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  • FIU law student killed in crash in the Dominican Republic

    Miami Herald – 1 hr 7 mins ago  

    A Florida International University law student visiting the Dominican Republic was killed in a car crash over the weekend. Jorge Pupo, 33, a second-year student and a member of the law review, was killed in a head-on collision along with another family member, Jorge Ramos Pupo, 63. Full Story »

  • Ohio company settles Florida Medicaid fraud charges

    Miami Herald – Wed Dec 9, 1:23 pm ET  

    Florida will receive $8.5 million from a settlement with Roxane Laboratories, a Columbus, Ohio, pharmaceutical company, to partially resolve a Leon County Medicaid fraud lawsuit, the state attorney general said Wednesday. Full Story »

  • Police search for armed bank robber in Plantation

    Miami Herald – Wed Dec 9, 10:34 am ET  

    Police swarmed a Plantation bank Wednesday morning searching for a man who robbed the branch. The robber fired shots outside the Bank of America at 8190 W. Sunrise Blvd., but no one was injured, police said. Full Story »

  • Committee: Count portables in Broward schools as classrooms

    Miami Herald – Wed Dec 9, 9:53 am ET  

    A group of representatives from the Broward school district, the county and several cities said Wednesday that the school system should not loosen the way it measures school crowding -- though it should count portable classrooms as part of a school's capacity. Full Story »

  • South Beach's Gansevoort hotel to be auctioned in foreclosure sale

    Miami Herald – Wed Dec 9, 7:58 am ET  

    Lenders plan to sell ownership of the Gansevoort South in an auction next month, less than two years after the hotel opened as a popular stop on Miami Beach's party circuit. Full Story »

  • University of Miami losing nursing professor to Texas

    Miami Herald – Wed Dec 9, 7:28 am ET  

    An associate professor at the University of Miami's School of Nursing and Health Studies is leaving the Coral Gables school to take over the top job at the University of Texas at El Paso. Full Story »

  • Miami-Dade students top charts on U.S. math test

    Miami Herald – Tue Dec 8, 8:53 pm ET  

    Miami-Dade students outperformed their peers in most major U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago on the national math exam, according to data released Tuesday. Full Story »

  • Senate elects new leader for 2010

    Miami Herald – Tue Dec 8, 8:53 pm ET  

    Senate Republicans on Tuesday, fresh from a victory in passing the bill promoting commuter rail in South and Central Florida, tapped Indialantic lawmaker Mike Haridopolos to succeed Sen. Jeff Atwater as the chamber's leader. Full Story »

  • Cuban spy's life sentence reduced to 30 years

    Miami Herald – Tue Dec 8, 3:58 pm ET  

    A federal judge Tuesday reduced convicted Cuban spy Ramón Labañino's life sentence to 30 years in prison, based on an agreement between prosecutors and the defendant's attorney in the so-called Cuban Five espionage case. Full Story »

  • Police shoot and injure burglary suspect holed up in home near Opa-locka

    Miami Herald – Tue Dec 8, 2:23 pm ET  

    Police shot and injured a man suspected of attempted burglary following a standoff that lasted several hours outside a home near Opa-locka on Tuesday afternoon. Full Story »

  • Broward School Board postpones boundary shift

    Miami Herald – Tue Dec 8, 7:28 am ET  

    Broward School Board members on Tuesday informally agreed to push back a contentious attendance boundary switch that would shuffle hundreds of students in Cooper City, Hollywood and possibly Pembroke Pines. Full Story »

  • South Florida telecom execs charged in alleged Haiti scam

    Miami Herald – Tue Dec 8, 7:03 am ET  

    Two executives of a Miami-Dade telecom company, two former Haitian government officials and the president of a Florida-based consulting firm were indicted for their alleged roles in a foreign bribery, wire fraud and money laundering scheme, U.S. officials said Monday. Full Story »

  • FSU alumnus to step in as president

    Miami Herald – Mon Dec 7, 11:51 pm ET  

    TALLAHASSEE - Florida State University trustees today are expected to choose an alumnus and nationally renowned climatologist as the institution's 14th president, a move aimed at boosting FSU's research reputation and fundraising prowess. Full Story »

  • Trial puts focus on kids' care

    Miami Herald – Mon Dec 7, 9:56 pm ET  

    Speaking at a conference on Medicaid in June 2007, Florida's healthcare chief at the time, Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, bemoaned the ``critical'' shortage of doctors willing to accept payment from the state's insurance program for the needy. Full Story »

  • Nimble burglar steals guns from Lauderdale Lakes pawn shop

    Miami Herald – Mon Dec 7, 4:42 pm ET  

    Wasn't Batman a hero, and not a villain? It probably wasn't the Caped Crusader who stole five guns from a Lauderdale Lakes pawn shop Friday morning, but the thief sure did his best Dark Knight impression. Full Story »

  • North Miami High teacher stabbed to death by ex-lover, police say

    Miami Herald – Mon Dec 7, 2:17 pm ET  

    Police identified a North Miami High School teacher as the man who was reportedly stabbed to death Thursday by an ex-lover seeking revenge. Several neighbors called 911 as they watched Charles Brown, 54, being attacked at his North Miami Beach apartment, according to the city's police. Full Story »

  • Haitian leader René Préval is on his honeymoon

    Miami Herald – Mon Dec 7, 1:12 pm ET  

    Ladies, René Préval is no longer a bachelor. Full Story »

  • Ex-Broward Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion to plead guilty

    Miami Herald – Mon Dec 7, 9:42 am ET  

    Suspended Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion will plead guilty in federal court Thursday to one count of money laundering. Eggelletion will enter his plea at 10 a.m. Thursday in West Palm Beach, according to court records. His plea will end the two-decades-long career of the politician, who served for many years in the state Legislature. Full Story »

  • Tot who accidentally shot herself to death is identified

    Miami Herald – Mon Dec 7, 9:27 am ET  

    Miami-Dade police on Monday released the name of the 3-year-old girl killed after she found a gun at a relative's house and accidentally shot herself. Full Story »

  • South Dade child dies after finding gun

    Miami Herald – Sat Dec 5, 8:48 pm ET  

    A 3-year-old girl died after finding a gun at a relative's home and shooting herself Saturday afternoon, Miami-Dade Police said. The child, whose name was not released, found the weapon in a home on the 13700 block of Southwest 280th Terrace. Full Story »

  • Mentally ill Little Havana woman missing

    Miami Herald – Sat Dec 5, 8:17 pm ET  

    It's been more than three months since the disappearance of Dolores Fiallo, and Miami police on Saturday said the search for the Little Havana woman continues. Full Story »

  • South Dade child shoots herself

    Miami Herald – Sat Dec 5, 7:27 pm ET  

    A girl in South Miami-Dade shot herself Saturday afternoon, according to police, who did not immediately release further information. First responders rushed to a home at the 13100 block of Southwest 280 Terrace at about 5 p.m., when Miami-Dade police received calls that a girl reportedly shot herself. Full Story »

  • Police seek tips in Miami Gardens deadly shooting

    Miami Herald – Sat Dec 5, 3:57 pm ET  

    Police are searching for a shooter who used a high-powered rifle to kill a woman Friday night while she drove through a residential neighborhood of Miami Gardens. Full Story »

  • Potential suitor for bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas falls short

    Miami Herald – Fri Dec 4, 3:28 pm ET  

    A potential new suitor for the bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas sent a letter to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge A. Jay Cristol expressing a ``preliminary, non-binding indication of interest'' in acquiring the partially built casino resort project for $350 million. Full Story »

  • Architects compete to dress up Bicentennial Park Metromover station

    Miami Herald – Fri Dec 4, 1:32 pm ET  

    Here's how to transform a blah Metromover station, courtesy of Miami's mold-shattering DawnTown architectural competition: Place a multifaceted, shell-like ``diaphragm'' over the Bicentennial Park station tracks, and let it glow. Full Story »

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