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In Cuban missile showdown, 2 brothers' own crisis
Julio Castro sat at his uncle's Miami home as President John F. Kennedy came on the television the night of Oct. 22, 1962, to tell the nation the ...
No. 12 Florida State downs Miami, 33-20
For a half, Florida State did just about everything wrong and still held the lead. And when the Seminoles finally got clicking, they simply pulled ...
Judge stays execution of mentally ill mass killer
A federal judge on Saturday granted a stay of execution for a convicted mass killer in Florida, who is mentally ill and was scheduled to be put to ...
Legal path to US from Cuba still complicated
Cuba's surprise decision to make it easier for citizens to leave the country doesn't mean Cubans can book tickets on commercial planes and head for ...
Browns sale to Haslam approved; Holmgren to leave
New owners want their own people running things. Jimmy Haslam III is sticking to one of the oldest adages in sports, which means Mike Holmgren is out ...
Secret Service officer arrested after passing out
In the latest embarrassing spectacle for the Secret Service, one of its officers was found passed out and apparently drunk on a Miami street corner ...
Fidel Castro son, sister say he's fine amid rumors
Fidel Castro's relatives in Cuba and Miami denied the latest round of rumors about the 86-year-old former president's supposedly declining health, ...
Population helps Florida become swing state
A large, diverse and transient population lured by Florida's sandy shores, warm winters and lower cost of living has helped turn it into a fiercely ...
Mystery giant eyeball on Fla. beach may be squid's
Word that a giant eyeball washed up on a South Florida beach has created a buzz on the Internet and in the marine biology community. The huge, blue ...
Crews to search for 4th victim in garage rubble
Crews planned to resume their search Friday morning for the last person missing two days after a parking garage collapsed at Miami Dade College's west ...
In Miami, Obama plays odd role: Warm-up act
For one day of the campaign, at least, President Barack Obama was just the warm-up act. Hours before Vice President Joe Biden's lone debate with ...
Fla. judge finds in favor of vet in hepatitis case
A Miami federal judge ruled in favor of a veteran who says shoddy hygiene practices at a Veterans Administration hospital caused his hepatitis ...
Crews search for 4th victim in Fla. garage rubble
Workers inched closer Thursday afternoon to pulling a fourth likely casualty from the site of a parking garage collapse as a search for answers ...
2 dead, 1 still missing in Fla. garage collapse
Rescuers pulled a badly injured man from the rubble of a collapsed parking garage and planned to continue searching Thursday for a missing ...
Man pulled from rubble of collapsed Florida garage
A construction worker was pulled out alive from under a huge slab of concrete early Thursday, 13 hours after a parking garage collapsed at a Florida ...
At polls, fears of voter suppression, intimidation
Kimberly Kelley of Tampa has provided Florida elections officials with thousands of names of people she thinks may be ineligible to vote and should ...
2 dead, 1 trapped in Fla. parking garage collapse
A section of a parking garage under construction at a community college collapsed Wednesday, killing two people and trapping two others in the rubble, ...
Man dies after live roach-eating contest in Fla.
The winner of a roach-eating contest in South Florida died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms, authorities said Monday.
Heat arrive in China for preseason games
LeBron James is visiting China for the ninth time, which makes him one of the resident Miami Heat experts about the world's most populous nation.
LeBron expected to play when Heat open preseason
LeBron James will be among the Miami Heat players expected in the lineup on Sunday when the reigning NBA champions open their preseason schedule at ...
Marlins beat Mets 4-3 in 11 innings
New York Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey's best season yet ended with a no-decision and some surprising news: He'll have surgery Oct. 18.
Player gets 2nd chance in majors after beaning
The roaring crowd rose as one when Adam Greenberg walked to the plate for the first time in seven years, and Marlins teammates leaning over the dugout ...
Miami-based Venezuelans to vote in New Orleans
By bus and car, commercial flight and charter, U.S.-based Venezuelans are traveling en masse to New Orleans in the coming days, spending hundreds of ...
Allen settling into new city, new role with Heat
Late Friday night, less than 12 hours before the first practice of Miami Heat training camp, reigning NBA MVP LeBron James updated his Facebook page ...
LeBron James: Champion Heat can be better
LeBron James looked at the assembled talent in the Miami Heat locker room, and one word came to mind. "Scary," he said. Translated, that means James ...