Miami Senior High School News
Browse past news stories for Miami Senior High School in Miami, FL.
- Pioneer in law school, on bench (Miami Herald)
posted on November 5, 2009 at 06:00:16 am
Judge Dixie Chastain, the first female University of Miami law school graduate and a Miami-Dade County juvenile judge for two decades, died Oct. 25 at 100. - UN security guard from Miami hailed as hero (Crestview News Bulletin)
posted on October 30, 2009 at 11:22:01 pm
MIAMI (AP) — A United Nations security guard from Miami who died fighting the Taliban during an attack on a hotel in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero by top U.N. staff. Twenty-seven-year-old Louis Maxwell was killed during the gunfight... - UN security guard from Miami hailed as hero (KJCT 8 Grand Junction)
posted on October 30, 2009 at 10:25:15 pm
MIAMI (AP) - A United Nationssecurity guard from Miami who died fighting the Taliban during an attack on a hotel in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero by top U.N. staff. - UN security guard from Miami who died fending off Taliban attack in Afghanistan hailed as hero (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
posted on October 30, 2009 at 10:21:24 pm
MIAMI - A United Nations security guard from Miami who died fighting the Taliban during an attack on a hotel in Afghanistan is being hailed as a hero by top U.N. staff. - 'Life After Favre' (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
posted on October 3, 2009 at 12:40:01 am
Editor's note: When Brett Favre announced his retirement from the Packers in March 2008, Phil Hanrahan came up with the idea of a book in which he would chronicle Packer Nation in the first year A.B. - After Brett. He moved from Los Angeles to Green Bay for the 2008 season, immersed himself in the town and the Packer culture. The scope of the book changed with Favre's comeback with the Jets, his ... - S. Florida Pauses To Remember 9/11 Victims (CBS4 Miami)
posted on September 11, 2009 at 04:33:10 pm
People across South Florida took time Friday to pause, reflect and remember where they were eight years ago; the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. - Videos tackle discrimination (Miami Herald)
posted on September 6, 2009 at 05:00:22 am
Students at Archbishop McCarthy High School in Southwest Ranches earned first and third place in the South Florida district in the statewide Discrimination Through the Eyes of Our Youth Public Service Announcement Contest. - Miami hacker in credit card scam honed skills at early age (Miami Herald)
posted on August 20, 2009 at 10:59:00 am
Years before his arrest in the nation's largest credit card heist, Albert Gonzalez launched a bold plan from a computer in his high school library: hack into the government network of India. - Tom Brodie, bomb expert who once kept Miami safe, dies (Sun-Sentinel)
posted on August 20, 2009 at 10:44:53 am
Thomas Graham Brodie was a Miami-Dade County bomb-squad pioneer whose death-defying exploits earned him international acclaim, a network game-show appearance and some serious burns. - Albert Gonzalez was hacking in high school...where were the safety nets? (ZDNet)
posted on August 20, 2009 at 05:13:59 am
We talk a lot in education about the idea of safety nets. These are support systems that we put into place to figuratively catch kids who might otherwise not be successful. They can be as simple as extra time after school for help or involve more significant remediation programs. Safety nets aren't just for kids who struggle or have learning disabilities, however. They can be for gifted students ... - Stimulus cash saves teachers jobs -- for now (Miami Herald)
posted on August 2, 2009 at 05:03:06 am
While South Florida's cities and counties wait for stimulus money to drop into their bank accounts, the state's two largest school systems have already been awarded millions in aid. Miami-Dade has spent some of it; Broward none at all. - MaryScull Brown going strong at 93 years young (Miami's Community Newspapers)
posted on July 24, 2009 at 12:19:22 am
At 93 years young, MaryScull Brown has a life story that would make a great book. Brown is well known as an Ambassador for the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce, as parliamentarian for various clubs and for her generous support of education — but that is just the tip of the iceberg. - Palin misses the point (Miami Herald)
posted on July 20, 2009 at 07:01:19 am
As a Miami Senior High School teacher, I find Sarah Palin's July 16 Other Views commentary, We can control our energy, to be articulate and eloquent -- I don't believe that she could have written it. - Miami WordSpeak poetry team will compete at Chicago festival (Miami Herald)
posted on July 11, 2009 at 04:59:50 pm
On Monday, the team will leave for Chicago to compete in the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival 2009, where they will take part in poetry workshops, watch professional poets perform, and battle in a poetry slam -- the competitive form of performance poetry. - Local Students Win PSA Contest (WCTV Tallahassee)
posted on July 2, 2009 at 09:48:46 pm
Students in Florida are speaking out about the realities of discrimination, and some local high schoolers are being recognized. - High School Students Express Their Views on Discrimination (WCTV Tallahassee)
posted on June 30, 2009 at 10:03:45 pm
The Florida Commission on Human Relations announces public service announcement contest winners. - Derrick Thomas: 44 Days to Canton (Kansas City Chiefs)
posted on June 26, 2009 at 02:17:22 pm
TODAY'S THIRD AND LONG FOUNDATION "SPOTLIGHT" The primary mission of the Derrick Thomas/Neil Smith Third and Long Foundation is to support and improve reading and learning abilities of disadvantaged school children in Kansas City, - 30 Dade, Broward students awarded college scholarships (Miami Herald)
posted on June 3, 2009 at 07:03:26 am
Christelle Joseph was about to graduate this week from North Miami Senior High School worried about college loans and her slim $50 bank balance. - Jimmy Ryce's father speaks to North Miami students (Miami Herald)
posted on May 8, 2009 at 04:44:25 pm
The details are still clear in Don Ryce's mind. It was Sept. 11, 1995. He took his wife Claudine on a 60-mile drive from their home in South Miami-Dade to West Palm Beach to have a seafood dinner and stay in a hotel to celebrate her birthday. - Columnista dirigirá junta editorial de The Miami Herald (El Nuevo Herald)
posted on May 8, 2009 at 07:12:52 am
Myriam Márquez, columnista de la sección Metro de The Miami Herald, ha sido elegida para dirigir la junta editorial del periódico --la primera mujer y la primera persona hispana que asume ese puesto. - Seven middle and high school students have been honored in the South... (Miami Herald)
posted on May 3, 2009 at 07:14:29 am
Seven middle and high school students have been honored in the South Miami Drug-Free Coalition (SMDFC) art contest sponsored by Informed Families. The winning works illustrated the benefits of living safe, healthy and drug-free. - No cut in drug lord's 195-year prison sentence (Miami Herald)
posted on April 28, 2009 at 07:11:14 am
Sal Magluta, a one-time drug lord in the style of Miami Vice, won't have his day in the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court on Monday rejected a bid to hear the appeal of his 195-year sentence. - King Pins Challenge scores big raises $25K for first fundraiser (Miami's Community Newspapers)
posted on April 15, 2009 at 02:18:29 pm
On Sunday, March 22, elected officials, civic and business leaders, high school students, small business owners, first-responders – the police and fire rescue departments – joined on the field known as South Miami’s “Splitsville” for the inaugural King Pins Challenge. - Help Name New Specialty School (Local 10 Miami)
posted on April 14, 2009 at 12:27:35 pm
South Florida residents are being asked for suggestions to help name a new high school. - I-Team: Son Talked About Killing His Father (CBS4 Miami)
posted on April 14, 2009 at 04:15:08 am
The son of South Miami Commissioner Jay Beckman often spoke about killing his father and may have even kept a list of people he wanted to see die, according to the teen's classmates. - Neighbor speaks out about disturbing conversations with slain commissioner's son (7 News Miami)
posted on April 13, 2009 at 04:51:39 pm
MIAMI-- The neighbor of the slain South Florida commissioner spoke out about some troubling conversations she had with his son before the tragic shooting. - South Miami commissioner shot and killed by son (7 News Miami)
posted on April 13, 2009 at 04:51:39 pm
MIAMI-- A South Miami commissioner was shot and killed by his teenage son Sunday, said police. - Son charged in fatal shooting of South Miami city commissioner (Sun-Sentinel)
posted on April 13, 2009 at 02:57:58 pm
Jay Beckman's short but passionate political career ended Sunday when he was shot to death in his modest South Miami home and his son was charged with manslaughter. - SURE AND STEADY (Birmingham News)
posted on March 29, 2009 at 08:28:33 am
Marcos "Shakey" Rodriguez never saw anything like it. All these years later, he still hasn't seen it repeated. On the day Anthony Grant graduated from Miami Senior High School, his fellow graduates rose for a standing ovation. - Tide's wish is Grant-ed (Montgomery Advertiser)
posted on March 28, 2009 at 09:43:53 pm
After two days of delibera tion, Anthony Grant finally said yes.
