Local News - Miami Herald

North Miami police responding to a 911 call Monday afternoon found two people dead inside an apartment and a woman shot in a neighboring building.

BE Aerospace, the world's largest maker of aircraft interiors, cut its profit forecast through 2010 because a weakened global economy and higher fuel costs have hurt demand.

Former Australian Football League star Wayne Carey is due in Miami-Dade criminal court at 9 a.m. Tuesday -- to plead no contest to two felony counts of battery on a police officer. The charges stem from his October '07 arrest at the Mandarin Oriental on Brickell Key, where he got into a brawl with Miami cops.

Winger David Booth was named one of the league's three stars for the opening week after he scored three goals in Florida's first two games.

Customers found something Monday at the Westfork Shell station in Pembroke Pines they hadn't seen in almost a year: Gas below $3 a gallon.

A 90-year-old woman driving her new Dodge Challenger died Sunday after her car slammed into a pole and burst into flames, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

State transportation managers will be testing the new electronic tolling signs on Interstate 95 in Miami-Dade starting at 9 p.m. Tuesday.

FAU quarterback Rusty Smith revealed Monday that he dislocated his nonthrowing shoulder in the season opener at Texas and that the injury has led to bad mechanics.

The Broward Sheriff's Office is hoping surveillance footage of a man who robbed a Tamarac bank Saturday will help collar the criminal.

Reinier Alcantara knew, even before he boarded the flight from Cuba to Washington, D.C., last week, that he wouldn't be using his return ticket. He hatched the plan to defect months ago and worked extra hard to make the roster for last Saturday's World Cup qualifier against the United States because he figured that would be his chance to escape a life that was getting increasingly more ...

Automotive retailer AutoNation is moving its headquarters -- about 10 blocks. The company has leased 105,000 square feet at Stiles Corp.'s 200 Las Olas Cir., and will move into the 17-story tower next year from 110 Tower.

Florida's unemployment rate is going through the roof, but former Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne has managed to land a job just two weeks after being released from prison.

The funeral for Shanice Denise Osborne, whose fetal remains were found at an abortion clinic in 2006, has been moved. The new location is Worldwide Christian Center, 450 Powerline Rd., Pompano Beach, at 10 a.m. Oct. 14. Burial follows at Queen of Heaven cemetery, 1500 State Road 7, Fort Lauderdale.

Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises said Monday that it will expand to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2010 with the deployment of its Brilliance of the Seas cruise ship.

Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise operator, said effective Oct. 31 it will eliminate fuel surcharges on new bookings for 2010 at six brands and raising fares instead.

World Fuel Services Corp., which markets and sells fuel products and services, said Monday its board authorized a $50 million share buyback plan.

A man terribly burned in an explosion at a Fort Lauderdale gas station on Oct. 5 has died in the hospital, a Fort Lauderdale police spokeswoman said.

A man rammed his wife's car Monday morning and then stabbed her in front of the couple's daughter at a North Lauderdale bus stop, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.

Pembroke Pines police are looking for a gunman who was caught on video Thursday just before robbing and shooting at a man in a parking lot in the 7800 block of Johnson Street.