Two Miami-Dade school labor unions on Monday escalated their fight to stop the district from canceling scheduled pay raises, with one breaking off negotiations and the other preparing a lawsuit.
CONGRESSIONAL RACES | VOTER POLL
A new poll suggests tight races between two Miami Democrats and the Cuban-American Republican members of Congress they are challenging.
PEMBROKE PINES
A lone pilot was killed Monday after his single-engine plane crashed just moments after taking off from North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, authorities said.
At a Sunday night block party in Pompano Beach involving more than 100 revelers, the shooting of fireworks turned into a spray of gunfire that left one man dead, one gravely wounded and two others with minor gunshot injuries.
STREETWISE
South Florida leaders need to find more ways to make the haphazard public transportation system efficient, accessible and convenient to a broader ridership.
BROWARD SHERIFF'S OFFICE
A police polygraph test used to justify the shutdown of a Broward sheriff's investigation into an inmate abuse claim is now suddenly in question, casting doubt on the agency's handling of the case.
MIAMI 21
After months in limbo, the city of Miami's far-reaching but controversial Miami 21 rezoning plan has suddenly picked up steam again and is on a fast track to a commission vote in December.
PEMBROKE PINES
A Wal-Mart shopper looking for a deal in the garden department found more than he bargained for when he startled a poisonous pygmy rattlesnake hiding in some plants.
Thirteen people living in a possible boarding house near Fort Lauderdale escaped unharmed after a fire broke out early Saturday morning, Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue officials said.
Twenty fire trucks doused a massive blaze aboard a cargo ship Saturday night, and authorities reported all nine crew members were safely evacuated.
Police are investigating the killing of a young man found dead Saturday afternoon inside a home in a quiet South Miami neighborhood.
BETH REINHARD breinhard@MiamiHerald.com T he Rev. Joel Hunter, pastor of a Florida mega-church and a Republican who voted twice for George W. Bush, was among 30 religious leaders invited to a private meeting with the 2008 presidential nominee.
BROWARD COUNTY
David Haroldo Figueroa was so enraged over a minor fender bender, Broward sheriff's deputies say, that he pummeled the other driver and then attempted to yank the man out of his van when he tried to drive away.
MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS
In order to pay teachers and other employees their raises this year, the Miami-Dade school district would have to lay off 1,300 people, district officials said Thursday.
FORT LAUDERDALE
Fort Lauderdale's latest attempt to keep the Baltimore Orioles baseball team from possibly leaving its spring training site has failed.
HIALEAH
The second man shot by a Hialeah resident during an armed home invasion robbery has died, police said Thursday. Mijali Rodriguez, 27, died at Jackson Memorial Hospital after he was shot inside a home in the 700 block of West 53rd Street on Wednesday morning.
HIALEAH
Melvin Gonzalez, a welder, was motoring through Hialeah early Thursday morning in a van filled with with gasoline, acetylene, compressed oxygen and other tools of his trade.
MIAMI
A Miami appeals court rebuked the state child-welfare agency Wednesday for removing a 12-year-old boy from his mother because she was homeless, ruling that not having a home for a child does not by itself constitute abuse.
MIAMI FEDERAL COURT
A Miami Lakes couple who built a billing empire by submitting about $420 million in false claims for medical equipment to Medicare has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in Miami federal court, authorities said Wednesday.
CORAL SPRINGS
The human bones found inside a sunken van in a Coral Springs canal earlier this year were officially identified Wednesday as those of Jeffrey Walter Klee, a teenager first reported missing more than three decades ago.
