Jingle Ball

Radar

Hot stuff celebrities love

Christopher Radko knows Christmas. Known for its attention to detail and handcrafted workmanship, the North...

Celebrity birthdays on Dec 9

Gossip extra

Strange turns in Justin Bieber case

The lawsuit brought by a Miami Beach paparazzo against pop star Justin Bieber and one of his bodyguards is ...

Celebrity birthdays on Dec 8

Actor-producer-director Maximilian Schell is 83. Singer Jerry Butler is 74. Singer-keyboardist Gregg Allman...

Scene in the Tropics

Celebrities do Art Basel in a big way

Celebrity roundup

TLC star will document cancer battle

Jen Arnold, star of TLC’s The Little Couple, has decided to let cameras document her battle with can...

Venezuela

Venezuela’s ruling party on top in key municipal race

With partial results in, Venezuela’s ruling PSUV party enjoyed a wide lead in the mayors’ rac...

IN THE CAMPS

Military retracts Guantánamo PTSD claim

Venezuela Politics

Venezuela’s municipal races seen as national litmus test

Campaigning for Venezuela’s municipal elections ended Thursday. While the races may be local, the im...

Venezuela

Pocketbook politics: Venezuela’s Maduro hopes economic measures can swing Sunday’s vote

With Sunday’s municipal vote in Venezuela, analysts think economic measures — from fire sales...

CUBA

A sudden surge in Cuban migrants

At least 44,000 Cubans arrived in the United States in the year ending Sept. 30. It is the highest total si...

Gov. Scott checks out PortMiami dredging

The crews digging a deeper channel into PortMiami had a VIP guest Friday: the governor of Florida.

CUBA

Cuba consular problem in Washington may cause ripples for US diplomats in Havana

Cuban diplomats reportedly said that if they can’t find a bank to hold consular accounts, the U.S. m...

CUBA

Martha Frayde, co-founder of Cuba’s human rights movement, dies

She was sentenced to 29 years in prison, but Fidel Castro pardoned her after she agreed to go into exile in...

When state dollars don’t pay dividends

After receiving more than $700,000 in economic incentives from the state, a Bradenton ambulance production ...

Gov. Rick Scott’s ‘lost’ jobs

The untold chapter in Gov. Rick Scott’s jobs story: the thousands of lost jobs in every sector and reg...

Marc Caputo: Hollingsworth’s lie about PR degree bad spin for Gov. Rick Scott

JOBS IN FLORIDA: THE RICK SCOTT RECORD

Gov. Rick Scott boasts about creating new jobs, but the numbers tell a far different story

Gov. Rick Scott campaigned in 2010 on a promise to create 700,000 jobs, but the jobs he can most directly d...

HOMESTEAD

Homestead may pull plug on land deal with tarnished Dade Medical College boss

Homestead chose Dade Medical College as the new centerpiece of its downtown — but now the city has h...

HEALTHCARE

Nurse education expansion creates failing programs

Florida lawmakers hoping to stave off a nurse shortfall has opened the door for second-rate schools.

JOBS IN FLORIDA: THE RICK SCOTT RECORD

Little campaign payback for jobs incentives

At least publicly, most corporate CEOs say cash incentives and tax breaks trail other factors — the ...

Gov. Scott checks out PortMiami dredging

The crews digging a deeper channel into PortMiami had a VIP guest Friday: the governor of Florida.

Character actress Kate Williamson dead at 82

'La Cage aux Folles' director dies

Edouard Molinaro, nominated for an Oscar for directing "La Cage aux Folles," a French farce about a gay cou...

Belgian golf psychologist to Ernie Els dies at 62

Ernie Els had another sad day upon learning that his former psychologist, Jos Vanstiphout, had died of a he...

Boxer Jacob Matlala, 51, a Mandela favorite, dies

Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala, a four-time world champion in the flyweight and junior flyweight divisions and o...

South African leader Nelson Mandela dies at 95

JOHANNESBURG _ Nelson Mandela, who emerged from more than a quarter of a century in prison to steer a troub...

Correction: Obit-Kennedy Rescuer story

In a story Nov. 28, The Associated Press, relying on information from family members, reported erroneously ...

Famed door-to-door salesman Bill Porter dies at 81

Bill Porter, the door-to-door salesman in Portland, Ore., who was portrayed by William H. Macy in an Emmy-w...

British jazz great Stan Tracey dies at 86

British jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey, who played with everyone from Sonny Rollins to Charlie Watts...

Food entrepreneurs: The next breakout food product is just waiting to be discovered

As they follow their passion, food entrepreneurs find that simply offering tasty, unique products isnȁ...

Bernie Navarro sees education as best investment

Preserving what you’ve worked to build

South Florida has always had a vibrant community of family-owned enterprises. Entrepreneurs are drawn here ...

Warren Henry Auto Group expands its presence in the automotive industry

Warren Henry Auto Group is expanding its presence in the automotive industry.

SMALL BUSINESS | ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Major changes coming to a social media network near you in 2014

Catalogs.com turns the page on catalog trend, launches the Dynalog

South Florida mobile software startup raises $5 million in venture funding

KidoZen, a private enterprise mobile platform company, has raised $5 million in Series A financing from Thi...

Entrepreneurship events this week and startup news to note