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For 20 years, Tony Maqueira has routinely trucked pigs down from upstate to sell in rural Northwest Miami-Dade. With demand for a Nochebuena roast pig at its peak last week, he simply parked his squealing load along West Okeechobee Road and waited for customers from nearby small farms to come to him.

The pickup truck pulled onto a sidewalk under downtown Miami's web of highways. It was 7 p.m., and already the jolt of the workday had flat-lined into a desolate world of silence and silhouettes.

An overflow crowd of 26,874 flocked to Hialeah Park's hallowed grounds when the historic track threw open its gates Nov.

Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 8:36 p.m. Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio -- a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate -- claims on his campaign Web site that "during Rubio's last four years in the House, he did not file any individual member budget requests." That means that Rubio did ...

A bid to put slot machines at Miami International Airport has been defeated. State regulators rejected the proposal Friday, citing a variety of concerns.

A 28-year-old woman has been arrested after she allegedly struck two young girls riding scooters, killing one, with an SUV and then left the scene.

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A driver lost control of his car, crashed into a Miami building and then punched a firefighter trying to treat him, fire officials said.

By Risa Polansky Plans for a $190 million Miami-Dade Water and Sewer project are washed up after officials decided they couldn't build the "utility tunnel" in time for the Port of Miami dredging project they said earlier this month necessitated it.

Law enforcement authorities searching for Paul Michael Merhige, suspected of killing four relatives on Thanksgiving Day in Palm Beach County, were in Miami Wednesday handing out fliers in the area of Southwest 22nd Street in hopes of drumming up leads in the quadruple murder investigation.

Check out the images that defined the decade, as determined by Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

Federal agents arrested a Medicare fraud suspect Tuesday morning at his Little Havana home.

Miami is a great place to celebrate New Year's Eve in. The weather is great and there are many fun ways of ringing in the New Year.

Share + Dec 14, 2009 8:31 am US/Eastern ELINOR J. BRECHER, Miami Herald Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

Share + Dec 8, 2009 4:06 pm US/Eastern As the regular flu season continues to impact businesses and schools, the threat of swine flu has the Miami-Dade County Health Department changing their policy on the H1N1 vaccine.

The ambitious Miami 21 zoning code faces a possible delay, this time at the request of new Mayor Toms Regalado.

The U.S. Coast Guard said a cruise ship worker who went overboard early Friday morning was successfully rescued off the coast of Florida.

Against the backdrop of the climate change summit in Denmark this week, U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is hammering rival Charlie Crist's "cap-and-trade scheme" a ' though he voted for a bill backed by the governor requiring state officials to devise such a plan.

Share + Dec 10, 2009 5:18 pm US/Eastern A 3-month old baby girl has died after being left in the back seat of her grandmother's SUV, according to Miami police officials.

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival.