The Miami Lakes Bar Association’s 3rd Annual Her Court, Her Rules panel met March 19 at the Miami Lakes Hotel on Main.      Held in honor of Women’s History Month, Bar Association members collaborated with Legally Lakes, a women’s mentorship group for attorneys, to present the event that filled a ballroom at the hotel.      “Speakers shared stories from their careers,...

     Take a drive down Northwest 60th Avenue and the distinctive blue and white buildings of Cordis will stand out.      The 69-year-old firm manufactures devices for cardiac patients, and its global headquarters is in Miami Lakes.       The company is expanding, and plans to fill up to 300 new, full-time jobs in town.       Its campus in Business Park East is also...

Amahrie Florvil, a seventh-grader at Lawton Chiles Middle School, competed in the 400-meter dash finals at the prestigious Louie Bing Track & Field Invitational on Feb. 14 in Miami. She finished fifth in the race and third among seventh-graders. She also got to meet Olympic champion Twanisha “TeeTee” Terry, a Miami native and part of the U.S. team that won gold in the women’s 4x100-meter dash at the 2024 Paris...

 Barbara Goleman Senior High School Senior Christopher Prophete is a National Merit Scholar, the school announced. Prophete, 18, will receive $2,500 to be applied to tuition at a school that is in the National Merit College Program. The scholarship is awarded to students based on their Preliminary SAT score. The high school announced in the fall that Prophete was a finalist. He will receive his scholarship when he...

    The ZONTA Club of Miami Lakes awarded its 2026 Amelia Earhart Scholarships to two students at Florida International University’s College of Engineering and Computing.       Rahmina Rubaiat and Nikita Singhi each received $1,000.       The awards were in recognition of their academic excellence and commitment to advancing research in critical fields that impact public health and...