HOLLYWOOD

On Hollywood’s menu: Food truck or sit-down restaurant?

The weekly food truck event attracts 1,800 to Young Circle every Monday night. But city leaders want to mak...

Bored no more: Here are ways to have fun this summer

School’s been out less than a week, and already it’s started:

Viewing on Monday for 4-year-old who died during visit with mom

Motorcyclist killed in Broward identified

A Coconut Creek man who died Saturday after his motorcycle collided with a vehicle in Deerfield Beach has b...

Don’t believe your smartphone, it’s not that hot in Pompano Beach

Across South Florida, those checking the temperature on their smartphone and other automated weather sites ...

Broward

Broward’s boil water advisory lifted

Contaminated well will be cut off from county water supply until the Health Department figures out what cau...

Broward judge sharply questions state workers for allowing boy to return to troubled mom

Child welfare workers try to answer a Broward judge’s sharp questions about why a 4-year-old boy was...

Courts

Murder case dropped against North Miami-Dade teen who fatally shot unarmed burglar

COURTS

Miami Archdiocese faces another sex abuse suit over teacher serving 23-year sentence

The lawyer for a former student said the Miami Archdiocese knew about a school music teacher abusing studen...

Miami-Dade County street-light supervisor charged with taking bribes

A Miami-Dade County supervisor who oversaw street lighting projects is charged with accepting thousands of ...

Celebrated University of Miami architecture dean, champion of traditional design, to step down

UM architecture dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is stepping down after 18 years at the helm of the school, whi...

Watson Island

Miami turns to Jorge Perez, Stephen Ross to carry out long-stalled Watson Island redevelopment

High-profile developers Jorge Perez and Stephen Ross are pitching changes to the long-stalled Watson Island...

COURTS

Former UM student begins 3-year sentence in DUI death

Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade property appraiser plans to sue county over office powers

The county has treated the property appraiser as an elected department head. But the appraiser thinks his o...

MEDICAID

Business coalitions warn Florida’s failure to expand Medicaid will hurt them

The groups argue that businesses may flee the state if lawmakers refuse to accept billions of Medicaid doll...

COLLEGE COSTS

With tuition rising slightly, Gov. Rick Scott asks board to be tough on fees

Gov. Rick Scott asked the Florida Board of Governors to carefully consider fee hikes for college students n...

In My Opinion

Fred Grimm: Vigilante justice? It’s OK now

If justice were based on a homicide victim’s virtue, it would be inarguable — Bryan Antonio D...

CAMPAIGN-FINANCE SCANDAL

Justin Lamar Sternad says he was duped by campaign manager

The political newcomer said he was “manipulated” by campaign manager Ana Alliegro, who promis...

Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade property appraiser plans to sue county over office powers

The county has treated the property appraiser as an elected department head. But the appraiser thinks his o...

FLORIDA

Gay activists seek to reverse Florida’s 2008 same-sex marriage ban

Trayvon Martin case

Potential Zimmerman jurors questioned as a group

SANFORD Lawyers began questioning a group of 40 finalists Wednesday who could serve as jurors in the trial ...

MEDICAID

Business coalitions warn Florida’s failure to expand Medicaid will hurt them

The groups argue that businesses may flee the state if lawmakers refuse to accept billions of Medicaid doll...

In My Opinion

Fred Grimm: Rush to privatize is all about bucks

Our governor was deeply offended by a burst of unkind aspersions after an insurance company that didnȁ...

ELECTIONS

Online ballot fraud marks the ‘e-boletera era of Miami politics’

A rash of computer-related absentee-ballot request irregularities has touched four Miami-area campaigns, le...

MEDICAID

One month later, Florida lawmakers no closer to Medicaid deal

Medicaid expansion, or some alternative, remains a long shot in Florida.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Gov. Rick Scott signs bill to speed up executions in Florida

TROPICAL STORM

Florida officials use onset of storm season to blast Washington

Florida Republicans warned that federal budget cuts could harm the state’s ability to prepare for stor...

Health care

Gov. Scott signs abortion law

The law requires doctors performing an abortion to offer emergency care if a baby is somehow born alive.

Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons

The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Ha...

FBI seeking Fla. lawyer on fraud charges

The FBI is looking for a suspended South Florida lawyer suspected of disappearing with more than $3 million...

Haiti PM files new complaint in defamation case

Following a judge's order, Haiti's prime minister has filed a more detailed complaint in his defamation cas...

'Dolphin Tale' sequel to hit theaters fall 2014

Winter the dolphin is returning to the big screen.

Teen who killed officer to be re-sentenced in Fla.

A St. Petersburg teen who was convicted of killing a police officer will have the chance to argue that he s...

Couple in deck collapse sues Fla. sports bar

A couple has filed a lawsuit against a South Florida sports bar where a deck collapsed into Biscayne Bay la...

Couple in deck collapse sues restaurant

A couple has filed a lawsuit against a South Florida restaurant where a deck collapsed into Biscayne Bay la...