http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2010 MiamiHerald.com Today's Top Stories 60 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:26:41 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471804.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471804.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:51 EST As Jennifer Rodriguez stroked around the Richmond Oval on Tuesday, she knew why she was back for her fourth Olympic Games. Any doubts about her decision to return to the punishing sport of long track speedskating melted. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471814.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471814.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:49 EST When the earthquake struck, Marie Yvelene Boisdefer was at the soccer stadium, teaching a group of young women a dance routine they were going to debut during Haiti's pre-Lenten carnival festivities. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471818.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471818.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:54 EST Steve Augello's daughter died in a 2008 car accident shortly after sending a text message from her cellphone. <p/> Months later, the Spring Hill resident came to Tallahassee, like many grieving parents before him, asking for a law to banish what led to the grief. For him, it's text messaging while driving. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471760.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471760.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:56 EST Florida's embattled ban on adoption by gay people suffered another setback Tuesday, when state child welfare administrators agreed to provide health insurance, college tuition and other benefits to the adopted son of a gay Key West man. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471758.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:58 EST Broward schools officials said Tuesday they would tackle a sometimes foggy and always sensitive topic: grading.<p/> As the rules stand now, at some schools the lowest possible grade is 0. At others, it is 50 percent. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471712.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1471712.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:07 EST Wary of over-development and fearful of high-voltage power lines that could affect several cities, voters swept a newcomer into the mayor's office in South Miami on Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1470013.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1470013.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:57 EST As Haiti begins digging out from under 60 million cubic meters of earthquake wreckage, U.S. firms have begun jockeying for a bonanza of cleanup work. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1469991.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1469991.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:57 EST Attorneys handling the bankruptcy fallout from Scott Rothstein's $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme want records from a California technology firm because Rothstein used the company's secure computer servers to hold confidential conversations that may reveal his co-conspirators. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1469857.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1469857.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:02 EST Facing more serious charges, the handsome pop musician accused of drunkenly driving away from a fatal bicycling accident learned Monday that he would not be allowed to leave jail. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1469880.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1469880.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:04 EST Do you believe in this religion? In the pure and holy power of Saints?<p/> Stand here and bear witness, humbled servant, at the intersection of Bourbon Street and Canal, and listen to how joyful it sounds and feels when a desperate city finally has its prayer answered. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1469937.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1469937.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:06 EST As a volatile election season gets underway, the Republican Party of Florida is facing its biggest crisis of confidence in decades. <p/> Donors and party activists are livid over newly revealed records that suggest outgoing chairman Jim Greer used the party as a personal slush fund for lavish travel and entertainment. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1470006.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1470006.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:10 EST Laura Chinchilla has been called tough, intelligent, funny and honest.<p/> Late Sunday, Costa Ricans added another description: first female president. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1468446.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1468446.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:42 EST MVP Drew Brees led a strong second half for New Orleans, and two gambles paid off as the Saints earned their first NFL championship. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1468634.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1468634.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:47 EST When the telephone rings at her home in Coral Gables, Lourdes Batista rushes to answer in hopes of hearing some news from law enforcement authorities about her husband, Félix, who was kidnapped more than a year ago while on a business trip to Mexico. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1467218.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1467218.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:48 EST Mass at Port-au-Prince's Sacred Heart Catholic church is held under a UNICEF tarp beside Coleman tents. Open-air, it's conducted near the statue of the Virgin Mary, one of the few church treasures to survive the Jan. 12 earthquake. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1468709.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1468709.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:37 EST This time, the Super Bowl weather conspired in South Florida's favor. As the Mid-Atlantic dug out from a historic blizzard, a television audience expected to top 100 million people saw a far different climate as a mild, cloudless evening greeted football's biggest game. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1467199.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1467199.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:40 EST Despite four decades of slogging through Everglades marshes and mangroves, wildlife ecologist Frank Mazzotti had never experienced anything like the aftermath of frigid January. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1467556.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1467556.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:53 EST ``Finally, $5 blackjack!'' a Gulfstream Park billboard along Interstate 95 proclaims. Just a few feet to the right, a Mardi Gras Casino billboard shouts ``Virtual Blackjack Baby!'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1463727.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1463727.html Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:42 EST This is what a pared-down Super Bowl looks like: <p/> An electric pink tent behind the Fontainebleau to shelter a guest list of 1,200. <p/> The Black Eyed Peas and Playboy bunnies entertaining media executives at the Sagamore. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1463798.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1463798.html Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:44 EST Former President Bill Clinton surprised concertgoers at AmericanAirlines Arena Friday night during a benefit concert for Haiti.