http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Breaking News - Dade 60 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:36:15 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675950.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675950.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:24 EDT Cuba frantically began preparing Sunday for a daunting historic event: its second Category 4 hurricane in eight days. The picture for Cuba could hardly be worse. The entire country was inside Hurricane Ike's forecast cone, showing the Category 4 monster barreling in at the eastern city of Lucrecia in Holguín province in eastern Cuba some time tonight and crossing practically across the entire island east to west. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675741.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675741.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:32 EDT MIAMI HERALD STAFF Miami-Dade and Broward county schools will both be in session on Monday. Only night school in Miami-Dade will be suspended on Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675756.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675756.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:01 EDT Cuba began a frantic effort to evacuate eastern provinces Sunday, as powerful Hurricane Ike barreled toward Guantánamo as a Category 4 storm, packing 135 mph winds. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675788.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675788.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:59 EDT (AP) -- Two surfers were bitten by sharks around the same time near Daytona Beach on Saturday, officials said. A beach patrol spokesman says a 43-year-old Ponce Inlet man and a 15-year-old Casselberry boy were surfing about 200 feet away from each other when they were both bitten around noon Saturday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675783.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675783.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:49 EDT Four passengers onboard a helicopter were rescued Sunday morning after the aircraft crashed in waters off Marathon, officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675774.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675774.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:39 EDT (AP) -- An Ybor City nightclub bouncer was shot and killed by a police officer during a fight that spilled outside the bar. Police say 35-year-old Roobik Vartanian was shot early Saturday morning and died later at a Tampa hospital. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675737.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675737.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:14 EDT There were no reports of fatalities as Hurricane Ike roared over Turks and Caicos early Sunday, but damage to homes on the island was said to be heavy and residents reported running from home to home as strong winds peeled off roofs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675310.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675310.html Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:04 EDT A Miami man was arrested on Friday for stealing Picasso paintings from Gallery Biba, in Palm Beach, four months ago. Marcus Patmon, 37, was taken to Miami-Dade jail and charged with dealing in stolen property. Additional charges of burglary and grand theft are pending. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675250.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/675250.html Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:54 EDT A quick refresher on Lake Okeechobee's annual water levels in recent years, starting in 2000: Too high. Way too low. Just right. Just right. Too high. Way too high. Too low. Way too low. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/670487.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/670487.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:58 EDT As the Republican convention nears its conclusion and John McCain prepares to make his acceptance speech, we in the news media, having finally grown weary of the endless speculation and gossip about Sarah Palin, are turning our attention, at long last, to additional speculation and gossip about Sarah Palin. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/577409.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/577409.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:26 EDT A 22-year-old munitions dealer and others in his Miami Beach company were arrested on charges of selling prohibited Chinese weaponry to the U.S. government to supply allied forces in Afghanistan, according to law enforcement officials. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/552498.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/552498.html Fri, 30 May 2008 17:43 EDT A Miami-bound jetliner overshot a runway and slammed to a stop on a busy street on Friday in the Honduran capital, leaving a pilot and a passenger dead and injuring at least 18 others. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/509153.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/509153.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:29 EDT Miami homicide detectives early Friday arrested a man they say was involved in a gun battle that left a 2-year-old Little Haiti toddler paralyzed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/157809.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/157809.html Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:33 EDT Rescuers plucked a drunken man from the Atlantic Ocean about 50 miles east of Boca Raton early Monday after he jumped several stories from a cruise ship, the U.S. Coast Guard said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/88550.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/88550.html Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:00 EDT Burger King Holdings swung to a profit in the third-quarter, fueled by sales of new sandwiches at the second-largest hamburger chain.