'Grinch' steals kids' special day Miami police want to talk with the controversial promoter of a Coconut Grove Christmas show, who took thousands of dollars from schoolchildren and apparently disappeared.
Busloads of excited young schoolchildren who paid for a field trip to ''Christmas From Around the World'' arrived Wednesday morning to find the Coconut Grove Expo Center shuttered and the show's promoter missing -- along with their money. BY LUISA YANEZ AND CHARLES RABIN / lyanez@herald.com
Hundreds with rap sheets work for prisoner agency About 350 of almost 2,000 of the department's detention workers and supervisors have arrest records, including four superintendents.
In Broward County, a woman who pleaded no contest to child-abuse charges supervises youngsters who are locked up in the state's detention center. BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER / cmarbin@herald.com
New farmhand abuse claims probed Federal investigators and prosecutors are probing new allegations that farmworkers have been criminally abused in Florida.
The ragged compound hovers just off U.S. 27 in this Central Florida outpost. Unimposing from afar, it was terrifying up close for the farmworkers abused and enslaved here. Three crew bosses went to prison. BY RONNIE GREENE / rgreene@herald.com
Transcript: U.S. OK'd 'dirty war' in Argentina New evidence suggests that Henry Kissinger gave the Argentine military 'a green light' in its 1970s-80s campaign against leftists.
At the height of the Argentine military junta's bloody ''dirty war'' against leftists in the 1970s, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the Argentine foreign minister that ''we would like you to succeed,'' a newly declassified U.S. document reveals. BY DANIEL A. GRECH / dgrech@herald.com
FTAA protests: Two views
The police say the AFL-CIO should question their association with 'avowed troublemakers' while the ACLU says protesters' constitutional rights were violated.
FDA struggles with safety of cloned food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration tentatively concluded that meat and milk from cloned animals is safe to eat. But almost immediately, one of the FDA's advisory committees sharply questioned the conclusion and the science behind it. By ANDREW MARTIN / Chicago Tribune
'Not guilty' tattoo identifies robber
A man whose tattoos made him an easy target for witnesses and police has pleaded guilty to an armed robbery attempt at the Sav-A-Center in Long Beach. By ROBIN FITZGERALD / The Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald
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