COURTS
Gary Ostrow's candidacy to become Broward's new public defender has gotten off to a bumpy start and now faces a new legal hurdle. A former client's family is suing Ostrow for allegedly lying about his qualifications to represent their son in a Miami-Dade County death penalty case.
HOLLYWOOD
Kyle Barker held his right hand in front of him and looked at it in awe. The third-grader had just shaken the hands of two players from the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team who visited his school on Friday.
FORT LAUDERDALE
A Fort Lauderdale High teacher may lose his job after he allegedly pilfered proceeds from the school's homecoming dance, according to school district officials.
CUBA
Rosa Roque, 81, took a trip back in time Friday, touring the 10th annual Cuba Nostalgia show at the Fair Expo Center in west Miami-Dade.
CONTRACTORS
Shortly before 11 a.m. Friday, Genero Castro walked into a two-story house in a new subdivision on Homestead's east side, thinking he was going to be hired to install hurricane shutters.
WILDFIRE
An Everglades wildfire that burned through more than 18,691 acres of grassland and darkened the sky over southwest Miami-Dade Friday is now headed toward populated areas.
ECONOMY
Encouraged by some better-than-expected economic numbers this week, some experts started to question whether the nation is going into a recession after all.
DOWNTOWN MIAMI
CANDACE BARBOT MIAMI HERALD FILE One pig-tailed girl, 35 feet tall, seeks new home. Requires loving care. Will throw in frisky pup, stretched-out swimsuit bottom.
EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA
In town after town in Sichuan province, shoddily built schools were among the first to tumble during this week's huge quake, and officials found themselves under tough questioning Friday and vowing to punish anyone found responsible.
A defiant President Hugo Chávez is dismissing Interpol's confirmation of the validity of FARC guerrilla computers and threatening to ratchet up the already tense relations with Colombia.
COURTS
A Miami-Dade judge on Thursday said the wife of a lottery winner cannot go forward with a lawsuit against her husband until she can provide a legal argument to support her claim for half of his jackpot.
CORAL SPRING
A judge ordered a Coral Springs High School student -- who is accused of breaking into a home and trying to abduct an 11-year-old girl -- held without bond Thursday.
INSURANCE
Floridians are still paying for the hurricanes of 2005 -- and the tab is growing. The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund soon could be tapping all state residents holding insurance policies to raise another $600 million to cover storm losses.
When Kenny dies on Brazilian television screens, the final words of the cursed South Park character get their start in a cramped Miami recording studio.
President Bush took the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary on Thursday to compare his political opponents to Nazi appeasers and brand them as too willing to negotiate with terrorists, remarks that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama reacted to instantly as an attack upon him.
JOURNAL ENTRY
On a side street off Second Avenue in Miami's Design District this week, I made a mistake and paid dearly for it. The mistake was that I assumed this street had free parking (admittedly, it had been a while since I'd been to the District). When I returned, the car was gone. I spent an hour tracking down where it had been towed. The cost of this error: $113 in fines.
ECONOMY
Encouraged by some better-than-expected economic numbers this week, some experts started to question whether the nation is going into a recession after all.
AIRLINES
Federal regulators sent mixed messages to American Airlines about the condition of the fleet that was grounded last month, the airline says, including granting permission to the carrier to continue flying while fixes were made.
TOURISM
Three big players in Miami-Dade County's economy are planning to team up for an unusual ad campaign to promote -- abroad -- the county as a nice place to live, visit and work.
ROYALS 7, MARLINS 6
This act might be dramatic, but it just doesn't work. This latest Marlins trend is exciting but fruitless. If you haven't been paying attention to the first-place Marlins, they not only have been losing lately, but doing it in their own style.
The Dolphins are rebuilding and retooling and needing your patience because the future is not now -- it is way off in the distance, when the team's young players mature and the mature players retire.
The Marlins will make it official Saturday, announcing their long-term commitment to Hanley Ramirez at a news conference at the site of their future home.
PANTHERS
Jacques Martin signed a new contract with the Panthers that lasts through the 2011-12 season, the team announced Friday. He has plenty of work to do in the coming months.
UNC 10, UM 6
Top-ranked Canes dominated by second-ranked Tar Heels The top-ranked Miami Hurricanes got their first hit in the fifth inning, surrendered two unearned runs when a routine grounder went under their best fielder's glove and gave up 16 hits.
About a year and a half ago, Michele and Bill Jones of Davie gathered their three youngest children around the kitchen table and served up a big dose of reality:
BOOKS
Dudley Clendinen was writing editorials for The New York Times in 1994, commuting from Baltimore, when his mother finally agreed to sell her house in Tampa and move to an assisted living high-rise overlooking Tampa Bay.
TV COMMENTARY
The upfronts -- the annual ritual when broadcast television networks present their fall lineups to advertisers -- have a weeklong festival of Barnumesque bluster lubricated by liquor and advertising dollars. But the party lights were much dimmer at this year's edition, which ended Thursday.
No doubt about it, we have a love-hate relationship with age. On one hand, we pay lip service to the white-haired wisdom that comes with the passage of time and the experience of years. On the other, youth -- at least the illusion of such -- governs the choices we make in everything from makeup to magazines and now, possibly, president. If Sen. John McCain wins in November, he would be, at 72, the oldest person ever inaugurated as a first-term president, beating out another Republican, Ronald Reagan...
He helped defuse the United States' biggest prison uprising, spent a decade restoring an iconic Key West cultural center and is now proposing to create a federal historical park around Miami's Freedom Tower.
ON THE RUNWAY
The Chanel cruise collection fashion show at The Raleigh on Thursday night was a splashy spectacle of stilettos -- including pistol-shaped heels on the runway -- models ( Diane Kruger, Ines Rivera, Joana Preiss, Anna Mouglalis, to name a few) random celebrities (a very leggy Anna Kournikova; Zoe Kravitz, who was grooving to a Prince song; and former b-baller Rony Seikaly); and socialites ( Barbara Becker, Sanford and Dolores Ziff), some actually sporting vintage Chanel tweed.
CELEBRITY ROUNDUP
She's moving on up -- actually stepping on down -- from the bench. Miami-Dade County Judge Karen Mills-Francis will now only preside on TV as the star of her new daytime syndicated court show, Judge Karen, which debuts Sept. 8 on WBFS-MyNetwork 33.
The American Red Cross, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and Miami Seaquarium host WHALE Tales (Water Habits Are Learned Early), a water-safety program for kids in kindergarten through fifth grade. Miami-Dade Public School students get in free with a paid adult admission of $15 with a coupon at www.miamiredcross.org. 4400 Rickenbacker Cswy., Key Biscayne; 305-361-5705.
SCENE IN THE TROPICS
Miami will be submerged by a flood of sports all-stars at the Indian Creek Country Club this weekend for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA's third annual celebrity golf and tennis invitational. The uber-private event, hosted by NFL Hall of Famer Marcus Allen, will include stars from every sport imaginable. Past and present Dolphins to lend their megawatt talent to the weekend's fundraising festivities include John Beck, Ronnie Brown, Bob Brudzinski, Jeff Dellenbach, Autry Denson, Jim Kiick...
SUPER SATURDAY
Marlins fans will be in good company Saturday at Dolphin Stadium: A rock legend will be on hand to entertain. Paul Rodgers is best known for fronting '70s supergroup Bad Company, which he named after the 1972 Western of the same name, one of his favorite movies.
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