MiamiHerald.com: Florida AP http://www.miamiherald.com/775/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Florida AP http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/775/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Florida AP 60 Fri, 16 May 2008 15:51:57 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com Conga drums drive compas beat at Miami music festival http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535885.html Fri, 16 May 2008 12:55 EDT The jazzy dance music pounds out into the darkness behind the recording studio, just as it blares from cab radios, storefronts and restaurants in Haitian neighborhoods. Fla. lifts ban on Allstate selling new insurance policies http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535982.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535982.html Fri, 16 May 2008 15:42 EDT Allstate Corp.'s insurance companies can resume selling new car insurance and other policies in Florida, the state's insurance regulator said Friday. Assessments for past hurricane damage could grow http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535807.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535807.html Fri, 16 May 2008 11:40 EDT Florida residents could soon be faced with increased surcharges on their home, auto and other insurance policies because the state's catastrophe fund needs more money to pay claims from past hurricanes. Fashion crowd hits South Beach for Chanel http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535891.html Fri, 16 May 2008 13:05 EDT Karl Lagerfeld is bringing South Beach back as a fashionable destination. 6 Fantasy 5 players win $227,333 top prize http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535651.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535651.html Fri, 16 May 2008 08:55 EDT Six winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $37,888.87 each, the Florida Lottery said Friday. Fla. wildfires that burned homes now 70 percent contained http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535844.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535844.html Fri, 16 May 2008 11:55 EDT Officials say the wildfires that destroyed dozens of homes on Florida's Atlantic Coast are now 70 percent contained. Fla. man involved in cancer drug company scheme sentenced http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535926.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535926.html Fri, 16 May 2008 14:05 EDT U.S. prosecutors say a man who cheated investors out of millions of dollars in a cancer treatment drug scheme was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Deputy in serious condition after being bitten by alligator http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535562.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535562.html Fri, 16 May 2008 06:55 EDT A Volusia County sheriff's deputy is hospitalized in serious but stable condition after being bitten by an 8-foot-long alligator he was trying to subdue in a parking lot. Fla. unemployment holds in April at 4.9 percent http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535741.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/535741.html Fri, 16 May 2008 10:40 EDT Florida's unemployment rate remained the same in April, just under 5 percent. Man sentenced to life for slaying of Iraq war veteran http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/534220.html http://www.miamiherald.com/775/story/534220.html Thu, 15 May 2008 09:45 EDT A judge has sentenced a 21-year-old man to life in prison for last year's slaying of a Tampa Marine who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan.