tamiami trail

2 dead in head-on crash west of Miccosukee casino

A head-on collision on Tamiami Trail early Monday morning about 11 miles west of the Miccosukee gaming faci...

In My Opinion

Fred Grimm: Florida politicians are the real quarry on King Ranch

A trip to a hunting preserve on the legendary King Ranch in Texas may evoke lots of adjectives. “For...

Music

For South Florida marching band students, music means discipline — and love

More than 100 marching band students strutted their stuff Monday in Overtown, part of the South Florida Mar...

Healthcare law

Miami jury convicts last two defendants in $200 million Medicare scam

A Miami jury’s verdict ends a long-running probe of a $200 million Medicare ripoff that sent about 4...

Affordable Care Act

Consumers asked to verify income, other information — or risk losing government subsidies for health insurance

Healthcare

Miami nursing home celebrates 70 years and four generations

The Floridean Nursing and Rehabilitation Center turned 70 this year, still being run by the fourth generati...

Northeast Miami-Dade

Anti-Semitic messages pop up on synagogue and cars in Miami-Dade

Synagogues are on alert after vandals defaced a building with swastikas.

Transportation

Shutdown of Miami’s State Road 112 canceled

A scheduled shutdown of State Road 112 on Wednesday and Thursday has been postponed, Miami-Dade Expressway ...

Some niche retirement communities

Niche retirement communities are growing particularly popular as the 76 million baby boomers reach retireme...

Indian senior community part of growing niche

When Arun and Usha Pancholi were deciding where to spend their retirement years, they wanted a place that c...

Federal court: Virginia marriage is for all

An appeals courts' decision to strike down Virginia's same-sex marriage ban adds to the growing list of dec...

NBA, Clippers eager for Sterling out, Ballmer in

The NBA and the Los Angeles Clippers are ready to move on, even if Donald Sterling wants to keep fighting.

Quotations in the News

"God help us. We have nothing to do but pray. I don't know who left and who stayed, but in our street, we a...

Giant ketchup bottle draws tourists in Illinois

For tourist Bruce Pasarow of Buena Park, California, leaving Illinois before seeing what's billed as the "W...

Hiker, 13, missing in California national park

A 13-year-old boy has gone missing while hiking at Kings Canyon National Park in Central California.

Conn. man cleared in killing seeks compensation

A man who was imprisoned 21 years for a rape and murder he did not commit is set to testify at a first-ever...

Passengers stuck in Hawaii for 3 nights get cash

A group of Air New Zealand passengers has been stranded for three nights after being repeatedly told their ...

Lonely Londoners looking to open up to strangers

It's a typical urban routine: Sit on the subway, headphones in, fiddling with the smartphone to avoid eye c...

Egypt military kills 7 militants in volatile Sinai

Egyptian troops killed seven suspected militants and arrested five as part of an ongoing offensive in the v...

Teen survivors haunted by S. Korean ferry sinking

South Korean teenagers who survived April's ferry sinking said Tuesday they are still haunted by the disast...

Australia plans to arrest 2 Middle East fighters

Australian police have obtained arrest warrants for two Australians who are fighting with the Islamic State...

Nepal to allow cremation of Tibetan Buddhist monk

Nepal reversed course and decided Tuesday to allow the body of a revered Tibetan Buddhist monk to be brough...

Synagogue in Germany attacked

Police say a synagogue in the western German city of Wuppertal was attacked with petrol bombs overnight, bu...

China to put Glaxo investigators on trial Aug. 8

A Shanghai court says American and British investigators who worked for drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will sta...

Seven-day menu planner: Start the week with honey-roasted pork

TRAINING

Wake up your slacking muscles

Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax: Whether the host or the guest, parent can’t relax

Adapted from a recent online discussion.

Dear Abby

Dear Abby: Son’s clumsiness may have a physical cause

Dear Abby: In short, my son is a klutz — to the point that it affects his self-confidence. He’...

Fit Tip

Fit tip: Do compression sleeves work?

Q: I twisted my knee recently. Do compression sleeves work to help recover from an injury?　

Mr. Tidbit

Candy-bar ‘bites’ take a bite out of wallets

In my opinion

Ana Veciana-Suarez: How much sleep do I really need? Or, 7 is the new 8

Suddenly we’re all talking about sleep — how little we get, how badly we do it. When did some...

Dinner in Minutes

Pile this orzo pilaf onto your plate

Here is a light, vegetarian summer supper that will keep your kitchen cool — no need to turn on the ...

MIAMI HEAT

Micky Arison reassures Miami Heat fans: ‘We are not done’

Heat owner Micky Arison, in an open letter to fans, expressed optimism about the team’s future in th...

Marlins 7, Nationals 6

Miami Marlins’ stunning rally in ninth tops Nationals

The Marlins rallied from a 6-0 deficit and scored four runs in the ninth inning to beat the Nationals and r...

FISHING

Popular artificial reef and live bait spot Bug Light demolished

UM football | Jake Heaps

UM QB Jake Heaps: ‘I didn’t come here to be a backup’

Jake Heaps, a 23-year-old graduate student who transferred from Kansas to Miami, has the experience the Hur...

DOLPHINS

Miami Dolphins rookie wide receiver Jarvis Landry catching on real fast

Marlins notebook

Mike Hill: Miami Marlins won’t be sellers

Thanks to the just-completed 6-1 trip, the Marlins don’t look like they will be shipping off any pie...

Marlins 4, Astros 2

Resurgent Miami Marlins cap 6-1 road trip with three-game sweep of Houston Astros

Dolphins

Miami Dolphins running back Lamar Miller hopes to thrive in Bill Lazor’s new offense

First Lamar Miller got bigger. And then he got Shady.

Celebrity birthdays on July 29

In concert

Michael Franti & Spearhead bring Soulshine Tour to Boca Raton

Scene in the Tropics

Soccer stars spotted in Miami

Radar

Hot stuff celebrities love

Celebrity roundup

Piper Perabo ties the knot

Dozens treated for illness at Keith Urban concert

MANSFIELD, Mass. (AP) – Authorities say several dozen people were treated for alcohol-related illnes...

La vida local

Local rocker Brendan O’Hara is a soul man

Celebrity roundup

Jeff Bridges doles out marital advice, Catherine Zeta Jones talks Michael Douglas’ cancer; Paris Hilton’s new guy

Venezuela

Aruba faced potentially ‘severe’ economic pressure over Venezuelan general

Venezuela threatened to extend a flight boycott and sink Aruba’s tourism industry as it fought for t...

CUBA

U.S. report says religious freedom in Cuba is bad but getting better

A U.S. State Department report says religious leaders admit they censor themselves when they preach.

White House: No plan to house Texas border kids at Guantánamo

The Obama administration has no plans to use its pop-up tent city for Caribbean migrants at Guantánamo...

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo filmed guards searching Qurans for contraband, but you can’t see it

A Miami Herald request to obtain and view recordings of guards searching Guantánamo captives’ hol...

Haiti

American Airlines next stop: Cap-Haïtien, Haiti

American Airlines will become the first U.S. major carrier to offer daily, nonstop service to Cap-Haït...

Venezuela

Top Venezuela official accused in drug case averts U.S. extradition, heads back home

Venezuela on Sunday said that the Netherlands had agreed not to send former Gen. Hugo Carvajal to the Unite...

CUBA

Cuban woman fights for Bahamas inheritance

Her husband left her a canal-side house and more but she claims she has received only a small part of the e...

Latin America

Venezuela’s Telesur television goes bilingual with English programming

Over the last nine years, Venezuela-based Telesur has become a leading voice in Latin America. Now, the cha...

Politics

Marc Caputo: Dade Democratic dysfunction emerges in governor’s race

A governor’s race doesn’t seem to go by in Florida without Democrats ending up in a circular ...

Politics

Why won't Florida GOP leaders talk about trips to King Ranch in Texas?

Trips to historic King Ranch in Texas were financed all or in part with contributions from Florida’s...

Climate change

Florida poll: More than 7 in 10 voters concerned about climate change, back EPA action plan

A majority of Florida voters polled say the favor limits on carbon pollution from power plants.

Guantánamo detainee severed from 9/11 trial

The decision delivers another in a series of delays to the government’s effort to prosecute Ramzi Bi...

Politics

From secret Rick Scott deposition to Charlie Crist’s tie to Ponzi schemer, Florida governor’s race has more ‘mudslinging’

The Democrats are using a website to highlight a sealed deposition Rick Scott gave before running for gover...

Redistricting

Judge skeptical about changes to Florida congressional districts before election

A Leon County judge said he was unsure he could redraw the state’s congressional map before the elec...

Politics

Poll: Libertarian Adrian Wyllie helps Gov. Rick Scott catch Charlie Crist

Crist and Scott are essentially tied in the latest Quinnipiac University poll, in good part because Liberta...

Politics

Charlie Crist about to get millions in campaign subsidy

The former governor will get millions in campaign cash under the state’s public campaign financing p...

Kentucky basketball legend Wah Wah Jones dies

Wallace "Wah Wah" Jones, a multi-sport star who helped Kentucky win the first two of its eight national tit...

Italian tenor Bergonzi dies at age 90

Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi, considered one of the most authoritative interpreters of Verdi's operas, has ...

Former Seattle Mayor Paul Schell dies

'Up the Down Staircase' writer Kaufman dies at 103

Bel Kaufman, the witty and spirited fiction writer, educator and storyteller whose million-selling "Up the ...

Veronica Timpson, 64

Charter bus entrepreneur, educator Veronica Timpson dies at 64

Bill Thompson co-starred on 'Wallace and Ladmo'

The man who played Wallace Snead on the "Wallace and Ladmo Show," a children's program that aired on Phoeni...

THOR HALVORSSEN, 71

Venezuelan executive, human-rights advocate Thor Halvorssen dies in South Florida

Thor Halvorssen, a Venezuelan telecom executive and human-rights leader, died on Sunday in North Miami. He ...

Edward Duffie, Sr., 77

From bank security guard to vice president, Edward Duffie Sr. dies at 77

Some names become a brand, and in the Edison area of Miami, Edward Duffie Sr. commanded attention, if not o...

TECHNOLOGY

Miami startup SportsManias receives $3.5 million in investor funding

A fast-growing sports-fan site has gotten significant backing so it can grow.

Affordable Care Act

Consumers asked to verify income, other information — or risk losing government subsidies for health insurance

Cruise Lines

With new ships, Norwegian second-quarter earnings improve

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings reported higher profits for the quarter that ended June 30.

Bonjour Television Network will offer four channels for French-speaking viewers in the United States

Bonjour Television Network Group, a Miami-based entertainment network targeting the French-speaking market ...

CONDOMINIUM DEVELOPMENT

Latest designer condo: FENDI Château Residences

Miami-based condo developer Château Group is joining with an Italian handbag firm to develop FENDI Ch&...

Study: Miami’s economic recovery ranks No. 18 in U.S.

The longest downturn since the Great Depression officially ended five years ago, and personal finance compa...

Equinox acquiring Sports Club/LA, including club on Miami’s Brickell Avenue

Equinox is bulking up.

AT&T activates 7 more South Florida cell sites

AT&T has activated seven more cell sites in South Florida.