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After watching a final dramatic day of closing arguments, and after less than four hours of deliberations, jurors in the George Zimmerman trial left court Friday night without reaching a verdict.
Writing that the “credibility and viability of Florida’s accountability system” is at stake, Florida’s top education official has recommended that the state once again make last-minute changes to the formula used to calculate school grades.
Miami police charged a suspect with first-degree murder in a shooting on Northwest 36th Street after he walked into a hospital for treatment.
Two Guantánamo captives have quit their hunger strike, the military said Thursday, reporting the first dip in the prison camps protest and a cessation of clashes between guards and prisoners that coincides with the Ramadan holiday.
Edward Snowden emerged from weeks of hiding in a Moscow airport, saying Friday that he wants asylum in Russia before moving on to Latin America and assailing U.S. surveillance programs as illegal and immoral at a meeting with a dozen Russian officials and rights activists.
Florida Power & Light and its contractors on Friday detailed plans for what promises to be spectacular demolition scheduled for 6:45 a.m. Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale — with the oil-burning, soot-belching relic making way for a cleaner, greener $1.1 billion facility
About 50 protesters gathered outside the Seminole County Courthouse on Friday as jurors began their delibe...
No matter the jury’s verdict in the State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman, the widely followed case ...
By proposing new language, medical marijuana supporters must start again to obtain more than 683,000 signat...
SANFORD — A six-member, all-female jury is now deciding the fate of former neighborhood watch captai...
If an agreement can’t be reached between Opa-locka and the owners of the building housing its city h...
PolitiFact Florida went right to the source to fact-check Miami-Dade’s boast of having the nation&#x...
FPL, contractors detail plans to raze the old power plant at Port Everglades, a demolition job scheduled fo...
Jurors deciding whether George Zimmerman committed second-degree murder when he fatally shot Trayvon Martin...
Court records show an Oregon man told police he was using his assault rifle as a crutch to help him get up ...
Here's a statement from Robert Zimmerman, the brother of George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degre...
San Francisco police say two people have been killed and a suspect is in custody following a shooting at a ...
Sheriff's officials say two bear cubs that got into the bathroom of a Colorado home have been freed.
A girl who was aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed died Friday, the same day that authoriti...
In a July 11 story about an appeals court denying Maj. Nidal Hasan access to evidence obtained through secr...
A dust storm temporarily grounded some flights out of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and knocked out electric...
Supporters of Mohammed Morsi rallied on behalf of the ousted president Friday in their biggest demonstrati...
Acknowledging that he’s trapped in a Moscow airport by the ability of the United States and its Europe...
When autocrat Hosni Mubarak fell after popular protests in 2011, journalist Sabah Hamamou hoped for change ...
Two months after deporting them, Italy has reversed itself and says it will welcome back the wife and 6-yea...
Most prisoners on the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay have resumed eating, the U.S. military said Friday, s...
Protestant hardliners attacked lines of Belfast riot police Friday as Northern Ireland's annual mass marche...
Cyprus' president says the European Central Bank will help prop up the country's hard-hit banking sector on...
Transportation workers moved carefully Friday in and around the site of the nearly week-old derailment that...
Papa’s Days
In the end (and the sad realization always comes in the end), my five-day stay at an all-inclusive resort ...
The restaurant marinates the turkey breast, which provides a boost of Asian-style flavors that helps keep t...
Marlins catcher Rob Brantly, who has struggled so far this season, is working to improve his preparation be...
Publicly through the years, current Ohio State and — as he has been most often referred to over the pa...
Forward James Ennis, the Heat’s pick from last month’s NBA Draft, must learn quickly if he wa...
Mini-golf nearly vanished from the Miami-Dade landscape after its 1970s heyday, but Palmetto Mini Golf and ...
The Marlins have tried 22 players at third base since trading Miguel Cabrera after the 2007 season.
Actor-comedian Bill Cosby is 76. Singer Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac is 70. Actress Denise Nicholas (&#...
While the majority of Hollywood marriages implode left and right, Denzel and Pauletta Washington somehow ke...
The ration card gives every Cuban a basic basket of food for less than $2 a month.
South Florida children with cancer will benefit from money raised by a 28-hour Univision program aired last...
A federal judge in Washington issued a sharply worded order that found guards’ searches of Guantá...
Former prisons chief Crescencio Marino Rivero left Miami for Cuba after half a dozen dissidents accused him...
Two leading Democratic senators on Wednesday asked President Barack Obama to order the Pentagon to stop rou...
Miami travelers heading to Haiti and the Dominican Republic will likely have to wait another day due to Tro...
Key West gallery owner Nance Frank has launched a Web-based fundraising effort to pay for an artistic excha...
PolitiFact Florida went right to the source to fact-check Miami-Dade’s boast of having the nation&#x...
By proposing new language, medical marijuana supporters must start again to obtain more than 683,000 signat...
The Florida Supreme Court, in a sharp rebuke to the Republican-controlled Legislature, refused to throw out...
Following alarming fraud attempts in last year’s elections, the group wants Miami-Dade County to fig...
The former Republican governor turned independent U.S. Senate candidate turned potential Democratic guberna...
Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez said the two tickets highlight the shortcomings of the city’s red-...
Embattled U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia boasted about a large fundraising haul on the same day that Miami-Dade Scho...
Gov. Rick Scott’s is reviewing the state’s 1,700 special taxing districts, but he won’...
Acoustics pioneer Amar Bose, founder and chairman of the audio technology company Bose Corp., known for the...
India's legendary actor Pran, who played some of Bollywood's most memorable villains in a career that spann...
India's legendary actor Pran, who played some of Bollywood's most memorable villains in a career that spann...
Veteran British broadcaster Alan Whicker, known for his globe-spanning travel shows over a career spanning ...
Philip Caldwell, the first person to lead Ford Motor Co. who wasn't a member of the founding family, died W...
Toshi Seeger, folk singer Pete Seeger's wife of 70 years and a close partner in his social and environmenta...
Twister called itself "the game that ties you up in knots." Its detractors called it "sex in a box."
Toshi (TOH'-shee) Seeger, the wife of folk singer Pete Seeger for 70 years, has died. She was 91.
High-quality clothing for work can be prohibitively expensive for low-income single mothers. Organizations ...
Cable & Wireless Communications, the London-based telecom company that dates back to the British Empire, is...
A local lawyer and long-time child advocate has been named president and CEO of The Children’s Trust.
Enroll America is launching a Florida education campaign on healthcare options.
The U.S. attorney’s office unveiled a new task force to fight the spread of “organized retail...
The Genting-owned ship needs more sprinklers before it can carry passengers to Resorts World Bimini.
The Fairholme Fund – a mutual fund with more than 170,000 shareholders that is managed by Miami-base...
More homes were lost to foreclosure in Florida than anywhere else in the year ended in May. The state also ...
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There are three different plans for Miami Beach commissioners to choose from that will change the future of...
YOUmedia Miami was started last year at the North-Dade regional library with a Knight Foundation grant.
A key Miami Springs budget-meeting video whose absence online stoked the ire of concerned residents has fin...
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