The Miami Herald

MIAMI -- In an operation that could take up to a year, salvage companies will refloat the wrecked Costa Concordia so it can be removed from Italian waters.

MIAMI -- A trove of evidence collected for George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial was made public Thursday, including the report that shows the lead detective originally wanted to file manslaughter charges because he said the whole encounter could have been avoided with better judgment and a little dialogue.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Mitt Romney swung through Florida on Thursday, picking up more than $2 million in political contributions while bashing President Barack Obama as an ineffective leader.

MIAMI -- A Miami-Dade fire captain has been demoted down to firefighter as punishment for a rant, posted on his personal Facebook page, about the Trayvon Martin case, county officials said Monday.

The last thing you want to be in Israel right now is a newspaper editor. You go to sleep with a smile on your face, happy about your next day's editorial -- "Bibi's Election Move: Brilliant or Stinking?"

Then you wake up in the morning and find out that during the night, the same prime minister who had just called for early elections, made a U-turn and, in the wildest political flip-flop in Israel's history, reversed his decision and brought into the government the same opposition leader who had sworn to topple him.

MIAMI -- Kenneth Chamberlain Jr.'s foray into activism started with a Facebook post.

Someone placed a petition demanding the arrest of Trayvon Martin's killer on Chamberlain's Facebook wall, and that got the New York behavior counselor thinking: What about his own dad's unprosecuted killing?

SANFORD, Fla. -- In front of the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center where George Zimmerman was granted bond, Pastor Terry Jones, the Gainesville, Fla., church leader who burned a Quran last year, gave a fiery speech Saturday in which he demanded the constitutional rights of Zimmerman be protected as his case moves through the judicial system.