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Gov. Charlie Crist called a press conference to announce the halt in foreclosures, but neither he nor the president of the Florida Bankers Association, Alex Sanchez, could say just how many people this could help. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791413.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791413.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Seven years ago, a Swiss art fair came to Miami Beach, and with it came the international art world. Connoisseurs, collectors, spectators and glitterati filled the Convention Center to gaze at and (in the case of some, at least) buy the art that Art Basel Miami Beach brought with it. The excitement spilled over into the streets of the Design District, to the shipping containers-turned-exhibition spaces over by the beach, to the hotels that opened their rooms to become instant mini-galleries. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/698263.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/698263.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:51 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/698391.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/698391.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:07 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/687181.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/687181.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:53 EDT Today's winning numbers http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/698410.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/698410.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:16 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/698409.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/inside/story/698409.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:15 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/796881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/796881.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:01 EST U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez's announcement Tuesday that he will not run for reelection set off a political free-for-all throughout Florida, as a slew of would-be successors began jockeying for position in the state's marquee race in 2010. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/796176.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/796176.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:53 EST A leader in a Liberty City mosque was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for his role in a housing scam that stole homes from the elderly -- and even from dead people. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795338.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795338.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:33 EST Wototo and Kara, giant river otters, along with Palenque and Reina, magnificent jaguars, and a pair of harpy eagles with spooky black-then-white eyes have arrived in Miami, bringing the sleek and taloned majesty of the Neotropics to a corner of Miami's Metrozoo called Amazon and Beyond. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795286.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795286.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:51 EST Last season, the pitiful 1-15 Miami Dolphins could not buy luck with a blank check. Today, at 7-5, the Dolphins are living that Irish blessing. The road rises to meet them, the wind blows always at their backs, the sun shines warm upon their faces and their lottery numbers win the jackpot. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795253.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795253.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:46 EST When the Dolphins stepped off their plane Sunday night, when their cellphones again were within range after a return flight from St. Louis, the news began to quickly spread to each of them: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795746.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795746.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:26 EST Burning candles -- lit because a family had no power in their apartment -- may have led to the death of an infant who perished in a blaze that tore through their Lauderhill apartment Monday night, authorities said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795688.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795688.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:51 EST Miami-Dade County Commissioner Rebeca Sosa says it's difficult for the public -- sometimes even for commissioners -- to understand language in postings by the county administration. She wants it stopped. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795305.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795305.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Guilty: Two Miami police officers duped by the FBI into believing they were escorting shipments of drugs and stolen iPhones for $39,500. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795306.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795306.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Police are still hunting for two robbers on Tuesday morning after they shot and killed an armored-car driver inside the Express clothing store on Monday at Dadeland Mall as frightened shoppers took cover. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795308.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795308.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Fire investigators are trying to determine whether recent renovations to a Liberty City home exacerbated a blaze that imperiled two children Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795309.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795309.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST A Miami federal judge on Monday crafted a compromise two-year sentence for a Venezuelan lawyer who worked with his government's spy agency in a South Florida plot to cover up an $800,000 cash campaign donation to Argentina's president. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795310.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/795310.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Through Thursday, The Miami Herald will answer some of the more frequently asked questions about the new Interstate 95 toll lanes. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/795335.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/795335.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST The selection of experienced centrists -- Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and James L. Jones -- to head President-elect Barack Obama's national security team points to the possibility that on Iraq, the incoming commander-in-chief may take a more measured path to ending American military involvement than he described during the presidential campaign. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/795346.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/795346.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Facing financial woes at home, states continued to press Congress to boost the economy by giving federal money to folks they know will spend it: the unemployed, the poor and road builders, among others. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/793917.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/793917.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Cooper City locksmith Stuart Hess puffed up to 40 cigarettes a day for about 40 years before he died of lung cancer at age 55 in 1997. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/791407.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/791407.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The fight for Georgia's U.S. Senate seat is a struggle for much more. For Democrats, the Tuesday runoff could give them their 59th seat in the next Senate. And if Democrat Al Franken beats GOP incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's recount, which will continue into December, Democrats would reach the magic number of 60 Senate seats -- the number required under Senate rules to shut off debate and force a vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/790535.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/790535.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST In a country where agreements are hard to reach, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki built a broad political coalition to muscle through a divisive U.S.-Iraq security pact that could set his place in his nation's history as the man who ended the American occupation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/790538.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/790538.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Tired of your same old job? Frustrated fan of The West Wing and want to try your hand at the real thing? Or maybe you've just cracked the Plum Book, a glittering bible of soon-to-be-vacated federal jobs, and seen an opening on the International Boundary and Water Commission for a tidy $158,000 a year and thought, ``Hey, I can do that.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/789474.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/789474.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Thousands of Americans have bought Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, after hearing that it shaped President-elect Barack Obama's thinking. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/789478.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/789478.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Iraq's Parliament postponed a pivotal vote on a U.S.-Iraq security agreement on Wednesday while key lawmakers sought compromises that would appease an alliance of Sunni parties. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/788782.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/788782.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:48 EST Cuban President Raúl Castro said in an interview released Wednesday that he would like to meet President-elect Barack Obama on ''neutral ground'' -- and he suggested the American Navy base at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787830.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787830.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Don't wait until the financial crisis is over to attack global warming because cleaner ways to produce and use energy will lead to a stronger economy, leaders of environmental groups said Tuesday as they outlined their wish list for President-elect Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787858.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787858.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST America has never seen anything quite like this: the president and president-elect acting like co-presidents, consulting and cooperating on the day's biggest crises. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787863.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787863.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The Bush administration has adopted a much looser interpretation than the Iraqi government of several key provisions of the pending U.S.-Iraq security agreement, U.S. officials said Tuesday -- just hours before the Iraqi parliament was to hold its historic vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787825.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/787825.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Facing a first-year deficit that could approach a staggering $2 trillion, President-elect Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to cut out wasteful spending wherever he finds it but insisted that the scope of the economic crisis demands an extraordinary -- and expensive -- response. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/795329.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/795329.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST As many as 38 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded Monday in multiple attacks across Iraq, including one in which a man detonated a suicide vest near a convoy of coalition vehicles in Mosul, killing up to 16. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/793922.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/793922.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:01 EST After the gunmen left, a waiter whispered, ``If you can move, follow me.'' So Michael Rudder, Helen Connolly, Andy Baragon and Linda Ronsdale crawled, bleeding, through the kitchen of a restaurant at the luxury Oberoi hotel. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/792875.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/792875.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Influential religious leaders across Iraq are voicing reservations about a U.S.-Iraq security agreement that allows Americans to remain in the country for another three years. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790933.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790933.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:13 EST (AP) -- Commandos who stormed the Mumbai headquarters of an ultra-orthodox Jewish group found the bodies of five hostages inside, including a New York rabbi and his wife, officials said, as a fresh battle raged at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel and other Indian forces ended a siege at another five-star hotel. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790535.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790535.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST In a country where agreements are hard to reach, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki built a broad political coalition to muscle through a divisive U.S.-Iraq security pact that could set his place in his nation's history as the man who ended the American occupation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790519.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790519.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The brutal, tactical attack in Mumbai comes at a time when India is flexing its economic muscle worldwide and when tensions between India and Pakistan -- always haunted by the tacit presence of nuclear weapons on both sides of the border -- seemed to have ratcheted down. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789479.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789479.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST In a series of dramatic attacks in the heart of India's financial capital, teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station Wednesday night, killing at least 100 people and taking Westerners hostage. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789504.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789504.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST When Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities in the 19th century, he was trying to capture the spirit of two history-soaked European capitals, London and Paris, in the days before and during the French Revolution. If Dickens were alive today, though, he could write a book of the same title without ever leaving London. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789478.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789478.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Iraq's Parliament postponed a pivotal vote on a U.S.-Iraq security agreement on Wednesday while key lawmakers sought compromises that would appease an alliance of Sunni parties. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/788746.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/788746.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:52 EST Osama bin Laden's former driver returned home to Yemen on Wednesday to serve out his remaining prison sentence after the U.S. released him from Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/787863.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/787863.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The Bush administration has adopted a much looser interpretation than the Iraqi government of several key provisions of the pending U.S.-Iraq security agreement, U.S. officials said Tuesday -- just hours before the Iraqi parliament was to hold its historic vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/787830.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/787830.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Don't wait until the financial crisis is over to attack global warming because cleaner ways to produce and use energy will lead to a stronger economy, leaders of environmental groups said Tuesday as they outlined their wish list for President-elect Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/786324.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/786324.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Three explosions killed at least 16 Iraqis on Monday, including 14 who were in a bus to a government ministry and an Iraqi soldier at a heavily guarded checkpoint leading to the U.S.-controlled International Zone. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796009.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796009.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:57 EST It was about 10 p.m. on a frigid Sunday in the Arizona desert when Avelina, a 24-year-old Mexican textile factory worker, heard footsteps and shouting: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents had found her. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796726.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796726.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:02 EST Hugo Chávez wants to remain president of Venezuela for life, and this week he began campaigning for Venezuelans to lift term limits so he can run for re-election indefinitely. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796248.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796248.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:53 EST It wasn't so long ago that thousands of passers-by would spend a couple of days on a bus to swarm into this cow town in the heart of the Sonora Desert. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796175.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796175.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:52 EST The seven girls posed, preened and smiled with all the energy of Miss Universe contestants, but this was no ordinary pageant. The competitors, from about 6-years-old to 16, had just paraded through a downpour to a small stage surrounded by mountains, where they displayed elaborate outfits handmade from wood, plants or, in one case, jingling shells. And the judges also sought a special kind of beauty: those who most resembled Puerto Rico’s native Indian tribe, the Taíno, received higher marks. <br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796236.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/796236.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:41 EST Venezuelan prosecutors say they have summoned a leading opponent of President Hugo Chavez for arraignment on corruption allegations. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/795164.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/795164.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:16 EST Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez could hardly contain his enthusiasm as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and four Russian warships began historic visits to the Caribbean nation last week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/795151.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/795151.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:06 EST As more severely malnourished children and their mothers trickled into Port-au-Prince Monday from Haiti's southeastern region to obtain life-saving treatment, the Ministry of Health and an international anti-hunger aid organization launched a national survey of children's nutritional health. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/794849.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/794849.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:18 EST A U.S. judge has thrown out most of the federal corruption charges against Puerto Rico's governor, who faces trial in February for alleged campaign finance violations. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/794694.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/794694.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:26 EST The General Motors factory in San Caetano, Brazil, plowed ahead at full tilt. Stamped, welded and painted, new Chevrolets flew off the line in greater numbers each month. The company added a third shift in March: 1,600 new employees. The union cheered. Assembly-line painter Jair Nery de Andrade used his 11 percent employee discount in February to buy himself a new Chevrolet Corsa Classic. "I wouldn't buy it now," he said. "I wouldn't feel secure about making that kind of commitment." http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/794733.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/794733.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:20 EST A Venezuelan lawyer who worked with his government's spy agency to cover up an $800,000 cash campaign donation to Argentina's president was sentenced Monday afternoon in Miami federal court to two years in prison on charges of being an illegal foreign agent. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/793927.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/793927.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:01 EST The slow road to death runs high above the scenic coastline, past the crumbled bridges and buried rivers. It traverses a jagged trail passing green slopes and red fertile dirt before arriving here: an isolated mountain village where little Haitian girls dream of eating rice and the doctor is a three-hour walk away. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/793111.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/793111.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:37 EST As the global financial crisis continues to unfold, Latin America is facing 12 to 18 months of ''grim'' economic prospects, with countries highly dependent on commodity exports such as Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador and Peru likely to suffer the most, according to economists at a recent Miami conference. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/793688.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/793688.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:41 EST President Hugo Chavez asked supporters Sunday to petition for a constitutional amendment that would let him seek indefinite re-election and buy more time to build a socialist economy in Venezuela. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/786335.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/786335.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday he is considering imposing a temporary freeze on housing foreclosures in Florida to provide some holiday relief from the housing and financial turmoil that continues to shock the state's economy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/782849.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/782849.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The state's barebones budget now has a $2.1 billion hole, state economists said in a Friday forecast that all but guarantees Gov. Charlie Crist will call a special legislative session to manage the deficit and consider what was once a non-starter: tax increases. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/781675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/781675.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:46 EST Florida's budget gap could widen by up to $1.5 billion as state economists meet Friday morning to revise the state's revenue forecast for the first time since the economic crisis took on global dimensions this fall. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/780298.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/780298.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:53 EST Bowing to the pleas of Florida's cash-starved state universities, Gov. Charlie Crist Thursday announced a plan that would give all 11 schools the power to raise tuition by as much as 15 percent yearly. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/777900.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/777900.html Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Shaken by the prospect of a painful budget year, the Florida Legislature held a low-key ceremony Tuesday to swear in new members and elect the presiding officers of the House and Senate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/776597.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/776597.html Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:26 EST Acknowledging the state's challenging fiscal crisis, Florida legislators voted in two new Republican leaders for the next two-year term on Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/774727.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/774727.html Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Leaders of Florida's Democratic and Republican parties are already looking down the road to the 2010 elections and this much is clear: Barack Obama's victory has shaken both sides, for very different reasons. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/770453.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/770453.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:01 EST In an peace offering, incoming Florida Senate President Jeff Atwater on Thursday named his former rival Miami Sen. Alex Villalobos to the powerful post of Senate rules chairman. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/768770.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/768770.html Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Calling Florida's financial outlook ''ugly,'' the chief steward of the state's dwindling finances said Wednesday that Gov. Charlie Crist and the state Legislature need to hold a special lawmaking session as soon as possible. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/768165.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/768165.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:10 EST Calling Florida's financial outlook ''ugly,'' the chief steward of the state's dwindling checkbook announced Wednesday that Gov. Charlie Crist and the state Legislature need to hold an extra-ordinary lawmaking session as soon as possible. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/763655.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/763655.html Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:41 EST Republican political consultant Sally Bradshaw didn't have to think twice about the subject of her presentation to a master's class in campaign management two weeks ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/763320.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/763320.html Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:58 EST Inside a converted cigar factory in the heart of Ybor City, a group of Barack Obama staffers hunch over their laptops in intense, nearly silent concentration. This is the nerve center of Obama's Florida operation, and the election is four days away. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/763266.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/763266.html Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:56 EST Republican political consultant Sally Bradshaw didn't have to think twice about the subject of her presentation to a master's class in campaign management two weeks ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/790539.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/790539.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST After slicing away at expenses following waves of budget cuts, Broward County school administrators said this week they will now have to take money from their rainy-day fund to keep the district going. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/790534.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/790534.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The art museum kept being deferred for bigger, higher-profile projects, such as a law school, then a football team, and a medical school. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/786338.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/786338.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:01 EST With the state facing a potential $1.4 billion tax shortfall, Miami-Dade Schools chief Alberto Carvalho called on the federal government to consider a bailout for the nation's public schools. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/781276.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/781276.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Sixty-three feet below the ocean's surface, the science teacher was giving his morning lesson. ''Hi, and welcome to Aquarius for our third and final broadcast from this mission,'' Mark Tohulka told his third-period marine biology students, who watched via webcam from their classroom at MAST Academy on Virginia Key. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/781260.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/781260.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Hailed as a bold stroke by supporters, Gov. Charlie Crist's plan to let state universities raise tuition by as much as 15 percent annually may also have drawn a potent foe: the state's first self-styled education governor, Bob Graham. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/779531.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/779531.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:01 EST High schools throughout the state and in South Florida saw a higher percentage of the senior class graduate and fewer students drop out last year, according to information released Wednesday by the Florida Department of Education. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/779568.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/779568.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Bowing to the pleas of Florida's cash-starved state universities, Gov. Charlie Crist will announce a plan Thursday to allow all 11 schools to raise tuition up to 15 percent a year. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/772259.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/772259.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:01 EST If Miami-Dade's four chronically failing schools don't make dramatic improvement this year, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho will take them over and manage them himself, he told the School Board Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/768781.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/768781.html Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Speaking to hundreds of concerned parents and students worried about the possible closing of their schools Wednesday night, Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced his plan for keeping them open -- helping them earn a D grade or better from the state. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/764352.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/764352.html Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:01 EST (AP) -- Fifty is the new zero for Collier County elementary school students. The school district has replaced 0 with 50 as the lowest score a student can get on an assignment. Officials say zeros are punitive and rarely reflect a student's overall abilities. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/756177.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/756177.html Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:01 EST ADULT ED For most people, lunch time is an occasion to take a break from a busy day, dine with friends and colleagues or run personal errands. But for co-workers Judson Fidler, Jehan Said and Eduardo Melendez, lunch é hora de falar portugus (is time to speak Portuguese). http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/756172.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/756172.html Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Parents today are closer to their children than they were a generation ago, ever more involved with homework and after-school activities, sharing in everything from music to clothes to online social networks. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/756168.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/756168.html Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:01 EST When headhunter Jon Leeds of Miami's Mergis Group screens job seekers, he makes sure to peruse their Facebook pages, and sometimes what he sees there can be a deal killer. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/796640.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/796640.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:33 EST The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration that will allow coal companies to bury streams under the rocks leftover from mining. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/796542.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/796542.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:38 EST A $518,000 grant that will be awarded to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on Wednesday could have potentially important consequences in the effort to control global warming amid the continuing political fallout from the Kyoto climate change treaty. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/794232.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/794232.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:14 EST This tree puts a unique spin on green. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/793522.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/793522.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:24 EST Beginning Monday, state regulators will hold hearings that promise to be as combustible as the topic. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/793124.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/793124.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:09 EST They were two of the 1,000 juvenile salmon implanted with almond-sized transmitters as they headed out of the Rocky Mountains, down the Snake River bound for the sea. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/790673.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/790673.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Finding eco-appropriate presents should be a snap for holiday shoppers. Plenty of fun, funky and useful products feature attributes that are kind to the planet and its people. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/792663.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/792663.html Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:44 EST Only 7 percent of the nation's sandy beaches are without any artificial structures or other human activity, a nationwide study of seaside locations has found. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/791203.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/791203.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:24 EST Federal wildlife managers hope to remove wolves from the endangered species list in Idaho and Montana before President-elect Barack Obama takes office. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/787556.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/787556.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:52 EST A new house in North Carolina that uses innovative water-saving appliances and construction design was recognized Tuesday by federal environmental leaders as the nation's first to meet standards of a new program promoting water efficiency. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/787458.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/787458.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:47 EST Don't wait until the financial crisis is over to attack global warming because cleaner ways to produce and use energy will lead to a stronger economy, leaders of environmental groups said Tuesday as they outlined their wish list for President-elect Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/784204.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/784204.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:12 EST As the setting sun filtered through red and yellow leaves, West Laurel Hill Cemetery's Nevin Mann stuck a shovel in the ground. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/784123.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/784123.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:17 EST Here's the question: What does a community organizer from Chicago who spent four years in the Senate before being elected president know about spotted owls, endangered salmon, mountain bark beetles, Western water rights, old-growth forests and the maintenance backlog in the national parks? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/784115.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/784115.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:12 EST With global warming melting the Arctic's eons-old ice at an alarming rate, shipping and oil companies are looking ahead at how to exploit the new open waters. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/783801.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/783801.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:12 EST A former Tokyo metropolitan government official and waterworks expert who is determined to prevent water wastage has gone to Tanzania to help locals better utilize the vital resource. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/783643.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/environment/story/783643.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:52 EST The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry of Japan last week held a meeting to explain details of a test run of its carbon credit trading scheme, for which the government began accepting applications from companies last month. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791423.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791423.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:01 EST A lmost everywhere that Miami Herald reporter Frances Robles and photographer John VanBeekum traveled along the southwest border with Mexico, they found the same ghost-town feel in what once were crowded villages built mostly on the illegal immigration trade. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791409.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791409.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST At one level, it sounds like a very bad joke. In September, a safe-haven law took effect in the state of Nebraska allowing parents to leave their children at hospitals without fear of prosecution. This, as a means of saving the lives of unwanted newborns who would otherwise be left in garbage heaps and motel rooms or simply murdered outright. Nebraska was the last state in the union to pass such a law and unlike the other 49 states, it did not limit the ages of children that could be legally abandoned... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791431.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791431.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Fire and ire. That's what many opinion columnists in The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald inspire. When I wrote to slap the hand of El Nuevo's Adolfo Rivero Caro for being irresponsible with facts, many of you responded with passion about the freedom of op-ed columnists in both papers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791422.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791422.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST When Barack Obama meets Tuesday in Philadelphia with governors of both parties, an added dimension of the credit crisis and financial meltdown will come into focus. We have heard a lot about the collapse of housing prices, the threatened or actual bankruptcy of many banks and the rise in unemployment. Individuals, families and firms of all sizes have been clobbered by these events. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791407.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791407.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The fight for Georgia's U.S. Senate seat is a struggle for much more. For Democrats, the Tuesday runoff could give them their 59th seat in the next Senate. And if Democrat Al Franken beats GOP incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's recount, which will continue into December, Democrats would reach the magic number of 60 Senate seats -- the number required under Senate rules to shut off debate and force a vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782551.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782551.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST On a cold January morning in 2001, Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., who was then the new secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was headed to his office in his limo when he saw some homeless people huddled on the vents of the steam tunnels that heat federal buildings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782541.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782541.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST We should be ashamed of how poorly we have treated President George W. Bush. That, believe it or not, is the thesis of a bizarre opinion published the day after the election in The Wall Street Journal by one Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, described as an investigative reporter, a lawyer and a former intern for, of all people, John Kerry. It's one of two rather eye-opening Journal pieces, actually; the second, following just days later, was by a former presidential aide named Jim Towey. Under the headline... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782559.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782559.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST When President Barack Obama takes office on Jan. 20, he will confront tough choices about how best to allocate his government's precious economic and diplomatic resources to pursue the legitimate interests of the United States in the world. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782549.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782549.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST If you're like most Americans, you probably weren't dabbing tears from your eyes while listening to the woeful pleas of Richard Wagoner, Alan Mulally and Robert Nardelli. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771757.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771757.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Mauricio Claver-Carone is a director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC (www.uscubapac.com), was an attorney with the Department of the Treasury, and has served on the full-time faculty of The Catholic University of America's law school. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771755.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771755.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Marián Prío, a reader from Key Biscayne, was upset. She had just read a column in El Nuevo Herald, the newspaper of record for the substantial segment of South Florida that is Spanish dominant. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771756.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771756.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Camila Ruiz Gallardo is director of government relations for the Cuban American National Foundation. The word ''change'' seems to spark a range of diverse emotions in South Florida. For some, the word represents hope, an opportunity to adjust course with the goal of achieving a better outcome. For others, it evokes alarm, uncertainty, a rejection of past efforts. Merriam-Webster doesn't offer much help in its own definitions, which include: to alter as well as: to transform. So you can appreciate... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771175.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771175.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Joe Oglesby, editorial page editor of The Miami Herald, asked the question below of Vernon Jordan, former president of the National Urban League and a close advisor to former President Bill Clinton. Jordan currently is senior managing director with Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, an investment banking firm whose latest book is Make It Plain: Stand Up and Speaking Out (2008: Perseus Publishing; $24.95): http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796384.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796384.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:43 EST Authorities say a west Florida man who lives with his parents has been arrested on a felony assault charge after he used a Christmas tree as a weapon to attack his father. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796374.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796374.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:38 EST A man who saw his pickup truck being stolen jumped into the bed of the moving vehicle, kicked out the back window and crawled into the cab to stop the thief. Police said the woman who stole the truck then jumped out and hopped into her boyfriend's car, which the truck owner chased until officers intervened. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796348.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796348.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:04 EST A woman was facing misdemeanor theft charges for allegedly swiping Christmas decorations from her neighbor's lawns. The county sheriff's office said a 51-year-old woman was found Monday in her Manchester home with decorations from at least three area homes. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796342.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796342.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:59 EST A message in a bottle tossed into the ocean off Barnegat Bay has turned up in North Carolina - 39 years later. The note was sealed in a Schaefer beer bottle. It was dated Aug. 17, 1969 and read: "If found notify the North Haledon Fire Co. 2." http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796260.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796260.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:04 EST Police arrested a 44-year-old man who lit a small charcoal grill inside his apartment, endangering his neighbors. Police charged him with second-degree reckless endangerment after two people became ill. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/795612.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/795612.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:22 EST Police on Long Island say they've pulled two drunken drivers from one car. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/795167.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/795167.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:17 EST An X-ray marked the spot for southwest Florida police who say a teenager swallowed a $16 pair of earrings after taking them from a JCPenney store at a mall. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794817.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794817.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:52 EST Arkansas sheriff's deputies said they arrested a man needing a little bit more of a boost to go with his morning coffee. Deputies said the man parked next to their unmarked cruiser Tuesday outside of a Starbucks in Bentonville. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794773.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794773.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:27 EST Police are looking for a woman who used what's believed to have been hairspray as a weapon in a botched purse-snatching in a Wal-Mart parking lot. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794771.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794771.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:27 EST Hobart Anderson of New Ulm turned 80 recently and with his birthday came a surprise. He got a birthday card signed by Collette Hartung. She was his teacher - 70 years ago. He says he was very, very surprised. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794769.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794769.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:27 EST A hunter bagged a big buck on the second day of firearms season, but the kill caused him a lot of pain. Randy Goodman, 49, said he thought two well-placed shots with his .270-caliber rifle had killed the buck on Nov. 19. Goodman said the deer looked dead to him, but seconds later the nine-point, 240-pound animal came to life. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794761.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794761.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:22 EST A man who rammed his truck into a woman's vehicle on a highway early Friday told authorities he crashed into her while going more than 100 mph because God told him "she needed to be taken off the road." http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794752.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794752.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:17 EST An Ohio State University academic adviser and a real estate agent held a $10-a-ticket raffle that offered an evening with a prostitute who is also a child sex-abuse caseworker, police said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794141.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:04 EST A Long Island Democratic supporter says he's been driven to hide his OBAMA vanity license plates inside his car because people kept trying to steal them. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794139.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/794139.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:59 EST A Long Island Democratic supporter says he's been driven to hide his OBAMA vanity license plates inside his car because people kept trying to steal them. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/action-line/story/796209.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/action-line/story/796209.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:37 EST If you're thinking about giving a puppy as a gift, make sure you've got your common sense with you before you head out the door. And learn about the pet law that protects consumers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/action-line/story/796220.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/action-line/story/796220.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:40 EST Q. My trash is picked up on Mondays and Thursdays by Miami-Dade Solid Waste Management. The driver always compacts the trash right in front of my house, and all that dirty water pours out into my driveway. And every time I have to go clean it up with Clorox. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796824.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796824.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:53 EST Authorities say a Florida man who lives with his parents has been charged with attacking his father with a Christmas tree and its metal stand. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796440.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weird-news/story/796440.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:33 EST A cat lost in Yellowstone National Park in August has been returned to her family in Houston with the help of some West Yellowstone residents. Philip Wattenbarger and his family were camping in a trailer in the West Yellowstone area when their long-haired tabby, Fluffy, went missing on Aug. 1.