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 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:51:32 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1347670.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1347670.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:22 EST The Florida Lotto jackpot rolled over to $9 million when no one matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing, but a Powerball ticket sold in Oklahoma won that game's $32.8 million top prize. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346265.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346265.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Just two years ago, he was a no-name cur with cutoff ears scrounging for scraps in the desert.<p/> Nubs now is barking up his new book with the national media, getting belly rubs from celebrities like Sharon and Ozzie Osborne and taking up couch space with appearances on the Today show and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. There's talk of a movie deal, too. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346264.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346264.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST After losing on the legal front, a powerful coalition of agriculture and business interests, wastewater utilities, water managers and tax watchdogs is mounting a lobbying assault on pending federal rules that could force Florida to clean up pollution fouling lakes, canals, streams and beaches statewide. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346261.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The oil once used to fry grouper and conch fritters in Key West restaurants is now fueling an old Mercedes-Benz and soon could be powering a school bus. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346259.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346259.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The HMS Bounty sailed up to the Palm Beach Maritime Museum Saturday, flanked by a flotilla of recreational boats welcoming it to Peanut Island.<p/> Onlookers lined up along the inlet jetties and on the docks at the Maritime Museum, exclaiming over the beauty of the ship as it rode in under sunny skies. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346091.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346091.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:14 EST If you got a discount from your windstorm insurance company for installing shutters and other hurricane protections on your home, you might soon have to give some or all of it back. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348428.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348428.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:48 EST A woman has been fatally shot in the parking lot of a courthouse annex in Venice in southwest Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348409.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348409.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:28 EST A Fort Lauderdale woman's long search for her father has ended. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348397.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348397.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:13 EST The Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center is in economic distress. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348346.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348346.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:48 EST Authorities say a Wethersfield man is charged with running a 12-year scheme that defrauded investors of more than $20 million. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348313.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348313.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:13 EST The American Civil Liberties Union has sued a north Florida school district. The lawsuit claims the Alachua County School District violated students' rights by not allowing them to wear T-shirts with an anti-Islamic message. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344834.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Antonio Palou is temping, but not complaining.<p/> He'd love a more permanent job, but he knows plenty of other information technology professionals who have been out of work for a year or more. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344839.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344839.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Thirty years of spying for Cuba will send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United States' longtime antagonist. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344943.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344943.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The average cost of Citizens Property Insurance coverage for windstorm damage will increase next year but not as much as first expected. <p/> Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty approved an average 5.9 percent hike for single-family homeowners and 9.3 percent jump for businesses, according to an order issued Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344947.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344947.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is about to go on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Attorney General Bill McCollum, running for governor, updates supporters that he is ``honored'' to get the endorsement of Gov. Charlie Crist. And Sen. Dan Gelber, hoping to be Florida's next attorney general, wants you to know he's thankful for America's veterans. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342975.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342975.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Cigarettes sales are down 27 percent in Florida during the last four months, thanks to a new $1-a-pack tax designed to balance the budget and cut down on smoking. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342972.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342972.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Broward County grand jury issued a damning report Thursday bemoaning the explosion of illegal painkillers sold through Broward pain clinics -- and warning that reforms passed by the Legislature may not be enough. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342995.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342995.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Three men, including a registered sex offender, drive from Broward County to a Lake Worth amusement park for a robbery, according to authorities.<p/> Their intended victim, in a struggle, kills one of the assailants with his own gun. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1343131.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1343131.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Cuba's celebrated and increasingly brassy blogger Yoani Sánchez emerged Thursday as a player in U.S.-Cuba relations, scoring a lengthy reply from President Barack Obama to her questions and playing a starring role in a congressional hearing on efforts to let American tourists visit Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1337207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1337207.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The two leading candidates for Florida's governor have grounded their high-flying ways on state-owned airplanes.<p/> Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum have dramatically cut back their use of state aircraft since a Herald/Times analysis in June revealed that they had racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in flights, including questionable use of planes by family members and use of the planes to commute to work from their homes in other parts of the state. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1335574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1335574.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida's constant search for more money could mean a tougher approach to businesses that fail to file annual reports on time. <p/> By law, the 1.2 million corporations in Florida must file an annual report with the state, which can charge a $400 fine on every company that skips the May 1 filing deadline. The state, however, must waive the fine for most businesses if the company says it never got a reminder notice to submit a report. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1330909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1330909.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The investment scam by Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein ``could well exceed $1 billion,'' making it one of the biggest fraud cases in South Florida history, the head of the FBI in Miami said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1325301.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/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/legislature/story/1322675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/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/legislature/story/1321339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/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/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/1321193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/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/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/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/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/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/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/florida/AP/story/1348235.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348235.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:33 EST A Jupiter man accused of running a Ponzi scheme that scammed more than $14 million from hundreds of Haitian-American investors has pleaded guilty. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348172.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348172.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:58 EST An 80-year-old man fell to his death from a drawbridge as it opened over the Intracoastal Waterway in South Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348073.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348073.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:53 EST Burn victim Michael Brewer lives in a limited world, one of bandages and painkillers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348049.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348049.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:38 EST Former astronaut Norman Thagard is among 17 candidates who have applied so far for the presidency of Florida State University. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348002.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1348002.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:13 EST The Tennessean newspaper's president and publisher, Ellen Leifeld, is retiring and Gannett Co. Inc. has named Carol Hudler to replace her. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1347947.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1347947.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:26 EST Popular media personality Glenn Beck says he'll sponsor a series of voter-education conventions around the country starting next year, part of his 100-year plan for America. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1347920.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1347920.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00 EST The federal government said Monday that it has found a "strong association" between problematic imported Chinese drywall and corrosion of pipes and wires, a conclusion that supports complaints by thousands of homeowners over the last year. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1347895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1347895.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:50 EST The Tennessean newspaper's president and publisher, Ellen Leifeld, is retiring and Gannett Co. Inc. has named Carol Hudler to replace her.