Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose ''Pepe'' Diaz received $20,000 in 2004 from what federal prosecutors describe as a shell company used to conceal fraudulent proceeds from a hospital kickback scheme -- a payment the commissioner says was a legitimate bonus.
COCONUT GROVE
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz says Dinner Key's awkward, mishmash of uses can't be cured in one fell swoop, but with years of planning, Coconut Grove's slice of Biscayne Bay could again be a jewel.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | LATIN AMERICA
Likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain seems to have the upper hand on Latin American issues, especially on trade, say prominent Latin American intellectuals and politicians who have been following the U.S. elections.
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Fort Lauderdale investment advisor Thomas L. Hansberger once worked closely with the late legendary global stock picker Sir John M. Templeton.
GUANTANAMO BAY
Pentagon prosecutors on Wednesday screened a 2001 video of Osama bin Laden's driver lying and being evasive in his first battlefield interrogation, in a bid to prove he was an al Qaeda terrorist.
The son of Broward County property appraiser Lori Parrish was stunned with a Taser and arrested Wednesday after Fort Lauderdale police said he tried running over one of their officers, then refused to follow the officer's orders.
FEDERAL COURT
Carlos and Jorge de Céspedes, who started with nothing and built up one of the largest Hispanic-owned businesses in the country, were charged Tuesday with healthcare-related wire fraud and income tax evasion.
MIAMI-DADE
The scandal of disappearing Miami-Dade Transit buses -- and the legend of the teenager accused of stealing them -- continues to grow.
TRAFFIC
Miami Beach's angst over a state plan that could temporarily close ramps connecting the city to Interstate 95 during next year's tourist season spilled over to Congress Tuesday.
DUMERCY LORFILS, 65
On Aug. 13, 1979, Dumercy Lorfils's wife and five of their seven children drowned off the Palm Beach coast in the first documented case of smugglers dumping their human cargo.
FLORIDA TAX DEBATE
The debate over swapping property taxes for sales taxes -- the core of Amendment 5 -- began to ferment on Tuesday. Opponents staged a forum in Pembroke Pines and derided it as the ''largest tax increase in state history.'' And the Broward County School Board hosted a workshop to spell out how it hopes to defeat the plan.
CRIME
Two men trying to rob an armored truck in Northeast Miami-Dade on Tuesday shot the guard before fleeing, police said. It was the second attack on an armored car in South Florida on Tuesday.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama defended his proposal to negotiate with Iran Wednesday and said he would use "big sticks and big carrots" to persuade the country's leaders not to develop nuclear weapons.
DOWNTOWN MIAMI
The Freedom Tower, the 83-year-old downtown Miami icon whose survival has seemed in doubt for years, cemented its future on Tuesday.
BALANCING ACT
It's Saturday night and a dozen women are in Carmen Rojas' living room, passing around edible lotions, flavored body powders and adult toys. For Rojas of Miami, this night is about more than getting these women to buy her products.
RESTAURANTS
Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade is feeling the heat from business partners after a failed restaurant venture. On Friday, the company D Wade's Place filed suit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court against Wade, accusing him of breach of contract.
Wachovia Corp. lost $8.86 billion in the second quarter, and said Tuesday it was slashing its dividend and cutting 6,350 jobs after losses tied to mortgages soared.
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MIAMI-DADE MEGAPLAN
Longtime friends turned adversaries Monday in Norman Braman's fight to stop the ballpark pitched for the Florida Marlins, as the trial's second week focused on economic development.
CUBA PROGRAMS
Congress has put the U.S. Agency for International Development's $45 million Cuba program's 2008 funding on hold, following a series of troubling audits and cases of massive fraud, The Miami Herald has learned.
