Friends and Neighbors

Ah, the joy of seeing the sun dance on Easter morning

Happy Resurrection Day!

PolitiFact Florida

Florida surpassed New York in population, Bill Nelson says

Demographers have predicted that Florida will soon overtake New York, but it hasn’t officially happe...

Easter Sunday

Ukrainians in South Florida spend Easter praying for peace in homeland

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 FEDERAL COURT

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...

Immigrant rights

Immigrants recount horror of being detained in ‘iceboxes’ before transfer to South Florida

CAMPAIGN 2014

Charlie Crist‘s biggest challenge: motivating Democrats in South Florida 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

Today in History

Today is Easter Sunday, April 20, the 110th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.

NASA: Engineer vital to moon landing success dies

John C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful ...

Hate crime charge in NY attack on Sikh professor

A man accused of pulling the beard of a Sikh professor before a group of young men who had called the profe...

Man detained after threats at LA Times building

A man suspected of making threatening statements about a shooting and forcing the lockdown of the Los Angel...

Hometown favorite wants to win Boston, for Boston

Shalane Flanagan grew up in nearby Marblehead with a reverence for the Boston Marathon and dreamed, like ma...

Mayor's menu filled up: 1 day, 24 restaurants

AP News in Brief at 10:58 p.m. EDT

Divers find bodies in sunken ferry as death toll approaches 50; over 250 missing; kin furious

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...

4 French journalists abducted in Syria freed, safe

Japan minister at shrine honoring war criminals

A Japanese Cabinet minister on Sunday visited a Tokyo shrine that honors the dead including war criminals, ...

Beijing auto show opens amid market slowdown

Global and Chinese automakers are looking to the Beijing auto show to help boost sales in a slowing, intens...

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

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Nonfiction

Book considers the pros and cons of fracking

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.

consumed

Master the Art of the Cut at Carmen y Lola in Doral

The Spanish — on both sides of the pond — are one people united by a passion for pig, whether...

Fiction

Francine Prose reconstructs a Nazi collaborator and Paris in this dazzling historical novel.

UM 3, Notre Dame 2

Miami Hurricanes extend streak to 14 with 3-2 win vs. Notre Dame

University of Miami pitcher Chris Diaz hadn’t lost a game he started since May 24, 2013 — a stret...

In My Opinion

Michelle Kaufman: Colombian soccer fans concerned about Radamel Falcao

Of all the questions heading into the World Cup this summer, the one that has Colombian fans fretting is: W...

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 ...

Nine-run eighth inning helps FAU beat FIU

Saturday’s FIU-FAU baseball game sat 10 outs from extra innings, one out from going into the bottom of...

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...

Roundup

Two Cooper City athletes sign with colleges

Cooper City pitcher and first baseman Johnny Haney signed a scholarship with the Point Park University (Pit...

MARLINS 7, MARINERS 0

Henderson Alvarez tosses two-hitter as Miami Marlins blank Mariners

Henderson Alvarez didn’t produce another no-hitter to go with the one he delivered on the final day of...

IN MY OPINION

Greg Cote: Miami Heat odyssey this time could be dynasty or dismantled

A Heat playoff run is the annual gift we slowly unwrap together, our two-month emotional thrill ride ever s...

The television scene

‘Game of Thrones’ stars visit Miami to talk fantasy

Radar

Hot stuff celebrities love

Celebrity birthdays on April 20

Actor George Takei is 77. Actor Ryan O’Neal is 73. Keyboardist Craig Frost of Grand Funk Railroad ...

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...

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 South Florida 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...

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.

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...

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...

NASA: Engineer vital to moon landing success dies

John C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful ...

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...

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.