'Riders' take concerns to D.C. Two bills that would bring legal status to many undocumented immigrants are discussed at many meetings on Capitol Hill.
Passengers on the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride buses pounded the floors of Congress Thursday, meeting with about 100 lawmakers to urge them to provide more rights for the estimated nine million people illegally living in the United States. BY RICHARD BRAND / rbrand@herald.com
Woman dies in fall when bridge opens An unidentified pedestrian is killed when a drawbridge opens and she can't hang on to it. DOT officials say such tragedies are rare.
Woman dies in fall when bridge opens A woman fell to her death when a Fort Lauderdale drawbridge opened as she was walking across Thursday night, police said. BY JENNIFER LEBOVICH / jlebovich@herald.com
DCF fires two for ignoring court Judges said an infant must be taken from his teenage mom. He wasn't, and now he has been seriously injured.
Two Miami-Dade child welfare workers were fired Thursday for ignoring -- for months -- court orders mandating that they remove a 4-month-old baby from the care of his 14-year-old disabled mother to ensure the child's safety. BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER / cmarbin@herald.com
TROPICAL STORM LARRY Rain hitting Mexican coast
Tropical Storm Larry intensified Thursday and drifted closer to Mexico's Gulf Coast. Heavy rain swept the coast, fishermen retreated to port and forecasters warned of life-threatening flash floods and mud slides. BY MARTIN MERZER / mmerzer@herald.com
Chaos rules Somalia decade after battle
The wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter lies tangled in a big prickly pear cactus. It's the only remaining evidence of the fierce battle a decade ago that killed 18 U.S. soldiers and spurred the exit of American peacekeepers. By CHRIS TOMLINSON / Associated Press
It's raining frogs in Connecticut
Hurricane Isabel brought unholy high winds and lashing rain to the East Coast. It also dumped something almost biblical on Connecticut. Associated Press
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