GAMBLING

Legislators reject attempt to clarify state’s regulation of slot machines

While holes in state gambling laws threaten payments from the Seminoles, legislators rejected regulators&#x...

Miami police respond to neighbors’ fight, find 10 grenades in bedroom

Miami police arrested a man and woman for possessing drugs and a weapon Tuesday. The pair could face more c...

Underground Miami: A voyage to the center of the port tunnel

Port of Miami tunnel-boring contractors took reporters down into a clean, well-lighted section of completed...

2 charged with sex trafficking West Palm Beach runaway girl

DORAL

Miami postal worker drowns in storm drain accident

A U.S. Postal Service employee died in a freak accident early Tuesday when he tumbled into a storm drain wh...

Ex-South Florida politician to plead guilty to tax charges in federal corruption probe

Former Fort Lauderdale legislator Mandy Dawson will plead guilty to tax-evasion charges stemming from secre...

Broward County

Knights and wenches abound at annual Broward Renaissance Festival

The Florida Renaissance Festival will be marking its 20th anniversary when it returns to Broward this weekend.

CA man accused of killing Chihuahua with golf club

A California man has been charged with felony animal cruelty after authorities say he killed a Chihuahua by...

Bystander dead in shootout at Dallas train station

A man suspected of starting a shootout with police at a suburban Dallas transit station that left a bystand...

No charges against NYPD boss' son after rape claim

Ill. plant generating electricity after shutdown

A northern Illinois nuclear plant is back up and running after a reactor lost power and shut down last week.

Ex-P&G board member's NY trial date moved to May

The criminal trial of a former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. has been moved from A...

Aide charged with making child porn in NYC school

A New York City teacher's aide already accused of possessing child pornography was jailed Tuesday after pro...

Judge: Man cleared of murder deserves freedom

A federal judge on Tuesday recommended the release of an elderly man who remains in prison nearly two years...

Crusading China police chief drops out of sight

A crusading west China police chief has dropped from sight amid unconfirmed reports of a scandal.

New Maldives president calls for calm after clash

China warns parents against Hong Kong birth tours

Authorities in south China's Guangdong province say parents can be fined or punished for having more than o...

New film shows Mexico's failing education system

Mexican teens can't solve long-multiplication problems. Education authorities don't know how many teachers ...

Jamaica government destroys 2,000 guns in furnace

Qantas grounds A380 after finding cracks in wings

Australia's Qantas Airways said Wednesday it was temporarily grounding one of its A380 superjumbos after di...

U.S. Gen. Dempsey heads to Egypt with relations on line

With $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid and a three-decade relationship hanging in the balance, U.S. ...

Sweat Equity

Pound exercise class at Crunch Gym marries drumming and fitness

Sweat Equity looks at fun ’n’ funky classes that get South Floridians in shape. First up, Cru...

Electronics

There’s a boom in smart baby monitors

The cry has been heard: After 20 years with little change to baby monitoring devices, new designs premiered...

Chew on this

Is perfume making us fat?

Children’s Health

READ MY LIPS

By age 6 months, babies begin to watch people’s mouths when somone speaks to them, helping them lear...

Chronic pain: 1 in 3 suffer, study says

Persistent pain that lasts weeks to years is an overlooked medical problem that affects more than 116 milli...

First person

Friend’s breast cancer journey is not as fortunate

A 33-year-old graduate student has Medicaid instead of private health insurance, making her options more li...

Nutrition

New vending machines offer healthier options

Schools and fitness centers are rolling out machines that sell pita chips, yogurt and other more nutritious...

Miami Herald’s South Florida top 10 rankings

BOYS’ BASKETBALL

Super Bowl XLVI

New York Giants still gracious in victory

Said Giants QB Eli Manning after a second title in four years: ‘This isn’t about bragging rig...

Miami Marlins

Miami Marlins set to court Yoenis Cespedes

Cuban baseball star Yoenis Cespedes arrived at Miami International Airport on Tuesday afternoon with a smi...

Softball | Season preview

Broward teams seek

After dominating state softball for years, Broward County is in a two-year title drought that teams hope to...

Miami Heat

Miami Heat continues counting on Udonis Haslem

Udonis Haslem has recovered from injury and maintained his reputation as the ‘glue guy’ whose...

Heat 107, Cavaliers 91

Miami Heat clamps down in the fourth quarter, defeats Cleveland Cavaliers

UM women

Stefanie Yderstrom fits in with Miami Hurricanes

Stefanie Yderstrom came a long way — from Sweden — to play for UM, and it has been well worth...

Robert Downey Jr a new father

As seen on TV

Star of ABC’s ‘The River’: This is scary stuff

If you were one of the many who enjoyed getting creeped out by Paranormal Activity, now you can get simila...

Ricky Martin shakes it up on Glee

Eva Mendes: Relationship with Ryan Gosling is private

Zsa Zsa Gabor turns 95 in style

Don’t count Zsa Zsa Gabor out just yet.

WFOR-TV/CBS4 names Rhiannon Alley as morning co-anchor

Celebrity birthdays on Feb. 7

Actor Miguel Ferrer is 57. Comedian Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) is 52. Actor James Spad...

Antonio Jorge

Cuban-American economist dies

Antonio Jorge, a respected and prolific Cuban economist who also served in several top administrative post...

Haiti

Prime minister: Haiti donor aid needs revision

Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille made the rounds in Washington, asking for better coordination and faster...

Guantanamo

Cuban migrants at Guantánamo base ‘broke rules,’ face restrictions

Nearly three dozen Cuban asylum seekers were confined to the Leeward side of the U.S. Navy base at Guant&#x...

Italy frees former Guantánamo detainee

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Vatican may put Cuba’s Felix Varela on the road to sainthood

Pope Benedict XVI may announce Felix Varela has been made a ‘venerable’ when he visits Cuba

Americas

ALBA bloc of nations to see new members

Suriname and St Lucia are seeking membership in the ALBA group of left-leaning nations, as the bloc continu...

17 dead, 13 rescued after migrant boat capsizes

Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town af...

GAMBLING

Legislators reject attempt to clarify state’s regulation of slot machines

While holes in state gambling laws threaten payments from the Seminoles, legislators rejected regulators&#x...

GAY ISSUES

Top Miami-area mayors to lunch with gay activists, business people

Four of the most powerful mayors in Miami-Dade County will meet Thursday for lunch with the state’s le...

Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade commissioner defers plan to give up power on airport bids

County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro delayed, for the time being, his proposal to allow the current aviation ...

Former state Sen. Mandy Dawson to plead guilty to income tax evasion

Ex-South Florida politician to plead guilty to tax charges in federal corruption probe

Former Fort Lauderdale legislator Mandy Dawson will plead guilty to tax-evasion charges stemming from secre...

Gov. Rick Scott

Gov. Scott’s Facebook page draws praise and protests

Gov. Rick Scott’s Facebook page is intriguing because the comments to a question about the Florida L...

2012 Florida Legislature

Miami-Dade college president deems budget allocation process unfair

The House budget proposal includes special allocations for a trio of colleges in north and central Florida.

Robert A. Citron, engineer who pioneered commercializing space, dies at 79

Robert A. Citron, an aerospace engineer and intrepid entrepreneur, whose boyhood fantasy of traveling beyon...

Patricia Stephens Due, civil rights figure, dead at 72

Patricia Stephens Due, a lifelong Florida civil rights crusader who led 1960s-era demonstrations and voter-...

Patricia Stephens Due, civil rights figure, 72

An activist since childhood, Due played a key role in transforming a state divided by racial segregation

Shuttle astronaut Janice Voss dies of cancer at 55

NASA astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missi...

Man who warned of Challenger disaster dies at 73

Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before ...

Publisher John Sargent Sr. dies in NYC at age 87

John Turner Sargent Sr., a publisher, editor and socialite who as CEO of Doubleday worked with authors from...

Man who warned of Challenger disaster dies at 73

The man who warned his employer of the equipment quirk that led to the deadly explosion of the space shuttl...

INSURANCE

Citizens boosted home values to raise premiums, suit says

Some homeowners have filed a class-action lawsuit against Citizens Property, charging that it overvalued t...

Work/Life Balancing Act

Dating advice from the pros

Crown Princess hit with norovirus outbreak again; returning to Port Everglades

For the second time in as many days, the Crown Princess returned to Port Everglades after another outbreak ...

Banks Paying Homeowners a Bonus to Avoid Foreclosures: Mortgages

Accelerating efforts to move troubled mortgages off their books, banks are offering as much as $35,000 or m...

Black Rock strategist: Invest in U.S. stocks

With the Dow edging back toward 13,000, will 2012 be a bull year? That depends largely on Europe, said Bob ...

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Lunch with lydia

The sweet taste of success

Marc De Kuyper, 11th generation of the Dutch family that produces a rainbow of popular hard-partying liqueu...