http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Today's Top Stories 60 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:06:32 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/594746.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/594746.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:00 EDT Thirteen people living in a possible boarding house near Fort Lauderdale escaped unharmed after a fire broke out early Saturday morning, Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/594976.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/594976.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:00 EDT Twenty fire trucks doused a massive blaze aboard a cargo ship Saturday night, and authorities reported all nine crew members were safely evacuated. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/595034.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/595034.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:59 EDT Police are investigating the killing of a young man found dead Saturday afternoon inside a home in a quiet South Miami neighborhood. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/594273.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/594273.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:01 EDT BETH REINHARD breinhard@MiamiHerald.com T he Rev. Joel Hunter, pastor of a Florida mega-church and a Republican who voted twice for George W. Bush, was among 30 religious leaders invited to a private meeting with the 2008 presidential nominee. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593447.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593447.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:02 EDT David Haroldo Figueroa was so enraged over a minor fender bender, Broward sheriff's deputies say, that he pummeled the other driver and then attempted to yank the man out of his van when he tried to drive away. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593446.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593446.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:20 EDT In order to pay teachers and other employees their raises this year, the Miami-Dade school district would have to lay off 1,300 people, district officials said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593459.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593459.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:02 EDT Fort Lauderdale's latest attempt to keep the Baltimore Orioles baseball team from possibly leaving its spring training site has failed. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593453.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593453.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:20 EDT The second man shot by a Hialeah resident during an armed home invasion robbery has died, police said Thursday. Mijali Rodriguez, 27, died at Jackson Memorial Hospital after he was shot inside a home in the 700 block of West 53rd Street on Wednesday morning. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593507.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/593507.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:02 EDT Melvin Gonzalez, a welder, was motoring through Hialeah early Thursday morning in a van filled with with gasoline, acetylene, compressed oxygen and other tools of his trade. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/592114.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/592114.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:02 EDT A Miami appeals court rebuked the state child-welfare agency Wednesday for removing a 12-year-old boy from his mother because she was homeless, ruling that not having a home for a child does not by itself constitute abuse. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/591957.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/591957.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:02 EDT A Miami Lakes couple who built a billing empire by submitting about $420 million in false claims for medical equipment to Medicare has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in Miami federal court, authorities said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/592119.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/592119.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:02 EDT The human bones found inside a sunken van in a Coral Springs canal earlier this year were officially identified Wednesday as those of Jeffrey Walter Klee, a teenager first reported missing more than three decades ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/592195.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/592195.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:02 EDT Working 49 stories above the ground, two construction workers were zapped by what officials described as ''static shock'' when they touched a crane. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/592373.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/592373.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:25 EDT The second named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season has formed off the coast of Africa. Tropical Storm Bertha was blowing 40 mph winds about 200 miles south-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands late Thursday morning. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590481.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590481.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00 EDT On that Saturday, Shirley Harold left her Lauderhill home to run errands. It was an ordinary March afternoon, the house abuzz with friends and family including her 2-year-old great-grandson, who was napping. While she was gone, little J'Mari Jeremiah Johnson somehow wandered into the backyard and drowned in the unfenced pool -- a toddler dead in a place meant for play. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590458.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590458.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:07 EDT As Miami-bound travelers waited in limbo at Havana's Jose Marti Airport, a federal judge in Miami ruled Tuesday to allow flights to continue while he decides the validity of a new state law. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590466.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590466.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:27 EDT A jail booking photo and his diamond stud earrings landed John Lagrua back behind bars accused of lying to police. After his arrest at a Publix store in May, John Lagrua complained that Aventura police beat him and stole his jewelry. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590463.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590463.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:59 EDT Like most toddlers, Adrian Raheal loves to run around and explore. Yet when he does, his parents must keep an extra close vigil over him: A tumble could kill the 20-month-old. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590153.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590153.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:12 EDT Here is your new core nucleus, Heat fans, the triumvirate to make this rebuilding process happen with the speed of time-lapse photography: http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590479.html http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/590479.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:22 EDT At a time when the Caribbean is facing some of its toughest challenges -- high grocery bills, rising energy costs and airline cutbacks -- regional leaders opened a four-day summit here calling for a more stepped up, unified vision.