Woman killed, baby hurt in Miramar crash

A 36-year-old woman was killed and her baby passenger injured after two vehicles rolled over near Pembroke ...

Miami-Dade considers repealing lobbyist-reform law

A decade after Miami-Dade commissioners adopted new ethics laws including a ''Cone of Silence'' for bidders...

ROUNDUP

Central football team advances to regional semifinal with win over Coral Gables

THEATER REVIEW

Magical car flies off with 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' show

W.C. Fields famously turned up his bulbous nose at working with scene-stealing children and dogs. If he wer...

BROWARD CRIME

31-year-old cold case solved, but family laments lack of justice

The family of Jeffrey Walter Klee, killed 31 years ago, said justice has been denied after learning the sus...

AGRICULTURE

Unexpected bidder makes buyout offer for U.S. Sugar

A surprise new bidder for U.S. Sugar could complicate the state's plans to buy farms for Everglades restora...

Motorcycle crash on I-595 kills Sunrise man

A 21-year-old Sunrise man was killed when he was thrown from his motorcycle early Friday morning during a v...

TELEVISION

Lease dispute could send 'Burn Notice' out of Miami

The makers of the Burn Notice television show are looking for other locations amid a lease dispute with Mia...

Miami businessman's shooting death probed

Family members of businessman Rolando Santos, who was found shot to death in Flagami on his birthday night,...

Reputed gang member charged in South Dade High beating

A 16-year-old reputed Homestead gang member was arrested Thursday on suspicion that he badly beat a rival i...

U.S. urged to give work status to Haitians

Citing several back-to-back tragedies in Haiti and a new U.S. president soon to move into the White House, ...

OBAMA-BIDEN TRANSITION

Obama rallies campaign volunteers

The army of volunteers that helped get Barack Obama elected is being mobilized once more.

SENATE

Alaska icon leaves Senate

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens -- convicted of corruption and defeated for reelection -- got a warm sendoff from a...

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

New energy boss for U.S. House

House Democrats replaced Rep. John Dingell, head of the committee for energy legislation, with Rep. Henry W...

CORPORATIONS

Corporate bosses often take private jets

The chiefs of Detroit automobile companies are hardly alone in traveling by company plane. Some CEOs say it...

Conservatives call on Bush to free Muslim Uighurs

At issue is whether a federal judge has the authority to order the transfer to U.S. soil of some prisoners ...

Judge orders release of 5 in landmark Gitmo case

A federal judge ordered the speedy release Thursday of five Algerian men held for nearly seven years in Gua...

IMMIGRATION

Deported illegal immigrants who return to U.S. face prison time

U.S. immigration officials said illegal immigrants who have been deported previously will face up to five y...

CONFLICT IN IRAQ

Iraqis skeptical that security agreement will end U.S. presence

A security deal on U.S. forces' exit from Iraq is in the works, but Iraqis don't believe it will fully end ...

War court convenes with Osama bin Laden's cook

A Sudanese captive accused of being Osama bin Laden's cook and bodyguard sat side-by-side with a human righ...

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' lawyer to cost taxpayers `far more'

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will fight a lawsuit over his hiring practices with a private atto...

ALASKA

Sen. Ted Stevens loses election

(AP) -- Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his reelection bi...

Indonesia wants access to terror suspect Hambali

Indonesia is asking for access to a jailed terror suspect at Guantánamo, known as Hambali, who was l...

INDIA

Tibetans meet, debate future of homeland

Summoned by the Dalai Lama, 550 Tibetan exiles have been meeting to plot strategy for their homeland, where...

GLOBAL TRENDS

Study details global political power shift

A U.S. intelligence report warned of the potential dangers that could be caused by competition for resources.

CONFLICT IN IRAQ

Iraqis skeptical that security agreement will end U.S. presence

A security deal on U.S. forces' exit from Iraq is in the works, but Iraqis don't believe it will fully end ...

AFGHANISTAN

Peace overtures to Taliban go nowhere

The Afghan government made an offer of peace talks to Taliban insurgents, but both the Taliban and the U.S....

KUWAIT

Firm lagging on new projects after delayed U.S. Embassy

The same Kuwaiti-based company that largely built the troubled U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has run into problem...

WASHINGTON

ACLU to sue U.S. officials over detainee

The ACLU plans to sue U.S. government officials over an American Muslim held without charges in the United ...

IRAQ

Iraqi Cabinet approves deal for U.S. forces withdrawal

An agreement for the withdrawal of U.S. forces was passed by Iraq's Cabinet, but the proposal could face op...

PAKISTAN

Taliban regroups, rearms, recruits

Limiting the pursuit of al Qaeda to Afghanistan has enabled the Taliban's ranks to grow in neighboring Paki...

PAKISTAN

American aid worker gunned down in Pakistan

The assassination of a U.S. aid worker came during a wave of bombings, kidnappings and hijackings that cont...

ENERGY

Alaskan hydrates, or methane crystals, hold promise as energy source

Hydrates, frozen methane and water crystals found in Alaska, could be a 'paradigm shift' in U.S. energy.

LOS ANGELES TIMES

CIA lied about Peru shoot-down, report says

An internal investigation by the CIA found that agency officials engaged in a cover-up to hide agency negli...

VENEZUELA

Chávez's populist grip shows signs of weakness

Voters in Venezuela's Barinas state symbolize the support President Hugo Chávez has thrived on. But ...

Many protest bullfighting in Peru

Dapper in a gray suit and cap, Wencelao Espino Gonzales gazed at the pink walls of this capital city's hist...

Venezuela's Hugo Chávez campaigns for Sunday's elections

With his control of the political system at stake, the president has been campaigning furiously across the ...

Colombia police tear-gas pyramid scheme clients

Police tear-gassed protesters Thursday as a crackdown on illegal investment schemes exposed class divisions...

THE AMERICAS

U.S. trade accords face change

NICARAGUA

Protests imperil Nicaragua's democracy

Post-election violence in Nicaragua could continue after upcoming elections in Venezuela, experts said.

Venezuela's Hugo Chávez has live soundtrack

Sunday's elections in Venezuela will be a key test for President Hugo Chávez a year after voters def...

Crisis in paradise: Meltdown leaves ghost resorts in Caribbean

Peru's hot economy wracked by growing conflicts

Peru's president is seizing every opportunity at this week's Pacific Rim economic summit to sell his countr...

THE WASHINGTON POST

In rampant crime, political danger for Hugo Chávez

For the first time in years, Venezuela's political opposition is poised to break President Hugo Chávez's ne...

Gov. Crist proposes universities raise own tuitions

Bowing to the pleas of Florida's cash-starved state universities, Gov. Charlie Crist Thursday announced a p...

LEGISLATURE

New faces in Florida Legislature to get crack at budget challenges

State legislators welcomed new members and elected new leaders but faced continuing budget challenges broug...

New Florida Legislature leaders face budget challenges

Acknowledging the state's challenging fiscal crisis, Florida legislators voted in two new Republican leader...

FLORIDA POLITICS

Glory of victory eludes both Democrats, Republicans

As both parties lick their election wounds, there's no shortage of criticism and advice within Republican a...

LEGISLATURE

State Senate chief extends olive branch to former rival

The incoming state Senate president patched up a two-year rift by naming a former rival to a powerful commi...

TALLAHASSEE

Florida finance chief calls for special session to deal with budget

Florida's finance chief says state government should call for a special legislative session to deal with ec...

State finance chief: get ready for 'ugly' budget hole

Calling Florida's financial outlook ''ugly,'' the chief steward of the state's dwindling checkbook announce...

Florida GOP: Obama won with our playbook

Republican political advisors say Obama's campaign has strengthened Democrats and made Florida `a different...

INSIDE THE CAMPAIGN

Inside story: How Obama won Florida

It took passion, precision and a little bit a luck for the Obama team to turn Florida from red to blue

Florida GOP: Obama won with our playbook

Republican political advisors say Obama's campaign has strengthened Democrats and made Florida `a different...

Inside story: How Obama won Florida

It took passion, precision and a little bit a luck for the Obama team to turn Florida from red to blue

EDUCATION

MAST teacher holds class from the bottom of the sea

HIGHER EDUCATION

Governor's tuition plan gets mixed reception

Gov. Charlie Crist's tuition-raising plan is being hailed by state university presidents, questioned by Dem...

EDUCATION

More budget cuts could reverse Dade and Broward graduation gains

While more students graduated across Florida last year, officials worry that the progress might be stalled ...

HIGHER EDUCATION

Gov. Charlie Crist backs universities' bid to raise tuition

Gov. Charlie Crist will push for 15 percent tuition increases at state universities, a move that could boos...

MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS

4 failing schools in Miami-Dade will stay open

Four low-performing Miami-Dade schools won't be closing at the end of the school year -- even if they fail ...

MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS

Carvalho: I'm committed to saving failing Dade schools

Dade schools chief Alberto Carvalho will recommend to the School Board that four schools facing closure mus...

COLLIER COUNTY

No zero grades for Collier County elementary students

(AP) -- Fifty is the new zero for Collier County elementary school students. The school district has replac...

ADULT ED

Language lessons at work

As business with Latin America increases, more South Florida workers are eager to learn Spanish or Portugue...

ON CAMPUS

Lesson to parents: Say goodbye

Universities are holding sessions to teach involved parents how to let go of college-bound children.

TECH TALK

Can Facebook ruin you?

Too much information? Schools are warning students about the dangers of social networking sites.

ON CAMPUS

Schools seek alumni help

With the economy slumping, colleges and universities are revving up their outreach to alumni, a stable sour...

Best Buy wants to 'green' your wallet

Best Buy, the country's biggest seller of consumer electronics, now is pushing renewable energy to its cust...

Calif. utilities must use 33 percent renewable energy for power generation by 2020

California utilities, already struggling to meet a law requiring more renewable energy, saw the bar raised ...

Doubts swirl about effectiveness of no-flush urinals

Men since Adam have survived without urinals that flush. By the early 1990s, concerns over water shortages ...

Expected onslaught of television sales raises environmental questions, hopes for progress

The nation is headed for a TV-buying triple whammy.

Schwarzenegger says scorched Southern California ‘looks like Armageddon'

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited firefighters Sunday and assured residents that all possib...

Firefighters battle on front lines in Southern California

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is addressing firefighters in Orange County on Sunday, where a huge wi...

Japanese study emphasizes importance of China, India, U.S. in post-Kyoto emissions protocol

If $50 were spent on reducing 1 ton of carbon dioxide emissions, a large quantity of global emissions could...

Spotlight shines on light pollution

Stargazers have complained for years because cities shine so much light into the night sky that stars disap...

China's coal fires belch fumes, worsening global warming

The barren hillsides give a hint of the inferno underfoot. White smoke billows from cracks in the earth, ve...

Some see opportunity in China's coalfield fires

The burning Shuixi Gou coalfield in far western China is terrible for the environment, belching smoke and n...

LIGHTING

Dim bulbs cast pall on green efforts

Does this sound like you? You are doing The Right Thing. You are thinking globally and acting locally. You ...

MIAMI HERALD OMBUDSMAN

Facts should be foundation for published opinion

Marián Prío, a reader from Key Biscayne, was upset. She had just read a column in El Nuevo He...

Current Cuba policy is weak and ineffective

Camila Ruiz Gallardo is director of government relations for the Cuban American National Foundation. The wo...

ASKING AUTHORS

Vernon Jordan and watching a child graduate

ASKING AUTHORS

Ronnie Greene, Dr. Jerry B. Brown and big oil

ASKING AUTHORS

Steve Greenberg on inventors and their gadgets

ASKING AUTHORS

Sister Souljah and fiction

ASKING AUTHORS

Alan Berger, David Patterson on 'Jewish-Christian Dialogue'

ASKING AUTHORS

Mildred Nitzberg and marriage to a Holocaust survivor

ASKING AUTHORS

Peter Greenberg: Where not to travel

ASKING AUTHORS

Heraldo Muñoz and the legacy of Pinochet

ASKING AUTHORS

Sen. Mel Martinez: a politician's story

Robber apologizes during Vt. general store holdup

A thief who robbed a general store apologized to the owner and left the singles behind so workers on the ne...

For toilet-less Vermont library, a new chapter

When you gotta go, you gotta go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you reall...

Man says cell phone saved him from stray bullet

R.J. Richard says he doesn't normally put his cell phone in his chest pocket. But he says it saved his life...

Iowa first lady admits violating state smoking ban

Her husband just signed a smoking ban into law in April. Now Iowa first lady Mari Culver admits she already...

Priest gets probation for jogging nude at track

A Catholic priest convicted of indecent exposure for jogging naked around a track at a high school has been...

Ind. inmates sneak through ceiling to have sex

Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to snea...

Woman wins $2.4M in her first trip to Vegas

A 24-year-old woman, on her first trip to Las Vegas, is worrying less about the nation's economy. That's be...

Warrant, cocaine lead to job seeker's arrest

A mid-Michigan man who'd been looking for work found trouble after an arrest warrant popped up during a bac...

Cell phone in man's chest pocket stops bullet

A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was ...

NY couple, trucker help injured butterfly migrate

A monarch butterfly has a chance at completing its species' famed migration to central Mexico thanks to som...

Mass. cops puzzled by butcher-quality meat chunks

Police are trying to figure out who keeps leaving chunks of meat on the town common, and why. Police said r...