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For him, it's text messaging while driving. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1471563.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1471563.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:12 EST Broward schools officials said Tuesday they would tackle a sometimes foggy and always sensitive topic: grading.<p/> As the rules stand now, at some schools the lowest possible grade is 0. At others, it is 50 percent. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1471541.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1471541.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:42 EST Florida's embattled ban on adoption by gay people suffered another setback Tuesday, when state child welfare administrators agreed to provide health insurance, college tuition and other benefits to the adopted son of a gay Key West man. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1471529.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1471529.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:12 EST While the real estate industry in South Florida and across the country may be showing some glimmers of hope, there still is likely to be more pain in 2010 -- particularly when it comes to commercial real estate financing. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1469997.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1469997.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:27 EST Miami Beach police have released the name of the 27-year-old man wounded early Monday morning in an officer-involved shooting.<p/> Floyd Jerome Wells remains in in stable condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital, according to Detective Juan Sanchez, a police spokesman. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470767.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470767.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:47 EST A federal judge in Miami has refused to dismiss obstruction charges against two former employees of disgraced financier Allen Stanford, though he called the government's evidence ``thin.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1469991.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1469991.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:57 EST Attorneys handling the bankruptcy fallout from Scott Rothstein's $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme want records from a California technology firm because Rothstein used the company's secure computer servers to hold confidential conversations that may reveal his co-conspirators. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470688.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470688.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:57 EST Two winners of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $106,251.88 each, the Florida Lottery said Tuesday.<p/> The winning tickets were bought in Hialeah and Spring Hill, lottery officials reported. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470597.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470597.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:57 EST Think there are all kinds of crazy deals to be had in today's real estate market?<p/> That's what 31-year-old Jason Bellak thought, too -- a year ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470433.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470433.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:27 EST Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems -- the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470359.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470359.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:42 EST The Broward School Board will talk about budget cuts at a workshop meeting Tuesday, but the most exciting discussion may involve whether students with good grades should be exempt from taking midterm or final exams. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470352.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470352.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:32 EST The Urban Land Institute Southeast Florida/Caribbean District Council, is hosting a seminar to discuss the latest forecasts following the longest downturn of new housing in a generation, continued weakness in commercial markets and a hesitant lending environment. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470309.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1470309.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:19 EST A truck carrying farm animals crashed on U.S. 27 late Monday night, killing another driver and scattering livestock across the road. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1472098.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1472098.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:57 EST Alan Gustafson grew up five miles from Daytona International Speedway, close enough to hear the roar of race cars as he played in his backyard. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1472000.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1472000.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:37 EST Tommy Haas remembers when his first-round opponent, wild-card Devin Britton, was a ballboy. Then he watched him develop into a professional player. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471950.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471950.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:37 EST Andy Ogide scored 12 points and Colorado State made three free throws in the closing minutes as the Rams topped Air Force 51-47 Tuesday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471914.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471914.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:42 EST Carmelo Anthony scored 19 points in his return from an ankle injury and the Denver Nuggets had their biggest win of the season, routing the Dallas Mavericks 127-91 on Tuesday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471905.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471905.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:37 EST Kris Versteeg scored in the fifth round of a shootout, leading the Chicago Blackhawks past the Dallas Stars 4-3 on Tuesday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471885.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:27 EST John Wall had 22 points and 10 rebounds for his first double-double, and fellow freshman DeMarcus Cousins got his seventh in a row, as No. 3 Kentucky outmuscled Alabama 66-55 on Tuesday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471892.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471892.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:27 EST E'Twaun Moore scored a season-high 25 points and JaJuan Johnson added 19, lifting No. 6 Purdue to a 76-64 victory over No. 10 Michigan State on Tuesday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471858.html http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/breaking-news/story/1471858.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:07 EST Paul Kariya has a lot to do with the St. Louis Blues being the NHL's worst team on home ice. For once, he played a key role in a happier ending. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1472055.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1472055.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:17 EST If history and the political lineup are any guides, President Barack Obama's latest effort to cut subsidies for wealthy farmers likely will fare no better than his first try - or his predecessor's attempt. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1472093.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1472093.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:52 EST Nordea Bank AB, the largest banking group in the Nordic region, reported Wednesday a nearly 30 percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit, due mainly to rising costs and loan losses. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1471962.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1471962.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:02 EST Prius owners in Japan are rushing to dealers for repairs a day after Toyota's president announced a global recall for a glitch in the car's antilock brake system. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1471991.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1471991.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:32 EST Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular Internet search engine, said its quarterly earnings jumped 48 percent, beating expectations on strong revenue growth. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1472064.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1472064.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:22 EST Sanofi-Aventis reported a 10 percent increase in fourth quarter net profit Wednesday as strong sales of its swine flu vaccine drove full year earnings above expectations. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1471933.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1471933.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:07 EST California's insurance regulator plans to take steps Wednesday to pressure insurance companies into ending any financial relationship they have with Iran. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1471986.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1471986.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:22 EST World stock markets rose Wednesday on hopes a government debt crisis in Europe can be quarantined to smaller economies. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1472043.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/breaking-news/story/1472043.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:02 EST ArcelorMittal SA, the world's largest steel maker, posted a fourth quarter profit of $1.07 billion Wednesday and said it expects demand to strengthen this year. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1472048.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1472048.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:07 EST A South Florida man has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding immigrants seeking immigration benefits. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1472046.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1472046.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:07 EST A top-ranking official with the Levy County Sheriff's Office has resigned, following accusations of special treatment for his deputy son. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1472045.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1472045.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:07 EST The Tarpon Springs fire chief has resigned after admitting to city officials last month that he responded to a fire after he had been drinking. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471938.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471938.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:12 EST Shuttle Endeavour arrived to a warm welcome at the International Space Station early Wednesday, delivering a new room and observation deck that will come close to completing construction 200 miles above Earth. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471523.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471523.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:59 EST The remains of a US Air Force major killed when an earthquake struck the Haitian hotel where he was staying have been found. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471478.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471478.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:35 EST The body of a U.S. Air Force officer visiting Haiti at the time of last month's earthquake has been found in the rubble of a hotel in the country's devastated capital, military officials said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471406.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471406.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:55 EST Sixteen schools in eight districts and on a university campus have been cited for failing to comply with Florida's class size limits. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471372.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1471372.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:21 EST The remains of a U.S. Air Force officer have been found at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1472099.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1472099.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:12 EST Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich heads to court Wednesday to answer a revised batch of charges that he schemed to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old Senate seat and swap official favors for campaign money. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1472088.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1472088.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:42 EST The latest Pacific storm that brought heavy rain, hail and snow to Southern California is heading east, but the mudslide threat is not over for communities below wildfire-scarred mountains. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471977.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471977.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:22 EST The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office has identified two bodies found near the border with Mexico as siblings who drowned when their vehicle was swept away in Tijuana by last month's torrential rains. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471956.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471956.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:42 EST After a major drop over the past two years, Afghanistan's opium cultivation is unlikely to rise or fall dramatically in 2010, a U.N. report said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471881.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:17 EST One pedestrian is dead and another seriously injured following separate accidents in San Francisco involving city-owned vehicles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471697.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471697.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:42 EST A jury has convicted a 23-year-old California man of killing his girlfriend's 1-year-old son. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471679.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471679.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:27 EST Plows that have been rolling around the clock for days in the nation's capital, Philadelphia and Baltimore won't be heading for the garage any time soon as a second major storm in a week moved into the snowbound region Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471662.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471662.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:22 EST A Democratic state senator who betrayed his colleagues by joining Republicans in a brief coup and was convicted of a misdemeanor assault charge for dragging his girlfriend around during an argument at his apartment says he'll go back to court to fight his expulsion from the Senate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472104.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472104.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:42 EST Pakistan's interior minister says the government is trying to confirm "credible information" that the country's Taliban's chief died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone strike. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472100.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472100.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:12 EST Officials say a Vietnam War-era artillery shell has exploded at a coffee plantation. Four men were injured, three seriously. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472091.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472091.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:42 EST China declared a new food-safety campaign Wednesday after contaminated milk products from an earlier scandal showed up repackaged in several places around the country, exposing weaknesses in the country's promise to stop such problems from happening again. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472089.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472089.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:42 EST A 20-year-old factory worker who joined a banned political party because he was unhappy with one-party rule in China was sentenced to jail for 18 months Wednesday, his mother said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472087.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472087.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:32 EST At least 157 people have been killed in a series of avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul, trapping hundreds more in their snowbound vehicles, Afghan officials said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472078.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1472078.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:22 EST During an Iranian government meeting late last month, a top adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brought a proposal to expand the political voice of a group more known for its street muscle: the civilian militia corps called the Basij. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1471956.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1471956.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:17 EST After a major drop over the past two years, Afghanistan's opium cultivation is unlikely to rise or fall dramatically in 2010, a U.N. report said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1471959.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1471959.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:42 EST China's highest court has issued new guidelines on the death penalty that instruct lower courts to limit its use to a small number of "extremely serious" cases. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471983.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471983.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:02 EST Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show "Deadliest Catch", has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471945.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471945.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:22 EST The Discovery Channel says the captain of the "Deadliest Catch" fishing vessel Cornelia Marie has died. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471934.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471934.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:07 EST Anne Rice is giving the video book a try. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471918.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471918.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:47 EST Jay Leno ushered out one of television's biggest flops without sentiment on Tuesday, the final night of a prime-time experiment doomed by bad ratings and bad vibes. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471899.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471899.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:27 EST Ellen DeGeneres hit the right notes with "American Idol" viewers. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471779.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471779.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:22 EST President Felipe Calderon's "South Park" cameo will have to wait. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471638.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471638.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:02 EST Bonnaroo (BAHN-ah-ROO) is known for its eclectic lineup. This summer's roster takes it to a new level. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471543.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1471543.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:50 EST A San Francisco jury has found a former reality TV show contestant guilty of killing a man in 2007.