There are now 320,050 people in squalid, makeshift camps in Haiti — a 79 percent drop in the population that was 1.5 million immediately after the Jan. 12, 2010 tragic earthquake.

Haiti’s prime minister has tapped cabinet members to replace two departing ministers within days of one another.

Thirteen years after her husband, famed Haitian journalist and agronomist Jean Léopold Dominique was gunned down in the courtyard of his radio station, Michèle Montas finds herself at the center of two epic cases winding through Haiti’s broken justice system.

Haiti’s minister of finance and economy has resigned, effective immediately.

TALLAHASSEE CEOs of the Florida’s safety-net hospitals are fighting a proposal that they say would slash their Medicaid funding.

TALLAHASSEE New law prohibiting casino game look-a-likes is expected to put 14,000 workers out of their jobs.

TALLAHASSEE It’s “Seersucker Suit Day” in the Florida Capitol, so lawmakers will be donning light-colored attire and taking on a slew of heavy issues at the committee level. Here’s what to watch:

TALLAHASSEE The bill would require doctors who provide abortions to offer emergency medical care in the unlikely event a baby is born alive.

TALLAHASSEE A bill to raise the hurdle for electric utilities to charge customers in advance for nuclear projects clears a committee after years of attempts.

TALLAHASSEE The Senate version — for the first time in Florida — would allow elected officials to establish “blind trusts.” Some criticize the move as creating “cloak of invisibility.”

TALLAHASSEE A Senate committee backed a plan to rewrite the state’s noise law by barring motorists from blaring music from their cars.

Venezuela’s oil largesse has kept helped keep Caribbean economies afloat, but the results have been mixed as critics say it also has fueled less transparency especially in Haiti where foreign donors are calling into questions millions in no-bid contracts.

OUR OPINION: Political infighting threatens to paralyze the recovery without elections

Best Western Premier, first U.S. brand hotel to open in Haiti in more than a decade, will welcome its first guests Thursday.

As several African leaders attend a conference in South Africa with leaders of the world’s five emerging economies, Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe lands in Ivory Coast to push for his nation’s integration in the African Union.

PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti’s tragic earthquake and deadly cholera epidemic are changing the lives of some of its most destitute — for the better.

TALLAHASSEE Gov. Rick Scott is encountering more resistance than he expected from fellow Republicans on his signature issue: a $2,500 across-the-board pay raise for teachers.

United Nations Security Council call on Haitian leaders to break political impasse and step up efforts to strengthen the police.

Sony Open organizers are asking fans to leave with plenty of time for the popular tennis tournament that begins Monday.

Miami-Dade and Key Biscayne are feuding over the county’s plan to repair the deteriorated Bear Cut Bridge. The island’s village council wants an entirely new bridge.

TALLAHASSEE The state bill to help the Miami Dolphins pay for stadium renovations has broad support in the Legislature, but Miami-Dade lawmakers are split.

Miami-Dade’s top hotel group endorsed raising hotel taxes to help fund a roughly $400 million renovation of Sun Life Stadium, provided some of the new revenue goes to a tourism advertising campaign for the county.

Fresh off a Super Bowl title with the Ravens, Dannell Ellerbe arrives in South Florida. ‘The Dolphins showed me how much they love me.’

Philip Wheeler turned down the Raiders and Chiefs and accepted the Dolphins’ $26 million deal. ‘I’m aggressive,’ he said. ‘Like a shark, but it’s ironic, because now I’m a Dolphin.’

The Dolphins spent big Tuesday for the premier wide receiver they have so needed and also to add an unexpected prize on defense, but this franchise-in-need was doing much more than instantly improving the team. It was doing much more than just purchasing players.

The Dolphins made a statement by signing free agency’s big price: WR Mike Wallace. They also signed LBs Dannell Ellerbe and Philip Wheeler.

Chris Clemons’ contract negotiation went just like his media availabilities: Short and to the point.

Mike Wallace said he’s ‘excited’ to join the Dolphins, who are still shopping for key free agents. Meanwhile, Reggie Bush signed with the Lions.

PORT-AU-PRINCE Haitian soccer star, activist and one-time political prisoner Robert "Boby" Duval stepped into cell No. 10, looked around and vowed not to break down.

Among the concerns after Hugo Chávez’s death are whether his successor in Venezuela will continue his Petrocaribe program and his ideological leadership.