http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Miami-Dade 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:00:52 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1346098.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1346098.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST As U.S. senators prepared for a critical vote on the healthcare bill Saturday morning, dozens of dissenting physicians and nurses protested at the Freedom Tower in one of 24 rallies staged nationwide. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1346263.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1346263.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Detectives are searching for a rapist who attacked a woman in Coconut Grove in the predawn hours of Saturday morning, less than a block away from another reported rape earlier this month. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1346097.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1346097.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:02 EST Michelle Spence-Jones calls it ``D5,'' a hip term for the tree-shaped patchwork of struggling neighborhoods that make up Miami's neediest district. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344937.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344937.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A group of investors filed a lawsuit Friday against Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein, saying he stole hundreds of millions of dollars from them with the help of an inner circle of employees at his law firm and a handful of officers at a Canadian bank. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1346261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/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/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1346556.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1346556.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:02 EST A Miami Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a man who went overboard from a luxury cruise ship early Sunday.<p/> Ronald Shulman, 62, went overboard the Silver Shadow cruise ship around 3 a.m. Sunday morning. He was found swimming 20 miles southeast of Government Cut around 7:45 a.m. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1346527.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1346527.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:37 EST A 20-year old man was killed after being shot multiple times upon arriving at his Lauderhill home early Sunday morning.<p/> Lauderhill police did not immediately identify the man. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1339249.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1339249.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST It's not every day you get an invitation to a fun, fancy, flirty party on South Beach, but at the sparkling Mr. Chow, you're on the guest list -- well, if you can afford it. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1315261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1315261.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Charlotte Bistro is a sassy little flirt. From the moment you catch a glimpse inside the tight-fitting dining room on Miracle Mile where swirly mirrors and framed prints compete for attention, you know this girl has got ambition. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1304207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1304207.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The Dadeland Plaza Mall on South Dixie Highway in Pinecrest looks like the usual jumble of strip shops. But tucked between For Eyes and Muscle Max is a world of restaurants stretching from Asia (Japan and Vietnam) to Brooklyn (Roasters 'n Toasters). We opted for three European menus and found ourselves transported -- without the flight or exchange rate. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1292841.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/miami-dade-dining/story/1292841.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Lots of people assume Miami is a health-conscious town -- a Southeast version of L.A., perhaps. Maybe it's all the beautiful bodies and sunshine. The truth is, that when it comes to dining out, we've got more deep-fried, porky, processed and syrup-laden food than nearly any city I know. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344923.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344923.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Biscayne Park police officer was attacked during a routine traffic stop Friday evening in North Miami-Dade, Biscayne Park Police spokesman Antonio Sanchez said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344933.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344933.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Several Jackson Memorial Hospital nurses personally apologized to Janice Langbehn, a Washington state lesbian who said a Jackson social worker wouldn't allow her to be with her dying partner in 2007. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344934.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344934.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Sandra L. Schultz, a 30-year Miami Dade College North Campus professor, has been named the 2009 Florida Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344936.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344936.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In the week after Jesús and Guillermo Reyes were detained at home and threatened with deportation to Venezuela, college students rallied in Kendall, Venezuelan community leaders called politicians, lawyers mobilized and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida asked that the brothers ``be given all due consideration.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344938.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344938.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST cruising in a late model Volvo -- repeatedly fired a BB-gun on the University of Miami campus on Friday afternoon, forcing authorities to shut down the school for nearly an hour. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344940.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344940.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The University of Miami has received a $2.4 million foundation gift to enhance its Cuban Heritage Collection -- one of the largest in the world chronicling the history of the island and of exiles in Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344944.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344944.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344833.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1344833.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Since 1954, at the edge of a mangrove lagoon on despoiled Virginia Key, the quirky bait shack/watering hole/gypsy camp known as Jimbo's has been ruled by one motto: Laissez faire. 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/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."