SoFlo Live
KAREN STEPHENS IN ‘POTUS’: The award-winning South Florida favorite returns Jan. 9 – 26 to the Carnival Studio Theater of Miami’s Arsht Center for the …
New Orleans mourns victims of truck attack with tearful vigil and celebration of life
New Orleans (AP) — New Orleans mourned, wept and danced at a vigil Saturday evening along the famous thoroughfare where a man rammed a pickup …
Health and Wellness
Agency favors continued private management of state hospital
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) _ The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is recommending that a Hagerstown company continue managing a state-owned hospital for the chronically …
Work planned to stem PCB contamination in St. Clair Shores
ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. (AP) _ Crews plan to dig up a pair of manhole vaults as part of ongoing efforts by the U.S. Environmental …
Business
NFL player donates children’s books to United Way chapter
By KATRINA DIX LYNCHBURG, Va. — The United Way of Central Virginia received a donation of nearly 10,000 copies of a children’s book written by New …
Ukraine’s new US-born finance chief enduring baptism by fire
KIEV, Ukraine — War-torn Ukraine is a long way from Wood Dale, Illinois. But Natalie Jaresko, the country’s new finance minister who was born and raised …
Financial apps can help keep your spending under control
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Joshua Levinson was about to splurge on some exercise equipment, but a personal finance app on his smartphone gave …
Education
St. Paul teacher named Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) _ A St. Paul high school teacher who teaches writing and English to immigrant students has been named Minnesota’s 2015 Teacher of …
Jimmy Buffett University of Miami commencement speaker
MIAMI (AP) _ Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett is scheduled to give the commencement address for University of Miami. The university says Buffett will speak Friday when …
100 seniors will not graduate after prank goes too far
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ One hundred Sequoyah High School seniors are not being allowed to graduate and a school resource officer has been fired after …
Sports
They’re Back!
AP Sports Writer MIAMI — Free Agency 2011 will be nowhere near as celebrated for the Miami Heat as the player-movement bonanza that brought LeBron …
New Marlins manager hopes to make Miami a real baseball town
MIAMI — This is what Ozzie Guillen envisions: a boisterous crowd in a packed stadium and a one-sided outcome that sends spectators home happy. On …
NCAA: 8 Miami players must sit out games
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) _ Quarterback Jacory Harris and 11 other Miami players who accepted extra benefits from former booster Nevin Shapiro will be allowed …