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Early-vote tally shows Miami Dolphins stadium renovation was failing at polls

In this Oct. 23, 2011 file photo, Sun Life Stadium is shown before th
PUBLISHED: May 14, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (561 words)
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Brooklyn, the Remix: A Hip-Hop Tour

The mean streets of the borough that rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. crowed about are now hipster havens, where cupcakes and organic kale rule. By Ben Adler Brian Harkin for The New York Times
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2013
LENGTH: 1 minutes (281 words)

Citrus Disease With No Cure Is Ravaging Florida Groves

AVON PARK, Fla. — Florida’s citrus industry is grappling with the most serious threat in its history: a bacterial disease with no cure that has infected all 32 of the state’s citrus-growing counties.…
PUBLISHED: May 9, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (702 words)

Deep Inside Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco

In early 2009, three years prior to Taco Bell's 50th anniversary, CEO Greg Creed was already experiencing something of a midlife crisis. "Our target audience is [customers] in their 20s. Turning 50…
PUBLISHED: May 1, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2751 words)

Karzai’s Office Gets Bags Full of C.I.A. Cash

KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the…
PUBLISHED: April 28, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (881 words)

102 hours in pursuit of Marathon bombing suspects

For five indelible days, the unthinkable became routine in Boston. And no one felt that more than the police and agents mounting the largest manhunt in regional history and parsing its most complex…
PUBLISHED: April 28, 2013
LENGTH: 55 minutes (13871 words)

Carjack victim recounts his harrowing night

The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur had just pulled his new Mercedes to the curb on Brighton Avenue to answer a text when an old sedan swerved behind him, slamming to a stop. A man in dark clothes…
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2180 words)

Unearthing the Complete and Total Disaster That Was 'The Chevy Chase Show'

Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain. Other times, the powers that be get…
SOURCE:Splitsider
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2384 words)
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Records detail bizarre cash heist, kidnapping and fatal South Miami-Dade police shooting

It began, police say, with a stunning act of betrayal. Teenager Luis Mir set up the heist of over $600,000 of his uncle’s cash, stored in a safe inside his own family’s West Perrine…
PUBLISHED: April 20, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1161 words)
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