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
TriStar Skyline trauma center fails first-year test
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ The Tennessee Board of Licensing Health Care Facilities has given a new trauma unit at Nashville’s TriStar Skyline Medical Center a …
Feds: Florida doctor gave cancer patients unapproved drugs
By KELLI KENNEDY FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) _ A Florida oncologist has been charged with giving cancer patients medications from other countries that were not …
Business
Greece faces tough sell to creditors to get loan payout
BRUSSELS — Greece will try to convince eurozone creditors on Monday that its proposed economic reforms are enough for them to start paying out rescue loans …
Major credit agencies agree to changes sought by advocates
NEW YORK — The three largest credit-reporting agencies will change the way they handle records in a major revamp long sought by consumer advocates. People who …
Dollars can be a dirty word at banks on US-Mexico border
By ELLIOT SPAGAT SAN DIEGO — The clamor to crack down on laundering drug money was loud in 2010 when Wachovia National Bank was found to …
Education
Museums in NYC, Boston honored for science education
NEW YORK (AP) _ The National Science Board is honoring museums in New York and Boston for their work in educating the public about science. …
Superintendent to launch own review of Common Core standards
By JEFF AMY JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Mississippi education officials will conduct their own voluntary review of the Common Core academic standards, even after Gov. …
5 Tufts students go on hunger strike over janitor layoffs
MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) _ Five students at Tufts University began a hunger strike Sunday over the university’s plans to cut about 35 janitorial jobs at …
Sports
LeBron James: Transition over, ready to be take-charge player
MIAMI (AP) — A year ago, it was all different. LeBron James calls it a transition phase, one where he was wrapped up in figuring …
Marlins suspend humbled manager
MIAMI (AP) — Chastened Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen sat alone at a podium and began in Spanish, then halted in the middle of a …
Final Four teams a slam dunk for NBA-quality talent
Associated Press Lurking in virtually every corner of the Superdome this weekend will be lottery picks, some other NBA first-rounders and assorted AP All-Americans. Everywhere, …