http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Florida 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:44:41 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346261.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The oil once used to fry grouper and conch fritters in Key West restaurants is now fueling an old Mercedes-Benz and soon could be powering a school bus. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346259.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346259.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The HMS Bounty sailed up to the Palm Beach Maritime Museum Saturday, flanked by a flotilla of recreational boats welcoming it to Peanut Island.<p/> Onlookers lined up along the inlet jetties and on the docks at the Maritime Museum, exclaiming over the beauty of the ship as it rode in under sunny skies. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346265.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346265.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Just two years ago, he was a no-name cur with cutoff ears scrounging for scraps in the desert.<p/> Nubs now is barking up his new book with the national media, getting belly rubs from celebrities like Sharon and Ozzie Osborne and taking up couch space with appearances on the Today show and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. There's talk of a movie deal, too. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344834.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Antonio Palou is temping, but not complaining.<p/> He'd love a more permanent job, but he knows plenty of other information technology professionals who have been out of work for a year or more. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344839.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344839.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Thirty years of spying for Cuba will send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United States' longtime antagonist. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346264.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346264.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST After losing on the legal front, a powerful coalition of agriculture and business interests, wastewater utilities, water managers and tax watchdogs is mounting a lobbying assault on pending federal rules that could force Florida to clean up pollution fouling lakes, canals, streams and beaches statewide. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346641.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346641.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:29 EST As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346593.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346593.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:09 EST A cruise ship passenger was rescued from the ocean about 20 miles southeast of Miami after he fell overboard. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346592.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346592.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:09 EST A Pinellas County deputy was injured in head-on collision with a vehicle traveling the wrong way down the street. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346554.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346554.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:52 EST A 6-year-old girl was injured when she fell out of a second-story window. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346546.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346546.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:42 EST The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $9 million after no one matched the six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344943.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344943.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The average cost of Citizens Property Insurance coverage for windstorm damage will increase next year but not as much as first expected. <p/> Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty approved an average 5.9 percent hike for single-family homeowners and 9.3 percent jump for businesses, according to an order issued Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344947.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344947.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is about to go on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Attorney General Bill McCollum, running for governor, updates supporters that he is ``honored'' to get the endorsement of Gov. Charlie Crist. And Sen. Dan Gelber, hoping to be Florida's next attorney general, wants you to know he's thankful for America's veterans. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342975.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342975.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Cigarettes sales are down 27 percent in Florida during the last four months, thanks to a new $1-a-pack tax designed to balance the budget and cut down on smoking. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342995.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342995.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Three men, including a registered sex offender, drive from Broward County to a Lake Worth amusement park for a robbery, according to authorities.<p/> Their intended victim, in a struggle, kills one of the assailants with his own gun. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342997.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342997.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST One group believes that homosexuals can be cured and runs programs aimed at putting gay men and lesbians on a straight path.<p/> The other group believes such programs have tortured thousands of men and women, making it impossible for them to accept their natural sexual orientation and live happy lives. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1343131.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1343131.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Cuba's celebrated and increasingly brassy blogger Yoani Sánchez emerged Thursday as a player in U.S.-Cuba relations, scoring a lengthy reply from President Barack Obama to her questions and playing a starring role in a congressional hearing on efforts to let American tourists visit Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1343136.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1343136.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Call this Scott Rothstein's pineapple-juice scam.<p/> Coconut Grove businessman Todd Snyder was lured into it just days before the Fort Lauderdale lawyer's Ponzi scheme imploded in late October. Snyder wired a bank more than $2 million to buy a slice of Rothstein's purported $500 million settlement with Dole Food Co. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342972.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1342972.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Broward County grand jury issued a damning report Thursday bemoaning the explosion of illegal painkillers sold through Broward pain clinics -- and warning that reforms passed by the Legislature may not be enough. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1337207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1337207.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The two leading candidates for Florida's governor have grounded their high-flying ways on state-owned airplanes.<p/> Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum have dramatically cut back their use of state aircraft since a Herald/Times analysis in June revealed that they had racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in flights, including questionable use of planes by family members and use of the planes to commute to work from their homes in other parts of the state. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1335574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1335574.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida's constant search for more money could mean a tougher approach to businesses that fail to file annual reports on time. <p/> By law, the 1.2 million corporations in Florida must file an annual report with the state, which can charge a $400 fine on every company that skips the May 1 filing deadline. The state, however, must waive the fine for most businesses if the company says it never got a reminder notice to submit a report. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1330909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1330909.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The investment scam by Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein ``could well exceed $1 billion,'' making it one of the biggest fraud cases in South Florida history, the head of the FBI in Miami said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1325301.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1325301.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST As an underdog U.S. Senate candidate courting the GOP's conservative wing, Marco Rubio takes a hard-line position against illegal immigration: no amnesty. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1322675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/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/legislature/story/1321339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/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/legislature/story/1321201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321201.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A bank central to the federal fraud investigation into Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein was ordered by a Broward judge Friday to turn over records to the receiver for Rothstein's embattled law firm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/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/1319242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319242.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Florida House committee investigating state Rep. Ray Sansom's conduct voted Thursday to move forward, dismissing requests by Sansom's lawyers for a delay until after his criminal trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319240.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319240.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Facing a potentially bruising Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, Gov. Charlie Crist continues to run from any assertion that he is linked to President Barack Obama. 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/1317137.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317137.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Consensus is building in the Florida Legislature to make the Public Service Commission operate more like judges by banning commissioners and their staff from communicating directly with the utilities they regulate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317138.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317138.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On Nov. 5, 2008, Ray Sansom pulled up a chair before a swarm of reporters and effectively began his term as speaker of the Florida House, exulting in Republican success at the polls the night before and staring down a $2 billion budget deficit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346462.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346462.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:32 EST Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346447.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346447.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:12 EST In an economy where money is tight and everyone's looking for a bargain, Florida's most expensive universities are attracting more students than expected. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346429.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346429.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:12 EST Officials at an Interstate 75 weigh station in Marion County reported finding more than 800 pounds of marijuana hidden in a load of cantaloupes being hauled by a semitrailer. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346428.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346428.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:12 EST An alleged bike theft was cut short in Tampa when one of the suspects was hit by a car. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346427.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346427.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:12 EST A Hillsborough County Regional Transit Authority bus struck and killed a pedestrian near the University of South Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346425.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346425.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:12 EST A Delray Beach police officer was fired for reportedly taking free ice cream. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346423.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346423.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:12 EST A Port St. Lucie woman was arrested after authorities say she left her two young children unattended overnight while she went to a bar and spent the night with a friend. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346299.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1346299.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:12 EST The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist."