HEALTHCARE | CONTRACEPTION

Marco Rubio pushes back at Obama contraception rules under healthcare plan

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Catholic who has always opposed abortion, has emerged as one of the leading national wa...

Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale artist paints ‘Visions of the Apocalypse’

A Fort Lauderdale artist has produced more than a thousand paintings and collages about the joys, hopes and...

COURTS

Defense: ‘G-word’ is a slur against Fort Lauderdale psychics

Defense attorneys for a Fort Lauderdale family of accused psychic con artists are objecting to the word &#x...

Pembroke Pines

Candle causes fire in mobile home

A burning candle is to blame for a fire in a Pembroke Pines mobile which caused thousands of dollars in dam...

Hialeah has $12 million Florida Lotto winner

A Lotto ticket sold in Hialeah won Saturday night’s $12 million jackpot, the Florida Lottery said Su...

Little Haiti

Little Haiti Farmers Market Opens To The Public

Residents who live near Miami neighborhood of Little Haiti will now be able to get fresh fruits and vegetab...

Florida Keys

Key West man who called 911 arrested for drugs

A Key West man who called 911 three times on Sunday was arrested after deputies allegedly found him with dr...

Sac Bee fires photographer over altered pictures

The Sacramento Bee has fired a longtime photographer who editors say broke newspaper policy by digitally al...

Blast kills husband of missing Utah woman, 2 boys

Josh Powell's note was simple and short, a farewell to the world after two years of being scrutinized in th...

Blast kills husband of missing Utah woman, 2 boys

Josh Powell's note was simple and short, a farewell to the world after two years of being scrutinized in th...

Could Wash. have done more to protect Powell boys?

State authorities can expect tough questions about whether more might have been done to protect the childre...

Marine wife killed in Ca. explosion was Iowan, 31

Families began returning to their homes Sunday following a propane gas explosion in a military housing comp...

Service set for MN couple missing in ship disaster

A memorial Mass has been scheduled for a Minnesota couple who are missing in the Italian cruise ship disast...

Family of missing Alaska barista increases reward

17 dead, 13 rescued after migrant boat capsizes

Rescuers scouring the white-capped waters off the Dominican Republic's coast have found 17 bodies and 13 su...

Mexican ruling party picks woman as prez candidate

Mexico's ruling party on Sunday chose a former congresswoman to run for president, the first time a major p...

Island nation of Vanuatu jolted by several quakes

The South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu continues to be jolted by several moderate to strong earthquakes...

Panama police, indigenous clash over blockade

Police fired tear gas Sunday to clear blockades of the Pan-American highway by indigenous groups protesting...

Aussie PM says she will lead government to victory

Embattled Prime Minister Julia Gillard insists she will lead her unpopular government to victory at electio...

UK lawmakers: Most radicalism linked to Internet

Internet service providers should do more to prevent the web from playing a role in promoting violent extre...

Queen celebrates 60 years on throne

Author! Author!

Eleanor Brown examines a family of not-so-weird sisters in her debut novel

Fiction

Creation, a spur-of-the moment idea

Fiction

Revisiting slavery

Nonfiction

The big history of a little car

South Carolina

Quick Trips: Savor the history and flavors of Charleston

The biggest challenge when visiting this historic coastal town is not deciding what to do. For me, at leas...

Memoir

Reliving the good old days with a master of language

What are you reading now?

“I’m reading Mile Marker Zero by William McKeen, which chronicles the Paris-like confluence ...

Panthers

No time to rest for Florida Panthers

The Panthers have struggled to a 2-5-1 record in games following one the previous day, but some teams are d...

Lightning 6, Panthers 3

Series of mistakes too costly for Florida Panthers in loss to Tampa Bay Lightning

Several breakdowns were costly for the Panthers, coach Kevin Dineen said after a loss that dropped their di...

No. 11 Florida men 73, Vanderbilt 65

High-pressure system sparks Florida Gators basketball team

Girls’ basketball

Dominant Gulliver wins District 16-4A

Senior Tytravia Riley led Gulliver Prep past Key West in the District 16-4A final.

No. 21 Florida State men 58, No. 16 virginia 55

Michael Snaer does just enough for Florida State Seminoles

Super Bowl XLVI | 6:20 p.m. Sunday, NBC

Super Bowl rematch continues to be downplayed

No, no, the Giants and New England spent the week insisting, revenge on the Giants for that 17-14 upset in...

FIU men 76, FAU 56

FIU Golden Panthers take over game in second half, defeat FAU

It took some time for FIU to begin executing coach Isiah Thomas’ game plan, but when it did, it over...

Super Bowl Sunday

Football stars who made it to the big screen (and we’re not talking about OJ)

Super Bowl Sunday

Super Bowl ads, a preview

In this weekend’s high-stakes world of Super Bowl commercials (each 30-second spot sold for $3.5 mil...

The calendar

Decadancetheater, a Brooklyn-based all female hip-hop dance troupe, performs three of their hip-hop ȁ...

The calendar

Celebrity birthdays on Feb. 4

Actor Conrad Bain (“Diff’rent Strokes’’) is 89. Comedian David Brenner is 76....

Celebrity birthdays on Feb. 5

Gossip extra

Ex-kin: Heather Hutchins, adopted girlfriend of John Goodman, is ‘a social person’

Americas

ALBA bloc of nations to see new members

Suriname and St Lucia are seeking membership in the ALBA group of left-leaning nations, as the bloc continu...

17 dead, 13 rescued after migrant boat capsizes

Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town af...

Haiti, through a photographer’s lens

A flicker of light in Haiti

Two years after an unprecedented and unimaginable natural disaster, Haiti still mourns its dead, struggles ...

VENEZUELA

Venezuela’s Chávez celebrates failed coup that launched his political career

Twenty years ago, Chávez tried to seize power by force. Now, the president is courting controversy as ...

CUBA

A Cuban-American jailed in Cuba since 2006 is freed and sent home because of ill health

Julio Rafael Mesa Fariñas, freed by Cuba on Friday, was in a cell next to Alan Gross during part of hi...

GUANTANAMO

Pentagon won’t slow 9/11 death penalty filings

A senior Pentagon official told defense lawyers to write him by Monday on why the Sept. 11 mass murder file...

CUBA

Cuban women on a protest march say police harassed and detained them

They say they were trying to stage a march in the central Cuba city of Santa Clara when police searched th...

Politics

Marketing the Romney brand

Like a product in any ad campaign, Mitt Romney is a brand. He has a slogan: “Obama isn’t work...

HEALTHCARE | CONTRACEPTION

Marco Rubio pushes back at Obama contraception rules under healthcare plan

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Catholic who has always opposed abortion, has emerged as one of the leading national wa...

Miami-Dade County

In Miami-Dade union fight, a second round looms — soon

In a few months, Miami-Dade will have to gear up for another round of trying to squeeze concessions from em...

Miami Commissioner Suarez to unveil strong mayor plan for city

Watching the city manager wobble between demands from five commissioners and its mayor has persuaded Miami ...

2012 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Obama campaign army ready to take Florida in November

Four years ago, then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won Florida with the largest voter mobi...

Florida Legislature

As bill dies, future of mega-casinos remains uncertain

The debate over Las Vegas-style casinos has ended in defeat for supporters, who now have to wait until next...

REDISTRICTING

House okays new redistricting map

The House approved new redistricting maps amid opposition from Democrats who said the political boundaries ...

RICHARD MANCUSO, 58

Civic activist was named citizen of the year for 2012 in Fort Lauderdale

Richard Mancuso, a civic activist selected to be Fort Lauderdale’s 2012 citizen of the year, died Tu...

Undersea documentarian Mike deGruy dies in crash

Mike deGruy, an award-winning cinematographer who spent three decades making documentary films about the oc...

Dorothea Tanning, artist and poet who married Max Ernst, dies at 101

Over more than a century, Dorothea Tanning collided and consorted with artistic titans of the 20th century ...

Popular character actor Ben Gazzara dies in NY

Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a...

Hungarian far-right politician and writer dies

Ben Gazzara, veteran actor of stage and screen, dies at 81

A New York native of Sicilian heritage, Ben Gazzara was a strongly masculine, subtly menacing screen presen...

Popular character actor Ben Gazzara dies in NY

Enter the Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge

Find the contest rules and all you need to get started on your entry, but first let’s look back on t...

BizBytes 101

Is Facebook advertising right for your small business?

BizBytes 101 shares tips for navigating the issues of social media advertising.

Crime

Stalker accused of bizarre plot to woo doctor — by kidnapping her

Dr. Law

Who gets the engagement ring if the marriage is called off

Engagement ring ownership disputes are often hotly contested due to the emotional aspect of a failed relati...

Advice from the judges on business plans, entrepreneurship

Here is advice on writing a business plan from the 2012 Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge judges:

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE

Brush Fire Near Card Sound Road Controlled

Continuing dry conditions helped the spread of a brush fire near Card Sound Road and US1 south of Florida C...

2011 FIU Track

Lessons learned: Be nimble, stay focused, don’t give up

Challenge Champion Raw Apps found ways to execute its strategy in the mobile market.