South Florida Blogs

​ After another shitty day at a shitty job in a shitty city, I decided to relax by listening to an old LP of sci-fi movie sound effects and watching shadows on my bedroom walls while blitzed on a...

​Among drummers, Kenny Aronoff is a name synonymous with talent, power, reliability and innovation. During the '80s and '90s, Aronoff toured with John Cougar Mellencamp, Bob Seger, Smashing Pump...

​Black is the color or mourning, evil and high school goths who's parents just don't understand. It is also now the color of the Miami Heat's playoff hopes. Every time the Heat get into the playof...

​Ol' Mittens Romney will endorse Marco Rubio. The once, and probably future, presidential candidate was sitting on the sidelines of the Senate primary between Rubio and Gov. Charlie Crist, but has...

BY STEVE ROTHAUS and FRED TASKER, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

From a runway at Miami International Airport, President Barack Obama apologized by phone Thursday night to a lesbian prevented from seeing her dying partner at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Janice Langbehn, who unsuccessfully sued the hospital after the 2007 [...]

Scroll down to read President Obama’s directive and Jackson Health System’s letter to the White House.

BY STEVE ROTHAUS and FRED TASKER, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

From a runway at Miami International Airport, President Barack Obama apologized by phone Thursday night to a lesbian prevented from [...]

The sky is not falling.

Or, more to the point, the salary cap.

At least not to the degree that most had been projecting, based on David Stern’s gloom-and-doom act over the past year.

Udonis Haslem may have received an offseson reprieve.

Instead, after the league’s Board of Governors [...]

Today, the Florida Senate approved an agreement that will legalize slot machines, and black jack and other card games, at Seminole casinos. In return, the State of Florida will receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the Seminole Tribe. Also, under the agreement, dog tracks and [...]

Oscar Sanchez

The Castro dictatorship tried to break independent journalist Oscar Sánchez Madám of his "socially dangerous" ways — that is, his reporting on the ugly realities of life in Cuba — by throwing him in prison for three years.

Within days of [...]