http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Today's Top Stories 60 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:30:12 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532143.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532143.html Wed, 14 May 2008 03:02 EDT Baptist Health South Florida will pay about $7.8 million to settle claims with authorities that it broke federal law when it overpaid for services provided by an oncology group that also refers patients to its hospitals. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532200.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532200.html Wed, 14 May 2008 03:02 EDT The surprise move by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to authorize the extradition of 14 notorious paramilitary warlords early Tuesday morning to the United States won applause from the Bush administration and was expected to raise his sky-high popularity in Colombia even higher. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532343.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532343.html Wed, 14 May 2008 03:02 EDT Plucking birds from their nests sometimes brings Cameron Fritzson a few bucks. This week, it almost cost him his life. Fritzson, 20, was in critical condition Tuesday, a day after nearly being electrocuted while trying to capture monk parakeets from atop a Florida Power & Light tower in Pembroke Pines. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532184.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532184.html Wed, 14 May 2008 03:02 EDT The former President Bush calls him ''Zach,'' and the Bush currently in the White House calls him ``Zee Zee.'' He has been a repeat guest at the family's Crawford ranch, the White House and on Air Force One. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532344.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532344.html Wed, 14 May 2008 07:30 EDT Firefighters appeared to be winning their battle on Tuesday against wildfires that destroyed more than 60 homes in this Brevard County community -- fires that authorities believe were intentionally set. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532185.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532185.html Wed, 14 May 2008 07:22 EDT Nubia Agudelo and her husband were facing foreclosure and everyone they turned to refused to help them with their loan. ''We were paying $3,000 a month on two mortgages,'' said Nubia Agudelo, 50, of her four-bedroom, two-bath house in Pembroke Pines. She paid $300,000 for it in 2006. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532198.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/532198.html Wed, 14 May 2008 03:02 EDT A man accused of robbing a Pembroke Pines bank is now charged with three more bank robberies in Hollywood, according to Hollywood police. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530727.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530727.html Tue, 13 May 2008 07:36 EDT The trucks pulled up in front of Tim Farley's home like a military convoy. Nearly a dozen men clad in green and armed with chain saws and pruning shears marched into his backyard to find and destroy the enemy -- Farley's citrus trees. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530839.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530839.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:02 EDT A woman's body was found floating in the water east of Old Cutler Road at Southwest 173rd Street on Monday morning. Officers responding to a call of a body in the water found the woman around 8:20 a.m. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530717.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530717.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:02 EDT BankUnited Financial finished its most recent quarter in the red, recording $65.8 million in losses stemming from the worsening housing market. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530667.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530667.html Tue, 13 May 2008 06:53 EDT The Cuban contingent that competed in last week's Pan American Judo Championships left Miami for Havana by way of Panama City on Monday afternoon without gold-medal-winning judoka Yurisel Laborde, who left the group Sunday afternoon. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530773.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530773.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:02 EDT Broward physician and heavyweight Republican donor Zachariah P. Zachariah has been accused of insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530759.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:02 EDT As the death toll in earthquake-ravaged areas of China soared to nearly 10,000 Monday, members of South Florida's Chinese community reached out to relatives abroad and began talk of preparing aid for the victims. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530838.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/530838.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:02 EDT The start of the manslaughter trial of former New York Yankee player Jim Leyritz was postponed Monday. Leyritz, 44, is accused of running a red light and crashing his sport utility vehicle into a car driven by Fredia Ann Veitch on his birthday in December. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/529531.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/529531.html Mon, 12 May 2008 07:14 EDT Three men accused of robbing a fast-food restaurant, then shooting at several law enforcement officers as they tried to escape, were identified Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/529533.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/529533.html Mon, 12 May 2008 07:08 EDT The nation's chief nuclear watchdog will tour Turkey Point on Tuesday, a visit that follows recent six-figure fines imposed on Florida Power & Light for its hired guards sleeping and carrying disabled weapons while on duty. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/529532.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/529532.html Mon, 12 May 2008 07:05 EDT For Bob Mandell, the bad news came on a Wednesday evening. Dial-A-Teacher, the homework-help hot line to which he had devoted nearly two decades of service, would be closing for good the following day. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/529536.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/529536.html Mon, 12 May 2008 07:09 EDT A Miramar birthday party came to an abrupt end when gunshots were heard coming from a home early Sunday, striking a visitor from the Orlando area and a disc jockey, according to Miramar police. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/528162.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/528162.html Sun, 11 May 2008 17:56 EDT The room is the same as it has always been. There is the cabinet stocked with insulin and syringes, the narrow twin bed that never offered a full night's sleep. The shelves, home to a galaxy of porcelain angels, the walls filled with images of peaceful Madonnas. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/528799.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/528799.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT Beverly Watts, mother, created a family over the Internet. Unable to have children of her own, Beverly, 50, of Sunrise, was determined to adopt a child. She took classes at Calvary Chapel church in Fort Lauderdale. She got a physical exam. She filled out reams of paperwork and got fingerprinted. And then she scanned a website hosted by Broward County's privately run foster care agency with hopes of finding a son.