MIAMI — Since COVID-19 vaccines first became available, Publix has played a major role in tackling the public health emergency in Florida by offering vaccines to adults and, later, children as young as 5. But the Lakeland grocery company says it will n…
Judge gives final approval to ‘remarkable’ $1 billion Surfside condo collapse settlement
MIAMI — One day before the one-year anniversary of the Surfside condominium collapse that killed 98 people, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman made his deadline and gave final approval to a $1 billion settlement of the second-largest class-…
Marlins get key hits late for series-sweeping win over Rockies
MIAMI — The Miami Marlins needed a late rally if they wanted to start their homestand with a series sweep against the Colorado Rockies. They got it in the eighth inning. A three-batter stretch with one out in the frame gave the Marlins the go-ahead run…
Colombia’s president-elect talks to Maduro about reopening border with Venezuela
Colombia’s president-elect Gustavo Petro is wasting no time in fulfilling his promise of normalizing relations between his country and the socialist regime in Caracas, discussing with Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro the reopening of the border between …
Lopez bounces back to lead another Marlins win vs. Rockies
MIAMI — Pablo Lopez, so often the model of consistency and somehow something of an elder statesman in this Miami Marlins rotation, was unusually off kilter throughout the first few weeks of June, until he took the mound again Wednesday and got to wash …
Why did a jet crash-land in Miami? Federal investigators heading to airport for answers
MIAMI — Federal investigators arrived at Miami International Airport on Wednesday to look into what caused a passenger jet to make a fiery emergency landing Tuesday evening. A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent ag…
NFL files to move ex-Dolphins coach Brian Flores’ racial discrimination lawsuit to arbitration
MIAMI — The NFL and the six teams named as defendants in former Dolphins coach Brian Flores’ racial discrimination lawsuit have filed a motion to move the suit to private arbitration. The motion, filed Tuesday, also seeks to indefinitely suspend the li…
‘I’m a mess.’ Surfside survivors struggle to reclaim their lives after tower collapsed
MIAMI — Raysa Rodriguez hears voices. They wake her up at night. They speak to her when she’s riding her bike. They plead with her when she’s cooking dinner. It’s as if the ghosts of her friends and neighbors are trapped in her head, one year after the…
Michelle Kaufman: Miami winning 2026 World Cup bid was a minor miracle. Here’s what we can expect next
MIAMI — If the scene at Fritz and Franz Bierhaus in Coral Gables last Thursday was any indication, Miami soccer fans are ready for the 2026 World Cup. They were in full party mode, American flags and cowbells in tow, as Miami was announced as one of 11…
Greg Cote: ‘Black cloud’ over U.S. Open is golf’s civil war in a time of revolution for sports overall
Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick, who is 27 but would still get carded in a pub, hit the shot of his life from the 18th fairway Sunday and minutes later was hugging his mum and dad — the U.S. Open victory his in Brookline, Massachusetts. His first major win…