HAULOVER BEACH PARK

Haulover Beach Park users upset over planned boat facility

Some Haulover Beach Park users are concerned about a new boat-storage facility they say will eliminate badly needed parking spaces.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Putin has toughened his stance against the opposition since winning a third term in March's election, rejecting a dialogue with its leaders and stonewalling their demands.

Putin supports controversial anti-protest bill

President Vladimir Putin signaled his support Wednesday for a controversial bill now working its way through Russia's parliament that would increase fines 200-fold for those taking part in unsanctioned protests. Photo Gallery Available

Magnitude-6.1 earthquake shakes northeastern Japan

A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, but no tsunami is expected.

Iran is offered new plans to ease nuclear concerns

Iran traded proposals with six world powers, including the United States, Wednesday in a new round of talks aimed at persuading Tehran to curb its nuclear program and ease concerns it wants to make atomic weapons. But divisions over sanctions complicated the discussions. Photo Gallery Available

2 ousted Secret Service officers to fight for jobs

Two ousted Secret Service employees implicated in an embarrassing prostitution scandal are fighting to keep their jobs.

Coral Gables

Coral Gables Commission to discuss pick-up trucks on June 5

Changes to the city’s pick-up truck rules are on the agenda June 5.

Lawsuit alleges toxic exposure at prison in Florida Panhandle

More than 160 current and former employees and family members are suing the federal prison agency over ailments they blame on exposure to toxins at an electronics recycling facility at a penitentiary in the Florida Panhandle.

Secret Service agent fired in 2008 prostitute case

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan says an agent was fired in 2008 after being caught in a Washington prostitution scandal.

Jet diverted to Maine; suspicious passenger cited

Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger traveling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism. Video Available

Military academic cadets march during a ceremony to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of Yemen's reunification, in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Yemeni leaders led a somber ceremony Tuesday to mark the country's national day, scaling back the celebrations a day after a suicide bombing killed tens of soldiers.

22 al-Qaida militants killed in Yemen fighting

Yemeni military officials say fresh clashes between government troops and al-Qaida fighters in the south have killed 22 militants and seven soldiers.

Courts

Medical examiner faces tough cross examination in Kaufman murder case

Dr. Bruce Hyma made the ruling of homicide that led to the arrest of an Aventura real estate executive in the death of his wife.

Boy, 6, dies 5 years after nearly drowning

A 6-year-old central Florida boy has died five years after he nearly drowned in a backyard pool.

This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, May 21, 2012 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Alberto located about 85 miles northeast of St. Augustine Florida. Alberto is moving toward the south near 5 mph with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph. While Alberto is becoming less organized and weakening, dangerous surf conditions, including rip currents, are possible along the coasts of northeastern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina through Monday. Elsewhere in the East, rain showers continue to brush the coasts of the Mid-Atlantic and Lower New England. Behind this activity, rain and thunderstorms form along and ahead of a cold front, from areas of western Michigan through western Tennessee into areas of northern Mississippi.

Tropical Storm Bud swirls far off Mexico

Tropical Storm Bud is still swirling well off the Mexican coast but is not strengthening. Photo Gallery Available

Arrest made in post-NBA game shooting that hurt 8

Oklahoma City police made an arrest Tuesday in the late-night fight that escalated into gunfire and left eight people injured shortly after the Thunder-Lakers NBA playoff game ended a few blocks away.

This undated image released by PFCAuctions shows a vial containing Ronald Reagan's dried blood residue. A Channel Islands online auction house has angered Ronald Reagan's foundation by claiming to offer a vial that once contained his blood. The auctioneers say it was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan's blood when he was hospitalized after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington. Bidding for the vial had passed the 7,000 pound ($11,000) mark Tuesday May 22, 2012.

Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan blood

A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan - a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation. Photo Gallery Available

Woman sues hospital over fall off operating table

A woman sued a Connecticut hospital Tuesday, saying she was severely injured when she fell off an operating table after surgery.

US home sales up across the country, hopeful sign

Americans are buying more homes in every region of the country, the latest indication that the housing market could be on the mend.

Mourners react as they carry the body of anti-Syrian regime Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmed Abdul-Wahid, who was shot at a Lebanese army checkpoint, during his funeral procession, at his hometown village of Beireh, in Akkar north Lebanon, Monday, May 21, 2012. The circumstances surrounding Sunday's shooting death of Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmed Abdul-Wahid and his bodyguard remained unclear but the state-run National News Agency said they appeared to have been killed by soldiers after their convoy failed to stop at an army checkpoint. The cleric's funeral was scheduled for later Monday in the northern region of Akkar.

Hezbollah appeals for calm after Syria kidnapping

The leader of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah appealed for calm Tuesday after people blocked roads and burned tires in Beirut to protest the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shiites in neighboring Syria. Photo Gallery Available

Ore. workers awarded $332K in onsite toilet fight

Two workers who claimed they were forced to urinate in a bucket have been awarded $332,000 after a jury found they were fired for complaining to Oregon regulators about the lack of an onsite toilet.

Egypt: 5 police sentenced for killing protesters

An Egyptian court sentenced five policemen to 10 years in prison in absentia on Tuesday for killing protesters, in a rare conviction of security officials accused of using deadly force against the demonstrations that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Photo Gallery Available

Breaking News

MORE STORIES