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Florida social service administrators will strengthen their response to calls for help to the state's abuse hot line after The Miami Herald reported that thousands of calls each month are being ``screened out'' and not forwarded for investigation. In...
Tags: DCF, hot line, George Sheldon, Miami Herald, abuse hot, line called, Miami, Social Issues, Child protection
On Wednesday night, authorities descended on the Doubletree Grand Hotel and condominium north of downtown Miami, after a 911 caller said the suspect had been spotted there. ``When officers arrived, they looked for a man fitting the description'' of Paul...
Tags: Paul Merhige, Carla Merhige, Miami Police Department, Miami Herald, Doubletree Grand Hotel, Indonesia, Jakarta
Moving swiftly to reorganize his command staff, Miami's new police Chief Miguel Exposito demoted about a dozen high-ranking officers on Tuesday, sources told The Miami Herald. The changes come a week after Exposito was sworn in to lead the department...
Tags: Miami Herald, police chiefs, John Timoney, Miguel Exposito, Delrish Moss, miami police, ranking officer, Adam Burden, Miami
Difficult as it may be to solve, the chaos known as the Herald Hunt is actually a family affair with a comically questionable moral compass. At the 19th edition of the Hunt on Sunday, parents taught their children to be skeptical of Christmas carolers...
Tags: Jeff Rothkopf, herald hunted, Herald Hunt Families, Miami Herald, Rothkopfs, Michele, Miami, Herald Hunt, The Miami Herald, Dave Barry
Last month, Coral Gables residents Carlos Torres de Navarra, 41, and Frank Sanchez , 37, qualified for the Boston Marathon, which is April 19. After competing in Ironman Florida last year, they decided to focus on their first Boston Marathon. They trained...
Tags: Dania Jai-Alai, Boston Marathon, Carlos Torres de Navarra, Frank Sanchez, Jeff Maher, Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Miami Herald, Panama City Beach
Before you leave home in the predawn hours of this big shopping day, with visions of deals on TV sets and leather jackets, Droids and Dance Around Doras in your trunk, make sure you're equipped with more than your credit card, caffeine and comfy shoes.
Tags: Miami Herald, Miami, Shopping, Online shopping, Black Friday, Credit card, Debit card, Retailing, Electronic commerce
As we contemplate Thanksgiving blessings, I, for one, am grateful for the consistently unsettled nature of Houston sports radio...Those moves are expected to produce other changes in talk-show slots and pregame/postgame duties for the city’s assorted...
Tags: Rice-Houston, Houston Cougars, Milo Hamilton, ESPN, Hamilton CD, CBS College Sports, Texas A&M, Comcast Sports Southwest, Miami Herald, Houston, KILT, Comcast, Sports radio, KBME, allnews, Criticism of ESPN, Houston Astros, Fox Sports Net
enacted in the wake of City Hall's 1990s-era financial meltdown -- by using ``inaccurate and misleading'' budgetary practices as it scrambled to fill budget holes, the city's internal auditor has concluded. The city's audit comes amid an inquiry by the...
Tags: Miami Herald, VASQUEZ Miami, Miami City, impact fees, general funded, SEC, Victor Igwe, budget holes, audit questions, Michael Boudreaux, Miami, Internal audit, Information technology audit, The Miami Herald, Knight Ridder, Miami-Dade County Florida, Auditing
Finding a financially viable way to provide local news is a challenge large metropolitan newspapers are confronting. But a Coral Gables website is among a few locally with faith it can succeed...Knight Foundation's Knight Community Information Challenge,...
Tags: Miami Herald, communities members, Dan Christensen, South Florida, Miami, Local news, The Miami Herald, Citizen journalism, Coral Gables Florida, Business Finance, Journalism, Printing, Hyperlocal, Entertainment Culture
Gay adoption proponents in Florida are pinning their hopes on a North Miami man who's challenging a state law banning the practice, observers say. Advocates say they are backing Martin Gill, a flight attendant who lives with his partner of nine years...
Tags: Miami Herald, Florida, Miami, Bill McCollum, The Miami Herald, Gill, American Civil Liberties Union, Family, Family law, LGBT adoption, Social Issues, Law Crime