On Friday, as many as three Miami-Dade hospitals stepped forward to collectively provide a month's worth of care and assistance to nearly 40 dialysis patients who had been abandoned by Jackson Health System.

On Wednesday, the Miami police identified the body of a women, who was found dead and "burned beyond recognition" in a trash bin on Sunday, as that of 26 year old Playboy model Paula Sladewski.

A luxury hotel in Miami has been reopened after 2 weeks, after it was forced to relocate guests because of the presence of bacteria in its water. As many as 4 cases of Legionnaires' disease, one of them critical and much fatal, were discovered among people who had stayed at the Epic Hotel.

A foreign visitor has died and at least two other people have become sick after staying at a downtown Miami luxury hotel for which health officials blamed an unusual type of pneumonia called Legionnaire's Disease.

The Miami-Dade County Health Department said guests were relocated after a foreign tourist died and two others became ill.

The kingpin of one of the largest known identity theft cases in US history, Albert Gonzalez, 28, Friday pleaded guilty, as expected, to federal charges in Massachusetts and New York. Gonzalez also agreed to forfeit over $2.7 million in compensation, a condo, a car and jewelry.

According to court papers filed in a federal court in Boston on Friday, the 28-year-old Miami computer hacker, Albert Gonzalez, who allegedly was the mastermind behind two of the biggest identity theft in the US history, has agreed to plead guilty to related charges.

U. S. authorities on Wednesday announced they had launched arrests of 53 Medicare fraud suspects in Miami, Detroit, and Denver.

The US Justice Department may drop a closely watched lawsuit aimed at forcing Swiss banking giant UBS to divulge the names of 52000 wealthy American clients suspected of offshore tax evasion.

The 46-year-old Cuban-born Miami resident, Luis Dominguez, who allegedly posed as a young brunette beauty 'Claudia Valencia,' from Cartagena, Colombia, to engage in an online affair with Fidel Castro's son Antonio 'Tony' Castro Soto del Valle, has refused to apologize for infringing upon Antonio's privacy.

Carnival Corp. & PLC, the world’s largest cruise operator, said on Monday it expects second-quarter and 2009 earnings to be impacted by swine flu.