http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com South Florida 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:08:01 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1346098.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/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/southflorida/story/1346259.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1346259.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The HMS Bounty sailed up to the Palm Beach Maritime Museum Saturday, flanked by a flotilla of recreational boats welcoming it to Peanut Island.<p/> Onlookers lined up along the inlet jetties and on the docks at the Maritime Museum, exclaiming over the beauty of the ship as it rode in under sunny skies. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1346261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/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/southflorida/story/1346263.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1346263.html Sun, 22 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/southflorida/story/1346264.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1346264.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST After losing on the legal front, a powerful coalition of agriculture and business interests, wastewater utilities, water managers and tax watchdogs is mounting a lobbying assault on pending federal rules that could force Florida to clean up pollution fouling lakes, canals, streams and beaches statewide. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1346265.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1346265.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Just two years ago, he was a no-name cur with cutoff ears scrounging for scraps in the desert.<p/> Nubs now is barking up his new book with the national media, getting belly rubs from celebrities like Sharon and Ozzie Osborne and taking up couch space with appearances on the Today show and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. There's talk of a movie deal, too. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1346269.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1346269.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Wherever she went on Saturday, Valerie Brewer carried a handful of white T-shirts.<p/> She was a star that afternoon as thousands turned out at a fundraiser for her son at Galuppi's Restaurant & Patio Bar in Pompano Beach. Professional athletes, cheerleaders and politicians all came by and wished her family well. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1344833.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1344833.html Sat, 21 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/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/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/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/broward/story/1346269.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1346269.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Wherever she went on Saturday, Valerie Brewer carried a handful of white T-shirts.<p/> She was a star that afternoon as thousands turned out at a fundraiser for her son at Galuppi's Restaurant & Patio Bar in Pompano Beach. Professional athletes, cheerleaders and politicians all came by and wished her family well. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1344949.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1344949.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A hearing for suspended Broward School Board member Beverly Gallagher was pushed back for the second time Friday, giving her attorney and federal prosecutors more time to try to negotiate a plea agreement. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1344946.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1344946.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST An elderly woman's lawsuit against ex-judge Larry Seidlin has expanded to include three attorneys and an accountant.<p/> Barbara Kasler, 83, whose lawyer said is worth $5 million, is suing Seidlin, who gained national notoriety for his emotional handling of the Anna Nicole Smith death case. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1344924.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1344924.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A hearing for suspended Broward School Board member Beverly Gallagher was pushed back for the second time Friday, giving her attorney and federal prosecutors more time to try to negotiate a plea agreement. Gallagher's next appearance is scheduled for Dec. 21. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1343136.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1343136.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00 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/broward/story/1342979.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1342979.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The lights started flashing. The gates lowered. A gold Toyota Camry drove onto the tracks. Thirty seconds later a 325-ton Tri-Rail commuter train barreled through the crossing at 60 mph. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1343212.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1343212.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A group of Florida education nonprofit organizations has named Broward Schools Superintendent Jim Notter its Superintendent of the Year.<p/> The prize, from the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations, recognizes Notter for supporting the Broward Education Foundation, which is the school district's nonprofit fundraising arm. The Broward group provides college scholarships to high school seniors and grants to teachers for innovative projects. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1343130.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1343130.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The Wednesday before Thanksgiving might be getting a bad rap: It's not quite the travel nightmare you probably think it is. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1342995.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/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/broward/story/1342998.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1342998.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The Cosac Homeless Assistance Center -- a 130-bed shelter near downtown Hollywood, and one of nearly two dozen social-service agencies in the neighborhood -- may expand its temporary housing and treatment programs to three additional locations in the immediate vicinity, the agency's director said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1342978.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/1342978.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The 10-month-old boy was shaken so severely that his eyes bled and his skull fractured, a prosecutor told Broward County jurors in Fort Lauderdale. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1346261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1346261.html Sat, 21 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/florida-keys/story/1340980.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1340980.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:00 EST ``Come on, you're just in time for the stampede,'' Laura Quinn said, as she grabbed her walker and began trudging toward the beach.<p/> Picking up a slimy bowl of fish, the 81-year-old founder and director of the Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center in Tavernier headed down the boardwalk, tossing food to ibis, snowy egrets and pelicans lining the route. Hundreds more wild birds awaited her arrival at the beach for the daily 3:30 p.m. feeding. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1335932.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1335932.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:23 EST A man from Cypress, Texas, died Friday afternoon while diving the USS Vandenberg, a military ship that was sunk six months ago as an artificial reef off Key West, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1323757.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1323757.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The last time Louise Hall saw her daughter, she helped her pack a suitcase into her trunk.<p/> They said goodbye, and Janet Cates, 56, drove off. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1319244.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1319244.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:00 EST Thrill-seekers from around the country will be in Marathon this weekend to see the tropical island views -- from 13,500 feet.<p/> Sky divers began leaping from planes over the island chain Thursday, the opening day of the Keys Boogie sky-diving weekend that ends Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1313146.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1313146.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:05 EST The Key West Police Department arrested 23-year-old Nicholas Ferro of Fort Lauderdale on Sunday in the stabbing death of a Key West man during an altercation near the heart of Key West's tourist section. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1313147.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1313147.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:26 EST Monroe County sheriff's detectives have identified the body found a week ago wrapped in plastic and washed up in the mangroves of Jewfish Key.<p/> Using fingerprints, detectives identified the dead woman as Christine Marie Kaye, 48. Her last known address was the town of Lake Park in Palm Beach County. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1310554.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1310554.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:43 EST The Key West Police Department arrested 23-year-old Nicholas Ferro of Fort Lauderdale on Sunday in the stabbing death of a Key West resident during an altercation near the heart of Key West's tourist section. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1308054.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1308054.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT If you think Key West's annual 10-day drunken party where fantasies come to life and body paint passes for clothing is just for the young, think again. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1299062.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1299062.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Amid 300-pound groupers, curious barracudas and a rainbow of tropical fish attracted to a new artificial reef off Key West, a tiny creature is causing a big stir among conservationists: the long-spined sea urchin. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1286930.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida-keys/story/1286930.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The Florida Keys' Overseas Highway has made the grade.<p/> U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Friday in Washington that the 110-mile stretch of U.S. 1 from Key Largo to Key West -- with its 42 bridges linking the scenic island chain -- has been designated an All-American Road. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346264.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346264.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST After losing on the legal front, a powerful coalition of agriculture and business interests, wastewater utilities, water managers and tax watchdogs is mounting a lobbying assault on pending federal rules that could force Florida to clean up pollution fouling lakes, canals, streams and beaches statewide. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/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/florida/story/1346259.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346259.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The HMS Bounty sailed up to the Palm Beach Maritime Museum Saturday, flanked by a flotilla of recreational boats welcoming it to Peanut Island.<p/> Onlookers lined up along the inlet jetties and on the docks at the Maritime Museum, exclaiming over the beauty of the ship as it rode in under sunny skies. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346265.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1346265.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Just two years ago, he was a no-name cur with cutoff ears scrounging for scraps in the desert.<p/> Nubs now is barking up his new book with the national media, getting belly rubs from celebrities like Sharon and Ozzie Osborne and taking up couch space with appearances on the Today show and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. There's talk of a movie deal, too. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344834.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Antonio Palou is temping, but not complaining.<p/> He'd love a more permanent job, but he knows plenty of other information technology professionals who have been out of work for a year or more. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344839.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1344839.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Thirty years of spying for Cuba will send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United States' longtime antagonist. 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.