Baltasar Martín Garrote's mother, Elsa Garrote, is 85, has leukemia and fell at home in Matánzas, Cuba, three months ago and broke her pelvis and hip. Her son in Miami desperately wants to take care of her but says he can't because of Bush administration Cuba travel restrictions.
On weekday afternoons at the Claudia boutique shoe store across from Havana's famed sea wall, ladies jockey for their turn to purchase spiked sandals and sequined purses.
Top federal weather forecasters on Thursday told Floridians to brace for an active Atlantic hurricane season. Their prediction calls for considerable activity -- 12 to 16 named storms are likely, including six to nine hurricanes, as many as five of which could be intensely powerful. An average season has 11 named storms, including six hurricanes, two of which reach major status.
The massive $1.2 billion Midtown Miami development isn't complete yet, but Miami commissioners decided Thursday the project is far enough along for hefty government subsidies to start kicking in.
Florida's history of discrimination against African Americans should force the national Democratic Party to count all of the state's delegates at its national convention, a federal lawsuit filed Thursday claims.
Three Miami-Dade County public schools -- Coral Reef Senior High, Design and Architecture Senior High and Maritime and Science Technology High School Academy -- ranked among Newsweek magazine's Top 100 public high schools in the country.
On the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed legislation allowing up to $1.95 billion in state retirement funds to be invested in high-tech and growth industries in the state, such as aerospace, biotechnology and green energy.
An insurance adjuster visiting a North Mami auto body shop Thursday morning discovered a woman dead in some brush next to the business, police said.
The Florida Highway Patrol will be out in force during the 96-hour Memorial Day holiday weekend, which begins Friday and ends at midnight Monday, the agency has announced.
Florida International University officials presented their plan to cut costs at the school before an overflow crowd of more than 700 that included students, faculty and staff, some of whom showed up to protest.
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque blasted the United States Thursday, saying Washington has yet to answer to accusations that its top diplomat in Havana helped ferry money to dissidents on the island.
The uncle of a Mount Sinai Medical Center employee accused of performing oral sex on a male patient waking up from surgery says the alleged behavior is totally out of character.
Democrat Barack Obama's visit to a Boca Raton synagogue Thursday has been pushed back several hours so he can fly to Washington for Senate debate on the Iraq war and veterans' benefits.
Members of the Miami-Dade School Board early Thursdayrejected a proposal to cut the salaries of the district's administrators. The 5-4 vote came after 2:30 a.m.
Two fires broke out at Miami International Airport early Thursday morning. The fires broke out about 2:20 a.m. in adjacent male and female restrooms in Terminal E, airport spokesman Greg Chin said.
(AP) -- Firefighters in Lake County are battling a blaze that has scorched more than 1,000 acres of dry forests and marshlands. Dozens of homes in the Deerhaven area north of Orlando were forced to evacuate. There are no injuries reported and no homes have been damaged.
Canada's top court will release a ruling on Friday that could find the United States is violating international norms by holding a Canadian former child soldier at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The Supreme Court is debating whether to force Canada's intelligence service to provide details from interviews with Omar Khadr at the U.S. detention facility.
David Cook, a 25-year-old bartender from Missouri who tried out for the seventh season of American Idol on a whim only after his younger brother failed his audition, becomes the first rock-oriented contestant to win the title of American Idol.
For Florida Democrats, the long drought ended Wednesday with a downpour, as presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton blanketed the state from Coral Gables to Tampa.
The man shot and killed in self-defense by Janepsy Cindy Mesa was a suspect in her husband's murder, North Miami police said Wednesday.
