From the food drive at a Miami magnet school to drop-off points in Palm Beach County, everybody seems eager to help Haiti. Soaring food costs there have triggered riots and spawned further worries that a much more serious food crisis is imminent.
MIAMI-DADE
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 ''`predetermined'' decision to halt digging last July.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | REPUBLICANS
For a sign of Florida Republicans' all-out effort to attract black voters, look no farther than the glossy full-colored The Black Republican magazine that launches broadsides like these:
MURDER AT THE MALL
A man who appeared to fit the description of the killer wanted in the unsolved murders of a Boca Raton woman and her 7-year-old daughter last December is not the kidnapper, authorities said Friday.
An international banker nominated to be Haiti's next prime minister said Friday that Haiti must concentrate on long-term strategies to help the millions pushed deeper into misery by higher food prices.
EDUCATION
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.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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.
MEXICO
More than a month after President Felipe Calderón sent more than 2,000 soldiers to this troubled U.S.-Mexico border city, execution-style murders remain commonplace -- and usually unsolved -- as heavily armed drug cartels battle for control of lucrative drug-smuggling routes into the United States.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
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.
PAN AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
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.
CAMPAIGN 2008 HISPANIC VOTERS
Hispanic voters registered as Democrats have overtaken Hispanic Republicans in Florida, signaling a trend that, if it continues, could have far-reaching implications for the 2008 election and U.S. foreign policy.
EDUCATION
Broward students did better than fourth-, eighth- and 10th-graders across the state this year on the writing FCAT, and students improved their showing compared to the last few years, too.
NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE
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.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | DEMOCRATS
Barack Obama says Florida's delegation will be at the national Democratic Party's convention this summer, ''happy, with their party hats on,'' two uncommitted Florida superdelegates said Thursday.
BOCA RATON
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.
Ever mindful of the state of Israel's difficult birth, millions in Israel and around the world are joining in the celebration of its 60th anniversary this week, recalling a time that redrew the map and reshaped countless lives.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | DEMOCRATS
Every time Hillary Clinton is on the ropes -- as she was Wednesday after lackluster showings in Indiana and North Carolina -- her fallback is always the same: Count Florida's votes.
FILM INDUSTRY
A golden age of South Florida moviemaking is upon us, but experts don't expect it to last much longer. In fact, they give it about seven more weeks.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an incident onboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Paris, in which a Miami-based captain continued flying after crew members heard what they believed to be an explosion in the cargo hold shortly after take-off.
FOOD PRODUCTION
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.
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