North-Miami-Beach News

Schwartz, a professional poker player from North Miami Beach, signed up last week for the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open main event in Hollywood even though he knew he would be on standby for federal jury duty Monday in Miami-Dade County.

One week every year, the state Capitol is adorned with brightly colored handprints from tens of thousands of children who've happily made their mark on banners and streamers.

Sarah Charles' life stopped when Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake two years ago.

Long before Michael "the Grinder" Mizrachi and Robert Mizrachi became poker stars, they sat on the other side of the table, dealing cards.

Red Gold Tomatoes Inc., an Elmwood, Ind.-based company specializing in canned tomato products, used the brightly colored, 3-D display as a way to introduce its brand in Fort Lauderdale, which is now being sold in Publix grocery stores, said Greg Metzger, director of marketing for Red Gold.

Ironically, the child lives in a school district where such innovations are currently being developed.

Broward Court Judge John "Jay" Hurley sentenced a man to take his wife out on a date after being arrested on domestic violence charges.

Q. In the early to mid '90s I used to go to the Unicorn Village in North Miami Beach.

But it's also possible to owe nothing to the bank and lose your home anyway, as a North Miami-Dade condominium owner found out.

Though Marsee Strong and Edward Bailey remain in Miami-Dade jails on aggravated child abuse charges, an inquiry Wednesday into the welfare of their 9-year-old son focused largely on the role of the doctors, therapists and investigators who were intimately involved with the family - yet failed to notice that the boy was profoundly malnourished and ... (more)

She wanted them to attend religious school classes taught at a private Jewish school, but she didn't want the overwhelming price tag that would come with it.

Pop sensation Justin Bieber appears to be visiting Miami-Dade - or so believe hundreds of teenager girls who have camped out outside The Hit Factory recording studio in North Miami Beach.

Jorge and Edgar Jacinto have been charged with sexual battery after, police said, they raped a woman in North Miami Beach.

Super Bowl Sunday is second only to Thanksgiving in food consumption, according to DietDetective.com, and South Florida restaurants and bars are offering specials in hopes you'll do some of your noshing with them.

Gunmen kidnapped an American man in the northern Somali town of Galkayo on Saturday, officials said, the same day an airstrike killed a senior insurgent leader with ties to al-Qaida in another part of the country.

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Joseph Lee studied a color snapshot of his 9-year-old nephew Monday as a Miami child-welfare judge glanced at Lee.

I take issue with the current methodology of deficit reduction in North Miami Beach .

A mother and a father are arrested after their 9-year-old son, who weighs as much as a 2-year-old, was found naked in a North Miami Beach street Saturday.A According to the arrest affidavit, neighbors found the child in the roadway in the 1400 block of Northeast 152nd Street just before 8 p.m.A "The victim appeared to be extremely abused with ... (more)

The defense rested Monday in a federal stun-gun death trial after an expert witness testified the victim was actively resisting arrest while lying face-down and unresponsive but still breathing after being shocked the first time.