Miami

Will stress need for direct diplomacy, call for regional energy partnership and security initiative, development assistance to promote bottom-up growth in the hemisphere

Miami, FL -- May 23, 2008 -- MIAMI, FL - Senator Barack Obama today will lay out his comprehensive Latin America policy, rejecting the Bush-McCain approach that has neglected the Americas and failed to adapt to the realities of our changing world. Speaking at the Cuban American National Foundation Luncheon, Obama will outline his plans to forge a new regional approach to combat insecurity and aggressively promote economic opportunity through new trade, aid and energy policies.    » read more »

March 28, 2008 -- COCONUT GROVE – Florida Governor Charlie Crist today visited the production set of Marley and Me, a movie inspired by John Grogan’s bestselling memoir about his mischievous dog. Marley and Me is a participant in Florida’s program that rebates film, TV and digital media production companies up to 22 percent of their qualified Florida expenditures as an incentive to produce films and video games in Florida. The Don Davis Entertainment Industry Economic Development Act of 2007 increased the incentive to $25 million. This year, Governor Crist is proposing a $5 million increase in the state’s film incentive fund.    » read more »

February 13, 2008 -- Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has begun collecting additional fingerprints from international visitors arriving at Miami International Airport (Miami). The change is part of the department’s upgrade from two- to 10-fingerprint collection to enhance security and facilitate legitimate travel by more accurately and efficiently establishing and verifying visitors’ identities.    » read more »

January 29, 2008 -- TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Miami pharmacy owner was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a Medicaid Fraud scheme that defrauded the Florida Medicaid program out of more than $400,000. John Darrell Boyd was charged with using his Miami-based pharmacy, Safety Drugs, to fraudulently bill the program for prescription medications primarily for treating organ transplant patients.    » read more »

Jan. 26, 2008 -- MIAMI - The Coast Guard is searching for a boater who disappeared from his vessel three miles east of Key Largo, Fla., Saturday afternoon.

Two good Samaritans just off Elliot Key, Fla., located a 25-foot boat with no one aboard heading toward their vessel. They managed to stop the vessel and, after going onboard, located a cellular phone. They called the last number dialed and spoke with a person claiming to be the father of the suspected missing boater, Dan Stonionis, 45.    » read more »

November 12, 2007 -- With 52 race telecasts and more than two dozen practice and qualifying shows, as well as a daily news and information program, ESPN has had a busy return to NASCAR in 2007. The season ends this weekend with NASCAR NEXTEL Cup and NASCAR Busch Series races at Florida’s Homestead-Miami Speedway and Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon will battle in the conclusion of the Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup.    » read more »

October 24, 2007 -- McLean, VA - Today Fred Thompson received the endorsement of two experienced members of the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners. Commissioner Natacha Seijas and Commissioner Joe Martinez have both announced their support for Fred Thompson for President of the United States.    » read more »