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 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:26:53 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1343130.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1343130.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:07 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/top-stories/story/1343136.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1343136.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:01 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/top-stories/story/1343119.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1343119.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:59 EST It made so much sense. It could happen only this way.<p/> On an evening when the Dolphins would be riddled by a ridiculous number of injuries, it would be running back Ricky Williams, the player charged with replacing the most important injured player of all, who would become the hero in this gutsy 24-17 victory. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1342976.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1342976.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:14 EST A defense attorney for Andy Rodriguez, the Coral Gables High senior accused of fatally stabbing a fellow student, suggested in court Thursday that the victim was a ``bully'' who tried strangling his client during a fight. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1343123.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1343123.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15 EST Miami-Dade leaders are demanding sharper scrutiny of taxpayer-funded trade missions -- and a proposed trip to Germany next spring appears to be on hold -- following revelations that commissioners have traveled the globe to drum up commerce with few, if any, tangible results. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1342961.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1342961.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:05 EST Professing innocence before a small but adoring crowd in the heart of Liberty City, suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones said Thursday she will run in a special election to regain her seat. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1341042.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1341042.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:45 EST Thousands of fans put Honduras' political problems aside for one night to cheer on the nation's soccer team as it prepares for World Cup competition. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1340978.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1340978.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:51 EST A couple hundred million ain't bad, but why not go for a billion?<p/> Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith on Wednesday said it looks like the state could end up asking the federal government for $1 billion in grant money earmarked for education. ``We are excited by what this means to the state, what it means to our children and what it means to our educators,'' Smith said in a call with reporters. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1340870.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1340870.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:56 EST While the tentacles of the $1 billion investment scheme attributed to Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein have reached far and wide, some of the firm's attorneys are escaping the effects of any stigma now associated with him. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1341025.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1341025.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:03 EST Cuba's government remains as repressive under Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel, according to the first in-depth report on the island's human rights since the younger Castro took power. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1340640.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1340640.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:48 EST The determined Dolphins lost their best player when workhorse running back Ronnie Brown's season came to an early end for the second time in his NFL career. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1341024.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1341024.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00 EST Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and City Manager Pete Hernandez are expected to name veteran Miami police Maj. Miguel Exposito as the city's new police chief on Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338891.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:58 EST Perched in his bunker-like Fort Lauderdale office, attorney Scott Rothstein raided hundreds of millions of dollars from the trust accounts of more than 20 investment groups with a few keystrokes on his computer -- all within the last three months, according to court records and sources familiar with an FBI investigation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338885.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:03 EST Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado on Tuesday announced a special election in January for Overtown's vacant District 5 seat, opening a potential political drama -- a bid by Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones to return to the dais. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338787.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338787.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:07 EST Honking horns, stopping traffic and shouting ``Liars, Liars, Liars!,'' hundreds of laborers and construction workers picketed the new Florida Marlins stadium under construction in Little Havana Tuesday morning, claiming that they have been denied promised jobs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338880.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338880.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:08 EST The arrest of a Peruvian Air Force noncommissioned officer accused of feeding military secrets to his Chilean handlers has pushed long-simmering relations between the two South American neighbors to a new low. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338772.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338772.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:21 EST Two months after questions were raised about the legality of his deportation by U.S. authorities, a Salvadoran man returned from his homeland Tuesday to a tearful reunion with his wife in Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338788.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1338788.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:23 EST Gov. Charlie Crist and legislative leaders are discussing a new tax to pay for South and Central Florida rail service in the hopes that federal officials will send billions of dollars to the state for a new bullet train. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1337138.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1337138.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:25 EST In late July, as Miami-Dade leaders confronted the county's worst budget crisis in decades, Commissioner Natacha Seijas boarded American Airlines Flight 56 for a weeklong trip to Ireland. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1337124.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/top-stories/story/1337124.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:26 EST In a highly controversial move, an influential government-sponsored organization is recommending against routine annual mammograms for healthy women in their 40s.