http://www.miamiherald.com/853/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/853/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Multimedia 60 Sat, 10 May 2008 00:15:56 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526608.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526608.html Fri, 09 May 2008 21:04 EDT An international banker nominated to be Haiti's next prime minister said Friday that Haiti must concentrate on long-term strategies to help the millions pushed deeper into misery by higher food prices. http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526495.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526495.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:09 EDT Students in Miami-Dade County did as well, and in some cases better, than students across the state on this year's standardized writing test, according to statistics released Thursday by the state Department of Education. http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526625.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526625.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02 EDT The Wackenhut Corp. overbilled Miami-Dade County as much as $6 million over three years for phantom security guards at county transit stations, according to a long-awaited audit released Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526496.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526496.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02 EDT If the Cuban national judo team was competing in, say, Cleveland, few people outside judo circles would notice. But this is Miami, a place no Cuban national team of any sport had set foot in for more than four decades. http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526492.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526492.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02 EDT Hispanic voters registered as Democrats have overtaken Hispanic Republicans in Florida, signaling a trend that, if it continues, could have far-reaching implications for the 2008 election and U.S. foreign policy. http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526573.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526573.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02 EDT Broward students did better than fourth-, eighth- and 10th-graders across the state this year on the writing FCAT, and students improved their showing compared to the last few years, too. http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526626.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526626.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02 EDT Miami commissioners agreed Thursday to pay $2.2 million to settle a grave injustice involving a mentally retarded man who spent 22 years behind bars -- for murders and rapes he didn't commit. http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526596.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526596.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02 EDT More than a month after President Felipe Calderón sent more than 2,000 soldiers to this troubled U.S.-Mexico border city, execution-style murders remain commonplace -- and usually unsolved -- as heavily armed drug cartels battle for control of lucrative drug-smuggling routes into the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526500.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526500.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02 EDT Tavaris King could not let go of his ex-lover. He called Nicole Smith from blocked phone numbers. He pointed his .45-caliber handgun at her and her little brother. And he strangled her golden retriever puppy to death. http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526479.html http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/526479.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:02 EDT Barack Obama says Florida's delegation will be at the national Democratic Party's convention this summer, ''happy, with their party hats on,'' two uncommitted Florida superdelegates said Thursday.