At the Center for Pranic Healing, a small studio in a dull Davie office complex, Ricky Williams is cradling in his thick arms a middle-aged woman with bleached-blond hair. He's wearing Gucci loafers, basketball shorts, and an Under Armour T-shirt,...

Miami Marlins outfielder Logan Morrison spends the morning of Valentine's Day 2012 at the nearly empty Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, the team's spring facility. He hits balls in a cage, sweats on a stationary bike, and works on stretching and str...

They heard about it at their bridge games, or from the corkboard at the senior center, or through their grandkids who use the internet. Then they carpooled to Temple Shaarei Shalom in Boynton Beach on this recent Sunday afternoon — trios of ...

Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a Flip cam to her face. The inside of her car — a weathered Honda Civic with "Nobama," Marco Rubio, and Tea Party bumper stickers — ...

One sunny afternoon in summer 2008, Miami computer consultant Shawn Darling was summoned to the 64,000-square-foot Orlando palace of his boss, basketball star Shaquille O'Neal. When Darling arrived at the mansion, he recalls, the 36-year-old, seve...

Caroline Schwitzky is tall, slender, and naturally busty — not in that tired, out-all-night-on-Himmarshee kind of way. She has dark, playful eyes; coal-black eyebrows that somehow connote character; and olive skin. She's Peruvian and Brazili...