http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Florida 60 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:21:35 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330847.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330847.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman has dumped the head of the party in Miami-Dade, claiming he tried to shake down local candidates for money and browbeat staff members and elected officials. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330848.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330848.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Republicans should have the wind at their backs this election season with President Barack Obama's poll numbers dropping and independents turning away from Democrats. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330850.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330850.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST For the second time in a week, a Broward County Lotto player will walk away with a $3 million jackpot, the Florida Lottery said Thursday.<p/> The winner bought a Quick Pick ticket at the Kwik Stop convenience store at 1320 S. Federal Hwy., Deerfield Beach. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330862.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330862.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A deal to put most of South Florida under permanent, three-day-a-week water restrictions -- among the loosest in the state -- has begun to unravel at the 11th hour amid utilities' demands that they not be forced to reduce water use. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330909.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The investment scam by Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein ``could well exceed $1 billion,'' making it one of the biggest fraud cases in South Florida history, the head of the FBI in Miami said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1332922.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1332922.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The board of state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. approved what is likely the largest no-bid contract in its history last month, awarding $60 million to a software company in Jacksonville. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333141.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:04 EST Jazzy is a star. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333103.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333103.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:04 EST A Miami police trainee was accidentally shot by another officer during a training exercise. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333102.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333102.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:04 EST Two Pensacola men have been found guilty in a 2008 fatal shooting. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333100.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333100.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:04 EST A Naples teen has been charged with holding another teen at gunpoint and forcing him to buy at Playstation 3 at Walmart. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333099.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1333099.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:04 EST Two women died after their vehicle flipped on Interstate 75 near Weston. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330763.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1330763.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:12 EST Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman has dumped the head of the party in Miami-Dade, claiming he tried to shake down local candidates for money and browbeat staff members and elected officials. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1328951.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1328951.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida ranks seventh on a think tank's scorecard of ``States in Fiscal Peril.''<p/> California tops the list released Wednesday by the Pew Center of the States. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1328948.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1328948.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Gov. Charlie Crist's longtime communications director is leaving -- the latest shake-up involving Crist's administration and U.S. Senate campaign staff. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327066.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327066.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The state's insurance regulators sharply questioned Citizens Property Insurance officials Tuesday, challenging a proposed rate hike for high-risk policyholders with wind protection. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327159.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327159.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A former astronaut pleaded guilty Tuesday to attacking a romantic rival after driving 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando and was sentenced to a year of probation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327161.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327161.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Gov. Charlie Crist surprised many by saying he did not know President Barack Obama was in Jacksonville recently to visit with U.S. troops. But newly obtained e-mails show Crist's aides in Washington and Tallahassee were notified of the trip. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327162.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327162.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Signaling another shift in direction at the Public Service Commission, state utility regulators ordered their staff Tuesday to come up with ``more robust'' energy conservation goals that reward customers for using less energy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327056.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1327056.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:57 EST Florida Republican leaders worked hard to thwart any costly and potentially divisive primaries in this busy election cycle. <p/> They could not have failed more and looked less disciplined if they were Democrats. 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/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/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/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/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/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/1314878.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314878.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Responding to criticism over inactivity on 4,400 state complaints against debt collectors, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum proposed separate measures Tuesday to reign in abusive tactics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314879.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314879.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST TALLAHASSEE - Attorney General Bill McCollum filed suit Tuesday against two leading Internet travel firms, accusing Expedia and Orbitz of cheating the state and local governments out of millions of dollars in sales tax revenues from online hotel bookings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314881.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida's restrictions on where sex offenders can live might be both ineffective and endangering the public, a legislative analyst said Tuesday.<p/> Marti Harkness, a criminal-justice analyst, told the House Public Safety & Domestic Security Committee that studies from Florida, Minnesota and Colorado showed almost no link between a sex offender's residency and the crime he committed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314886.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314886.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Casting herself as a ``fresh face'' not connected to what she calls a troubled Republican establishment, state Sen. Paula Dockery of Lakeland jumped into the race for governor Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1313125.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1313125.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Independent voters are more likely to side with Republicans than with Democrats on issues facing Floridians, according to a poll conducted for The Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309207.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Hoping to close a loophole that has helped make South Florida the hub of black-market prescription painkillers, two Democratic state lawmakers are proposing legislation to ban convicted felons from holding an ownership stake in pain clinics distributing narcotics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309088.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1309088.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Florida voters want offshore oil drilling, oppose a ``public option'' for health insurance and overwhelmingly support a gambling agreement with the Seminole Tribe, according to a new Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 poll. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332446.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332446.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:30 EST A Texas man died while diving near Key West. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332324.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332324.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:39 EST Another member of a family facing child sex abuse charges in western Missouri has been charged with rape in connection with the case. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332199.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332199.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:29 EST As Bernard Madoff sits in a North Carolina prison serving a 150-year sentence, remnants of the fallen financier's once lavish lifestyle are going on the auction block at a Manhattan hotel. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332136.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332136.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:41 EST A former assistant director of a central Florida city's housing authority has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing $320,000 from the agency. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332121.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332121.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:31 EST Authorities say a Delray Beach police officer has been arrested on suspicion of domestic battery and aggravated assault with a firearm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332120.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332120.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:31 EST A candidate for Orlando City Council has been arrested and charged with trafficking in prescription drugs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332119.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332119.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:31 EST Two veteran publishers said Friday they are prepared to launch a daily newspaper serving the Detroit area, where the two largest newspapers have reduced home delivery to survive in a struggling industry. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332072.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1332072.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:01 EST The lunar dud for space enthusiasts has become a watershed event for NASA.