Friends and Neighbors

Friends and Neighbors: Campaign raises money to feed hungry school children

Local food banks want to help children who often go hungry get what they need to thrive in school. Communit...

Friends and Neighbors

Florida Mayors join forces to say no to bullies

Looking back at my growing up days, I can remember how school bullies tried to made life miserable for me a...

Crime Watch

Crime Watch: How to protect your children online

School will be starting soon and many of you emailed me regarding the social network sites that your kids w...

Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade demolished active-duty soldier’s home

A federal judge ruled last week that the county should have delayed building-code violation proceedings aga...

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

From Africa to FIU, young leaders find some inspiration

Under an Obama administration initiative, 25 young African leaders learned public administration and other...

Youth Fair

Battle between FIU and Miami-Dade Youth Fair over location goes public with dueling letters

The presidents of the youth fair and FIU sent letters to their constituents to build support for their oppo...

Crime

Questions remain in shooting death of FSU professor

Murder investigation

Phone records lead to arrest in murder of Miami-Dade teen

No ticket for Shrek over loud musical, chief says

A musical being performed in a New Hampshire park has drawn some noise complaints, but the deputy police ch...

Pot seen as reason for rise in Denver homeless

Officials at some Denver homeless shelters say the legalization of marijuana has contributed to an increase...

Ohio State to form task force after band scandal

Ohio State University says a task force will be formed to help bring changes after the firing of its celebr...

Nissan expands recall prompted by faulty air bag

Nissan is recalling more than 226,000 additional vehicles over a defective air bag that has affected much o...

Nigeria to screen airline travelers for Ebola

Nigerian officials say they are screening passengers arriving from foreign countries for symptoms of Ebola,...

Key dates in ex-Virginia governor corruption case

A look at some of the key events in the corruption case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his ...

GOP works to avert Senate upset in Georgia

Republicans are on the offensive in the opening days of Georgia's general election Senate campaign, hammeri...

Gifts-for-favors trial set for ex-governor, wife

UN Myanmar envoy worried over camps for displaced

The U.N.'s new human rights envoy for Myanmar on Saturday expressed serious concern about the conditions in...

Pope goes to stronghold of Naples-area mobsters

Pope Francis has traveled to a southern Italian stronghold of a clan of mobsters who poisoned local farmlan...

Germany: man accused of child abuse over 20 years

German authorities have arrested a man suspected of sexually abusing children over the past two decades aft...

Nigeria to screen airline travelers for Ebola

Nigerian officials say they are screening passengers arriving from foreign countries for symptoms of Ebola,...

Spain ex-regional leader admits to undeclared cash

A former president of the Spanish region of Catalonia has admitted to concealing large sums of undeclared m...

Turkey: 20 police arrested for illegal wiretaps

Turkey's state-run news agency says an Istanbul court has charged 20 police officers with illegal wiretappi...

Obama, senior EU officials barred from Chechnya

Although Russia has not responded to U.S. sanctions by putting a travel ban on President Barack Obama, ther...

Aretha Franklin slams server's D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Aretha Franklin has some harsh words for a server who showed D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T by telling the Queen of So...

Quick trips: Mexico

The culinary magic of Mexico City

The travel troubleshooter

Resort won’t accept my Travelzoo voucher

Q: I recently bought a Travelzoo voucher for pet-friendly accommodations at Yosemite Lakes RV Resort. I ma...

Ask Nancy

Ask Nancy: What to do when your elderly neighbor needs help

Q. My next-door neighbors for the past 30 years are two elderly women who are now in their eighties. One ha...

Condo Line

How do condo owners find a competent manager?

Q: We are a small condominium and have been having a problem in finding a competent management company. We ...

Southern Cross Stargazer for July 27-Aug. 2, 2014

By nightfall ruddy Mars and silver Saturn drift close in the southwest. Mars lies between Spica (right) in ...

Fiction

A single mom, her kids and a tech millionaire in trouble hit the road in Jojo Moyes’ comic ‘One Plus One’

Kids’ nutrition

Healthy eating options are plentiful, and fun, when giving children food for life

When Sheah Rarback, the director of nutrition at the University of Miami’s Mailman Center for Child ...

Healthy kids

Music, games make kids’ exercise fun

Hospitals are getting kids on a healthy track through exercise and educating them about food choices.

Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins’ Cameron Wake, now 32, stills feels he’s in his prime

FIU

With stability in Conference USA (finally), FIU and others ready to establish rivalries

Everybody needs somebody to hate. Now, maybe Conference USA schools have a chance to build more of those s...

UM FOOTBALL

Miami Hurricanes players dazzling with speed and strength

Marlins 2, Astros 0

Miami Marlins top Houston Astros with Brad Hand in control

Brad Hand pitched into the eighth inning, allowing only three hits in his second strong outing in a row, as...

MIAMI DOLPHINS | TRAINING CAMP

Miami Dolphins’ Stephen Ross intends to be boss for long time

IN MY OPINION

Armando Salguero: More questions than answers for Miami Dolphins

IN MY OPINION

Greg Cote: Year 3 means proving ground for Miami Dolphins’ Ryan Tannehill

Mike Wallace is one of the few guys in the Dolphins locker room willing to let his personality come out and...

Marlins notebook

Mini-slump frustrates Miami Marlins’ Casey McGehee

Players don’t normally come under questioning after they have gone three games without a hit. Three-...

Celebrity birthdays on July 26

Actor James Best (“The Dukes of Hazzard”) is 88. Singer Darlene Love is 73. Singer Mick Jagge...

Celebrity roundup

Sofia Vergara & Joe Mangianello heat things up in the Magic City

Scene in the Tropics

Sean Combs’ girlfriend Cassie Ventura poses for vodka shoot

Cassie Ventura, recording artist and girlfriend of Diddy, was spotted Wednesday at the SLS South Beach, pos...

At the movies

Willem Dafoe: He’s got range

The music scene

Vine star Shawn Mendes finds breakthrough on pop charts

Flashback Friday

Jennifer Lopez is still smoking as she enters middle age

Good Grief! Lifetime drops reality TV show on Texas mortuary

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – The Lifetime TV network says it dropped a reality show about a Texas mortua...

Celebrity birthdays on July 24

Haiti Reconstruction

Congress passes law promoting transparency in Haiti’s reconstruction

Concerned about the slow disbursement of U.S. dollars in Haiti and problems with projects, U.S. lawmakers p...

Latin America Media

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...

Panel clears Kuwaiti ‘forever prisoner’ for repatriation from Guantánamo

WAR COURT

Judge drops 1 of 5 defendants from Guantánamo’s 9/11 case

A military judge has ruled that one of five prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay Navy base charged in the S...

Haiti

Borrowing from Hillary Clinton, Haiti Prime Minister raises profile

As an ongoing political stalemate in Haiti fuels an electoral crisis, many are focusing attention on Haitia...

Venezuela

Venezuela moves to close down Torre David, a 45-story ‘vertical slum’

The Venezuelan government is moving more than 4,400 squatters out of Torre David — the countryȁ...

International trade

Study: No Trans-Pacific Partnership would be a setback for U.S., Latin America

The U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries are negotiating the trade and investment pact but it’s expecte...

World Cup legacy

No World Cup boost for Brazilian president’s reelection bid

The recently held World Cup in Brazil boosted the country’s global image but didn’t do much t...

Politics

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

The trips to historic King Ranch in Texas were financed all or in part with contributions from Florida ...

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.

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...

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

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...

Politics

From ‘huckster’ riff to math dis, Florida CFO Jeff Atwater and N.Y. Gov. Cuomo have war of words

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is running a misleading ad campaign aimed at luring business to New York from Fl...

'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...

Deaf educator and pioneer Robert Panara dies at 94

Robert Panara, who lost his hearing as a child and became a leading educator of the deaf and a pioneer of s...

Dan Borislow, magicJack inventor, dies at 52

Dan Borislow, the inventor of magicJack and a pioneer in developing phone calls over the Internet, died Mon...

Dan Borislow, magicJack inventor, dies at 52

Dan Borislow, the inventor of magicJack and a pioneer in developing phone calls over the Internet, died Mon...

Entrepreneurship Datebook

TOURISM

Convention center overhaul forcing travel trade show out of Miami Beach

Travel trade show IPW, which was scheduled to be held in Miami Beach in 2016, will instead meet in New Orle...

Norwegian Cruise Line adding more craft to cocktail program

Norwegian Cruise Line is expanding its partnership with one of Miami’s top mixologists.

BankUnited reports lower second quarter profit, exits auto lending

Miami Lakes-based BankUnited (BKU) reported a 10 percent decline in second quarter earnings to $48.5 millio...

International Finance Bank pays $70,000 fine for alleged deceptive advertising

Miami-based International Finance Bank agreed to pay $70,000 in a civil money penalty after regulators said...

Norwegian Cruise Line giving away cruise in hunt

Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line is launching a social media scavenger hunt Friday — and giving awa...

Carnival Cruise Line huddles up with Dallas Cowboys

Carnival Cruise Lines announced a new teammate Thursday: the Dallas Cowboys.

Developers buy 6.2 acres along the Miami River, including Finnegan’s River, with plans to create Miami Riverwalk

New York real estate investors Chetrit Group and Miami developer Ari Pearl have bought 6.2 acres on three b...