Miami Herald investigates why so many children -- nearly 500 and counting since 2008 -- were dying after DCF already had been involved with the parents. Now, each child has a story.
Miami Beach has created a new developer fee to encourage green buildings. It could create a source of revenue for sustainability projects. Other governments in the region are watching.
If past presidential elections served as real-time lessons about civics and government and illustrations of nobility to which children might aspire, this year’s has looked more like a cafeteria food fight or recess brawl.
Five years after President Barack Obama ordered his administration to set up annual reviews for Guantánamo prisoners, more than three dozen captives have yet to even get their first review. A new chart by the Miami Herald illustrates the progress — and lack thereof.
American Airlines’ Howard Kass is hopeful that the airline will be flying regularly scheduled service between the United States and Cuba within the first half of this year and says Miami will play a big role in resumption of commercial flights to the island.
Patrick Quercioli was big and burly, and with pumped muscles and an elaborate Indian tattoo on his arm, he looked more like a bodybuilder than a corrections officer.
Lowell Correctional Institution holds the lion’s share of Florida’s female inmates. With more than 2,700 inmates, it is the largest women’s prison in the United States.
In 38 years of holding annual conferences, Caribbean Central America Action, a Washington-based organization that brings together regional business and government leaders, has never held a meeting that has focused almost exclusively on a single topic and a single country.
On a recent Sunday, volunteers were sitting under a red tarp in the capital’s shopping district burning up the phones — cajoling people to abandon their weekend plans and come out to “vote.”
TALLAHASSEE When Florida lawmakers return to Tallahassee for another redistricting special session on Oct. 19, they will talk a lot about how to comply with court guidelines when redrawing state Senate districts. But they’ll say much less about how competitive those district should be.
Over and over during his trip to Cuba, Pope Francis talked about reconciliation, mercy and service, but Cuba watchers say there also was a political subtext to his pastoral remarks that Cubans accustomed to reading the tea leaves could detect.
The 44-page manifesto titled “BluePrint Florida,” released this week by Rep. Richard Corcoran after he was officially designated House speaker for the 2016-18 session, reads like a nine-step plan to addiction recovery.
Synthetic drug-related deaths are on the rise in Miami-Dade & Broward counties. In this video, 26 year old Christopher Patterson describes the draw of Flakka. He spoke to the Miami Herald at the The Cove Recovery Center in Fort Lauderdale. Video by David Ovalle & Jose Iglesias.
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A personal tale about substance abuse & the synthetic drug Flakka
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Colombia's National Soccer Team trains at FIU's south campus
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Fatal shooting captured by officer's body cam
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Retiring St. Thomas Aquinas coach Dave Shepherd reflects on close to 40 years at the school
