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The Junk Car Mystery. The Music Store Mystery. The Hang Glider Mystery. Tammie Thurman, a teacher at Liberty City's Charles Drew Middle School, wondered what those stories had to do with social studies after some of her students were repeatedly pulled out of civics class for a special tutoring program. |
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A few months back, Leonard Schwartzberg and business partner James Gerard strolled a lot where they planned a $30 million office-condo along a booming strip of Miami Gardens, just south of Dolphin Stadium and across from soon-to-open Wal-Mart. |
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When it comes to finding solutions to the windstorm insurance crisis, Benson's Lighting & Fans is in the dark. Owner Ric Jolie said the 43-year-old company was recently dropped by the insurer covering its warehouse. After a lengthy search, only one carrier was willing to write a new policy, but the premium was exorbitant: $40,000 -- more than four times the $9,000 he formerly paid, plus a $100,000 deductible. |
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On paper, the stretch of Northwest Seventh Street through the heart of Flagami would seem like the perfect place to build the next generation of Metrorail. |
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As a crowd of captivated children looked on, magician Brent Gregory held a stack of cards in his outstretched hand. ''When I count to three, I want you to say the magic word,'' he said. |
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watchdogreport1@earthlink.net After years of haggling over the repayment of a $25 million federal loan that left Miami-Dade County holding the bag, a preliminary deal has been struck among the county, the city of Miami and the Parrot Jungle Island attraction on Watson Island. |
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Ripples of alarm from the increasing violence in the Middle East reached South Florida on Sunday. A Cooper City couple mourned the death of their nephew, killed Sunday along with seven others in a Hezbollah missile attack on a Haifa railway maintenance facility. |
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''Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full.'' -- Luke 14:23 JoeAnn Glover walked the sidewalk quoting the verse, heading toward a group of teenagers, her eyes glued on a young woman sitting with two children. |
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For years, every attempt to open a charter school in Miami Beach has failed -- the process is arduous, the application is time-consuming and suitable land is hard to find. |
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American architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said: ``Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.'' If someone in South Florida lived by such a paradigm, it was preservationist and University of Miami professor Robert L. Kelley. |
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The reputed ringleader of the Liberty City Seven was leery of the two Arabic men who promised to help him launch his terror war. So in January, he ordered his followers to strip-search them both to make sure they weren't wearing wires and drive them to Islamorada in the Florida Keys for a meeting on the beach. |
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The neighbors gathered in angry, buzzing knots in the breezeway, Spanish and English drifting upward in the humid evening air, some in denial, others near the boiling point. |
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Sharon Frank didn't wait around for a lawyer -- or anyone else -- to help her. The notice came on Friday. Two days later, after Palm Sunday services, she took to the streets in search of a place to live, using her secret weapon: a red-and-white Hampton cruiser bike. |
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The demand for rental apartments in South Florida is reaching all-time highs, but developers aren't building any. What gives? Spiraling construction costs, for one thing. |
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TALLAHASSEE -- (AP) -- Two winners of the Fantasy 5 game will collect $136,850.89 each, the Florida Lottery said Saturday. The winning tickets were bought in Miami-Dade County and Port Charlotte, lottery officials reported. |
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Frank Arosemena and his wife, Caridad Parra, were home when the notices went up on the doors. A man knocked and then handed one to Arosemena. |
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If all 40,000-plus people on the Miami-Dade Housing Agency's waiting list for subsidized housing got together, they could populate a city the size of Coral Gables. |
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Month-to-month tenants must be notified that they have to leave no less than 15 days before the end of the month. All of the Cameo residents were month to month. |
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Frazzled, sweating and four months pregnant, Martha Pomare sat down for a minute, leaned forward in her chair and rested her head in her hands. |
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The doors. Someone stole the doors off the house. Malika Kabbouchi shook her head, still appalled, though it had been hours since she made the discovery that the house she was about to buy had acquired two gaping holes overnight. |
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James ''Jim'' Bray, who helped found Mercy Hospital's nursing program and then taught its students for 21 years, died July 10 at his Kendall home. He was 59. |
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The average rent in Miami-Dade County rose 20 percent in four years but wages stayed nearly flat, worsening the gap between what workers earn and where they can afford to live, according to a county housing report. |
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Theresa Sue and Purple Octopus are easy to find -- both boats have been grounded for months against the mangroves alongside Boca Chica Bay. |
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Malika Kabbouchi knocked on the door of No. 11, listened, then knocked again. The wooden door cracked open. Amos Monford Jr. stood there in white T-shirt and khakis, rubbing his forehead. |
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Robert Ader sees the Cameo apartment complex through his dad's eyes. For decades, his father, William, owned the building and the one to the east. It was all part of the 1800 Club -- a bar, restaurant and apartment complex that drew politicians, journalists, even a celebrity or two. |
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The neighbors gathered in angry, buzzing knots in the breezeway, Spanish and English drifting upward in the humid evening air, some in denial, others near the boiling point. |
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New biographical details emerged for the three men accused of leading a deadly migrant-smuggling attempt last weekend in the Florida Straits, as they were denied bail Friday in a federal courtroom packed with friends and family. |
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A U.S. Treasury-led panel that investigates whether U.S. companies with ties to foreign investors compromise national security has contacted the Boca Raton parent company of a voting machine supplier whose top executives once had links to the Venezuelan government. |
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Miami-Dade officials want to provide affordable wireless Internet access across the entire county. But it's an expensive and untested technology, an expert warned Friday. |
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When she arrived in the United States from Haiti last September, 15-year-old Marlie Casseus was forced to support her disfigured head with her hands. She could barely breathe, see, or swallow. The cause: a 16-pound, tumor-like growth that ballooned underneath the skin of her nose and mouth. |
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