From Cuba to the majors: Yasiel Puig’s harrowing story

Many Cuban-born ballplayers have a remarkable tale of how they got to the major leagues. Few are as amazing...

74-year-old fugitive on the lam for nearly two decades back in Miami jail after being deported from Mexico

Guadalupe Ayan Estefano, 74, stood before Magistrate Judge Barry L. Garber in Miami federal court last wee...

Immigrants recount horror of being detained in ‘iceboxes’

CAMPAIGN 2014

Charlie Crist‘s biggest challenge: motivating Democrats in S. Fla. to vote

For Charlie Crist to beat Gov. Rick Scott, South Florida voters likely need to do something they haven ...

Hialeah

Hialeah mayor’s testimony highlights own involvement in lending schemes

Easter Holiday

La Ermita in Coconut Grove is reenergized with help of new priest, younger diverse parishioners

Long the home of older Cuban exiles, la Ermita de la Caridad del Cobre is appealing to younger, more recent...

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...

AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EDT

Raptors GM Masai Ujiri uses profanity about Nets in address to fans before playoff opener

Hundreds paddle out for surf icon Hobie Alter

Hundreds of surfers and rowers have honored Hobie Alter's request by paddling out in the Pacific in his mem...

Tenn. ammunition plant explosion ruled accidental

A preliminary investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has determined that ...

Body found by highway is missing Massachusetts boy

The body of a small boy apparently cast off the side of a highway has been confirmed as a missing 5-year-ol...

Post-rehab, injured snowy owl released into wild

Woman says beau stole her dog, TV on 1st date

No stolen hearts on this first date. Instead, a New Jersey woman says a man she met on a dating website sto...

California man survives avalanche on Mount Everest

A California man says he feels lucky that he survived an avalanche that killed at least 13 people on Mount ...

Calif. customers hit with expensive Del Taco bill

What was supposed to be a cheap bite at Del Taco turned out to be small fortune for some Southern Californi...

Pope seeks to bring faith to "ends of the Earth"

Pope Francis baptized 10 people Saturday and urged them to bring their faith "to the ends of the Earth" as ...

Colombia hopes to share Garcia Marquez remains

The final resting place for the ashes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez remains unclear. It could be Mexico where h...

Deadline lapses in Peru for illegal gold miners

The clock has run out for an estimated 40,000 illegal gold miners who had until Saturday to legalize their ...

Islamic militants claim this week's Nigeria blast

Islamic extremists Saturday claimed responsibility for the massive rush-hour explosion earlier this week th...

Egypt's censorship board head resigns in film spat

Guinea to cancel BSG Resources-Vale mining rights

The government of Guinea is planning to revoke the mining rights to one of the largest untapped iron ore de...

Everest avalanche a reminder of risks Sherpas face

The rescuers moved quickly, just minutes after the first block of ice tore loose from Mount Everest and sta...

Iran vice president says row over reactor resolved

Iran will redesign its Arak heavy water reactor to greatly limit the amount of plutonium it can make, the c...

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...

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...

Cruises

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

Two recent Caribbean voyages could not have been more different.

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...

Series preview

Miami Heat expects dogfight from Bobcats

Even if the Heat appears to be in a different class than the Bobcats, the players aren’t preparing as ...

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...

Boston Marathon

South Florida runners return to Boston for emotional marathon

In what is sure to be an emotional day, several locals are back in Boston to finish, or finish how they wan...

marlins 8, mariners 4

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

From Cuba to the majors: Yasiel Puig’s harrowing story

Many Cuban-born ballplayers have a remarkable tale of how they got to the major leagues. Few are as amazing...

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

Doctors Charter 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

Celebrity roundup

Idris Elba a new dad

Celebrity birthdays on April 19

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’

CUBA

Archbishop Wenski asks for prayers for Cuban dissidents

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski has asked that masses at the Our Lady of Charity shrine say special prayers ...

CUBA

Company fined $5.9 million for travel to Cuba

U.S. interests bought majority in CWT B.V. — a Dutch company — but did not get the required U...

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...

Hialeah

Hialeah mayor’s testimony highlights own involvement in lending schemes

CAMPAIGN 2014

Charlie Crist‘s biggest challenge: motivating Democrats in S. Fla. to vote

For Charlie Crist to beat Gov. Rick Scott, South Florida voters likely need to do something they haven ...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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:

ECONOMY

Miami is one of the most expensive places to pay rent

Residential rentals are scarce and prices are soaring in many areas — but especially South Florida.

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.