Ex-Miami Dolphin a witness at Novack murder trial

HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood city manager charged with DUI

Blood-alcohol level was significantly higher than the legal limit.

Holidays

What’s open and closed on Memorial Day

Monday is Memorial Day. Here’s what’s open and closed in South Florida.

Hallandale Beach

Hallandale Beach unable to recover $75,000 loan

After a local businessman died, the firm he helped start fell apart and defaulted on a city loan.

BROWARD

Rash at another Broward school remains a mystery

Most recent outbreak took occurred in a science class at a middle school.

Hurricane

Weather alert: Clearing Friday; experts predict near normal hurricane season

Forecasters expect nine to 15 named storms this year, including four to eight hurricanes.

GAY RIGHTS

Gay Cuban Americans appalled by Mariela Castro visit

Cuban-American gay activists in Miami are dismayed by Mariela Castro events in San Francisco and New York.

Columnist

Beth Am kids win Fairchild Challenge

Warm congratulations to Temple Beth Am Day School for earning top awards on May 15, at the Fairchild Tropic...

Crime

Questions remain about why naked man on Miami causeway tried to rip flesh off another man’s face

The man whose face was chewed by a naked attacker remained hospitalized as police tried to determine what p...

Miami City Commission

Back on the Miami Commission dais, Michelle Spence-Jones delivers

MEMORIAL DAY

South Florida veterans: Memorial Day is a day to mourn, not celebrate

From WWII to the war in Afghanistan, battle survivors remain impacted by those who didn’t come home.

Memorial Day

South Florida vets cope with wounds not always visible

Home from overseas wars, South Floridians cope with wounds that aren’t always visible

Urban Beach Week

A concert, parties and celebrities help make final days of Urban Beach Week a blast

The Urban Beach Week revelers needed a rest Sunday morning. But by the time the sun went down, they were on...

Florida swindlers’ $77 million cow pasture

Just before fleeing the country, Victor and Natalia Wolf launched a national project that wiped out investo...

Tropical Storm Beryl makes landfall on Fla. coast

Tropical Storm Beryl has made landfall in northeastern Florida, bringing drenching rains and driving winds ...

Politics

Obama forgot to read the Castro memo

Of the simple rules in Florida elections, few stand out like this one: Don’t look wobbly over Castro &...

BARRY UNIVERSITY

Barry University basketball player bit by shark in Jacksonville while surfing

Barry University basketball player Chad Renfro was bit by a shark after he

Weather

Tropical Storm Beryl threatens North Florida, South Georgia

Tropical Storm Beryl may put a serious damper on Memorial Day celebrations for North Florida and South Geor...

Child-neglect deaths fall — as Florida redefines child neglect

When the number of child deaths by abuse and neglect fell dramatically, it looked like Floridians were impr...

In My Opinion

Hunting for elephants, unleashing political tsunamis

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain. That is, unless the governor of Florida, the Honorable Blinkle...

In My Opinion

College loans are next debt crisis

Marlins Park, financed by bonds that will take four decades and $2.4 billion to pay off, makes a perfect se...

POLITICS

Lobbying firms get big paydays in Tallahassee

At least three lobbying firms collected more than $1 million in fees during the first three months of the y...

In My Opinion

Shut up and quit texting

Looking back, it was such a quaint little crusade, a futile gesture against the indomitable lure of technol...

GOV. RICK SCOTT

Fla. Gov. Rick Scott signs Cuba-crackdown bill, but event turns into a public relations fiasco

Gov. Rick Scott signs a Cuba-crackdown bill with great fanfare, only to blindside Miami Republicans afterwa...

In My Opinion

Fighting evolution one monkey law at a time

Evolution has been voted down in the Tennessee legislature. School kids there need not be bothered by confu...

In My Opinion

Even Wall Street agrees Florida shortchanges higher ed

The Bond Buyer is normally not a publication that grabs my interest. But there’s something particula...

Education

Charter schools get a second helping of free money

Established charter schools are able to tap into grants meant to help start-ups by nesting schools within s...

HIGHER EDUCATION

Bill to increase tuition at UF, FSU vetoed by Gov. Rick Scott

Gov. Rick Scott vetoed a bill that would have allowed the University of Florida and Florida State Universit...

AP News Alert

Tropical Storm Beryl making landfall in northeastern Fla.; rain, winds lash coast.

Boy with Asperger's syndrome displays creativity

Kaleb Brown draws every day, creating a world of lemonade seas, evil broccoli, jet-packs, water balloon fig...

Descendant: Capones paved way for Nevada gambling

Move over Bugsy Siegel. A descendant of Al and Ralph Capone says in a new book that the two gangsters playe...

Trayvon Martin's parents speak against violence

The parents of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin say there must be an end to "senseless gun violence."

4 Fantasy 5 players share $69,414 top prize

Four winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $69,414.19 each, the Florida Lottery said Sunday.

Fla. AG Pam Bondi marries in Cayman Islands

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is celebrating her wedding in the Cayman Island this weekend.

3 taken to hospital after Fla. boat crash

Three boaters have been taken to the hospital after their 21-foot boat crashed into a jetty in southwest Fl...