VETERANS

WWII vet, 94, to finally receive medals

Coral Gables

Documentary zooms in on globe-trotting fruit hunters

Industrial overhaul

Explosives will raze old FPL plant in Fort Lauderdale

20-year-old shot, killed in Hollywood neighborhood

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed in a Hollywood neighborhood Friday night.

VOTING

U.S. Supreme Court voting decision likely to stop legal challenge to Florida voter purge

Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is set to resume its controversial effort to remove potential nonci...

Legislature

GOP senator wants probe of where legislators live

Hollywood Police search for gunman who shot, wounded 16-year-old

Police are searching for a gunman who shot and injured a 16-year-old in a Hollywood neighborhood Friday eve...

Protest in Sanford triggers verbal spat

About 50 protesters gathered outside the Seminole County Courthouse on Friday as jurors began their delibe...

JetBlue flight lands in NC after smoke warning

A JetBlue flight from New York to Tampa made an unscheduled landing in North Carolina after the crew report...

Spitzer tells Leno he cares about public service

Eliot Spitzer, whose 2008 resignation as New York's governor amid a prostitution scandal provided no shorta...

TV station reports bogus SF crash pilot names

A San Francisco Bay Area TV station has apologized after reporting bogus names of the four pilots aboard As...

The arguments Zimmerman jurors are considering

Jurors deciding whether George Zimmerman committed second-degree murder when he fatally shot Trayvon Martin...

Affidavit: Man using rifle as crutch when it fired

An Oregon man told police he was using his assault rifle as a crutch to help him get up from a couch at a f...

Zimmerman's brother calls for peace, respect

Here's a statement from Robert Zimmerman, the brother of George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degre...

2 killed, suspect arrested at SF shopping center

Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a s...

2 bear cubs freed after entering Colorado home

Sheriff's officials say two bear cubs that got into the bathroom of a Colorado home have been freed.

A month after U.S. pledged more help, Syrian rebels in worse shape

A month after the Obama administration pledged stepped-up support for Syria’s armed opposition, the...

Hundreds of thousands rally for Morsi in latest battle of street protests

Supporters of Mohammed Morsi rallied on behalf of the ousted president Friday in their biggest demonstrati...

Edward Snowden reportedly vows no more leaks as he seeks asylum in Russia

Acknowledging that he’s trapped in a Moscow airport by the ability of the United States and its Europe...

Egypt's media embrace military after Morsi ouster

When autocrat Hosni Mubarak fell after popular protests in 2011, journalist Sabah Hamamou hoped for change ...

Italy nixes deportation of Kazakh dissident's wife

Two months after deporting them, Italy has reversed itself and says it will welcome back the wife and 6-yea...

US: Prisoners ending hunger strike at Guantanamo

Most prisoners on the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay have resumed eating, the U.S. military said Friday, s...

Protestants attack Belfast cops over blocked march

Protestant hardliners attacked lines of Belfast riot police Friday as Northern Ireland's annual mass marche...

Cyprus: ECB to help after top bank restructured

Cyprus' president says the European Central Bank will help prop up the country's hard-hit banking sector on...

Sailing the Leeward Islands

A trip out of St. Maarten takes boaters to bustling Caribbean ports and isolated hideaways

Botanical inspiration

Mother Nature meets modern decor

Condo Line

‘Office’ renter has no rights

I do not believe that you have any defense for either situation. First, most condominium documents do not ...

Plant Clinic

Ganoderma butt rot is lethal to palms

Ganoderma butt rot (basal stem rot) is a fungal disease that is ever present in the environment. The scient...

Southern Cross Stargazer for July 14-20, 2014

After sunset brilliant Venus dominates the western sky. Regulus, the “elbow” of reclining Leo...

The travel troubleshooter

Help, my travel agency pocketed my airfare refund

I’m sorry about the problems with your ticket refund. The bottom line is: it’s your money and...

St. Eustatius — a Caribbean Shangri-La

Next to the towering kapok tree, Dirk, my conspicuously tall hiking companion, doesn’t seem so tall ...

Travelwise

It’s cheap season in the Caribbean

For more than one reason, summer and fall are when many South Floridians visit the Caribbean, but the reas...

On Recruiting

University School’s Sean White leads strong South Florida senior QB class

Marlins 8, Nationals 3

Marlins tee off on Nationals’ Stephen Strasburg

Miami scored five runs in the first inning and two more in the second off Stephen Strasburg in the worst ou...

Heat

Pat Riley: Plan is for Miami Heat to stay intact

Pat Riley reiterated that the Heat wants to add to its strengths and said it isn’t currently conside...

sIn My Opinion | David J. Neal

CONCACAF Gold Cup proves to be typical of Miami: a late, high-energy party

A soccer doubleheader involving two Caribbean nations, two Central American nations scheduled to start befo...

Soccer | CONCACAF Gold Cup

Honduras edges El Salvador late; Haiti shuts out Trinidad and Tobago

Honduras scored in injury time to edge El Salvador, and Jean Maurice’s two goals led Haiti over Trin...

Marlins notebook

Miami Marlins sign No. 6 pick Colin Moran of UNC

Colin Moran paid his first visit to Marlins Park on Friday. The Marlins are hoping it isn’t very long ...

Gold Cup

Stars converge at Sun Life Stadium for Gold Cup tournament

Marlins

Miami Marlins catcher Rob Brantly working on consistency

Marlins catcher Rob Brantly, who has struggled so far this season, is working to improve his preparation be...

Celebrity birthdays on July 13

Actor Patrick Stewart is 73. Actor Robert Forster (“Banyon”) is 72. Singer-guitarist Roger Mc...

Local appearance

Perez Hilton on daddy duty

Celebrity roundup

Justin Bieber’s problems du jour

Scene in the Tropics

French Montana, Trina spotted at Hennessy event

Celebrity birthdays on July 12

Actor-comedian Bill Cosby is 76. Singer Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac is 70. Actress Denise Nicholas (&#...

Celebrity roundup

Lamar Odom melts down

Celebrity birthdays on July 11

Celebrity roundup

Denzel Washington’s wife: Why we work

While the majority of Hollywood marriages implode left and right, Denzel and Pauletta Washington somehow ke...

CUBA

Cuba’s food ration stores mark 50th anniversary

The ration card gives every Cuban a basic basket of food for less than $2 a month.

Miami Children’s Hospital to get funding from 28-hour Univision telethon

South Florida children with cancer will benefit from money raised by a 28-hour Univision program aired last...

IN THE CAMPS

Judge: Searching Guantánamo detainees’ genitals impedes attorney meetings

A federal judge in Washington issued a sharply worded order that found guards’ searches of Guantá...

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo: 2 detainees quit hunger strike; calm in communal prison

cuba

Cuba’s ex-prisons chief — accused of human-rights abuses — is back in the U.S.

Former prisons chief Crescencio Marino Rivero left Miami for Cuba after half a dozen dissidents accused him...

HUNGER STRIKE

Feinstein, Durbin ask Obama to halt Guantánamo forced-feedings

Two leading Democratic senators on Wednesday asked President Barack Obama to order the Pentagon to stop rou...

Flights canceled due to Tropical Storm Chantal

Miami travelers heading to Haiti and the Dominican Republic will likely have to wait another day due to Tro...

Gallery owner seeks Cuba-Key West art swap

Key West gallery owner Nance Frank has launched a Web-based fundraising effort to pay for an artistic excha...

PolitiFact Florida

Miami-Dade claims ‘nation’s highest-rated tap water’

PolitiFact Florida went right to the source to fact-check Miami-Dade’s boast of having the nation&#x...

POLITICS

Medical marijuana forces revamp popular plan, but face hurdles

By proposing new language, medical marijuana supporters must start again to obtain more than 683,000 signat...

POLITICS

Gov. Rick Scott learns special taxing districts have clout

Gov. Rick Scott’s is reviewing the state’s 1,700 special taxing districts, but he won’...

REDISTRICTING

Fla. Supreme Court won't stop redistricting challenge

The Florida Supreme Court, in a sharp rebuke to the Republican-controlled Legislature, refused to throw out...

POLITICS

Charlie Crist's political memoir to explain why he left GOP

The former Republican governor turned independent U.S. Senate candidate turned potential Democratic guberna...

Elections

Miami-Dade should take steps to thwart absentee-ballot fraudsters, advisory group says

Following alarming fraud attempts in last year’s elections, the group wants Miami-Dade County to fig...

POLITICS

Joe Garcia draws challenger Carlos Curbelo on day he posts big cash-haul

Embattled U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia boasted about a large fundraising haul on the same day that Miami-Dade Scho...

Miami

Records: Red-light camera foe, Miami politician Francis Suarez received two tickets

Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez said the two tickets highlight the shortcomings of the city’s red-...

Founder of Mass.-based Bose audio firm dies at 83

Acoustics pioneer Amar Bose, founder and chairman of the audio technology company Bose Corp., known for the...

India's legendary actor Pran dies at 93

India's legendary actor Pran, who played some of Bollywood's most memorable villains in a career that spann...

India's legendary actor Pran dies at 93

India's legendary actor Pran, who played some of Bollywood's most memorable villains in a career that spann...

UK broadcaster Alan Whicker dies at 87

Veteran British broadcaster Alan Whicker, known for his globe-spanning travel shows over a career spanning ...

Former Ford CEO Philip Caldwell dies at age 93

Philip Caldwell, the first person to lead Ford Motor Co. who wasn't a member of the founding family, died W...

Toshi Seeger, wife of Pete Seeger, dies at 91

Toshi Seeger, folk singer Pete Seeger's wife of 70 years and a close partner in his social and environmenta...

Inventor of iconic party game Twister dies

Twister called itself "the game that ties you up in knots." Its detractors called it "sex in a box."

Toshi Seeger, wife of Pete Seeger, dies at 91

Toshi (TOH'-shee) Seeger, the wife of folk singer Pete Seeger for 70 years, has died. She was 91.

Investing

Why rebalancing your portfolio makes sense

If you play blackjack or poker, there’s a sound strategy for success. Once you have accumulated a s...

RETAIL

Role reversal: Online retailers getting physical

Reports of the death of brick-and-mortar retailing appear to be greatly exaggerated.

Technology

Banking goes mobile, with a few hitches

Mobile apps give bank customers new flexibility, and new security concerns

Spending Smart

Making a science of smart consumption

Business uses science to figure out how to be better marketers. We can use it to be better consumers.

WORKPLACE TOOLS

South Florida nonprofits help ease high cost of women’s work attire

High-quality clothing for work can be prohibitively expensive for low-income single mothers. Organizations ...

London’s Cable & Wireless moving to South Florida

Cable & Wireless Communications, the London-based telecom company that dates back to the British Empire, is...

Auslander named to top spot at Children’s Trust

A local lawyer and long-time child advocate has been named president and CEO of The Children’s Trust.

Healthcare

Educating Florida about healthcare reform starts with conversation

Enroll America is launching a Florida education campaign on healthcare options.