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 2009 MiamiHerald.com Miami-Dade 60 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:36 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343123.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343123.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00 EST Miami-Dade leaders are demanding sharper scrutiny of taxpayer-funded trade missions -- and a proposed trip to Germany next spring appears to be on hold -- following revelations that commissioners have traveled the globe to drum up commerce with few, if any, tangible results. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342961.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342961.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00 EST Professing innocence before a small but adoring crowd in the heart of Liberty City, suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones said Thursday she will run in a special election to regain her seat. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342974.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342974.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Moments after being named Miami's police chief on Thursday, Maj. Miguel Exposito made it clear he planned to reshape the Miami Police Department with a leadership style far different from that of his predecessor -- John Timoney. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343211.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343211.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Dozens of Miami Dade College students and some of their professors staged a rally Thursday demanding that federal immigration authorities free two Venezuelan brothers facing deportation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342976.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342976.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00 EST A defense attorney for Andy Rodriguez, the Coral Gables High senior accused of fatally stabbing a fellow student, suggested in court Thursday that the victim was a ``bully'' who tried strangling his client during a fight. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344610.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344610.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:37 EST A federal judge Friday ordered the Obama administration to free a long-held Guantánamo captive who fled his native Algeria years ago and kicked around Europe as a construction worker for a decade before his capture in Pakistan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344216.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344216.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:57 EST cruising in a late model Volvo -- repeatedly fired a BB-gun on the University of Miami campus on Friday afternoon, forcing authorities to shut down the school for nearly an hour. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344541.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344541.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:52 EST A federal judge Friday ordered the Obama administration to free a long-held Guantánamo captive who fled his native Algeria years ago and kicked around Europe as a construction worker for a decade before his capture in Pakistan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344508.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344508.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:27 EST Caribbean voters living in the tiny island of Dominica will head to the polls on Dec. 18 for general elections, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced during a rally. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344148.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344148.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:07 EST A retired State Department employee and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to a 30-year conspiracy to provide classified information from the U.S. to Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344409.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344409.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:27 EST A 13-year-old Miami Beach boy who joined the murder scheme of an older friend to kill his own mother has worked out a deal with Miami-Dade prosecutors and will serve six years' probation, his attorney said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344381.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1344381.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02 EST Two Miami Dade College students facing deportation were released from a Broward County detention center Friday, eight days after federal immigration officers came to their home to detain them. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1339249.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1339249.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST It's not every day you get an invitation to a fun, fancy, flirty party on South Beach, but at the sparkling Mr. Chow, you're on the guest list -- well, if you can afford it. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1315261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1315261.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Charlotte Bistro is a sassy little flirt. From the moment you catch a glimpse inside the tight-fitting dining room on Miracle Mile where swirly mirrors and framed prints compete for attention, you know this girl has got ambition. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1304207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1304207.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The Dadeland Plaza Mall on South Dixie Highway in Pinecrest looks like the usual jumble of strip shops. But tucked between For Eyes and Muscle Max is a world of restaurants stretching from Asia (Japan and Vietnam) to Brooklyn (Roasters 'n Toasters). We opted for three European menus and found ourselves transported -- without the flight or exchange rate. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1292841.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1292841.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Lots of people assume Miami is a health-conscious town -- a Southeast version of L.A., perhaps. Maybe it's all the beautiful bodies and sunshine. The truth is, that when it comes to dining out, we've got more deep-fried, porky, processed and syrup-laden food than nearly any city I know. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343206.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343206.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The Miami-Dade Health Department will offer free H1N1 swine flu vaccinations Saturday to people who fall in high-priority groups.<p/> The vaccine will be available from 8 a.m. to noon at the Miami-Dade County Fair Expo Center Fuchs Pavilion, 10901 Coral Way. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343207.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST One of Miami Metrozoo's two jaguars died Wednesday during a medical procedure designed to stop his stomach problems. He was 3 years old.<p/> Palenque, who weighed 129 pounds, was one of the star attractions at the zoo's newest exhibit, Amazon and Beyond, said Ron Magill, the zoo's spokesman. Jaguars are solitary animals, so he was kept separate from his betrothed, Reina -- a female who was not yet ready for an intimate relationship. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343208.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343208.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The loser in Tuesday's Miami Beach Group 2 City Commission race said Thursday she would not contest the results.<p/> Maria Mayer, who lost Tuesday to Jorge Exposito by 320 votes in a heated race, had said she might contest the results based on allegations of improper electioneering at the polls by Exposito's camp. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343136.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1343136.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Call this Scott Rothstein's pineapple-juice scam.<p/> Coconut Grove businessman Todd Snyder was lured into it just days before the Fort Lauderdale lawyer's Ponzi scheme imploded in late October. Snyder wired a bank more than $2 million to buy a slice of Rothstein's purported $500 million settlement with Dole Food Co. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342995.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342995.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Three men, including a registered sex offender, drive from Broward County to a Lake Worth amusement park for a robbery, according to authorities.<p/> Their intended victim, in a struggle, kills one of the assailants with his own gun. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342996.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342996.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST For the first time in its 87-year-history, the Cuban son group, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro, will be performing live Saturday on Calle Ocho. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342994.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342994.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Rock stars have done it to feed the hungry in Africa, to help American farmers and to combat global warming.<p/> Now, the Miami-Dade school district is doing it, too. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342963.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1342963.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A day after two men described as soldiers in a terrorism plot to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices were sentenced to less than a decade behind bars -- far less than federal prosecutors sought -- two more men received similar sentences Thursday in Miami federal court. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340978.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340978.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A couple hundred million ain't bad, but why not go for a billion?<p/> Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith on Wednesday said it looks like the state could end up asking the federal government for $1 billion in grant money earmarked for education. ``We are excited by what this means to the state, what it means to our children and what it means to our educators,'' Smith said in a call with reporters. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340982.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340982.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Gov. Charlie Crist ordered an internal investigation and a citizen lodged an ethics complaint Wednesday over the extensive taxpayer-funded travel of Juvenile Justice Secretary Frank Peterman between the state capital and Tampa, near his family home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340981.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340981.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST New Florida Sen. George LeMieux's first foray into foreign relations has drawn brickbats from former high-ranking State Department officials who say his effort to block the Obama administration's new ambassador to Brazil is damaging U.S. relations with Latin America. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340980.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340980.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ``Come on, you're just in time for the stampede,'' Laura Quinn said, as she grabbed her walker and began trudging toward the beach.<p/> Picking up a slimy bowl of fish, the 81-year-old founder and director of the Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center in Tavernier headed down the boardwalk, tossing food to ibis, snowy egrets and pelicans lining the route. Hundreds more wild birds awaited her arrival at the beach for the daily 3:30 p.m. feeding. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340985.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1340985.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Four Miami-Dade men accused of snatching about $4,600 worth of hair-care products from a CVS drug store in Jupiter might have hit CVS stores across South Florida, authorities said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1339364.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1339364.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:17 EST Not enough money. Not enough progress.<p/> Florida is violating the state Constitution by not pouring enough money into schools and relentlessly focusing on high-stakes testing policies that aren't getting good results, says a lawsuit expected to be filed Wednesday in Leon County Circuit Court in Tallahassee. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1338786.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1338786.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:00 EST At a time when state employees face travel restrictions to save money, Florida's top juvenile justice official racked up $44,000 on travel -- much of it for commercial flights between his office in the capital and St. Petersburg, where his family lives. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1338788.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1338788.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Gov. Charlie Crist and legislative leaders are discussing a new tax to pay for South and Central Florida rail service in the hopes that federal officials will send billions of dollars to the state for a new bullet train. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321201.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A bank central to the federal fraud investigation into Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein was ordered by a Broward judge Friday to turn over records to the receiver for Rothstein's embattled law firm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321193.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Lawmakers converged on the state capital this week -- at a cost of some $100,000 in taxpayer money -- for a few days' worth of meetings to discuss legislation and policy matters in advance of the 2010 legislative session. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319242.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Florida House committee investigating state Rep. Ray Sansom's conduct voted Thursday to move forward, dismissing requests by Sansom's lawyers for a delay until after his criminal trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319240.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319240.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Facing a potentially bruising Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, Gov. Charlie Crist continues to run from any assertion that he is linked to President Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317135.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317135.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The National Rifle Association is pushing legislation to ban adoption agencies from asking potential parents if they have guns and ammunition in the home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317137.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317137.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Consensus is building in the Florida Legislature to make the Public Service Commission operate more like judges by banning commissioners and their staff from communicating directly with the utilities they regulate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317138.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317138.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On Nov. 5, 2008, Ray Sansom pulled up a chair before a swarm of reporters and effectively began his term as speaker of the Florida House, exulting in Republican success at the polls the night before and staring down a $2 billion budget deficit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314886.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314886.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Casting herself as a ``fresh face'' not connected to what she calls a troubled Republican establishment, state Sen. Paula Dockery of Lakeland jumped into the race for governor Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344314.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344314.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:16 EST Sarasota's police chief has been suspended for two weeks and an officer was fired after an investigation into a disorderly intoxication arrest. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344312.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344312.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:16 EST A suspended Miami commissioner says she will run in a special election to regain her seat. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344311.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344311.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:16 EST The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344256.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344256.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:41 EST The president of a Florida consulting firm convicted in a massive fax blast scam blinked back tears Friday as he was sentenced to 68 months in prison for his role in defrauding thousands of small business owners across the United States, Mexico and Canada. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344211.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344211.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:16 EST The new attorney handling Georgia's appeal in the long-running legal battle with Alabama and Florida over water rights will be paid $855 an hour. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344196.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344196.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:01 EST The Times Publishing Co. has agreed to sell Governing magazine to a California media company, four months after it sold Congressional Quarterly. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344170.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344170.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:31 EST A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip in a McDonald's restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344145.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344145.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:16 EST Six people, including a bank teller, have been arrested in a federal investigation into identity theft rings in South Florida.