Miami Beach must pay attorneys’ fees in Urban Beach Week shooting

Judge pounds Miami Beach officials for ignoring court order to turn over records in 2011 Urban Beach Week s...

HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood considers shrinking parking spaces

Hollywood’s parking spaces could be getting shorter.

DAVIE

Davie council goes on summer break

Davie’s Town Council is taking a scheduled vacation break and will resume its regular meetings on Ju...

FLORIDA

Pilot in crash blamed for flying in bad weather

Three people died when a helicopter on its way to retrieve a heart for transplant crashed in North Florida.

Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade unions call for health-insurance account audit

Union leaders say the county has been stockpiling money in its health-insurance trust fund. Miami-Dade says...

Miami Beach

Miami Beach advisory board backs Portman-CMC plan to overhaul convention center

Miami Beach’s Convention Center Advisory Board voted to recommend the Portman-CMC plan to redevelop ...

Urban Extreme Sports

Grand Central Park is haven for skaters in downtown Miami

Va. cabbie pursues charges after anti-Muslim rant

For the second time in as many months, a Muslim civil rights group is pursuing criminal charges on behalf o...

Cape Wind gets $200M investment from Danish fund

The Cape Wind offshore wind project has secured a $200 million investment from a Danish pension fund in wha...

Okla. executes inmate convicted of killing couple

Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for the October 2000 stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ra...

Chrysler agrees to recall of Jeeps at risk of fire

After initially defying federal regulators, Chrysler abruptly agreed Tuesday to recall some older-model Jee...

Maine governor says he won't talk to 3 newspapers

A spokeswoman for Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the administration will no longer comment for stories publish...

Couple guilty in murder of mother of 2-month-old

A California couple is facing prison time after juries convicted them of luring an acquaintance to their ho...

Suburban NY woman indicted on pot-growing charges

A woman from the ritzy New York City suburb of Scarsdale who is accused of raising thousands of marijuana p...

US senators urge Kerry to review Honduras' aid

U.S. senators are urging Secretary of State John Kerry to order a review of aid for Honduras' police and mi...

Jamaica eyes expatriates as source of investment

In a bid to kick start Jamaica's chronically stagnant economy, the Caribbean country is wooing its citizens...

Afghan peace talks with Taliban at hand but not without their bumps

U.S. officials will meet with the Taliban on Thursday in a major breakthrough aimed at opening peace talks...

Brazil protesters clash with police in Sao Paulo

Protesters surrounding the city hall of Brazil's biggest city have clashed with police when a small group o...

Argentine Supreme Court rejects judicial reform

Argentina's Supreme Court has struck down key elements of a judicial reform the government hoped would rapi...

Ammunition fire rages at Russian military base

Exploding shells set off a fire that was triggering explosions Wednesday at a military depot in southern Ru...

AP EXCLUSIVE: US war games send signal to Assad

Under the watchful eye of stern-faced American advisers, hundreds of U.S.-trained Jordanian commandos fanne...

Fitness

Vixen Workout gets heart pumping in South Florida

A new workout has professional women finding their inner vixen

Creamy, tangy Greek yogurt can enhance your cooking

health

Waist circumference is competing with BMI for health risk measure, expert says

Cooking contest

Graphic designer from California wins Del Monte cook-off

Kara Adanalian had been hiding her nerves behind a smile all day, but it fell away as she scanned the conte...

Unexpected pregnancy

Surprised by the stork

Trish Staine had just finished running 10 miles while training for a half-marathon when she started going i...

Argentine cash controls bring bargains, headaches

The Brazilian visitors gawk in wonder as they stroll past shop windows along touristy Florida street in th...

Miami Gardens

Miami Gardens makeup artist Kazumi Brown’s work a thing of beauty

A Miami Gardens makeup artist is giving local women a polished celebrity look for everyday and special events.

Marlins 3, Diamondbacks 2

Giancarlo Stanton powers Miami Marlins past Arizona Diamondbacks

Giancarlo Stanton saw enough of Heath Bell last year to know what to expect.

MIAMI HEAT

Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh: Spurs’ Danny Green ‘won’t be open tonight’

Marlins notebook

NL West parks provide power surge for Miami Marlins’ Giancarlo Stanton

Golf | U.S. Open

Justin Rose blooms at U.S. Open to claim his first major; Phil Mickelson second again

Justin Rose won his first major title while third-round leader Phil Mickelson finished as a runner-up for a...

UM BASKETBALL

Miami Hurricanes to add Texas guard Sheldon McClellan

NBA Finals Game 6 | Spurs at Heat, 9 p.m., ABC

Miami Heat struggles from point-blank range

The Heat, which usually thrives in transition, was 19 of 41 on shots around the basket in Game 5, including...

Spotlight on | Boxing

James Warring, Dave Clark to enter Florida Boxing Hall of Fame

Their relationship as fighter and trainer provided James Warring and Dave Clark countless memories through ...

La vida local

Gabrielle Union tells Oprah: I was a mean girl

Gabrielle Union has a secret. She wasn’t a very nice kid. Dwyane Wade’s main squeeze appears ...

Celebrity roundup

Miss Utah redeems her education flub on ‘Today’

Rapper Flo Rida, manager will be no-shows at Heat game tonight

Celebrity birthdays on June 18

Musician Paul McCartney is 71. Actress Linda Thorson (“The Avengers”) is 66. Actress Isabella...

La vida local

Boca Raton singer Ariana Grande on the rise

Boca Raton native Ariana Grande is on the rise.

Scene in the Tropics

Kanye West namechecks LIV, Ronaldo keeps partying

You’d think the leakage of Kanye West’s Yeezus Friday was the second coming of, well, never m...

Celebrity roundup

Dr Oz: Kim & Kanye’s baby needs care

CUBA

Bahamas claims that Video of Cubans being kicked is fraudulent

An official in Nassau has denied that a guard stomped on detained Cuban migrants.

Cuba

Cuba and U.S. begin talks on resuming direct mail service

Direct mail service between the two countries was suspended in 1963. It currently travels via third countries.

War court

Red Cross to Guantánamo judge: Don’t give 9/11 defense lawyers our confidential records

Defense lawyers in the 9/11 trial want access to reports from the Red Cross to the Pentagon to learn more a...

CUBA

Cuba cites drop in U.S., European arrivals as tourism sags

A new government report in Cuba suggests initial enthusiasm for travel to Cuba has fallen flat.

WikiLeaks

Britain, Ecuador haggle over WikiLeaks' Assange

Venezuela

Amid woes at home, Maduro meets with Pope Francis

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Pope Francis swept away years of tension between the administr...

GUANTANAMO

FOIA suit reveals Guantánamo’s ‘indefinite detainees’

In response to a suit by The Miami Herald, the Defense Department released Monday the names of 48 Guant...

POLITICS

Gov. Rick Scott gains ground in new statewide poll, but still trails former Gov. Charlie Crist

In My Opinion

Fred Grimm: Rush to privatize is all about bucks

Our governor was deeply offended by a burst of unkind aspersions after an insurance company that didnȁ...

Elections

Poll: Absentee-ballot scandal makes Miami Congressman Joe Garcia vulnerable in potential matchup

A poll conducted for Republican Carlos Curbelo suggests Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia’s popularity has ...

POLITICS

Rep. Alan Grayson 2.0: Less fire-breathing, more self-restraint

Rep. Alan Grayson, the self-styled ‘congressman with guts,’ has managed what seems like an im...

Prisons

Hundreds of state prison staffers owed comp time, back pay

State officials agreed with federal investigators to provide back pay or compensatory time to more than 700...

POLITICS

Fla. Democrats see Gov. Rick Scott as easy target in 2014

At annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner, Florida Democrats snub one of their own, but are giddy in the belief th...

ELECTIONS

Online ballot fraud marks the ‘e-boletera era of Miami politics’

A rash of computer-related absentee-ballot request irregularities has touched four Miami-area campaigns, le...

Author, teacher of endangered Lakota language dies

The endangered Lakota language has lost one of its greatest supporters.

Wilson, Nobel winner for physics, dies in Maine

Walt Arfons, speed pioneer who held record only 3 days, dies at 96

When Walt Arfons first strapped a jet engine onto a hot rod, experts thought the car would melt, explode or...

DEATHS

Food critic Lucy Cooper dies at 95

Ex-North Carolina Gov. Jim Holshouser dies at 78

Pioneering woman photog Helen Brush Jenkins dies

Helen Brush Jenkins, a pioneering photojournalist who made Life magazine when she snapped a photo of her ch...

Body Glove co-founder Bob Meistrell dies at 84

Bob Meistrell, who co-founded the Body Glove clothing company and helped develop the first neoprene wetsuit...

Discrimination against pregnant workers rising, report says

Thirty-five years after Congress passed a federal law to protect pregnant women from discrimination on the...

ECONOMY

Obama raises possibility of change at the Fed

If Ben Bernanke’s time is up, who comes next? Vice-chairman Janet Yellen seems a likely choice.

EMPLOYMENT

Most workers hate their jobs or have ‘checked out,’ Gallup says

Seven out of 10 workers have “checked out” at work or are “actively disengaged,”...

HOMEBUILDING

Lennar makes foray into Nashville market

Miami-based Lennar Corp. acquired homesites in Nashville, marking its entry into another new market.

Cuba

Cuba and U.S. begin talks on resuming direct mail service

Direct mail service between the two countries was suspended in 1963. It currently travels via third countries.

CareCloud raises $20 million in Series B financing

CareCloud, the fast-growing Miami-based provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health rec...

Carnival Corp. taps PR vet for new communications job

After more than a year of bad press, Carnival Corp. has created a new position: senior vice president of co...