education

Educational app helps parents track kids’ behavior

A new website and app give parents the next best thing to being able to poke their heads in on their kids&#...

Giant gator to send message during Art Basel weekend

The largest gator to have ever appeared in South Florida has made its way back to common waters, just for A...

ART BASEL

Art Basel opens this week in an increasingly cultured city

As the annual Art Basel opens this week in Miami Beach, a dozen years after its arrival, it has become an i...

PolitiFact Florida

PolitiFact: Sen. Marco Rubio says he never supported the sequester

In reviewing Sen. Marco Rubio’s actions and words related to the sequester, PolitiFact Florida found...

CITIZENS PROPERTY INSURANCE

Families battle Citizens Property Insurance over delayed progress on sinkhole claims

Homeowners are challenging the state-run insurer’s approach to repairing sinkhole damage even as delay...

MIAMI GARDENS

Teenage twins and 22-year-old charged in Miami Gardens carjacking

Twin teenage brothers and a 22-year-old accomplice were arrested Saturday after Miami Gardens police say th...

Political scene

Public-service ad for Miami-Dade animal shelter wins Emmy

Miami-Dade County’s public television channel doesn’t exactly top the rating charts, with its...

Political scene

Idea to fill downtown Miami slip resurfaces

For decades, a large slip at the south end of Miami’s Bicentennial Park has sat empty, an under-util...

NY crash victim was headed to famed Christmas tree

One of the people killed after a New York City commuter train derailed was headed to midtown Manhattan to w...

10 Things to Know for Monday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:

1 dead after altercation outside Arrowhead Stadium

AP News in Brief at 10:58 p.m. EST

NYC commuter train derails on riverside curve, killing 4 people, hurting more than 60 others

AP PHOTOS: NYC commuter train derails, killing 4

A Metro-North train derailed Sunday as it rounded a curve in the Bronx borough of New York City, killing fo...

Suspects: UM med student shot in break-in accident

Two suspects in the fatal shooting of a University of Michigan medical student say they sneaked into Paul D...

Man cited after tossing cash at Mall of America

Bloomington police cited a 29-year-old man for disorderly conduct for tossing 1,000 dollar bills over an up...

The nation's weather

Weather Underground midday recap for Sunday, December 01, 2013

China launches its first moon rover mission

China launched its first mission Monday to land a rover on the moon, an unmanned operation scheduled to arr...

New Zealand airline reveals image of Hobbit dragon

New Zealand's national airline unveiled a giant image Monday of the dragon Smaug on one of its planes to ce...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attends Bills game

Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford attended Sunday's NFL game between Buffalo and Atlanta, wearing a blue Bil...

Thousands march in Honduras to demand vote recount

Thousands of people marched peacefully Sunday in Honduras' capital to support opposition presidential candi...

Battles in the street as Egypt assembly approves proposed new constitution

Egypt’s Constituent Assembly on Sunday approved a new constitution that calls for more rights and f...

Italy premier visits synagogue with Israeli leader

Italian Premier Enrico Letta says the economic crisis is feeding "the forces of extremism, hatred and intol...

Israel's former leader slams Netanyahu over US

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says his successor has severely damaged the country's relations w...

7 killed in Chinese-run factory in Italy

A fire early Sunday swept through an illegal, makeshift dormitory in a Chinese-run garment factory in Tusca...

Wish Book: Homestead teen, one of 13 children, wants to be first in her family to go to college

Losing her father and moving across country have taken a toll on this Homestead junior, but she doesnȁ...

South Florida Arts Scene

GableStage raising money for adaptation of ‘Antony and Cleopatra’

WISH BOOK

Paralyzed Plantation boy and mom need help with bills, car fixes

Rose Augustine is her son’s biggest advocate and best friend, standing up for him when he’s b...

Pets

‘Cava-poo-chon’ combines best of 3 breeds, fans say

Imagine the ideal designer dog. It would be smart, healthy and hypoallergenic. It would have the yap bred o...

Mama Sass

Focus: It's time for the annual family photo

It’s that time of year when all our hopes and dreams are reduced to a series of miserable outtakes i...

Social science

Nobody can embarrass you like your spouse, researcher says

Evolutionary psychologists say that embarrassment is a useful social emotion, keeping us from acting out in...

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Best Christmas toys use a child’s imagination, not their thumbs

I felt like a little girl all over again, pig-tailed and knock-kneed, eager to be left alone to play. One b...

Florida: Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival

Holiday spirit

DOLPHINS 23, JETS 3

Miami Dolphins rout Jets to stay alive in playoff hunt

The Dolphins scored 17 second-half points to humble the Jets and keep pace with the Ravens for the sixth an...

UM

Al Golden says Miami Hurricanes are ready to go bowling

With UM out of the ACC title game, coach Al Golden said the team’s focus shifts to its first bowl ga...

FIU

Nowhere to go but up for FIU football team after 1-11 season

FIU finished at or near the bottom of every statistical category, but hope abounds for next year.

UF | Coaching changes

Florida Gators fire two assistant coaches following 4-8 season

Coach Will Muschamp fired two coaches the day after UF lost to rival FSU because the Gators’ offense l...

Heat 99, Bobcats 98

Chris Bosh’s late surge fuels Miami Heat past Charlotte Bobcats at home

Chris Bosh scored three consecutive three-pointers late in the fourth quarter to help Miami avoid a loss at...

In my opinion

Grass paddling proves to be no walk in the park

Just when we thought South Florida’s dry season finally had taken hold, a passing front dumped about...

Panthers

Florida Panthers goalie Tim Thomas a possibility for Sochi Olympics

Team USA decision-makers have placed Tim Thomas on the list of possible goalies for the Sochi-game Olympics...

Miami Central 54, Palm Bay Heritage 3

Miami Central loses Joseph Yearby in blowout victory over Palm Bay Heritage

Central advanced to its fifth consecutive state semifinal, but lost running back Joe Yearby for the season ...

As seen on TV

Hold the garlic: Jonathan Rhys Meyers is one sexy beast

Celebrity birthdays on Dec 1

Singer Billy Paul is 79. Actor-director Woody Allen is 78. Singer Dianne Lennon of the Lennon Sisters is 74...

Officials: Speed a factor in Walker's deadly crash

Investigators sought to determine the cause of a fiery crash that killed "Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker ...

'Fast & Furious' star Paul Walker dies in crash

Paul Walker, the star of the "Fast & Furious" movie series, died Saturday in a car crash that killed one ot...

At the movies

Jeffrey Wright: my brilliant career

Gossip Extra

Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade’s ex-wife fires 12th lawyer, files to declare divorce null and void

Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade's ex-wife just fired her 12th lawyer -- and filed an appeal in Chicago to ...

Celebrity birthdays on Nov 30

Scene in the Tropics

Start saving: Miley Cyrus coming to town for pricey concert

In My Opinion

Andres Oppenheimer: Venezuela losing clout in region

Beleaguered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro may be able — or not — to remain in pow...

Haiti

Haiti police prevent anti-government protesters from reaching U.S. Embassy

Thousands protest in Haiti in parallel anti-government demonstrations

Colombia Politics

As Colombia’s presidential race heats up, peace talks take center stage

President Juan Manuel Santos is running for reelection in 2014 in hopes of clenching a peace deal with the ...

migration

Bahamas halts 56 more Haitians at sea

Authorities say the 56 migrants were detained near where a search continues for victims of capsize earlier ...

HAITIAN MIGRANT TRAGEDY

Bahamians call for talks with Haiti over migrant smuggling

Bahamian officials call for talks with Haiti over migrant smuggling as U.S. Coast Guards ends role in searc...

U.S.-Cuba relations

U.S. seeks to end Cuba consular services suspension

The United States says it is “actively” seeking to help Cuba find another bank to handle cons...

HAITIAN MIGRANT TRAGEDY

Bahamians call for talks with Haiti over migrant smuggling

Bahamian officials call for talks with Haiti over migrant smuggling as U.S. Coast Guards ends role in searc...

HAITIAN MIGRANTS

Coast Guard, Bahamians in frantic search for Haitian migrants

A search and recovery operation for an undetermined number of Haitians feared dead in waters off the Bahama...

Political scene

Idea to fill downtown Miami slip resurfaces

For decades, a large slip at the south end of Miami’s Bicentennial Park has sat empty, an under-util...

Political scene

Public-service ad for Miami-Dade animal shelter wins Emmy

Miami-Dade County’s public television channel doesn’t exactly top the rating charts, with its...

HALLANDALE BEACH

Two senators short-circuit Legislature’s plan to audit troubled Hallandale Beach CRA

ELECTIONS

Detzner’s directive on absentees sets off spirited debate

The order requires election supervisors that they “should not solicit return of absentee ballots at ...

Politics

Marc Caputo: Cocaine, the congressman and contradictions

Trey Radel owes Big Government. Big time.

STATE BUDGET

Gov. Rick Scott’s tax cut plan faces reality check

Even though tax receipts are rising and state economists project an $846 million surplus in 2014, Gov. Rick...

REP. TREY RADEL

The double life of U.S. Rep. Trey Radel — cocaine addict and congressman

Before his arrest on cocaine possession, U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., had built a remarkable double life i...

Miami Beach

Miami Beach’s new mayor faces transition from private CEO to public servant

Philip Levine, Miami Beach’s new mayor may be the CEO of his own company, but running a major city i...

Paul Walker, 'Fast & Furious' star, dies in crash

A fiery car crash north of Los Angeles has killed 40-year-old Paul Walker, the star of the "Fast & Furious"...

'Fast & Furious' star Paul Walker dies in crash

Paul Walker, the star of the "Fast & Furious" movie series, died Saturday in a car crash that killed one ot...

Mary Brown, widow of Bengals' founder, dies at 84

Mary Brown, the widow of the late Cincinnati Bengals founder and coach Paul Brown, has died. She was 84.

Grandson: Televangelist Paul Crouch dies at 79

Paul Crouch, the televangelist who built what's been called the world's largest Christian broadcasting netw...

Ex-New York Observer editor Kaplan dies at 59

Peter Kaplan, the former editor of The New York Observer who hired a then-unknown Candace Bushnell to write...

NJ canine crowned world's ugliest dog in 2007 dies

A New Jersey canine that was crowned the world's ugliest dog in 2007 and later became the topic of a childr...

South African liberal politician dies

Colin Eglin, a retired South African politician who opposed apartheid and sought to promote liberal democra...

Jane Kean, star of "Honeymooners" revival, dies

Jane Kean, a diverse performer who got her start in musical theater but was best known as Trixie alongside ...

ART

Under Nick Korniloff, Art Miami empire grows

Under Nick Korniloff, Art Miami LLC is the fair production company that keeps on expanding.

Q& A

After a nasty break with the Beacon Council, Frank Nero talks about what went wrong and his next steps

South Florida-based eyewear maker Edward Beiner succeeds by design

High-end eyewear maker and retailer Edward Beiner creates a distinctive market niche

Small Business Makeover

Making over a consignment business in Coral Gables

Technology

Tech, art, creativity combine for an inspiring week

The launch of Our City Thoughts, a digital media platform to tell Miami’s story, will cap a week of ...

Entrepreneurship events this week and startup news to note

RETAIL

Small Business Saturday promotes local businesses

Small Business Saturday encourages shoppers to spend at local businesses.

Black Friday holiday shopping becomes a marathon