Alert cancels flight to Miami International Airport Six flights from Europe to the United States, including one to Miami, are canceled for security reasons.
A British Airways flight scheduled to leave London today for Miami was one of six U.S.-bound overseas flights grounded because of what federal officials described as a ''credible threat'' of a terrorist plot. BY KARL ROSS / kross@herald.com
Broward elections chief wants 1,300 to help with March primary Commissioners are expected to decide on Tuesday whether to loan 1,300 county employees to the elections office for the March presidential primary.
Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes has asked the county to provide 1,300 government employees to help run the March presidential primary. BY KEVIN DEUTSCH / kdeutsch@herald.com
Aristide agrees to steps to ease crisis The Haitian leader, at a meeting with Caribbean leaders, agrees to measures including a larger role for opponents and the repeal of curbs on protest.
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide agreed Saturday to give opponents, demanding his resignation, a role in his government and to immediately rescind a controversial decree restricting where they can demonstrate to help end the country's political crisis. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES / jcharles@herald.com
Rx for healthcare Democrats' plans are far-reaching - but they stop short of Clinton's disastrous efforts in '94
Amid concern over steeply rising health-care costs, the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates are offering far-reaching proposals for the uninsured but stopping short of the system-wide overhaul that former President Bill Clinton sought a decade ago. BY CHRIS MONDICS / Knight Ridder News Service
NASA's mission changing
The space agency is venturing in two directions it's rarely gone before: out of the grasp of Earth's gravity and deep into NASA's soul. By SETH BORENSTEIN / Knight Ridder Newspapers
Whale of an explosion hits town
Folks in Taiwan wish the insides of a whale had stayed there. People covered their noses and business came to a halt after a dead, decomposing whale being transported on a truck burst because of a gas buildup. Associated Press