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Roy Rutland, a Miami-Dade police spokesman. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325159.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325159.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:22 EST Barbara Kingsolver would like to thank you, Miami.<p/> As part of what she calls ``evangelizing for literature,'' the author of the beloved novels The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible told a full house Monday night at Miami Book Fair International that ``the real beating heart of democracy is the place people love books. I salute you for your love of reading.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325120.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325120.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:42 EST Haiti and Guyana are the two countries in the Caribbean that are expected to post positive growth this year, despite a global economic crisis that sent financial shock waves through the region. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325104.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325104.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:22 EST The pitch goes like this: Toss back a two-ounce shot of caffeine and vitamins and you'll be alert for the rest of the day. <p/> Hoping that consumers will ditch coffee and traditional energy drinks for miniature power shots, more than a dozen beverage makers pushed this message at the 12th annual Americas Food & Beverage Show, being held at the Miami Beach Convention Center this week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325044.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325044.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:22 EST Three of the five teenagers accused of setting fire to 15-year-old Michael Brewer of Deerfield Beach will be charged as adults, the Broward State Attorney's Office said Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1323760.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1323760.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:27 EST For eight months Hollywood officials warned the owners of the Yellow Green Farmer's Market that they couldn't hold their grand opening until permit violations were addressed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1324525.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1324525.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:42 EST U.S. hotel room prices are expected to drop a total of 8.8 percent in 2009 compared to 2008 and will continue creeping down in 2010, though at a much slower rate, according to the 2010 lodging forecast from PricewaterhouseCoopers Hospitality & Leisure Practice. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1324267.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1324267.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:42 EST Nearly half of all owners of single-family homes in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area were underwater at the end of the third quarter, meaning their homes were valued at less than the mortgages owed against them. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325051.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1325051.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Should Florida's electric companies be required to reward customers who install energy-efficient light bulbs, buy energy-saving appliances, replace inefficient windows or make other investments that save electricity? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1324067.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1324067.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:37 EST A sex offender living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway has been cleared of accusations that he went to a park when children were present, violating state and county restrictions. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1324393.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1324393.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:11 EST A central Florida man who gave his wife a gun and encouraged her to kill herself is facing criminal charges. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325416.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325416.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:12 EST Kelenna Azubuike scored a season-high 31 points and Anthony Randolph added 23 to help the Golden State Warriors beat the struggling Minnesota Timberwolves 146-105 on Monday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325394.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325394.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:02 EST Chris Paul had 24 points and 10 assists on a sore ankle, Devin Brown scored 25 points and the New Orleans Hornets bounced right back from a blowout loss with a 112-84 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325252.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325252.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:47 EST Jonathan Toews and Troy Brouwer scored power-play goals in a 3:31 span early in the third period Monday night, leading the Chicago Blackhawks to a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325172.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325172.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:47 EST The size of the gallery Tuesday at Kingston Heath was nothing new for Tiger Woods, who also played before some 7,000 people two days ago in China. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325160.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325160.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:27 EST Rarely has playing it safe paid off so well for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tyrone Carter started in place of safety Ryan Clark as a precaution Monday night and made the big play that sparked the Steelers to their fifth straight win, taking the first of his two interceptions 48 yards for a touchdown in Pittsburgh's 28-10 win over the Denver Broncos. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325045.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1325045.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:27 EST Michigan athletic director Bill Martin pushed a student and grabbed the wind breaker of another student during two football games, according to a department of public safety report. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1324996.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1324996.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:37 EST Kurt Busch and Pat Tryson had every reason to coast through the season's final 10 races in a long farewell before the crew chief bolts to a new team next year. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1324725.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1324725.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:02 EST Western Kentucky fired David Elson on Monday, though he will finish out the remainder of a horrific season in which the Hilltoppers have struggled to make the transition to major college football. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324869.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324869.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:17 EST A vice president for shipping giant UPS who was accused of raping a 21-year-old Indiana University student over homecoming weekend has committed suicide in Georgia, police said Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324029.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324029.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:42 EST A jury began deliberations Monday at the trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers charged with lying to investors. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324484.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324484.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:17 EST A former lawyer with the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring with a prominent Manhattan lawyer to dupe hedge funds out of tens of millions of dollars. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324267.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324267.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:42 EST Nearly half of all owners of single-family homes in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area were underwater at the end of the third quarter, meaning their homes were valued at less than the mortgages owed against them. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324283.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324283.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:52 EST If holiday travelers on the same plane compare what they paid to fly, they're likely to find quite a spread, depending on when they bought their tickets. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324525.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324525.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:42 EST U.S. hotel room prices are expected to drop a total of 8.8 percent in 2009 compared to 2008 and will continue creeping down in 2010, though at a much slower rate, according to the 2010 lodging forecast from PricewaterhouseCoopers Hospitality & Leisure Practice. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324376.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1324376.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:52 EST Floridians are asked to report anything that appears to be price-gouging related to Tropical Storm Ida.<p/> Under Florida law, it is illegal to charge exorbitant or excessive prices for essential items -- including shelter, gasoline, food, water, ice, generators or lumber -- following the declaration of an emergency, unless the increases in the amount charged can be attributed to additional costs for retailers. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1323219.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1323219.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:52 EST Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation's readiness to turn the talk into reality. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325496.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325496.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:12 EST A Winter Springs man has been sentenced to life in prison for shaking his 2 1/2-month-old daughter to death. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325494.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325494.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:12 EST An Altamonte Springs man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for fatally shooting a man he found at the home of his former girlfriend. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325493.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325493.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:12 EST A Manatee man was charged with domestic battery and illegal dumping after authorities say his pushed his girlfriend's car into a river. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325492.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325492.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:12 EST A central Florida man has been charged with a felony for an August texting-while-driving crash that cost a garbage collector his legs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325244.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1325244.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:32 EST America's Northwood University and China's Jilin University are collaborating on a program to train car dealers for China, the globe's biggest vehicle market. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324911.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324911.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:47 EST A Western Nebraska jury has convicted a 26-year-old man of murdering his Chadron State College roommate last year. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324889.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324889.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:27 EST Three teenagers accused of setting a 15-year-old on fire will be charged as adults. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324882.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324882.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:22 EST The U.S. Coast Guard has closed Gulf Coast ports from Mississippi to Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325400.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325400.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:03 EST Authorities say a 14-year-old boy is dead and his cousin is in custody after a bullet came through the wall of the motor home the boy was sleeping in at a central Oregon hunting camp and struck him in the head. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325299.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325299.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:42 EST Envelopes containing suspicious powder were sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan on Monday, but initial tests suggested the mailings were a hoax, police officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325296.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325296.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:37 EST Vitaly Ginzburg http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325272.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325272.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:12 EST A New Mexico teenager suspected of killing a nun on the Navajo Indian reservation reportedly tried to commit suicide over the weekend. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325195.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325195.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:07 EST The family of an 8-year-old boy who fatally shot himself at a gun show in western Massachusetts say the Uzi submachine gun jammed twice before he lost control of the weapon and fired into his head. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325181.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325181.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:52 EST The attorney for the Army psychiatrist accused in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says he's met with his hospitalized client. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325161.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325161.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:27 EST A Texas man has been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for his role in what became the deadliest human smuggling attempt in U.S. history. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325158.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1325158.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:22 EST A close friend of Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen shot one of Owen's sons in an apparent workplace dispute Monday afternoon and then shot himself in the head, the lieutenant governor said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325486.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325486.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:07 EST It was just a routine car wash. Except there was no car - and no clothing. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325477.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325477.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:47 EST Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered men, then face killers in the confessional. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325445.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325445.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:17 EST President Barack Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won't have time during this week's trip to Japan to go to the cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs at the end of World War II. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325441.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325441.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:05 EST A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 39 people, an official said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325440.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325440.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:57 EST The deepening debate over the future of a major U.S. Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa has opened a broad rift in Washington's most important alliance in Asia ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the region this week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325421.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325421.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:12 EST Asian stocks extended their gains Tuesday after Wall Street touched its highest level for 2009 amid optimism low interest rates would continue to power this year's rally in global markets. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325321.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325321.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:22 EST Dueling visits to Brazil by the presidents of Israel and Iran are showing the South American powerhouse's growing role in Mideast diplomacy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325293.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1325293.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:27 EST Gunmen in camouflage stormed a plywood factory and abducted three workers Tuesday, a day after suspected Muslim militants beheaded a kidnapped schoolteacher on a nearby southern Philippine island, officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325487.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325487.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:12 EST A lawyer for the TV news producer accused of blackmailing David Letterman plans to ask a judge to dismiss an extortion case that prompted the late-night comic to acknowledge affairs with staffers. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325408.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325408.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:07 EST On the eve of a hearing in the Michael Jackson estate, a lawyer for the singer's father filed a 60-page motion Monday that intensifies a bid to get money from his son's estate by making accusations of fraud against the administrators of his will. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325346.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325346.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:32 EST Even for a venue as grand as New York's Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325212.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325212.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:22 EST Mya is tops on "Dancing With the Stars." http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325066.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325066.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:52 EST Another executive at The Walt Disney Co.'s movie studio is exiting hurriedly as the company's troubles continue at the box office with a weak opening for "A Christmas Carol." http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324968.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324968.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:12 EST Mutual of Omaha may have had its own "aha moment." The insurance company has decided to settle its lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey's production company over rights to the phrase. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324916.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324916.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:52 EST A judge on Monday ordered a woman to stay away from Justin Timberlake for the next three years. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324909.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:47 EST A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded after a 200-pound chimpanzee attacked her in February is set to appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."