http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Broward 60 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:14:50 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325302.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325302.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST For eight months Hollywood officials warned the owners of the Yellow Green Farmers Market that they couldn't hold their grand opening until permit violations were addressed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325300.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325300.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The chain-link fence around a field at Pompano Beach's Blanche Ely High School is the same color as its baseball diamond, a deep, red-brown shade of rust. The dugouts are so antiquated, Ely can't host baseball games. And there's no track around the football gridiron -- only a swath of white asphalt for runners to practice. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325239.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325239.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Like repo men, the feds grabbed Scott Rothstein's fire-engine red Ferrari Spider convertible with tan interior -- right off a downtown Fort Lauderdale street. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325308.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325308.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 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/broward/breaking-news/story/1325044.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/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/broward/breaking-news/story/1323760.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/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/broward/breaking-news/story/1324233.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/breaking-news/story/1324233.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:52 EST Federal authorities are seizing Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein's properties -- sports cars, waterfront homes, power boats and bank accounts -- as part of a criminal investigation into his alleged multimillion-dollar investment scam. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1315731.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1315731.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A voluptuous young woman greets patrons with a welcoming smile at the door of Satoro Restaurant & Lounge. Step inside, and the place is as sultry as the hostess -- clubby and urban with soft lighting, white leather seats and warm orange accents. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1303692.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1303692.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT When it opened in 1989, Bimini Boatyard became the hot place to go on Fort Lauderdale's 17th Street Causeway. Fancy cars filled the parking lots, mega yachts docked out back and people-watching was over the top. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1292511.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1292511.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The light, fragrant, healthful cuisine of Vietnam is perfect for South Florida, yet we're only beginning to embrace it. The love affair is bound to heat up with the opening of Basilic Vietnamese Grill in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, likely the only spot east of U.S. 441 specializing in dishes like pho, shaking beef and Vietnamese crepes. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1281950.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1281950.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Going out to watch football doesn't have to mean eating greasy bar food. Here are three places that offer a wider selection to go with their wide screens. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1270772.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/broward-dining/story/1270772.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Dining at Candela is like having a personal chef. Give talented toque Armando Vega a few days notice and he'll cook whatever you want (within reason, of course). Plus you'll be amazed at the quality and quantity of the food at such modest prices. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325308.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325308.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 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/broward/story/1325302.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325302.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST For eight months Hollywood officials warned the owners of the Yellow Green Farmers Market that they couldn't hold their grand opening until permit violations were addressed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325300.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325300.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The chain-link fence around a field at Pompano Beach's Blanche Ely High School is the same color as its baseball diamond, a deep, red-brown shade of rust. The dugouts are so antiquated, Ely can't host baseball games. And there's no track around the football gridiron -- only a swath of white asphalt for runners to practice. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325239.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325239.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Like repo men, the feds grabbed Scott Rothstein's fire-engine red Ferrari Spider convertible with tan interior -- right off a downtown Fort Lauderdale street. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325222.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325222.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Ian Pearl once feared a tracheal tube inserted into his throat would render him voiceless.<p/> But he got his voice back -- and then some.<p/> He's using it now to bring attention to the issue of discriminatory health insurance practices against the disabled. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1323766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1323766.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein, who returned from a trip to Morocco last week to face a federal fraud investigation, said he was in good spirits Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1323760.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/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/broward/story/1323759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1323759.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Lotto ticket sold at a Pembroke Park gas station won Saturday night's $28 million jackpot, the Florida Lottery said Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323759.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Lotto ticket sold at a Pembroke Park gas station won Saturday night's $28 million jackpot, the Florida Lottery said Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1323766.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein, who returned from a trip to Morocco last week to face a federal fraud investigation, said he was in good spirits Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322690.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322690.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST His marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. Everything Jason Rodriguez sought ended in failure. Except his alleged plot to kill. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322675.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is emerging as the champion of activists fed up with Republicans who don't stay true to conservative principles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1322574.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST If there was one thing Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein craved, it was attention. And how better to get it than to whip out his checkbook?<p/> Like at Gov. Charlie Crist's 52nd birthday party/GOP fundraiser last year, when, instead of buying a $1,000 candle, Rothstein bought an entire chocolate cake covered with 52 candles. His donation: $52,000. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321344.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321344.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST For the first time in the company's history, Sedano's Supermarkets is expanding outside of South Florida.<p/> The Hispanic supermarket chain said Friday it has a deal to purchase three Albertson's stores in the Orlando area that will be converted into the Sedano's brand. Terms of the deal, which is scheduled to close in the first quarter of next year, were not disclosed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321339.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST State Sen. Dan Gelber says the proposed anticorruption package he unveiled earlier this week is more vital than ever in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of possible fraud by the board that oversees the state pension fund. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1321193.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Lawmakers converged on the state capital this week -- at a cost of some $100,000 in taxpayer money -- for a few days' worth of meetings to discuss legislation and policy matters in advance of the 2010 legislative session. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317135.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317135.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The National Rifle Association is pushing legislation to ban adoption agencies from asking potential parents if they have guns and ammunition in the home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314878.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314878.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Responding to criticism over inactivity on 4,400 state complaints against debt collectors, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum proposed separate measures Tuesday to reign in abusive tactics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314879.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314879.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST TALLAHASSEE - Attorney General Bill McCollum filed suit Tuesday against two leading Internet travel firms, accusing Expedia and Orbitz of cheating the state and local governments out of millions of dollars in sales tax revenues from online hotel bookings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314881.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida's restrictions on where sex offenders can live might be both ineffective and endangering the public, a legislative analyst said Tuesday.<p/> Marti Harkness, a criminal-justice analyst, told the House Public Safety & Domestic Security Committee that studies from Florida, Minnesota and Colorado showed almost no link between a sex offender's residency and the crime he committed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314886.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314886.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Casting herself as a ``fresh face'' not connected to what she calls a troubled Republican establishment, state Sen. Paula Dockery of Lakeland jumped into the race for governor Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1313125.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1313125.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Independent voters are more likely to side with Republicans than with Democrats on issues facing Floridians, according to a poll conducted for The Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309207.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Hoping to close a loophole that has helped make South Florida the hub of black-market prescription painkillers, two Democratic state lawmakers are proposing legislation to ban convicted felons from holding an ownership stake in pain clinics distributing narcotics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309088.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309088.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Florida voters want offshore oil drilling, oppose a ``public option'' for health insurance and overwhelmingly support a gambling agreement with the Seminole Tribe, according to a new Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 poll. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324741.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324741.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:08 EST The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty Monday against an Ohio man who killed and mutilated a man he met in a gay bar in 1985, rejecting a claim that his lawyers erred during the sentencing phase of his trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324561.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324561.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:12 EST A new national museum honoring excellence in scholastic sports is going up in eastern Pennsylvania, spotlighting the high school exploits of pro superstars like LeBron James but also cheering former top athletes who excelled away from the playing field. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324524.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324524.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:42 EST The Defense Department reports two Fort Lewis soldiers were killed Thursday when their Stryker vehicle went over a buried explosive in Afghanistan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324460.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324460.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:02 EST The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324429.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324429.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:32 EST The state is suing two central Florida companies for allegedly scamming homeowners trying to rescue their properties from foreclosure. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324393.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324393.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:07 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/news/florida/AP/story/1324386.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324386.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:02 EST A man who was in an Orlando office when a former employee came in and started shooting said Monday that the ordeal that left one dead and five injured lasted about a minute. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324327.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1324327.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:12 EST Federal prosecutors accused a high-profile South Florida attorney of concocting a Ponzi scheme that lured millions of dollars from investors with promises of big payoffs from legal settlements that never existed, according to court documents filed Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325222.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325222.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Ian Pearl once feared a tracheal tube inserted into his throat would render him voiceless.<p/> But he got his voice back -- and then some.<p/> He's using it now to bring attention to the issue of discriminatory health insurance practices against the disabled. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325308.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325308.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 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/broward/story/1325302.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325302.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST For eight months Hollywood officials warned the owners of the Yellow Green Farmers Market that they couldn't hold their grand opening until permit violations were addressed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325300.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1325300.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The chain-link fence around a field at Pompano Beach's Blanche Ely High School is the same color as its baseball diamond, a deep, red-brown shade of rust. The dugouts are so antiquated, Ely can't host baseball games. And there's no track around the football gridiron -- only a swath of white asphalt for runners to practice.