Family mourns a pampered pig

In the lace-trimmed white coffin, Rachel Fernandez lay under her favorite pink ''princess'' blanket, her he...

MIAMI-DADE

Miami-Dade fireman raked in the overtime pay

Miami-Dade's inspector general reported abuse of overtime and sick pay at the fire department.

JACKSON MEMORIAL

Jackson chief calls it quits

Marvin O'Quinn resigned from Jackson Memorial Hospital to become a top executive at a hospital group based ...

MIAMI

Man in wheelchair rescued from Metrorail tracks

A man in a wheelchair was badly injured after he fell off a Metrorail platform and onto the train tracks.

Rockwell Collins to close service center

Aerospace company Rockwell Collins will close a service center near Miami International Airport, eliminatin...

Miami-Dade not ready to readjust marketing

The head of Miami-Dade's tourism bureau said Friday it's too early in the financial crisis to retool the de...

CRIME

Jewel thieves busy as big gem show nears

Authorities said many recent South Florida jewel heists are part of a semi-organized crime network known as...

CAMPAIGN 2008 | 7-ELEVEN

7-Eleven lets coffee-lovers vote with their cups

One convenience store chain is conducting an unscientific poll on the presidential race.

MIAMI

Bush stands firm on Cuba during Miami visit

Despite his sinking popularity among Cuban Americans, President Bush continued to hold the line on Cuba tra...

CONSERVATION

Broward leaders tackle water shortage prevention

Broward County leaders will begin making recommendations to prevent a massive water shortage by 2025.

FEDERAL COURT

Jury convicts drug lord

A federal jury on Friday found Hernan Prada, who once ran one of the biggest drug rings in the country, gui...

Bush: US will work with partners on credit crisis

President Bush emerged from a meeting with foreign financial officials on Saturday and pledged a global res...

Wyo. town reflects 10 years after Shepard's murder

McCain, Obama offer dueling ideas to save economy

John McCain and Barack Obama outlined steps to counter the faltering economy and plummeting stock market on...

Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing

Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a ...

Stocks end worst week mixed after wild session

Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrial...

Colin Powell calls Sen. Stevens' word 'sterling'

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday praised Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' sense of honor at his tri...

Conn. high court rules gay couples can marry

Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the thi...

Chinese dissidents miss out on Nobel peace prize

Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, but this year the news was as m...

Dalai Lama's surgery ends successfully: aide

Surgeons successfully removed gallstones from the Dalai Lama on Friday, an operation that will not prevent ...

Bush says financial rescue plan big enough to work

President Bush said Friday that the government's financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough...

Iraqi PM: Top cleric won't block US pact

Iraq's prime minister said Friday that the country's most influential Shiite cleric will leave the decision...

COMING OUT DAY

Averting crisis: Mitchell Gold on growing up gay in America

Decades before Mitchell Gold became a famous furniture mogul, he considered ways to kill himself. ''I debat...

PARENTS

Their pictures are born of tragedy

A white rose hanging outside the doorway tells nurses that the family in this one room of the suburban mate...

ELDER CARE | ALZHEIMER'S

Ways sought to keep track of wandering Alzheimer's patients

With Alzheimer's and other mental impairments growing toward epidemic levels, government officials are taki...

IN MY OPINION

Mom worries she might not make the grade

Experience has taught me that the more I work at something, the better I'll master it. You know the old saw...

BEHIND THE SCENES| ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT IN SOUTH FLORIDA

Arsht Center, 2, plans birthday celebration

Two years into its role as Miami-Dade's cultural centerpiece, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing ...

JACKSON MEMORIAL

Jackson chief calls it quits

Marvin O'Quinn resigned from Jackson Memorial Hospital to become a top executive at a hospital group based ...

Soap opera updates

ALL MY CHILDREN: Saying he would help Annie keep Emma, Zach sent her to his psychiatrist friend. Zach secre...

Bajofondo brings its global tango sound to South Florida

Argentine composer and producer Gustavo Santaolalla is a boundary-leaping kind of guy in just about every w...

The Express (PG) *** | A story worth catching even if you're not a fan

Ernie Davis didn't carry a placard or attend sit-ins or register black voters in Alabama. He became a figur...

City of Ember (PG) ** | May be lights out for audience, too

If the family-oriented fantasy City of Ember wasn't based on the 2003 novel by Jeanne Duprau, you'd swear i...

Body of Lies (R) **½ | Good start, but cop-out end to terrorism tale

The title Body of Lies sounds like something you might catch on Cinemax on a late weekend night -- a movie ...

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS 55, COOPER CITY 0

St. Thomas Aquinas is unstoppable

Next. No one at St. Thomas Aquinas is actually saying that, but they might want to make bumper stickers or ...

HURRICANES 6, PANTHERS 4

Florida Panthers beaten in season debut

Goalie Tomas Vokoun struggled, and Florida, which controlled play early, let a division rival get away in l...

ROUNDUP

Westminster Academy finds spark

For Westminster Academy parents waiting on volleyball practice to end Wednesday, sitting on the far side of...

FIU

FIU football faces tough Middle Tennessee squad

FIU can tie several program records with a win Saturday, but first it must get past its nemesis -- Middle T...

UM

University of Miami football team can't take Central Florida lightly

The Hurricanes know that after consecutive home losses, they are in no position to take Central Florida lig...

David Booth could be Florida Panthers' next star

PLANTATION 30, PIPER 13

Fuller powers Plantation to win over rival

Plantation defeated division rival Piper 30-13 on Friday night. Lamario Fuller led Plantation with 276 punt...

GULLIVER PREP 15, BAY POINT 6

Gulliver Prep stays unbeaten

DILLARD 32, STRANAHAN 0

Dillard takes off early

Dillard made quick work of Stranahan, scoring 22 points in the first six minutes on the way to its third co...

Two Cuban players go missing

A German soccer coach confirmed that two Cuban players left the team's Doubletree Hotel and they had not be...

UF

Florida Gators plan to be tough against LSU

The Gators must play tougher in their rematch with LSU if they want to avoid being outmuscled like they wer...

CELEBRITY ROUNDUP

Even Britney looks down on Britney

If you're wondering what was going through Britney Spears' head during her erratic era, you are not alone -...

LA VIDA LOCAL

Drinking with the stars

In SoFla, it's always important to stay in the spirit of things. Good thing we have celebs showing us how: ...

The Calendar

Tonight is Miami.com night at Nightmare: Ghost Stories. In order to get $10 off the admission price, buy ti...

SCENE IN THE TROPICS

Lovers' spat at Cabana One opening

What bad timing for actress Michelle Rodriguez: She apparently got into a lovers' spat during the opening w...

TALK OF OUR TOWN

A-Rod lists Gables home for $14.8 mil

New York Yankee Alex ''A-Rod'' Rodriguez and wife Cynthia, in the final stages of divorce, just listed thei...

AS SEEN ON TV

Victoria Stilwell's life is going to the dogs -- and that's good

Victoria Stilwell can teach an old dog new tricks. The host of It's Me or the Dog, a longtime U.K. hit, has...

CELEBRITY ROUNDUP

Love not such a splendored thing at all

Most of you may be aware of the obsession a certain celebrity reporter has with John Cusack. But even she w...

Daddy Yankee takes on new role as debate moderator

Reggaeton star takes a turn as moderator of a debate for candidates for governor of Puerto Rico.

LA VIDA LOCAL

Turning 100 no biggie

If you have a nagging ache or pain don't do any complaining around Gertrude MacVeany. She turned 100 on Wed...

AS SEEN ON TV

Those wild and crazy 'Saturday Night Live' gals!

CELEBRITY ROUNDUP

Auntie Britney: Can you help?

Please, please, say it isn't so. The National Enquirer -- which is, goshdarn it, sometimes on target with t...

FEDERAL COURT

Key figures in suitcase trial once had close ties

Two former close friends are on opposite sides of the federal trial surrounding the suitcase full of unexpl...

GUATEMALA

Food forum in Guatemala brings draws socialist activists

A forum on a broad array of Latin American issues was a magnet for activists pushing `socialist alternatives.'

Bush firm on Cuba during Miami visit

Despite his sinking popularity among Cuban Americans, President Bush held the line on Cuba travel restricti...

Activists attend Latam forum in Guatemala

Thousands of Latin America's indigenous, union leaders, peasants' rights organizations and young idealists ...

Peru president accepts resignation of Cabinet

President Alan Garcia accepted the resignation of his entire Cabinet on Friday without naming replacements ...

CUBA AFTER THE STORMS

Hurricanes worsen housing shortage in Cuba

A severe housing shortage in Cuba was worsened by two hurricanes that left another 440,000 homes on the isl...

VENEZUELA

Venezuela begins to rein in spending

The government of Venezuela has announced that it will have to tighten its belt and restructure its budget,...

Reputed drug lord captured in Panama

An infamous drug trafficking suspect was captured Thursday night as he had dinner at a restaurant in Panama...

CAMPAIGN 2008

Bush Cuba policy up for test at polls

George W. Bush makes one of his last trips as president to Miami. He'll meet with Cuban-American leaders wh...

FEDERAL COURT

Colombian paramilitary leaders to be sentenced

Two Colombian paramilitary leaders will be sentenced in Miami federal court on drug charges. Some victims s...

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Brazilian villagers protest against rocket base

For 200 years, descendants of slaves have preserved a distinctive way of life in the Brazilian village of M...

Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing

Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a ...

ALASKA

Inquiry: Gov. Palin abused state power

Gov. Sarah Palin violated a state ethics law by using the governor's office to try to get a state trooper f...

ON THE TRAIL

Obama dares McCain to keep attacking his character

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dared Republican John McCain to keep attacking his character...

McCain gets boos at GOP rally for defending Obama

John McCain on Friday moved to calm rising anger among his supporters at rival Barack Obama, calling him a ...

McCain, Obama offer dueling ideas to save economy

John McCain and Barack Obama outlined steps to counter the faltering economy and plummeting stock market on...

McCain missing the mark with Hispanics

CAMPAIGN 2008

Bush Cuba policy up for test at polls

George W. Bush makes one of his last trips as president to Miami. He'll meet with Cuban-American leaders wh...

Bush raises $2 million in Florida, South Carolina

President Bush worked to allay fears about the financial crisis on Friday then left the White House and hea...

Top McCain official raises Obama's past drug use

Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, a co-chairman of Republican John McCain's presidential campaign, called...

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Palins repeatedly pressed case against trooper

Alaska’s former public safety commissioner was contacted three dozen times by Gov. Sarah Palin, her husband...

Obama buys network time on anniversary of Black Tuesday

Barack Obama is buying a half-hour slot on television networks in prime time on Oct. 29, the anniversary of...

In a historic step, the government will take an ownership stake in American banks.

The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the ...

FUEL

Gas prices on the slide

There's one bit of good news amid the stock market woes: We could see $3 gas again by Halloween.

Banking basics pay off for Wells Fargo & Co.

The new owner of Wachovia, one of Florida's largest banks, is finally expanding east of the Mississippi.

Interest rates are still high for banks

Interbank lending rates keep rising, and experts say investors in the stock market won't get any relief unt...

Rockwell Collins to close service center

Aerospace company Rockwell Collins will close a service center near Miami International Airport, eliminatin...

JACKSON MEMORIAL

Jackson chief calls it quits

Marvin O'Quinn resigned from Jackson Memorial Hospital to become a top executive at a hospital group based ...

Bush: US will work with partners on credit crisis

President Bush emerged from a meeting with foreign financial officials on Saturday and pledged a global res...

Miami-Dade not ready to readjust marketing

The head of Miami-Dade's tourism bureau said Friday it's too early in the financial crisis to retool the de...

Protest raised about coal shipment charge

A Florida electric cooperative has asked government regulators to step in and prevent CSX (CSX) from doubli...

Chief of Jackson Health System resigns

Marvin O'Quinn, head of Jackson Health System, resigned Friday to accept a top job with Catholic Healthcare...

THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

Government is running out of options to bolster economy

Washington's actions haven't quelled financial fears. The next steps could include buying up foreclosed pro...