GROCERY STORES

Sedano's supermarkets expanding to Orlando

Three Albertson's stores in Orlando will become Sedano's as part of the Miami firm's expansion plans.

FLORIDA PENSIONS

Change sought in who oversees state pension funds

The State Board of Administration is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

GOLD

Gold sellers beware, experts warn

Inside a conference room at a Kendall hotel, Maria Noguera and her mother sit in front of a jeweler from Twery's Estate Buyers. As a large lamp shines down on their glittering rings, necklaces, watches and earrings, the jeweler meticulously counts, separates and tests the 30 pieces of gold they brought to sell.

Florida fern, bat endangered candidates

The Florida bristle fern, found only in pine woods in Miami-Dade and Sumter counties, is among five new candidates for the federal list of endangered and threatened species.

Miami-Dade couple's quarrel ends in gunfire, death

An estranged Miami-Dade couple are dead after a fight late Thursday that ended in gunfire.

Police were called to a ``woman in distress'' at a home in the 19000 block of Northwest 57th Avenue, authorities said.

Miami Gardens man gets life for killing wife's lover

For fatally shooting his wife's new lover in the back of the head, a Miami Gardens man must serve life in prison -- a case that marks the first murder trial for the city's 2-year-old police department.