http://www.miamiherald.com/news/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com News 60 Fri, 09 May 2008 23:53:42 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/526594.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/526594.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Weary congressional negotiators on Thursday completed a massive farm bill that confronts a presidential veto threat amid complicated election-year politics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/526510.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/526510.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- A military judge threatened Thursday to suspend the terror trial of Canadian Omar Khadr unless the prison camp releases a detailed log of the Toronto-born captive's treatment in detention. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525126.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525126.html Thu, 08 May 2008 06:58 EDT The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an incident onboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Paris, in which a Miami-based captain continued flying after crew members heard what they believed to be an explosion in the cargo hold shortly after take-off. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/527882.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/527882.html Fri, 09 May 2008 21:25 EDT A cache of controversial computer files closely tying Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez to communist rebels seeking to topple Colombia's government appear to be authentic, U.S. intelligence officials say. They are likely to ratchet up pressure for the U.S. to impose sanctions on one of its most important oil suppliers.<p/>The files that have been made public so far have http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/527676.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/527676.html Fri, 09 May 2008 17:19 EDT A major U.S. counter-drug aid package for Mexico is under attack by U.S. organized labor, which says Congress should reject the initiative unless tough human rights conditions are included, according to a letter revealed Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526625.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526625.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT The Wackenhut Corp. overbilled Miami-Dade County as much as $6 million over three years for phantom security guards at county transit stations, according to a long-awaited audit released Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526500.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526500.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Tavaris King could not let go of his ex-lover. He called Nicole Smith from blocked phone numbers. He pointed his .45-caliber handgun at her and her little brother. And he strangled her golden retriever puppy to death. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/526574.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:01 EDT Detectives are combing through surveillance video from the Aventura Mall, hoping it will lead them to the killer of a Boca Raton woman and her 7-year-old daughter. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/526574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/526574.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Detectives are combing through surveillance video from the Aventura Mall, hoping it will lead them to the killer of a Boca Raton woman and her 7-year-old daughter. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/526573.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/526573.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Broward students did better than fourth-, eighth- and 10th-graders across the state this year on the writing FCAT, and students improved their showing compared to the last few years, too. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/526577.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/526577.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Two men who have been terrorizing employees at more than 20 fast-food restaurants from Deerfield Beach to Fort Lauderdale since late January have struck again. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/526574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/526574.html Fri, 09 May 2008 07:12 EDT Detectives are combing through surveillance video from the Aventura Mall, hoping it will lead them to the killer of a Boca Raton woman and her 7-year-old daughter. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/526492.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/526492.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Hispanic voters registered as Democrats have overtaken Hispanic Republicans in Florida, signaling a trend that, if it continues, could have far-reaching implications for the 2008 election and U.S. foreign policy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/526479.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/526479.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Barack Obama says Florida's delegation will be at the national Democratic Party's convention this summer, ''happy, with their party hats on,'' two uncommitted Florida superdelegates said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527887.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527887.html Fri, 09 May 2008 21:35 EDT The 55-year-old Omaha man who performed a tracheotomy on himself with a steak knife says he did the same thing to himself two years ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/526425.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/526425.html Fri, 09 May 2008 20:40 EDT The 55-year-old Omaha man who performed a tracheotomy on himself with a steak knife says he did the same thing to himself two years ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527419.html http://www.miamiherald.com/577/story/527419.html Fri, 09 May 2008 17:31 EDT One moment, Justin Hill was turning into his driveway. Minutes later he was being flown to a hospital as his home went up in flames. Then he got a traffic ticket. http://www.miamiherald.com/458/story/523775.html http://www.miamiherald.com/458/story/523775.html Wed, 07 May 2008 03:01 EDT In a day of righting government injustice, a wrongfully convicted man was finally compensated for 24 years in prison Tuesday, just hours after Gov. Charlie Crist signed off on an $18 million payment plan for a brain-damaged girl whom the system failed. http://www.miamiherald.com/458/story/521240.html http://www.miamiherald.com/458/story/521240.html Mon, 05 May 2008 03:01 EDT With tensions running high in the last hours of the session, the typically good-natured Sen. Larcenia Bullard, D-Miami, broke down, accusing Senate President Ken Pruitt of ignoring her questions and refusing to acknowledge her requests to speak throughout the day. The breaking point came as lawmakers tried to attach a Central Florida commuter rail amendment to one of her bills to study the expansion of Interstate 95. http://www.miamiherald.com/458/story/520318.html http://www.miamiherald.com/458/story/520318.html Sun, 04 May 2008 03:01 EDT A souring economy and a worrisome election year forced Florida's Republican-led Legislature to moderate its politics in the session that ended Friday because it had no other choice. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518865.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518865.html Sun, 04 May 2008 03:01 EDT Below is an excerpt from ''Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard's Fight To Save Her Town'' ($24.95, HarperCollins/Amistad), by Miami Herald journalist Ronnie Greene, to be released Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518863.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518863.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT In this deeply rooted village in Southwest Florida, it's not unusual to find generations of the same family living doors apart. Now these lifelong settlers are bracing for their hamlet to die. http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518874.html http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/518874.html Sat, 03 May 2008 03:01 EDT The groundwater here is poisoned with a liquid degreaser that is colorless and cancer-causing. Yet to date, a full study has not been launched to document cancer's spread throughout Tallevast. http://www.miamiherald.com/actionline/story/527302.html http://www.miamiherald.com/actionline/story/527302.html Fri, 09 May 2008 14:00 EDT Q. Some eight to 12 years ago in Action Line, an ornithologist identified a specific birdcall for a reader. I don't remember what the bird was, but we have the same bird. We've tried to spot it but have never succeeded. http://www.miamiherald.com/actionline/story/527306.html http://www.miamiherald.com/actionline/story/527306.html Fri, 09 May 2008 14:00 EDT Q. Two years ago, I heard from an employee of Miami-Dade Water and Sewer that, in the near future, the county would begin treating waste water and pumping it back to our homes. http://www.miamiherald.com/actionline/story/527307.html http://www.miamiherald.com/actionline/story/527307.html Fri, 09 May 2008 14:27 EDT Q. I'm calling about a problem with a company that's supposed to fix your credit. I paid it $400 a year ago, but it still hasn't done anything. http://www.miamiherald.com/539/story/256204.html http://www.miamiherald.com/539/story/256204.html Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:06 EDT Hammered by lack of insurance and high prices for healthcare, many Americans are looking overseas for care.