When hurricanes approach, Dr. Daniel Armstrong, director of the University of Miami's Mailman Center for Child Development, worries about the children -- and adults -- with special needs.
GAS STATIONS
Memories of Hurricane Wilma, when massive power outages wreaked havoc on gas supplies, sent many South Floridians to the gas pumps. But as Hurricane Ike approaches, the state and fuel distributors say Florida has plenty of gas to make it through the storm.
Hurricane Ike spun on course Friday toward the Keys and South Florida, and forecasters projected it could hit the Keys on Tuesday as a vicious Category 4 storm.
MIAMI-DADE POLITICS
Secret money. Three big-name Miami pols. And a race for a little-known office that even the incumbent said was ``a notch above dogcatcher.''
ISLAMORADA
Marelyn Rijo was furious the first time she saw a large tattoo of angel wings on her older sister's shoulder, along with the name ''Cesar'' inside a red heart.
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Miami-Dade prosecutors have cleared officers involved in three separate fatal shootings, including a rookie cop who -- on his first day of patrol -- saved a woman under attack from her drunk, machete-wielding husband.
Bryan Norcross, the former WFOR-TV hurricane analyst whose soothing tones got so many of us through 1992's Hurricane Andrew, had this observation Friday about the potential arrival of Hurricane Ike:
MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS
As Superintendent Rudy Crew's tenure appears headed for an end, his replacement will almost certainly come from inside the system.
MIAMI-DADE SCHOOLS
The Miami-Dade School Board will hold a special meeting Monday to consider buying out the contract of Superintendent Rudy Crew, board Chairman Agustín Barrera said late Thursday.
IN MY OPINION
MYRIAM MARQUEZ mmarquez@MiamiHerald.com The writing's on the blackboard. Rudy Crew's a goner. The Dollar Principal's surprise election to the Miami-Dade School Board has become a symbol of voters' frustration with the superintendent's tin ear, thin skin and oversized ego. And it's a shame, really, because Crew has good ideas on education reform.
Revved up by a steady diet of red-meat speeches and a crackling vice presidential nominee, Florida Republicans are bounding out of the national convention determined to deliver the nation's largest swing state for the third election in a row.
HURRICANE SEASON
Almost as soon as Florida fell out of Hanna's forecast cone, it slipped into Ike's, and that mighty, major hurricane could be on our doorstep Tuesday.
MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC TRANSIT
The 50-cent bus and rail fare increase that Miami-Dade County commissioners narrowly ratified Tuesday may be killed before it goes into effect Oct. 1. The cause: a political U-turn.
DADE GOVERNMENT
A former aide to Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff stands accused of skirting ethics rules over a fence he built for a neighborhood park. Not for building the fence -- but for trying to bill the city for the work.
HURRICANE GUSTAV | THE AFTERMATH
Several South Florida organizations mobilized Thursday to ship money and supplies to the victims of Hurricane Gustav in Cuba, Haiti, and other Caribbean points.
EDUCATION
Facing a two-week deadline to balance the 2008-09 budget, Miami-Dade Superintendent Rudy Crew on Thursday recommended the School Board eliminate an additional 370 positions.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY | FIRE SERVICE
Miami-Dade County commissioners moved a step closer Thursday to blocking cities from leaving the county's fire district, voting unanimously to let the public decide the issue in November.
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE
South Florida's Mexican community has grown in size and influence in recent years, as a new wave of immigrants from both the agricultural and business fields have chosen to make their home here.
Jamel Lee Smith was arraigned Thursday on charges of aggravated manslaughter in connection with the July death of a 2-month-old boy he was baby-sitting.
