MEXICO
It's an hour later in the rest of Mexico, but according to the Maya calendar it's the holy time of noon in this traditional township. When the church bell peals thunderously 12 times, everyone stops what they are doing and makes the sign of the cross.
FLORIDA
Chip and Dale's boss wants to pack heat. It's not that Susan Fiore's worried about her fur-suited Disney World workers -- it's those outside the Orlando-area theme park who worry her.
Buckling under the subprime crisis and a limping economy, many banks are turning off the money taps to local entrepreneurs, forcing some to put their dreams on ice or scale back plans to expand.
MORTGAGES
Foreclosures flooded South Florida's ailing housing market in June, as the mortgage crisis, exacerbated by tougher economic times, continued to claim overextended borrowers in the region.
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT
Florida sex offenders on probation can possess pornography so long as it does not relate to an offender's ''particular deviant behavior pattern,'' the state's Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
CRIME
Police say the suspect found hiding in a Hialeah trash bin Thursday morning after an armed robbery at a Miramar CVS store is Marvin Silver, 19.
AGRICULTURE
Fearing a bitter future when United States Sugar Corp. leaves the town that sugar built, people here are rallying around their mayor's call for a role in negotiating the company's controversial exit.
BANKING
A federal judge in Miami has blocked a group that promotes its own currency and independent banking system from attempting to carry out a threat to seize more than $15 billion from Bank of America branches using purported ``armed private security officers.''
He's yours, you know, that pathetic foster child with an impaired mind and a diseased liver. If you live in Florida, he's your kid.
FCAT SCORES
Last year, Principal Johnnie Brown was forced to confront ''the scarlet letter'' of public education: F. Her school, Miami Gardens Elementary, had received the dreaded failing grade from the state Department of Education following the school's poor performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT.
FORT LAUDERDALE
A day after a bullet came within inches of striking Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley as he lay in bed, the chief begged a Broward judge to grant leniency to the shooter -- his wife.
TELEVISION
Without a home on the Coconut Grove waterfront, will Burn Notice return to Miami? That's the question hanging over South Florida's production industry on the heels of a plan to demolish a vacant expo center that the hit cable series uses as a studio.
BEATING DEATH
A 12-year-old Broward County boy accused of beating his toddler cousin to death with a bat was sentenced to 18 months in a high-risk juvenile treatment facility Wednesday after pleading no contest to a second-degree murder charge.
REAL ESTATE
Although it was the first open house she had hosted at the West Kendall home, real estate agent Ana Escoto sensed her chances of snaring a buyer were more than a little slim.
COURTS
Breathing pure oxygen under pressure is an unproven treatment for children with severe brain damage, and Florida medical regulators have no obligation to pay for it, a West Palm Beach appeals court ruled Wednesday, dealing a serious blow to the family of a Broward boy who nearly drowned.
IRAN
Iran simultaneously test-fired at least nine medium- and long-range missiles early Wednesday, a fiery warning to the United States and Israel against attacking the country over its suspected nuclear ambitions.
RETURN OF THE TREASURE
For centuries, the dead guarded precious objects in their graves: painted terra cotta dishes, figurines, gold ornaments and other pre-Columbian artifacts.
EMPLOYMENT
When Millie Puldon learned her job would be eliminated, she agonized over how to tell her three kids. ''I didn't want to worry them,'' recalls Puldon, a single mother. When she did tell them, her 9-year-old daughter broke into tears and asked, ``Are we poor now?''
1985 DOUBLE MURDER
Agnes Atis rode the city bus and looked for him. Outside the window of her Fort Lauderdale home, she looked for him. Every day, in one place or another, she looked for him.
COLOMBIA
The Vietnam-era Huey helicopter took off Tuesday from an army base in Colombia's rebel-controlled region on a mission to blast the Marxist fighters with the voice of Ingrid Betancourt, one of their former hostages.
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