Daniel Sedin scores in OT, Canucks end Panthers' win streak

The longest winning streak in Florida Panthers history ended with a power-play goal and a few postgame punches.

Miami-Dade County

Miami Medicare fraud fugitive returns from Cuba — voluntarily

When federal agents came knocking, Sandy De La Fe was not at home. The Miami pharmacy owner had already fled to Cuba with his loot from ripping off Medicare, they say.

Miami-Dade County

Two injured in drive-by shooting in NW Miami-Dade

Two people were injured Monday night in a drive-by shooting in Northwest Miami-Dade, according to police.

Real Estate News

Massive Miami Worldcenter project ditches mall, will move to ‘high street’ retail

New design feels more like Lincoln Road, developers say

Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s may drop out

Traditional malls are struggling around the country

News

Mammogram guidelines from various health groups differ

Mammogram guidelines from various health groups differ on when to start and how frequently to get the breast cancer screening:

State Politics

Florida Gov. Rick Scott puts on full-court press for tax cuts

Governor makes rare appearance before Senate committee

TV ads touting tax plan also started Monday

He’ll try to garner even more public support with a nine-city tour

State Politics

Charter school funding still a hot debate for Florida Legislature

‘School choice’ will continue to be a prominent theme in education policy

Charter schools, traditional schools compete for capital dollars

More accountability for charter school applicants also is on the table

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South Florida

Suspect, who ran a pharmacy, facing healthcare fraud charges

He’s first of some 150 Medicare scam fugitives to return to face charges

Police: Masked man with no shirt and ‘distinct tattoos’ robs Hollywood gas station

Wounded veterans ride bicycles through Jungle Island for six-day Soldier Ride event

Traffic across JFK Causeway closes again due to drawbridge malfunction

Photo Gallery: Chili Cook Off at the Knights of Columbus Hall | Jan. 9, 2016

State Politics

Independent audit warns of “deficiencies” in prison staffing

Officials use warning shots, pellets to halt disruption at North Florida facility

Legislators want governor to show support for growing problems

Florida Legislature’s 2016 Session: 5 issues to watch, 5 people to watch

2016 Legislative Preview: Tax Cuts

Charter school funding still a hot debate for Florida Legislature

2016 Legislative Preview: Gambling

Crime

Miami police investigating two separate shootings

Two people shot, one in Liberty City, another in Overtown

Overtown man is stable and recovering after being shot multiple times

Liberty City man in critical condition after being shot in head

South Florida

Suspect, who ran a pharmacy, facing healthcare fraud charges

He’s first of some 150 Medicare scam fugitives to return to face charges

Police: Masked man with no shirt and ‘distinct tattoos’ robs Hollywood gas station

Wounded veterans ride bicycles through Jungle Island for six-day Soldier Ride event

Traffic across JFK Causeway closes again due to drawbridge malfunction

State Politics

Independent audit warns of “deficiencies” in prison staffing

Officials use warning shots, pellets to halt disruption at North Florida facility

Legislators want governor to show support for growing problems

Florida Legislature’s 2016 Session: 5 issues to watch, 5 people to watch

2016 Legislative Preview: Tax Cuts

Charter school funding still a hot debate for Florida Legislature

Crime

Miami police investigating two separate shootings

Two people shot, one in Liberty City, another in Overtown

Overtown man is stable and recovering after being shot multiple times

Liberty City man in critical condition after being shot in head

South Florida

Miami Medicare fraud fugitive returns from Cuba — voluntarily

Police: Masked man with no shirt and ‘distinct tattoos’ robs Hollywood gas station

Wounded veterans ride bicycles through Jungle Island for six-day Soldier Ride event

Florida prison officials quell disruption but staff shortages loom

Florida Legislature’s 2016 Session: 5 issues to watch, 5 people to watch

2016 Legislative Preview: Tax Cuts

Miami police investigating two separate shootings

Local Obituaries

George Van Wyck rose to senior vice president at American Bankers in 30-year career

Instrumental in founding insurance company’s child-care center, a pioneer in South Florida

Founding member of The Education Fund

Popular Temple Sinai teacher Elyse Marcus dies at 51

Songwriter, entrepreneur Albert Elias dies at 86

Passages: Recalling South Florida notables who died in 2015

Attorney, philanthropist Robert Hudson dies at 69

Education

Beyond the Classroom: The role of parents in sex ed

As a former teen, and now parent, nurse, scientist and teacher, I could never figure out why parents talk about the birds and bees when attempting to address the topic of sex with their kids. With all their good intentions, this fails to cover the material most kids want to know about.

Lavish UM sorority recruitment video getting buzz

Disabled students in documentary remind prospective employers ‘I am Like You’

Wynwood artists sue celebrity pastor for using artwork without permission

Retired Miami-Dade soccer coach Louis Confessore up for national award

Environment

The buff-bellied hummingbird normally migrates between Texas and Mexico

Rare bird sightings up this winter

Western hummingbirds turning up more frequently in the east

Activists: lawmakers need to fix Everglades spending

Video: Miami Seaquarium veterinarian explains reclassification of manatee

Florida manatees in line to lose ‘endangered’ species tag; feds say move is a sign of recovery

Video: Florida manatees no longer on endangered species list

Local Obituaries

George Van Wyck rose to senior vice president at American Bankers in 30-year career

Instrumental in founding insurance company’s child-care center, a pioneer in South Florida

Founding member of The Education Fund

Popular Temple Sinai teacher Elyse Marcus dies at 51

Songwriter, entrepreneur Albert Elias dies at 86

Passages: Recalling South Florida notables who died in 2015

Education

Beyond the Classroom: The role of parents in sex ed

Lavish UM sorority recruitment video getting buzz

Disabled students in documentary remind prospective employers ‘I am Like You’

Wynwood artists sue celebrity pastor for using artwork without permission

Environment

The buff-bellied hummingbird normally migrates between Texas and Mexico

Rare bird sightings up this winter

Western hummingbirds turning up more frequently in the east

Activists: lawmakers need to fix Everglades spending

Video: Miami Seaquarium veterinarian explains reclassification of manatee

Florida manatees in line to lose ‘endangered’ species tag; feds say move is a sign of recovery

Local Obituaries

American Bankers VP George Van Wyck dies at 87

Popular Temple Sinai teacher Elyse Marcus dies at 51

Songwriter, entrepreneur Albert Elias dies at 86

Beyond the Classroom: The role of parents in sex ed

Lavish UM sorority recruitment video getting buzz

Disabled students in documentary remind prospective employers ‘I am Like You’

Rare hummingbird sighting ignites twitter among Miami birders

Activists: lawmakers need to fix Everglades spending

Video: Miami Seaquarium veterinarian explains reclassification of manatee

Pan American Airlines

On Oct. 28, 1927, a small wood-and-fabric plane rolled down a dirt runway in Key West, lifted off and headed for Havana to make the first scheduled international flight of a U.S. airline. It was made by a fledgling firm called Pan American Airways. Though it would later be based in New York City, its links to South Florida were strong, and its presence boosted the world's awareness of Miami.

View the photos at Flashback Miami

Blogs & Columns

Fred Grimm

Fred Grimm: Seminole gambling pact in Florida looks like a long shot

Anti-gambling legislators are already howling against “expansion of gambling”

Voters in other counties have approved slot referendums

Lawmakers avoid anything controversial, like gambling, in an election year

Fred Grimm

Fred Grimm: Seminole gambling pact in Florida looks like a long shot

Anti-gambling legislators are already howling against “expansion of gambling”

Voters in other counties have approved slot referendums

Lawmakers avoid anything controversial, like gambling, in an election year

Fred Grimm

Fred Grimm: Florida allows inept operators and profiteers to run charter school

Another charter school fails, leaving 138 kids in the lurch

Margate charter was the 55th to close in South Florida since 2011

About $70 million in public investment lost with defunct charters

Fabiola Santiago

Fabiola Santiago: Miami-Cuba ferry service sounds dreamy, but at what moral price?

More accessibility for Americans, but another carrot for bad-behaving Cuba

For Miamians, maritime use of PortMiami site a respite from overdevelopment

For ordinary Cubans, nada but ration cards, repression, immigration

Fred Grimm

Fred Grimm: Broward grand jury’s flakka report misses the real scourge

Report includes flakka as a cause of death in hangings, shootings, drownings

Grand jurors paid scant attention to fentanyl, a truly dangerous synthetic heroin

Cracking down on one illicit drug only begets another

Fabiola Santiago

Fabiola Santiago: No urgency in testing rape kits amounts to no respect for victims

13,435 rape kits sit untested in police storage facilities in Florida

Miami-Dade County has largest number of untested rape kits in state

Authorities call it a backlog, but it’s negligence

Miami Deals

Cuba

Suspect, who ran a pharmacy, facing healthcare fraud charges

He’s first of some 150 Medicare scam fugitives to return to face charges

U.S.-Cuba relations: Plenty to work on in 2016

Missile that turned up in Cuba ignites backlash

Guantanamo

The transfer left 103 detainees at the prison; 44 cleared to go

The Saudi who was repatriated followed the Islamic State’s growth from Guantánamo

The captive left the day the detention center entered its 15th year

Haiti

Foreign diplomats, Martelly denied chance to attend National Assembly

Haiti parliament poised to take over electoral crisis

Elections chief: Jan. 24 presidential runoff still on

Americas

Venezuela’s Supreme Court rules opposition controlled congress must unseat three deputies

Opposition says it will continue to legislate despite the order

Tuesday’s congressional session promises more confrontation

Cuba

Suspect, who ran a pharmacy, facing healthcare fraud charges

He’s first of some 150 Medicare scam fugitives to return to face charges

U.S.-Cuba relations: Plenty to work on in 2016

Missile that turned up in Cuba ignites backlash

Guantanamo

The transfer left 103 detainees at the prison; 44 cleared to go

The Saudi who was repatriated followed the Islamic State’s growth from Guantánamo

The captive left the day the detention center entered its 15th year

Haiti

Foreign diplomats, Martelly denied chance to attend National Assembly

Haiti parliament poised to take over electoral crisis

Elections chief: Jan. 24 presidential runoff still on

Americas

Venezuela’s Supreme Court rules opposition controlled congress must unseat three deputies

Opposition says it will continue to legislate despite the order

Tuesday’s congressional session promises more confrontation

Cuba

Miami Medicare fraud fugitive returns from Cuba — voluntarily

U.S.-Cuba relations: Plenty to work on in 2016

Missile that turned up in Cuba ignites backlash

Saudi who protested Guantánamo groin searches goes home

Who’s still held at Guantánamo

6 of first 20 ‘worst of worst’ still at Guantánamo

Haiti parliament returns after a year

Martelly’s one-man rule comes to an end in Haiti

Celestin says ‘No’ to Haiti presidential runoff

Venezuela high court says congress is acting illegally

U.S. sends 2 Guantánamo detainees to new lives in Ghana

In Venezuela, new congress faces old crisis

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Environment

Hearing on rare tiger beetle near Walmart project set for Wednesday

Nation & World

More than 80 whales stranded off India's southern coast

Officials in India say more than 80 whales are stranded off the country's southern coast.

Haiti

Haiti parliament returns after a year

Foreign diplomats, Martelly denied chance to attend National Assembly

Haiti parliament poised to take over electoral crisis

Elections chief: Jan. 24 presidential runoff still on

Community Voices

Beyond the Classroom: The role of parents in sex ed

National

Armed group says it has accessed government files at refuge

Leader Ammon Bundy says followers going through files

Authorities say personal information of employees at risk

Schools reopen after week-long closure following occupation

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