http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Today's Top Stories 60 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:15:27 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325318.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325318.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:57 EST Troubled Coral Gables High student Andy Rodriguez packed a knife to school not because a classmate had threatened him but because the other teen looked at him with a ``bad face.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325230.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325230.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:01 EST When a dozen Cuban bloggers wanted to stage a protest last month, they simultaneously tweeted, texted and posted messages like ``Freedom.'' <p/> One later used a blond wig to sneak into a government building and complain against censorship of the Internet. And the next day, she posted a video of her complaint on her blog. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325307.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325307.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:55 EST There's a lot of attractive selling points about a future career in architecture -- the job can be creative, challenging, even city-changing.<p/> But Christ-like? At Florida International University -- for one day at least -- architecture students do in fact walk on water. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325239.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325239.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:53 EST Like repo men, the feds grabbed Scott Rothstein's fire-engine red Ferrari Spider convertible with tan interior -- right off a downtown Fort Lauderdale street. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1259052.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1259052.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00 EST http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325620.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325620.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:21 EST Tropical Storm Ida blew ashore with rain and gusty but weakening winds before dawn Tuesday as weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents rode out the rare late-season storm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325519.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1325519.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:00 EST Weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents refused to retreat from a rare late-season tropical storm that weakened as it crept toward shore Tuesday, bringing heavy rain, stiff winds and some flooding. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1323698.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1323698.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:22 EST Attorneys for two Florida teenagers serving life in prison without the possibility of parole told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that such sentences violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment and juveniles should get a chance at release. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1322574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1322574.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:47 EST If there was one thing Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein craved, it was attention. And how better to get it than to whip out his checkbook?<p/> Like at Gov. Charlie Crist's 52nd birthday party/GOP fundraiser last year, when, instead of buying a $1,000 candle, Rothstein bought an entire chocolate cake covered with 52 candles. His donation: $52,000. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1323318.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1323318.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:01 EST The Patriots were able to limit the Wildcat's effectiveness this time around and Tom Brady and Randy Moss picked on Miami's young secondary to stop the Dolphins' on Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1322565.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1322565.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:03 EST In South Florida's bleak real-estate market, houses for sale aren't the only glut. Churches and other religious properties, some of them bank foreclosures, are plentiful, and stuck in a commercial purgatory. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1323816.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1323816.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:45 EST A pilot died Sunday evening when his small plane crashed in the Everglades of West Broward, authorities said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1322675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1322675.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:12 EST Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is emerging as the champion of activists fed up with Republicans who don't stay true to conservative principles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1319276.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1319276.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:49 EST The day John Timoney was sworn in as Miami police chief in 2003, 11 of his troops stood trial for concocting evidence and planting guns in a spate of shootings. Seven would be convicted. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1318483.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1318483.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:44 EST The base commander at Fort Hood says soldiers who witnessed a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire at the Texas post. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1319257.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1319257.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:45 EST ARROYO BARRIL, Dominican Republic -- Maximiliano Calcaño is 2 and was born with no arms.<p/> ``When I was pregnant, I was dizzy, vomiting and could barely walk,'' said Maximiliano's mother, Anajai Calcaño, 20. ``My tooth cracked and fell out. Then my baby was born like that, without arms. Nothing like that had ever happened here before.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1319274.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1319274.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:55 EST Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein's office was a secured inner sanctum, complete with video cameras, second entrance and hidden private elevator. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1319225.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1319225.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:57 EST Suspended Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion is facing another criminal charge -- this time from state prosecutors who charged him Thursday with one count of receiving unlawful compensation, a second-degree felony. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1317319.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1317319.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:57 EST Dozens of federal agents on Wednesday night raided the Fort Lauderdale law offices of attorney Scott Rothstein, a swaggering lawyer under investigation for allegedly masterminding an investment scam that could reach hundreds of millions of dollars. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1317317.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1317317.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:56 EST Miami Mayor-elect Tomás Regalado has promised a breather from eight years of rapid development, saying he plans to focus on the city's small neighborhoods.