DOWNTOWN MIAMI

Doctors' group blasts Senate healthcare bill in front of Freedom Tower

South Florida medical professionals rallied Saturday against the latest version of the Senate's healthcare ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY

Replica ship at Palm Beach Maritime Museum

The HMS Bounty sailed up to the Palm Beach Maritime Museum Saturday, flanked by a flotilla of recreational ...

ENERGY | KEY WEST HIGH SCHOOL

Key West High School make alternative energy

Students at Key West High School are learning about alternative energy firsthand -- by making biodiesel to ...

COCONUT GROVE

Police: Another woman raped in Coconut Grove

For the second time in three weeks, a young woman in Coconut Grove was raped by a masked man, with both inc...

ENVIRONMENT

Florida coalition targets pending federal pollution rules

Business organizations and other influential interests say new rules to protect Florida's waterways and bea...

ST. PETERSBURG

Dog saved from Iraq a tale of a mutt, a Marine and a miracle

A dog of war who was saved in Iraq by a career Marine and brought to live in the United States has become s...

POMPANO BEACH

Big turnout at fundraiser for teen burn victim

Thousands turned out in Pompano Beach at a fundraiser for burn victim Michael Brewer. Among those in attend...

Rhodes Scholars named for 2010

The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2010, listed by geographic region:

Grand Canyon to change 'unfair' permit system

Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has b...

Sarah Palin dines with Rev. Billy Graham in NC

Sarah Palin was having dinner Sunday with the Rev. Billy Graham a day before a planned book tour stop in ea...

AP News in Brief

Lawyer says 9/11 defendants will plead not guilty so they can express their political views

Some doubts about earrings tied to Mrs. Lincoln

The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged t...

Beating of SoCal student may be tied to Facebook

Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California m...

Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio

Bermuda dismisses ammunition case against US woman

Bermuda's highest court has struck down the conviction of a Florida woman who accidentally brought the ammu...

Coalition's food program can't meet demand in Afghanistan

More than 200 Afghanis waited in line for several hours, enduring a harsh, cool wind and blowing sand.

Dozens of asylum seekers injured in detention riot

Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers were separated at an island immigration detention center after a riot ...

US military: American soldier killed in Iraq

The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in action in Iraq.

Honduras election sets return to business as usual

The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with th...

Egypt's media stoked soccer fan anger with Algeria

Angry soccer fans rampaged through a posh diplomatic neighborhood in Cairo over the weekend, smashing shop ...

Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were s...

Picturing us: Norman Rockwell portrayed life as he wished it might be

Shaking off the cobwebs of recent history, a misunderstood artistic icon who lived through the Great Depres...

MUSIC

Spirit of Haiti comes to life in a box set from Alan Lomax

The remarkable voices, songs and images in the recently released box set Alan Lomax in Haiti are a stunning...

MUSIC

Sinatra Jr. keeps dad's memory, music alive

REVIEW

It's deja vu for holiday revue at Radio City

Like a shiny toboggan wedged on wet snow, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular needs a little push. The tra...

CHRISTIAN ART

Cross in Vatican's collection gets a new look

FICTION

Review | 'Under the Dome': No rules

FICTION

Review | The Harpers grow up in shabby-chic Allersmead in 'Family Album'

Secrets, tensions and conflicts shape a middle-class family in an English suburb.

DOLPHINS

Making the playoffs not such a long shot for Miami Dolphins

By getting back to .500, the Dolphins' chances of making the playoffs is not so farfetched after all.

NO. 21 UM 34, DUKE 16

Second-half surge lifts Miami Hurricanes against Duke

After overhearing raucous Duke players cheering at halftime, the Canes awoke from a first-half slumber to r...

PANTHERS 3, RANGERS 2

Florida Panthers' road tour ends with victory in New York

Nathan Horton, Jordan Leopold and Steven Reinprecht each scored and the streaking Panthers swept their thre...

HEAT

Young Miami Heat players need to step up

The Heat looks for more consistency and urgency from second-year players Michael Beasley and Mario Chalmers...

Galaxy, Salt Lake to duke it out in MLS Cup

And so, the MLS season comes down to Beckham vs. Beckerman, L.A. glitz vs. Salt Lake grit, Coach of the Yea...

FSU 29, MARYLAND 26

Florida State keeps bowl streak alive with win against Maryland

A Senior Day victory gave defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews a win in his final home game, and extended F...

CROSS-COUNTRY | CLASS 4A FINALS

Explorers Class 4A champs again

THE WEEK THAT WAS

The week that was

OPRAH: The queen of daytime is halting her show in 2011. It wasn't one of her favorite things to do anymore...

The Calendar

CONCERT 8 p.m. Bob Marley's son Julian and his band The Uprising perform soulful, spiritual reggae, along...

SCREEN LEGENDS

An ode to John Cusack

An open letter from The People Page to John Cusack: Let's just start out by saying: We heart you. ...

Celebrity birthdays on Nov. 22

Actor Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is 77. Comedian-director Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) is 69. ...

AS SEEN ON SCREEN

Fans sink their teeth into `New Moon' werewolves

Alex Meraz and Kiowa Gordon were hardly prepared for the female attention they'd get from starring in this ...

SCENE IN THE TROPICS

Live like D-Wade: Buy his house

Dwyane Wade has listed his Pinecrest estate on Billionaire-Xchange.com. On the site for a week, the sprawli...

SPOTTED

Young, hot Korean superstar Rain stopped in at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel to promote his new movie, Ninja ...

NICARAGUA

For contras, a reprise of bitter discontent

In Nicaragua, ex-contras prepare to oppose Sandinistas in a feud that stretches back to the war in the 1980s.

In Dominica elections, party offers `the only vision'

Caribbean voters living in the tiny island of Dominica will head to the polls on Dec. 18 for general electi...

Accused Colombian paramilitary leader arrested

José Misael Valero Santana, who, according to Colombian prosecutors, led a paramilitary force of abo...

Miguel H. Díaz is first Hispanic to represent U.S. at Vatican

Honduras' Roberto Micheletti to step down for 7 days

Honduras' de facto president Roberto Micheletti will give up his controversial post for seven days begin...

LAND SHARK STADIUM

Soccer helps Hondurans forget their political woes

Thousands of fans put Honduras' political problems aside for one night to cheer on the nation's soccer team...

CUBA | HUMAN RIGHTS

Report: Cuba's Raúl Castro as ruthless as Fidel

A report by Human Rights Watch paints Raúl Castro's regime in Cuba as little more than a continuati...

ELECTION 2010

Politicians jumping into social media, seeing new outlet to voters

For Florida candidates, social-networking tools are keys to campaign outreach.

U.S.-CUBA RELATIONS

Blogger in Cuba has Washington's ear

A blogger in Cuba who's not afraid to take on the authorities has gained attention at the White House and o...

Parts of Cuban blogger's essay read aloud in House

Part of a Cuban blogger's essay that advocates lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba was read aloud at a H...

FLORIDA POLITICS

Gov. Charlie Crist orders probe of juvenile justice chief

Florida launched an investigation into the extensive taxpayer-funded travel of the state's juvenile justice...

POLITICS

Sen. George LeMieux blasted for blocking diplomat

Florida Sen. George LeMieux's efforts to question a State Department employee about Cuba policy and other i...

TALLAHASSEE

Gov. Charlie Crist: Ban texting while driving

Gov. Charlie Crist and the state's top highway safety appointee endorsed a ban on texting while driving Tue...

HIGH-SPEED RAIL

Bullet train might get special legislative session

Gov. Charlie Crist hopes lawmakers are close to agreeing on a special session for rail projects, but concer...

DEATHS | ESTELLE CALDWELL OVERSTREET, 102

A pioneer of Coconut Grove

Centenarian's own storyis intertwined with the history of Coconut Grove.

JEANNE-CLAUDE, 74

Jeanne-Claude | Noted artist co-created Central Park `Gates'

(AP) -- Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation The Gates and other large scal...

KEN OBER, 52

Ken Ober | Hosted MTV game show `Remote Control'

Ken Ober, a brassy comedian best known as the host of the 1980s-era MTV game show Remote Control, was found...

DAVID LLOYD, 75

David Lloyd | Writer for many popular sitcoms

David Lloyd, who wrote scores of scripts for some of the most popular television sitcoms of the 1970s, '80s...

CLARA RUSH OESTERLE, 84

Clara Oesterle | Former Miami-Dade commissioner pushed for Metrorail

Clara Rush Oesterle's legacy as a Miami-Dade County commissioner runs on 30 miles of electrified track: the...

JEREMY N. MORRIS, 99

Jeremy N. Morris | Epidemiologist linked exercise, heart health

Jeremy N. Morris, a British epidemiologist whose comparison of heart-attack rates among double-decker bus d...

FRED L. SINGER, 76

Fred L. Singer | Film pioneer best known for Burdines TV ads

Fred L. Singer, the documentary and TV-commercial producer/director whose Coronado Studios helped pioneer M...

ART COLLECTING

Market bouncing back in time for Art Basel Miami Beach

After getting hammered during the global economic crisis, art prices seem to be making a comeback.

THE COLOR OF MONEY

Do your due diligence when investing in charity

There's no surprise that charitable giving is down this year. Fifty-one percent of charitable organizat...

ASK MEG

So long as there are easy victims, there'll be scammers

The ``buzz-question'' around town these days, as we watch the Madoff auctions and Rothstein repossessions w...

Florida's citrus country producing new vodka

UNEMPLOYMENT

Temp labor may be bridge to recovery

Florida's jobless rate ticked up to 11.2 percent last month. But employers are starting to hire more temps ...

THANKSGIVING

You may have to skip pumpkin pie

JOB LOSSES

Boston Scientific to close Doral plant

Even as Miami-Dade officials try to build the county's life sciences industry, Boston Scientific is plannin...