http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Florida 60 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:18:49 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1325301.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1325301.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST As an underdog U.S. Senate candidate courting the GOP's conservative wing, Marco Rubio takes a hard-line position against illegal immigration: no amnesty. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1325224.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1325224.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida's tough prison sentences for juveniles came under scrutiny at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, with justices appearing divided about whether locking up teenagers for life constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1325216.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1325216.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:22 EST After picking up a key endorsement Monday that could pump big money into his campaign, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio set to work on another win that would deliver a big, symbolic blow to Charlie Crist in the governor's home county. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323757.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323757.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The last time Louise Hall saw her daughter, she helped her pack a suitcase into her trunk.<p/> They said goodbye, and Janet Cates, 56, drove off. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323759.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Lotto ticket sold at a Pembroke Park gas station won Saturday night's $28 million jackpot, the Florida Lottery said Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1326640.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1326640.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:57 EST An attorney has filed a petition on behalf of three investors to force Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein's law firm into involuntary bankruptcy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326734.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326734.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:01 EST An anti-abortion opponent says he's the one who killed a Kansas abortion provider - and did it because it was necessary to save lives. But one of his attorneys says there's no such thing as a "necessity defense" in state law, and that is not the strategy the defense team plans to present at his trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326661.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326661.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:11 EST Fourteen cities are being targeted in a new campaign aimed at alerting people about human trafficking, federal immigration officials have announced. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326628.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326628.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:56 EST Radio, television and cable industry leader and prominent philanthropist Peter Francis Storer has died. He was 81. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326603.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326603.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:41 EST Law enforcement in Geneva say they've charged a Florida inmate with a murder that occurred nearly 15 years ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326515.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326515.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:10 EST The Florida Public Service Commission on Tuesday rejected proposed energy conservation goals that environmentalists had called too weak. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323766.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein, who returned from a trip to Morocco last week to face a federal fraud investigation, said he was in good spirits Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322675.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is emerging as the champion of activists fed up with Republicans who don't stay true to conservative principles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322574.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST If there was one thing Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein craved, it was attention. And how better to get it than to whip out his checkbook?<p/> Like at Gov. Charlie Crist's 52nd birthday party/GOP fundraiser last year, when, instead of buying a $1,000 candle, Rothstein bought an entire chocolate cake covered with 52 candles. His donation: $52,000. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322690.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322690.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST His marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. Everything Jason Rodriguez sought ended in failure. Except his alleged plot to kill. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321344.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321344.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST For the first time in the company's history, Sedano's Supermarkets is expanding outside of South Florida.<p/> The Hispanic supermarket chain said Friday it has a deal to purchase three Albertson's stores in the Orlando area that will be converted into the Sedano's brand. Terms of the deal, which is scheduled to close in the first quarter of next year, were not disclosed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321339.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST State Sen. Dan Gelber says the proposed anticorruption package he unveiled earlier this week is more vital than ever in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of possible fraud by the board that oversees the state pension fund. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/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/florida/story/1321199.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321199.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The gunman in an Orlando office building entered the complex through an unguarded parking garage Friday before he opened fire on former colleagues at an engineering firm that fired him two years ago, according to a witness who works in the 16-story Gateway Center where the incident occurred. 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/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/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/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/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/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/1314878.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314878.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Responding to criticism over inactivity on 4,400 state complaints against debt collectors, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum proposed separate measures Tuesday to reign in abusive tactics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314879.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314879.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST TALLAHASSEE - Attorney General Bill McCollum filed suit Tuesday against two leading Internet travel firms, accusing Expedia and Orbitz of cheating the state and local governments out of millions of dollars in sales tax revenues from online hotel bookings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314881.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida's restrictions on where sex offenders can live might be both ineffective and endangering the public, a legislative analyst said Tuesday.<p/> Marti Harkness, a criminal-justice analyst, told the House Public Safety & Domestic Security Committee that studies from Florida, Minnesota and Colorado showed almost no link between a sex offender's residency and the crime he committed. 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/legislature/story/1313125.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1313125.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Independent voters are more likely to side with Republicans than with Democrats on issues facing Floridians, according to a poll conducted for The Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309207.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Hoping to close a loophole that has helped make South Florida the hub of black-market prescription painkillers, two Democratic state lawmakers are proposing legislation to ban convicted felons from holding an ownership stake in pain clinics distributing narcotics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309088.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309088.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Florida voters want offshore oil drilling, oppose a ``public option'' for health insurance and overwhelmingly support a gambling agreement with the Seminole Tribe, according to a new Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 poll. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326339.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:35 EST A man who made billions of dollars off Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme signed a will leaving the bulk of his fortune to charity, but the gift's ultimate size may depend on legal wrangling over how much of the money rightfully belongs to cheated victims. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326309.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326309.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:15 EST The defense attorney for a Marine reservist accused of attacking a Greek Orthodox priest says his client was defending himself from a sexual attack. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326274.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326274.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:55 EST A former astronaut who drove 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando to mount a bizarre attack on a romantic rival pleaded guilty Tuesday to reduced charges and was sentenced to a year on probation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326197.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326197.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:11 EST A Marine reservist has been charged with attacking a priest visiting from Greece who he believed was a terrorist. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326194.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326194.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:07 EST A philanthropist who made billions of dollars off Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme signed a will leaving the bulk of his fortune to charity. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326161.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326161.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:36 EST Phone customers in the Tampa Bay area will get roughly a $2 credit on their phone bills. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326160.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326160.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:36 EST A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina can't issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase "I Believe." http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326119.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1326119.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:12 EST A man wounded in last week's Orlando office shooting frantically told an emergency dispatcher to hurry because he worried the gunman would return, 911 tapes released by police Tuesday show.