Biscayne Bay

--Altogether, it generated more heat than light, but organizers said they were pleased with a debate in Miami on the policies of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. "I am proposing that we move toward a new understanding of reality," history professor Andres Gomez said. "If I saw you in other circumstances, I would shoot you," his opponent, radio commentator Felipe Rivero, a veteran of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, responded.

The breeze off Biscayne Bay and playful fountains cool Vizcaya's elaborate gardens even on a sweltering summer day - not that International Harvester heir James Deering would have known. The Coconut Grove, Fla., mansion was his winter estate. When it opened in 1916, Miami's population was a mere 10,000. Why it's a treasure: With the help of painter and designer Paul Chalfin, Deering handpicked every item in his marbled mansion, deftly mixing a French harpsichord, Pompeian table, Venetian gates with an English manor house library, Chinese bedroom and south Florida coral rock.

A ruptured sewage pipe that spilled millions of gallons of raw waste into Miami's Biscayne Bay closed some of the city's beaches this weekend to swimming and fishing in an echo of a similar spill last summer. A rupture last June of a line at Miami Beach Marina resulted in a spillage that closed a strip of beaches in the area for more than a week. Beaches on Key Biscayne, along the causeway and on Virginia Key were closed after Thursday's incident near the Port of Miami.

NBA free agent Carlos Boozer and his wife, Cece, have sold their Coconut Grove, Fla., estate for $5.5 million. The Mediterranean-style compound, built in 1996 and renovated in 2006, sits on more than a third of an acre off a private street with a gated entrance. In the main house, a media room has theater seating for eight, and the kitchen's eat-in area opens to terraces. The guesthouse has a living room, a bedroom, a bathroom and a balcony. There are a combined five bathrooms, five bathrooms, two half-baths and 7,002 square feet of living space.

NBA free agent Carlos Boozer and his wife, Cece, have sold their Coconut Grove, Fla., estate for $5.5 million. The Mediterranean-style compound, built in 1996 and renovated in 2006, sits on more than a third of an acre off a private street with a gated entrance. In the main house, a media room has theater seating for eight, and the kitchen's eat-in area opens to terraces. The guesthouse has a living room, a bedroom, a bathroom and a balcony. There are a combined five bathrooms, five bathrooms, two half-baths and 7,002 square feet of living space.

A section of construction crane plummeted 30 floors at the site of a high-rise condominium in Miami, killing two workers and smashing into a home that the contractor used for storage, police said. Five other workers were injured, one critically, at the site of the 40-plus-story luxury condo tower on Biscayne Bay just 10 days after a similar accident in New York killed seven people. The part that fell was a 20-foot section workers had been raising to extend the equipment's reach, Miami fire rescue spokesman Ignatius Carroll said.

The breeze off Biscayne Bay and playful fountains cool Vizcaya's elaborate gardens even on a sweltering summer day - not that International Harvester heir James Deering would have known. The Coconut Grove, Fla., mansion was his winter estate. When it opened in 1916, Miami's population was a mere 10,000. Why it's a treasure: With the help of painter and designer Paul Chalfin, Deering handpicked every item in his marbled mansion, deftly mixing a French harpsichord, Pompeian table, Venetian gates with an English manor house library, Chinese bedroom and south Florida coral rock.

Saying she could not longer tolerate her terrible secret, a grandmotherly domestic worker from San Diego has told Los Angeles police that she killed her husband 18 years ago in Miami, where parts of his dismembered body were found floating in Biscayne Bay. After her subsequent return to Florida, Betty Ruth Evers, 55, was arrested in Miami Circuit Court on suspicion of first-degree murder in connection with the 1967 slaying of Henry Everett Evers, 59.

Saying she has been hounded by a terrible secret, a grandmotherly domestic worker from San Diego has shocked police by confessing to the gruesome, unsolved killing of her husband 18 years ago in Miami, where parts of his dismembered body were found floating in Biscayne Bay. Betty Ruth Evers, 55, was arrested after papers were filed Wednesday in Miami circuit court connecting her with the 1967 slaying of Henry Everett Evers, 59.

Dan Marino is the best-looking young quarterback I have ever seen. No contest. Now, I am not talking about his quick release, quick drop, fast read or eerie aim. I don't care whether he wins or loses. I'm talking dimples. I have never seen such dimples on a quarterback in my life. I'm talking peaches-and-cream complexion. Bright blue eyes. Curly, honey-blond hair. I mean, we're talking matinee idol looks. Cupid's bow mouth. Just for one night, you'd like to look like that.

A section of construction crane plummeted 30 floors at the site of a high-rise condominium in Miami, killing two workers and smashing into a home that the contractor used for storage, police said. Five other workers were injured, one critically, at the site of the 40-plus-story luxury condo tower on Biscayne Bay just 10 days after a similar accident in New York killed seven people. The part that fell was a 20-foot section workers had been raising to extend the equipment's reach, Miami fire rescue spokesman Ignatius Carroll said.

An estimated 200 illegal immigrants from Haiti, and reportedly three Cubans, leaped into the water and swam and waded en masse onto a busy Miami causeway Tuesday after the wooden freighter on which they had ridden to America ran aground offshore, officials said. "Once we arrived on the scene, they started jumping overboard," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Ryan Doss aboard the cutter Maui.

A ruptured sewage pipe that spilled millions of gallons of raw waste into Miami's Biscayne Bay closed some of the city's beaches this weekend to swimming and fishing in an echo of a similar spill last summer. A rupture last June of a line at Miami Beach Marina resulted in a spillage that closed a strip of beaches in the area for more than a week. Beaches on Key Biscayne, along the causeway and on Virginia Key were closed after Thursday's incident near the Port of Miami.

A mile of interstate highway is 9,000 cubic yards of chewing-gum colored concrete, striped with 1,000 gallons of paint that reflects like cat's-eyes in the dark. Take Interstate 95, which stretches 1,836 miles from the Canadian border at this northern Maine potato town to Miami and blue-green Biscayne Bay. Without a closer look it can seem just a couple of double lanes, long and gray and mute. And yet this road speaks: Road signs are in French where it begins, Spanish where it ends.

Saying she could not longer tolerate her terrible secret, a grandmotherly domestic worker from San Diego has told Los Angeles police that she killed her husband 18 years ago in Miami, where parts of his dismembered body were found floating in Biscayne Bay. After her subsequent return to Florida, Betty Ruth Evers, 55, was arrested in Miami Circuit Court on suspicion of first-degree murder in connection with the 1967 slaying of Henry Everett Evers, 59.

Saying she has been hounded by a terrible secret, a grandmotherly domestic worker from San Diego has shocked police by confessing to the gruesome, unsolved killing of her husband 18 years ago in Miami, where parts of his dismembered body were found floating in Biscayne Bay. Betty Ruth Evers, 55, was arrested after papers were filed Wednesday in Miami circuit court connecting her with the 1967 slaying of Henry Everett Evers, 59.

A mile of interstate highway is 9,000 cubic yards of chewing-gum colored concrete, striped with 1,000 gallons of paint that reflects like cat's-eyes in the dark. Take Interstate 95, which stretches 1,836 miles from the Canadian border at this northern Maine potato town to Miami and blue-green Biscayne Bay. Without a closer look it can seem just a couple of double lanes, long and gray and mute. And yet this road speaks: Road signs are in French where it begins, Spanish where it ends.

An estimated 200 illegal immigrants from Haiti, and reportedly three Cubans, leaped into the water and swam and waded en masse onto a busy Miami causeway Tuesday after the wooden freighter on which they had ridden to America ran aground offshore, officials said. "Once we arrived on the scene, they started jumping overboard," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Ryan Doss aboard the cutter Maui.

--Altogether, it generated more heat than light, but organizers said they were pleased with a debate in Miami on the policies of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. "I am proposing that we move toward a new understanding of reality," history professor Andres Gomez said. "If I saw you in other circumstances, I would shoot you," his opponent, radio commentator Felipe Rivero, a veteran of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, responded.

Dan Marino is the best-looking young quarterback I have ever seen. No contest. Now, I am not talking about his quick release, quick drop, fast read or eerie aim. I don't care whether he wins or loses. I'm talking dimples. I have never seen such dimples on a quarterback in my life. I'm talking peaches-and-cream complexion. Bright blue eyes. Curly, honey-blond hair. I mean, we're talking matinee idol looks. Cupid's bow mouth. Just for one night, you'd like to look like that.