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OUR OPINION: In sour economy and facing higher interest rates on stadium, Miami-Dade and Miami officials must not foul up
Morin, who has been at The Miami Herald since 1978, was awarded the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1977 and 1990. His cartoons appear in The Miami Herald five days a week.
Bubbles -- Michael Jackson's beloved chimp -- grew up, left Neverland, and is now living out his retirement in a sanctuary for great apes in Florida.
Recent college graduates are testing the viability of their backup plans as the recession puts the squeeze on job opportunities. According to a spring study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, just 19.7 percent of 2009 graduates who applied for a job were hired, compared with 26 percent in 2008 and 51 percent in 2007. Since the study began in 1992, grads have only faced this tough of a market in 2002. New graduates are competing with laid-off older workers who have more...
A day after being shut out in Arizona, the punchless Marlins managed only one run against a starter -- Jon Garland -- who had not won since May 19.
Chad Bernstein found his mollusk muse in a Key West tourist shop. While on vacation a few years ago Bernstein, then a student at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, saw a pile of conch shells for sale. He had just witnessed the famous salute to sunset in Mallory Square, where locals blow a long mournful blast through the natural horn.
The cast members of Bravo's Miami Social like the nightlife, they like to boogie. At a party at Louis Bar-Lounge at Gansevoort South Thursday night, all were pumped to show off their city on the reality show about young professionals who are ''corporate types by day, party animals by night,'' according to the network.
Costa Rica's president is bringing persistence, a Nobel Peace Prize and a passion for demilitarization to t...
espite an unprecedented high-rise building boom that broadened the tax base for most of the decade, Miami i...
A moth from Hong Kong emerges as a powerful weapon against an exotic fern that threatens the Everglades by ...
Hugo Chávez's government is threatening action against radio and TV stations that broadcast 'illegal...
While working security at a boatyard, a retired Miami police officer was fatally shot in the head execution...
An Iranian-American scholar's family says authorities in Tehran searched his house in Tehran and placed him...
With an economy built on entrepreneurs, South Florida could benefit from a plan being floated by the Obama ...
Alonzo and Tracy Mourning have left an indelible footprint in South Florida -- and earned respect -- with f...
A lawsuit claims that Miami-Dade's sex-offender ordinance is creating a public safety crisis.
Nearly a quarter of the Broward teachers who were laid off last month have received notice that they will h...
It will cost up to $10 to attend some Miami Book Fair events this fall due to the loss of corporate sponsor...
New safeguards proposed by the Obama administration would allow the SEC to impose greater accountability fo...
Q. If one were approaching retirement with a diversified stock mutual fund portfolio, and would like to int...
For more than a decade, Chicago-based Ariel Investments has examined the investing habits of African Americ...
The size of the estates exempt from estate taxes, sometimes called the 'death tax,' has more than doubled t...
Some GM dealers are thrilled to see the carmaker emerge from bankruptcy. But some have mixed feelings. And ...
The Turks and Caicos government is accused of owing millions of dollars to South Florida healthcare providers.
One healthcare reform proposal could mean that high-cost areas like South Florida could be singled out for ...
With an economy built on entrepreneurs, South Florida could benefit from a plan being floated by the Obama ...
Extended benefits for Florida's unemployed workers are now being mailed out.
Investors seem to be running short on hope.
Cristie Kerr of Miami managed a 1-over-par 72 for a two-shot lead after the third round of the U.S. Women's...
A Miami-based company has developed a device that sends an encrypted signal from the coach to the quarterba...
An effort to draft a general management plan for Biscayne National Park is under way, with a controversial ...
Eaton's Gift, at 14-1 odds, stunned heavy favorite Benny the Bull to take the $350,000 Smile Sprint Handica...
Baseball owns the national sports spotlight with All-Star Break festivities going on in St. Louis, where Ma...
Big Cypress National Preserve released three proposed management options and is seeking public comment.
Game Face was bred in Kentucky, but since getting to the races, she has been making a home for herself in t...
With two-thirds of all teams still in contention, the Marlins are finding out that they're not the only one...
With training camp opening Aug. 1, ESPN stats guru KC Joyner, whose analysis we often share here, gave us i...
In a contentious bout, Joseph Agbeko decisions Vic Darchinyan to retain his IBF bantamweight title at BankA...
You're a South Beach player. You're living the music video with your slick ride and your sick pad. You have...
If a hurricane were to hit St. Petersburg, one of Florida's most valuable cultural treasures -- the Salvado...
The adventures (and misadventures) that follow ''I do'' are the fodder for Married Alive!, the frothy yet s...
Seven arts groups and government agencies in Miami-Dade and Broward will share $750,000 in grants from the ...
Crime at City Hall in The City Beautiful: Someone swiped a laptop from the office of Coral Gables Mayor Don...
Love it or loathe it, our paparazzi/camera phone culture has made it all but impossible for modern-day cele...
An exile tries to stay human in a cruel boarding home.
Mayhem and madness crisscross Florida in a journalist's first novel.
Contemporary Latin music and classical compositions by Vivaldi, Bach and Brahms are on the bill for Symphon...
BIG SCREEN OPENING WEDNESDAY Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG) -- Although the story supposedly g...
LINDSAY LOHAN: The actress turned down Heather Graham's stripper role in The Hangover. Vegas, drinking, dru...
Finnegan's River, which sits alongside the Miami River, now offers Detox Sundays to relax and unwind with s...
The cast members of Bravo's Miami Social like the nightlife, they like to boogie. At a party at Louis Bar-L...
It's nice having friends in high places. Especially when you're a print journalist. We can use all the help...
Ross Ford, one of Miami's most prolific young artists, has moved his studio to Bakehouse Art Complex. His l...
Early bird special: Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry was spotted having a 5:30 p.m. dinner at Michael's Ge...
At 47 years old, Jim Carrey's going to be a grandpa. Usmagazine.com reports that the actor's daughter Jane,...
Detectives investigating the death of Michael Jackson are looking at his prescription drug history and tryi...