http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Miami-Dade 60 Sat, 10 May 2008 00:24:01 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/527975.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/527975.html Sat, 10 May 2008 00:01 EDT The hosts of Radio Mambí's weekday morning drive-time show generally reserve their fiercest attacks for Fidel Castro or his younger brother Raúl. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/neighbors/story/526787.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/neighbors/story/526787.html Fri, 09 May 2008 11:15 EDT The outlook for state lawmakers and local leaders trying to secure money for hometown projects was bleak this year. A $4 billion shortfall in state money meant municipalities had to home in on their most dire requests when lobbying for state dollars. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/neighbors/story/526765.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/neighbors/story/526765.html Fri, 09 May 2008 11:00 EDT Just last summer Netta Cassuto walked the streets of Jerusalem, visited a kibbutz and shopped in Ein Hod, an artist village. The 11-year-old who was born in Israel said there is just something about her homeland that she loves. She is excited that her family will be moving there come summer. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527945.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527945.html Fri, 09 May 2008 22:28 EDT The commencement speech for Jessica Happi's University of Miami graduation ceremony had scarcely ended Friday, and already she was thinking about employment. The international finance and marketing major has pondered returning to France, where she was raised after her family emigrated from Cameroon, but decided instead to stay in the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527936.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527936.html Fri, 09 May 2008 22:18 EDT A federal appeals court on Friday lifted a ban on rock mining in thousands of acres of Northwest Miami-Dade County, saying U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler let personal views color a ''`pre-determined'' decision to halt digging last July. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527885.html Fri, 09 May 2008 21:42 EDT Two pals face charges they stalked and gravely wounded two young women in a drive-by shooting in Fontainebleau. Nianthony Martinez, 20, and Angel Emilio Gamez Jr., 21, were charged with attempted first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527837.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527837.html Fri, 09 May 2008 20:38 EDT One week after he was arrested with cocaine at the Tallahassee airport, a candidate for Broward public defender is speaking out in his own defense. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527207.html Fri, 09 May 2008 20:31 EDT Tinted black windows, a traffic stop and a hotel room stuffed with jewelry, TVs and even comic books led to the arrest of a ''super burglar'' suspected of breaking into homes from Surfside to West Miami, police said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527255.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527255.html Fri, 09 May 2008 18:33 EDT A man who appeared to fit the description of the killer wanted in the December unsolved murders of a Boca Raton woman and her 7-year-old daughter is not the carjacker, one of the victims told police. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527684.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527684.html Fri, 09 May 2008 18:26 EDT A Miami Marine Stadium Marina employee has been arrested for overcharging boats for fuel, police said Friday. Pedro Rey, 42, was charged with organized fraud, grand theft and official misconduct. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527676.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527676.html Fri, 09 May 2008 17:19 EDT A major U.S. counter-drug aid package for Mexico is under attack by U.S. organized labor, which says Congress should reject the initiative unless tough human rights conditions are included, according to a letter revealed Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527653.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527653.html Fri, 09 May 2008 16:59 EDT (AP) -- A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan should serve eight months in jail for reckless driving. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527531.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/527531.html Fri, 09 May 2008 16:59 EDT Oscar Rivero, the developer at the center of Miami's affordable housing scandal, will serve 21 months in prison after pleading guilty Friday to one count of grand theft. http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/526501.html http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/526501.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Eddy Arnold, the most successful country singer of all time, who played a crucial role in transforming what had long been scorned as ''hillbilly music'' into an art with national appeal, died Thursday. He was 89, a week short of his 90th birthday. http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/523885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/523885.html Wed, 07 May 2008 09:02 EDT Irvine Robbins, who as co-founder of Baskin-Robbins brought Rocky Road, Pralines 'n' Cream and other exotic ice cream concoctions to every corner of America, has died at age 90. http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/526595.html http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/526595.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT A Los Angeles Times report on the death of Beverlee McKinsey on Page 5B in Thursday's Metro & State section incorrectly identified where she died. It was Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles. http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/525300.html http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/525300.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Miami is a licensee of the French school Le Cordon Bleu. Its 30-week course leads to a diploma. The information was incorrect on Page 10E of the May 1 Tropical Life/Food & Dining section. http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/523886.html http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/523886.html Wed, 07 May 2008 03:01 EDT Instructions for an editor were inadvertently left on Tuesday's People page on 8A. The words ''LABEL HERE'' should have read ''JUDGING JASON,'' above a headline and story about Jason Taylor's samba on Dancing with the Stars. The error was made in the newsroom production process. http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/523465.html http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/523465.html Tue, 06 May 2008 18:21 EDT Due to incorrect information supplied by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, a story that appeared in The Miami Herald's online edition April 20 incorrectly stated that a child had drowned in a pool at a home at 1350 NW 171st St. http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/522432.html http://www.miamiherald.com/461/story/522432.html Tue, 06 May 2008 03:01 EDT In an article in the Business section on Thursday about a former Bellsouth repairman who sued claiming his service in the Army Reserve cost him his job, a quote from his attorney Randy Fleischer was incorrect. The quote should have read: ``They can't prove his military service was totally unrelated to his termination.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526625.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526625.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT The Wackenhut Corp. overbilled Miami-Dade County as much as $6 million over three years for phantom security guards at county transit stations, according to a long-awaited audit released Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526500.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526500.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Tavaris King could not let go of his ex-lover. He called Nicole Smith from blocked phone numbers. He pointed his .45-caliber handgun at her and her little brother. And he strangled her golden retriever puppy to death. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526574.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:01 EDT Detectives are combing through surveillance video from the Aventura Mall, hoping it will lead them to the killer of a Boca Raton woman and her 7-year-old daughter. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526626.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526626.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Miami commissioners agreed Thursday to pay $2.2 million to settle a grave injustice involving a mentally retarded man who spent 22 years behind bars -- for murders and rapes he didn't commit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526503.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526503.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT A cell at Camp 5 in Guantánamo Bay is about 10 feet long and seven feet wide -- a little bigger than a cell on Florida's Death Row. The bed is a thin plastic mat, the lights sterile flourescents. The toilet is thin steel. The ankle chains are heavier. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526495.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526495.html Fri, 09 May 2008 02:01 EDT Students in Miami-Dade County did as well, and in some cases better, than students across the state on this year's standardized writing test, according to statistics released Thursday by the state Department of Education. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526597.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526597.html Fri, 09 May 2008 08:57 EDT Growing up in Miami, David Perry spent many a summer day at Crandon Beach. It was there, 50 years ago, that he lost something precious. While he was taking his first waterskiing lesson, his gold ring from Georgia Tech's Class of 1952 slipped off his finger and into the water. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526493.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526493.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT A Miami-Dade jury this week acquitted Troy Dumas -- the man dubbed the North Dade Stalker by police, who said he broke into the homes of up to 18 women -- in the state's first case against him, his attorney said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526438.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526438.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT They've trimmed trees, replaced poles and strengthened electrical systems at hospitals and fire stations. One of the last things Florida Power & Light workers needed to do to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season was go through a dry run of a storm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526988.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526988.html Fri, 09 May 2008 07:49 EDT Two young women whose car was riddled with bullets Thursday, leaving both in critical condition, have been identified by Miami-Dade police. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526986.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526986.html Fri, 09 May 2008 07:44 EDT Miami commissioners Thursday formally approved the naming of a yet-to-be-built community center at Little Haiti Park after former Miami-Dade and Miami Commissioner Arthur E. Teele Jr. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526499.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526499.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Jubilation erupted at the downtown Miami synagogue. It was Friday, May 14, 1948, and during his sermon, the rabbi surprised the congregation with the news that Jews had waited nearly 1,800 years to hear: Just hours earlier, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, had proclaimed the independence of a Jewish state in the Promised Land. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526504.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526504.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Miami-Dade parents who want to enroll their children in a Miami-Dade County Public Schools pre-kindergarten program must register their children by May 23 to be eligible for a lottery. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526505.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526505.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Finding that local leaders were not illegally secretive, a Miami-Dade judge ruled Thursday against part of auto magnate Norman Braman's challenge to the government's massive downtown development plan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526507.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526507.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT For those who may have forgotten the controversy over Miami Police Chief John Timoney's free Lexus SUV, the department's own 2007 annual report has unintentionally refueled the fire. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526496.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526496.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT If the Cuban national judo team was competing in, say, Cleveland, few people outside judo circles would notice. But this is Miami, a place no Cuban national team of any sport had set foot in for more than four decades. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526312.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526312.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Items contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Calendar Desk, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Fifth Floor Newsroom, Miami, FL 33132-1693. To submit items online, go to MiamiHerald.com, click on Calendar of Events and click Add Events, then follow the prompts or e-mail your items to newscalendar@MiamiHerald.com. No faxes, please. To search for events throughout South Florida, click on Calendar on the left side of the screen at www.MiamiHerald.com. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/525250.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/525250.html Thu, 08 May 2008 02:01 EDT Earth, we have a problem. Humans are consuming fish faster than the oceans can replenish them. Scientists, who warn that overfishing could destroy the world's fish stock in the next 40 years, are seeking more commercially viable ways to increase fish production.