Miami Herald

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 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 »

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 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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

Miami police Chief Miguel Exposito, in the job less than two weeks, will name his senior staff at a promotion ceremony Friday afternoon. He will bring in two outsiders and promote 18 others to help run the department of 1,100 officers and 400 civilians. Full Story »