Under the watch of local government, a Boston developer reaped millions in poverty money for a promised biotech park but never delivered a single building - leaving only a desolate swath of land in one of Miami-Dade's most neglected neighborhoods.
Black populations in Latin America are undergoing a cultural and civil-rights awakening. In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey to Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Cuba and Colombia.
While local leaders try to clean up Miami-Dade county's scandal-ridden housing agency, the city's program is steeped in its own crisis, with botched projects and bad deals that have stranded thousands in decrepit homes.
In the nation's least-affordable city, the Miami-Dade Housing Agency lost millions of dollars on dead projects, insider deals and developers who never delivered. A year-long Miami Herald investigation exposed a series of ill-fated government deals that played out under the noses of county leaders.
A wayward bullet snuffs out a young life and shatters a family's hope, spirit. The deadly shooting of 9-year-old Sherdavia Jenkins comes at a time when the number of murders - especially among younger victims - has risen dramatically in Miami-Dade County.
Florida is America's second-richest agricultural state. But for the farmhands who labor along the lowest rung of the food chain, the riches are a mirage.
While hurricanes relentlessly pound America's coastlines, breakdowns in crucial weather-observing equipment are thwarting forecasters at the National Hurricane Center -- the nation's first line of defense against tropical weather -- as they struggle to get a fix on the deadly storms, a Miami Herald investigation found.
When the Jimmy Ryce Act was passed six years ago, it was hailed as a special state program to treat Florida's worst sexual predators - and protect the public. But a six-month investigation by The Miami Herald shows the program is not only failing, but backfiring.
