A former council member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida who was known for his free-spending ways pleaded guilty Friday to filing a false income tax return, agreeing to pay $5.46 million to the Internal Revenue Service.David Cypress, who served on the ... »
Another South Florida megachurch has started holding satellite services in a Coral Gables theater.Potential Church, a Southern Baptist-affiliated church based in Cooper City that claims 14,000 members, started holding Sunday services at the Area Stage ... »
It was a Miami Beach fixture for 30 years.At Art Barker’s newsstand, little changed. There were wooden shelves stuffed with magazines, metal shelves holding romance novels. A neon sign called the place “George’s News,” even though the owner was Art and... »
Miami-Dade County and its largest cities — including Hialeah, Miami Beach, Miami and North Miami — are among the nation’s top losers in federal funding for social services, meaning meals for the elderly and afterschool programs for kids face dramatic c... »
The 34th annual “Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics” (ACT-SO) will be on Feb. 11 and Feb. 25 at Booker T. Washington Senior High School at 1200 NW Sixth Ave. in Overtown.Hosted by the Miami-Dade Branch of the NAACP, ACT-SO i... »
More than 10,000 low-income Miami-Dade diabetes patients will benefit from a $3 million grant announced Wednesday by the GE Foundation. The grant, by the charitable arm of General Electric, is part of its “Developing Health” initiative that now has don... »
A lawyer for developer Ron Bergeron wants to bring jai-alai — and maybe slots and poker — to Weston.David Romanik filed a 42-page application with the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering on Friday, listing Bergeron as the majority owner. It also i... »
