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Not this year. And probably not ever.<p/> So said the All-Star pitcher's agent Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343598.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343598.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:30 EST A man was shot dead Friday morning in front of his Southwest Miami-Dade home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343543.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343543.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:27 EST The University of Miami has received a $2.4 million gift from a private organization to enhance its prestigious Cuban Heritage Collection housed inside the Otto G. Richter Library at its Coral Gables campus. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343548.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343548.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:07 EST South Florida's trade with the world dropped 17 percent in September, falling at a slightly slower rate than it did in August and marking its 10th straight month of declines, new U.S. Census data show. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343549.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343549.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:07 EST Federal regulators on Thursday directed Flagler Bank of West Palm Beach to address concerns about its financial stability.<p/>In a 17-page written agreement with the bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta ordered Flagler to submit a plan for strengthening the board's oversight of management and operations. It also must show it can maintain sufficient capital and improve liquidity. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343484.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343484.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:13 EST Police are searching for a man who stabbed two other men Friday morning at the La Sonrisa restaurant in Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343946.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1343946.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:06 EST Broward sheriff's deputies have a suspect in custody in the rape of a 26-year-old woman who was attacked in her bedroom early Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1343669.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1343669.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:07 EST The undefeated Parkway Academy football team has been forced to vacate its spot in the Class 1A playoffs, according to the Florida High School Athletic Association's website. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344772.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344772.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:57 EST Chris Bosh had 29 points and 12 rebounds, Andrea Bargnani had 24 points and 10 rebounds and the Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat 120-113 on Friday night to snap a three-game losing streak. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344767.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344767.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:57 EST Travis Moen and Tomas Plekanec scored in a three-minute span early in the second period, Michael Cammalleri added a goal in the third, and the Montreal Canadiens withstood a furious comeback to beat the Washington Capitals 3-2 on Friday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344769.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344769.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:57 EST LeBron James scored a season-high 40 points, and the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied to beat the Indiana Pacers 105-95 on Friday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344738.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344738.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52 EST EAST http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344739.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344739.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52 EST Rudy Gay tied his season high with 33 points, including a clutch jumper with 19 seconds remaining, Zach Randolph added 21 points and 11 rebounds, and the Memphis Grizzlies registered their first road win of the season with a 102-97 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344734.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344734.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:47 EST Tyler Sheehan had a record-setting day, throwing for 338 yards and two touchdowns, to lead Bowling Green to a 36-20 victory over Akron on Friday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344726.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1344726.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42 EST Brandon Triche and Arinze Onuaku combined for 13 points in Syracuse's 22-1 run to open the second half and the Orange went on to a 87-71 victory over No. 6 North Carolina on Friday night in the championship game of the 2K Sports Classic. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1344484.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1344484.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:07 EST Twitter, the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $4 million a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1343701.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1343701.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:42 EST Florida's unemployment rate ticked up again last month, rising a tenth of a point to 11.2 percent, the state labor department said Friday.<p/> It was the highest rate since June 1975. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1343952.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1343952.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:37 EST Mobile homeowners insured by state-backed Citizens Property Insurance will see an 11 percent increase on their insurance policies in 2010.<p/> Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty signed an order Thursday establishing rates for the Citizens high-risk accounts. The approved rates are close to those requested by Citizens at a rate hearing earlier this month. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1344289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1344289.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52 EST Medical-products manufacturer Boston Scientific will close its plant in Doral, eliminating 1,400 jobs by 2013, Miami-Dade economic development officials announced Friday afternoon. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1343548.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1343548.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:07 EST South Florida's trade with the world dropped 17 percent in September, falling at a slightly slower rate than it did in August and marking its 10th straight month of declines, new U.S. Census data show. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1344018.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1344018.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:06 EST California's unemployment rate rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record, even though more than 25,000 Californians found jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1343891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1343891.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:41 EST Global Defense Technology & Systems shares were little changed after its initial public offering priced below expectations. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1344059.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1344059.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:26 EST The publisher of the East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa said Friday that a buyer has made an offer that would keep the paper and its Web site in business. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344732.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344732.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42 EST The Travolta's are home for the Ocala open of the new Disney comedy 'Old Dogs' and to help raise money for five charities. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344604.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344604.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:41 EST The founder of "Girls Gone Wild" had a doctor's note and did not appear at a Panhandle court hearing. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344495.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344495.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:16 EST A 13-year-old Miami Beach boy accused in a murder plot has agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344494.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344494.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:16 EST Florida authorities have captured a man who allegedly set a fire that killed his elderly parents in their northwestern New Jersey home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344418.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344418.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:36 EST A small plane crashed in Charlotte County, but no one was injured. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344416.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344416.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:36 EST Florida banking regulators on Friday shut down Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, marking the 124th U.S. bank to succumb this year to the struggling economy and rising loan defaults. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344391.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344391.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16 EST Two men were fatally shot while sitting in a car on a Miami road. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344390.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1344390.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16 EST The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344773.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344773.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:57 EST The parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly raped by four boys have been arrested on felony child abuse charges. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344761.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344761.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52 EST A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl's body was found dumped off a rural road. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344759.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52 EST Police are investigating after a woman lost control of her car and struck 11 people outside a high school in Alabama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344735.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344735.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:47 EST The mother of the man former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol had planned to marry has been sentenced to three years in prison. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344731.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344731.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42 EST Two congressional Republicans say federal prosecutors rushed into a settlement with a nonprofit operated by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson that had been accused of misspending government grants. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344730.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344730.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42 EST Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344679.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344679.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:12 EST As of Friday, Nov. 18, 2009, at least 842 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EST. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1344675.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:07 EST As of Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, at least 4,364 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344659.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47 EST The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344627.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344627.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11 EST Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344422.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344422.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:46 EST Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344396.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344396.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21 EST U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Barack Obama makes a decision quickly to send the reinforcements requested by his top commander there. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344331.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344331.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31 EST Authorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344266.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344266.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:51 EST The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet holes. Dozens of holes, blasted by grenades, pockmark the linoleum floors. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344258.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344258.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:41 EST A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they will be killed or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not paid soon. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344253.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1344253.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:36 EST Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344678.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344678.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:12 EST A Nashville judge has dismissed assault and harassment charges against country music singer John Rich. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344547.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344547.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:11 EST For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344528.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344528.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:46 EST "Going Rogue" is going big. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344492.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344492.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:16 EST Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344444.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344444.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:56 EST Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344298.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344298.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:16 EST Wale wanted to infuse his debut album with a woman's touch, so the rapper recruited singing divas like Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Chrisette Michele and Jazmine Sullivan to get that feeling across. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344246.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344246.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:36 EST Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, an international opera star, has died, her husband Sverker Olow says. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344237.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1344237.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:31 EST Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib is being sent to jail for 45 days for leaving the scene of an accident.