A large, round mine found floating a mile off Dania Beach Thursday prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to close the beach and surrounding waters, authorities said.

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo is also a lab for environmental exploration.

This week, students at Miami Northwestern Senior High are learning the choreography of Revelations in a workshop with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

A pair of proposals would dramatically change the structure of high school sports in Florida.

It’s not clear what exactly started the fight or the students’ relationship. But there were some “aggravating circumstances” that suggest both have “some culpability,” according to the schools police chief.

Two years after an unprecedented and unimaginable natural disaster, Haiti still mourns its dead, struggles to rebuild, has had to cope with cholera and has seen international assistance fall victim to donor fatigue.

Enrique López Oliva remembers the days when Cuban Catholics hung their religious icons in their grandmother’s rooms, hoping that Fidel Castro’s communist government would not dare punish an “abuelita.”

Pink. Yellow. Green. Blue.

Thirty-five years ago, Dade passed a gay-rights law, helping fuel the culture wars that still rage, especially during primaries.

Bucking anti-tax sentiment, animal advocates are petitioning on behalf of a levy to help treat unwanted pets more humanely.

Fourteen months since his last trip to Haiti, Jose Iglesias landed in Port-au-Prince last month with his video camera in hand, looking for the images that captured this chapter in the country’s post-quake recovery.

Remember the pig hidden within the decal on the doors of some Vermont State Police cruisers?

Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors the equivalent of 22 cents each to see a roughly 40-foot whale shark he bought from a fisherman.

The Miami Hurricanes might face the Boston College Eagles on Labor Day weekend, but the schedule won’t be out until likely next week.

A lawyer for a Guantánamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack has filed suit against the prison commander, arguing a new rule subjecting legal mail to a security review is unconstitutional and amounts to illegal “intelligence monitoring” of a U.S. citizen.

Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, only to find that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on the investigations panel of the House Armed Services Committee.