Barricaded suspect in standoff with police in west Miami-Dade

Gunshots were fired in West Miami-Dade Sunday morning sparking an ongoing standoff at the Florida 2001 cond...

Lindsay Lohan allegedly linked to beating of Paris Hilton’s brother during Art Basel

Socialite celeb Paris Hilton has a warning for Lindsay Lohan – watch your back.

Injured cruise ship passenger evacuated off Carnival Victory

The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday is working to evacuate an 88-year-old man injured during a Caribbean cruise.

Friends and Neighbors

Give the gift of volunteering this holiday season

At this time of the year, many of us are thinking about the kinds of gifts we will get for our loved ones. ...

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...

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...

Schools

Florida students ‘happy’ at school despite lagging PISA scores

The Florida students who took an international math, science and reading exam also for the first time answe...

No hugs allowed? Madison targets pro cuddlers

Wisconsin's ultra-liberal capital city is a place where just about anything goes, from street parties to na...

Owens' Olympic gold medal sells for record $1.4M

An Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games has sold for a record $1.4 million in an ...

Newseum settles disabled access case

The Newseum and the Justice Department resolve a complaint over disabled access.

Palestinians remember Mandela as an inspiration

Palestinians mourned Nelson Mandela as their most loyal champion, lighting candles in special prayer servic...

State-by-state look at wintry weather

For days, temperatures have plunged across a large portion of the United States, accompanied by a storm sys...

Food-tech startups aim to replace eggs and chicken

The startup is housed in a garage-like space in San Francisco's tech-heavy South of Market neighborhood, bu...

In 2nd week, 'Frozen' tops box office with $31.6M

In its second weekend at the box office, the Disney animated tale "Frozen" finally cooled off "The Hunger G...

Officials cease whale rescue efforts in Everglades

Wildlife officials say that after losing sight of a pod of whales that was stranded in the Everglades, they...

Hagel offers troops rare glimmer of hope on budget

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Sunday offered troops a rare glimmer of hope on the department's fina...

Rare rioting shocks orderly Singapore

A rare riot broke out in Singapore's Little India neighborhood Sunday night, apparently after a Bangladeshi...

Friend: Mandela not on life support in final hours

Nelson Mandela wasn't on life support and had many family members and doctors close by in his final hours, ...

Seizure of nuns stokes Syrian Christian fears

Syrian Christians offered prayers Sunday for a group of more than a dozen nuns and orphanage workers held b...

Palestinians remember Mandela as an inspiration

Palestinians mourned Nelson Mandela as their most loyal champion, lighting candles in special prayer servic...

Syrian troops seize control of strategic highway

Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad secured the highway Sunday that links Damascus with northern Syria, ...

UK police free 3 suspected 'slavery' victims

British police say they have freed three men believed to be victims of slavery and human trafficking.

Anti-govt protesters in Kiev topple Lenin statue

Anti-government protesters have toppled the statue of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin in central Kiev amid ...

Graphic novels

Graphic novels, from Batman to Button Man

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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.

Caribbean quick trip

St. Maarten: Seeking thrills and places to chill

With my face pressed against the glass by my window seat, the action below looks like it could be an episod...

Hiking

Big O Hike, a Lake Okeechobee holiday tradition

Every Thanksgiving week since 1991, a group of hardy souls — from elementary-school age to octogenaria...

ACC Championship Game | No. 1 Florida State 45, No. 20 Duke 7

Jameis Winston leads FSU past Duke to ACC crown, spot in BCS title game

Florida State captured the ACC crown game and a spot in the BCS title game against likely opponent Auburn.

Class 4A championship | Booker T. Washington 40, Jacksonville Bolles 21

Booker T. Washington wins second consecutive Class 4A state title

Booker T. Washington recovered from a slow start to rout Jacksonville Bolles and win its second consecutive...

Panthers 2, Red Wings 1

Tim Thomas paces Florida Panthers in victory over Red Wings

Tim Thomas helped Florida win its second game in as many nights, before meeting his idol and former Cats go...

In My Opinion

Michelle Kaufman: World Cup group winner predictions

Now that the world has had some time to digest the World Cup draw, the celebrating and whining are slowing ...

FIU men’s basketball

FIU Panthers lock down FGCU late

Florida Gulf Coast, once “Dunk City,” looked straight out of Layupville Saturday afternoon at FIU...

Heat 103, Timberwolves 82

Miami Heat rebounds, rolls past Timberwolves

LeBron James had 21 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists in just 30 minutes to help Miami rout Minnesota.

DOLPHINS AT STEELERS, 1 P.M. SUNDAY, CBS

Quarterback Ryan Tannehill on pace to make Miami Dolphins history

Ryan Tannehill could eclipse 4,000 passing yards this season, joining Dan Marino as the only Dolphins quart...

La vida local

Demi Lovato a headliner at Y100 Jingle Ball

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...

Coming to town

Rock royal Chelsea Tyler takes stage with badbad

Chelsea Tyler has music in her DNA.

The style scene

Shoe designer Chloe Jade Green is fashion royalty

Safe to say, Chloe Jade Green knows how to put an outfit together.

In concert

Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen: We’re a rock band

Surrender to the sounds of Cheap Trick on Saturday night at Magic City Casino. The band — which form...

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...

Caribbean

Caribbean needs cheaper, reliable energy

Time for the Caribbean to cut its dependency on expensive fossil fuel, experts say.

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

Web crackdown blocks currency sites

As the value of the bolivar plunges and people try to find safe haven in U.S. dollars, the government is bl...

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...

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...

HEALTHCARE

Nurse education expansion creates failing programs

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

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...

JOBS IN FLORIDA: THE RICK SCOTT RECORD

Case study: A jobs promise that faded

Two years after the Colt Manufacturing Company promised to bring 63 jobs to the state, the jobs are still n...

RICK SCOTT

Governor’s chief of staff admits he lied on resume in previous job

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 ...

'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...

Ex-Assemblywoman Vivian Freeman dies at 86

Former Assemblywoman Vivian Freeman, who championed the causes of women and children, conservation and educ...

DISPATCHES

Basel wrap-up: Taffy, crystal and a T-shirt barge

CARNIVAL FOOD: THE STICKIER, THE ARTSIER The annual VIP breakfast at CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundat...

Media

Miami-based Guide launches text-to-video tool for publishers

Miami-based tech startup Guide provides a tool to let publishers inexpensively generate videos of their new...

Gov. Scott checks out PortMiami dredging

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

Banesco USA agrees to consent order

Banesco USA said Friday that it has agreed to a consent order with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., dea...

ART WEEK

Women honored for arts impact at Miami Beach event

Collector Mera Rubell among the honorees by Niche Media’s Art Basel Magazine.

HOTELS

East Coast sibling of Hollywood’s Redbury hotel now open in South Beach

The 69-room Redbury hotel on South Beach opened just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach crowds.

ART MUSEUMS

MOCA mum on move rumors

After an art publication reported that the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami might move, the museum w...

Caribbean

Caribbean needs cheaper, reliable energy

Time for the Caribbean to cut its dependency on expensive fossil fuel, experts say.