Miramar vice mayor reaching out to residents via tea chats

Commission puts nonprofit group in control of Miami Marine Stadium redevelopment plan

Leaders of Friends of the Miami Marine Stadium said the vote allows them to start raising millions of dolla...

POLITICS

Sen. Marco Rubio’s red lines: defund Obamacare to pass temporary budget, no debt-limit hike without balanced budget

Speaking to conservatives, Sen. Marco Rubio roasted President Barack Obama over his healthcare law and the ...

REDISTRICTING

Fla. Supreme Court won't stop redistricting challenge

The Florida Supreme Court, in a sharp rebuke to the Republican-controlled Legislature, refused to throw out...

FLORIDA

Crowning glory: Beauty queens prepare for Miss Florida USA pageant

Miami Children’s Hospital to get funding from 28-hour Univision telethon

South Florida children with cancer will benefit from money raised by a 28-hour Univision program aired last...

Florida National Guard marks 100th deployment since 9/11

Four South Floridians went into active duty on Thursday alongside nearly 60 others marking the Florida Nati...

Hurricane relief: Broward Salvation Army searches for relief volunteers

The Salvation Army’s Disaster Relief Program hopes to find volunteers to assist during the hurrican...

Diary reveals school aide had student's baby

Authorities say the diary of a Southern California teacher's aide reveals her sexual relationship with an u...

NTSB findings on SF plane crash at a glance

After departing from Shanghai and stopping in Seoul, Asiana Flight 214 makes its final approach into San Fr...

Court denies Fort Hood suspect access to evidence

The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, cannot access evidence obtai...

Photographer charged after flying over feedlot

A National Geographic freelance photographer who took pictures of a western Kansas feedlot from a paraglide...

Asiana passengers begged 911 dispatchers for help

Stunned and bleeding after a Boeing 777 crash-landed at the San Francisco airport, hundreds of passengers s...

Army relieves Fort Jackson general

The Army is removing the one-star general in charge of its largest training post following his suspension i...

Descendants of Sand Creek Massacre victims sue

A lawsuit filed by descendants of American Indians killed in the Sand Creek Massacre argues the federal gov...

John Kerry's wife moved to rehab hospital

Teresa Heinz Kerry has been moved to a rehabilitation hospital in Boston as the condition of the wife of U....

Egypt's liberals pressing for democracy after coup

The liberal and youth movements that backed the military's removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi are...

Egypt to investigate Morsi for 2011 jailbreak

Prosecutors will investigate allegations that Egypt's ousted president escaped from prison during the 2011 ...

Egypt’s military blames Mohammed Morsi’s supporters for violence

In a battle over the narrative of what’s happened here during the past eight dramatic days, the new...

Latin American complaints over U.S. spying ignore their own wiretap programs

Several Latin American presidents have complained bitterly following recent revelations about U.S. electron...

Correction: Mideast-Ramadan story

In a story July 10 about Ramadan, The Associated Press, relying on a press release issued by the U.N.'s Dep...

Venezuela announces hard-currency auction

Venezuela's central bank says that on Friday it will begin selling dollars at auction for only the second t...

Pope lets Catholics join Anglican converts

Pope Francis is letting baptized Catholics join the new church structure created to receive Anglican converts.

'Dead' candidate elected in south Mexico village

Cook’s’ corner

Marinade keeps Seasons 52 turkey kebabs moist

The restaurant marinates the turkey breast, which provides a boost of Asian-style flavors that helps keep t...

A Fork on the Road

Pinkberry adds Greek yogurt to fro-yo line

Nibbles & Bits

3030 Ocean chef cooking up a new course

Wine

Vinho verde: Portuguese for ‘cheap and cheerful’

Summer meals

Beat the heat with refreshing cold soup

Revenge, patient people tell us, is a dish best served cold. I feel the same way about soup, at least at th...

Summer meals

Classic chicken salad gets classy update

Chicken salad might be the easiest of the classic American salads to reinvent. Here, I’ve used a ba...

Seasonal cooking

Summer fruit makes colorful salsa for salmon

In today’s recipe, I used strawberries in a salsa along with mango, basil and, for crunch, cucumber....

Miami chefs share mango memories, recipes

These chefs grew up loving mangos — and it shows on their menus

In my opinion

Greg Cote: With suspensions looming, MLB faces a midsummer nightmare

MIAMI HEAT

Long shot Miami Heat rookie James Ennis tries to focus on just making shots

‘It’s a lot of pressure,’ rookie James Ennis says of trying to make the final roster o...

UM Baseball

UM baseball standout David Thompson recovering well after shoulder surgery

Marlins 6, Braves 2

Giancarlo Stanton ends slump as Miami Marlins end five-game skid

Giancarlo Stanton got his first RBI in July with a two-run double in the first inning, and the Marlins beat...

Marlins notebook

Adeiny Hechavarria’s hit streak reaches 10 games

Heat notebook

Luxury-tax bill might force Miami Heat roster move

Chris Andersen’s signing, announced Wednesday, means the Heat has 14 of the 15 players from this past ...

South Florida Outdoor Notebook

Commercial and recreational red snapper harvest seasons will not open in July in federal or state waters of...

South Florida Fishing Report

Captain Mark Schmidt of Sundancer Charters out of Murrays Marina in Key West reported permits, barracudas a...

Celebrity roundup

Lamar Odom melts down

Celebrity birthdays on July 11

Celebrity roundup

Denzel Washington’s wife: Why we work

While the majority of Hollywood marriages implode left and right, Denzel and Pauletta Washington somehow ke...

The comedy scene

Kathy Griffin keeps ’em laughing

Hasselbeck exits ‘The View’ with no hard feelings

NEW YORK (AP) – Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving “The View” showing no hard feelings to...

Celebrity birthdays on July 11

Celebrity roundup

Various health issues for Elton, Mariah, Placido, others

La vida local

Kelly Rowland takes the wheel

Stephanie Frasco had a night to remember Monday. The L.A. resident and Jaguar fanatic didn’t win a c...

CUBA

Cuba’s food ration stores mark 50th anniversary

The ration card gives every Cuban a basic basket of food for less than $2 a month.

Miami Children’s Hospital to get funding from 28-hour Univision telethon

South Florida children with cancer will benefit from money raised by a 28-hour Univision program aired last...

IN THE CAMPS

Judge: Searching Guantánamo detainees’ genitals impedes attorney meetings

A federal judge in Washington issued a sharply worded order that found guards’ searches of Guantá...

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo: 2 detainees quit hunger strike; calm in communal prison

cuba

Cuba’s ex-prisons chief — accused of human-rights abuses — is back in the U.S.

Former prisons chief Crescencio Marino Rivero left Miami for Cuba after half a dozen dissidents accused him...

HUNGER STRIKE

Feinstein, Durbin ask Obama to halt Guantánamo forced-feedings

Two leading Democratic senators on Wednesday asked President Barack Obama to order the Pentagon to stop rou...

Flights canceled due to Tropical Storm Chantal

Miami travelers heading to Haiti and the Dominican Republic will likely have to wait another day due to Tro...

Gallery owner seeks Cuba-Key West art swap

Key West gallery owner Nance Frank has launched a Web-based fundraising effort to pay for an artistic excha...

REDISTRICTING

Fla. Supreme Court won't stop redistricting challenge

The Florida Supreme Court, in a sharp rebuke to the Republican-controlled Legislature, refused to throw out...

POLITICS

Charlie Crist's political memoir to explain why he left GOP

The former Republican governor turned independent U.S. Senate candidate turned potential Democratic guberna...

Elections

Miami-Dade should take steps to thwart absentee-ballot fraudsters, advisory group says

Following alarming fraud attempts in last year’s elections, the group wants Miami-Dade County to fig...

Miami

Records: Red-light camera foe, Miami politician Francis Suarez received two tickets

Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez said the two tickets highlight the shortcomings of the city’s red-...

POLITICS

Joe Garcia draws challenger Carlos Curbelo on day he posts big cash-haul

Embattled U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia boasted about a large fundraising haul on the same day that Miami-Dade Scho...

POLITICS

Gov. Rick Scott learns special taxing districts have clout

Gov. Rick Scott’s is reviewing the state’s 1,700 special taxing districts, but he won’...

PolitiFact

Myths abound in immigration reform debate

PolitiFact scrutinized plenty of myths about the Senate immigration bill. Here are a few of them.

PolitiFact Florida

Group claims Florida ‘rubber-stamped phony horse racing’

In ad, horse breeders, owners call out Florida regulators for alleged “phony horse racing.” P...

Former Ford CEO Philip Caldwell dies at age 93

Philip Caldwell, the first person to lead Ford Motor Co. who wasn't a member of the founding family, died W...

Toshi Seeger, wife of Pete Seeger, dies at 91

Toshi Seeger, folk singer Pete Seeger's wife of 70 years and a close partner in his social and environmenta...

Inventor of iconic party game Twister dies

Twister called itself "the game that ties you up in knots." Its detractors called it "sex in a box."

Toshi Seeger, wife of Pete Seeger, dies at 91

Toshi (TOH'-shee) Seeger, the wife of folk singer Pete Seeger for 70 years, has died. She was 91.

TV's 'Waltons' storekeeper Joe Conley dies at 85

Joe Conley, an actor best known as the small town storekeeper on the TV series "The Waltons," has died at a...

Ex-NBC reporter who covered RFK death dies in Md.

A former NBC News reporter who covered the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy for the network in 1968 has d...

Jim Foglesong, label exec, hall of famer, dies

Jim Foglesong, a record label executive and music producer who helped launch Garth Brooks' career and was i...

Edmund S. Morgan, colonial scholar, dies at 97

Auslander named to top spot at Children’s Trust

A local lawyer and long-time child advocate has been named president and CEO of The Children’s Trust.

Healthcare

Educating Florida about healthcare reform starts with conversation

Enroll America is launching a Florida education campaign on healthcare options.

RETAIL CRIME

Feds unveil South Florida task force to fight ‘organized retail crime’

The U.S. attorney’s office unveiled a new task force to fight the spread of “organized retail...

SuperFast still does not meet fire safety standards

The Genting-owned ship needs more sprinklers before it can carry passengers to Resorts World Bimini.

The Fairholme Fund to file suits, geared to protect rights of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred shareholders

The Fairholme Fund – a mutual fund with more than 170,000 shareholders that is managed by Miami-base...

HOUSING

Florida still foreclosure capital

More homes were lost to foreclosure in Florida than anywhere else in the year ended in May. The state also ...

Genting ship still undergoing safety inspections

Among other outstanding discrepancies, backup generators must be operational aboard the Genting ship before...

South Florida’s app economy emerging on many fronts

South Florida’s growing software industry is fueled by freelancers, startups, larger players and servi...