Storm's cost: $13M and rising
Miami-Dade County officials said Monday night that damage estimates from last week's tornado in the Liberty City area were approaching the threshold for federal aid desperately needed by many low-income victims of the storm.
Sloppy Marlins can't recover from 8-0 deficit
On their coldest opening day on record, the Marlins were appropriately abominable. Three errors, a wild pitch, a passed ball, a bases-loaded walk to the pitcher -- enough laughably bad baseball to fill an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos -- resulted in an 8-5 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. By CLARK SPENCER / cspencer@herald.com
Road to the Final Four New Orleans on the horizon
The Texas Longhorns are the last No. 1 seed standing, headed to the Final Four for the first time in 56 years. They will join Syracuse, Marquette and Kansas in New Orleans.
Carrier came close to filing American just missed declaring bankruptcy
Twice, American Airlines was only minutes away from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York. Documents were drawn, $1.5 billion in debtor-in-possession financing was in place, and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Campbell was ready to file papers. By INA PAIVA CORDLE / icordle@herald.com
Police leadership in Haiti worries foreign observers
When top diplomats traveled to Haiti last month to push for an end to the country's three-year-old political stalemate, they pointedly asked Haitian officials to change the country's police leadership. BY MARIKA LYNCH / mlynch@herald.com