Cuban defector Orlando Hernandez said Elian Gonzalez was abused when he was taken away in an armed raid by federal agents. Hernandez, a star pitcher for the Yankees who defected three years ago, ...

The raid started at 5:15 a.m. on a small Miami street on the morning of April 22, 2000. By 5:18 a.m., it was over. Elian Gonzalez was removed from the home of relatives to be reunited with his father, ...

Months of angry rhetoric gave way to violence Saturday in Little Havana after federal agents raided the home of Elian Gonzalez's relatives and snatched the 6-year-old boy from the arms of the ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in the Miami Herald on April 23, 2000. Armed with automatic weapons and firing occasional rounds of tear gas, federal agents seized Elian Gonzalez ...

A trial opened in Miami over a lawsuit by 13 people who say they were injured or traumatized when federal agents seized a screaming Elian Gonzalez from his relatives’ home. The opening witness was ...

MIAMI - About 300 Cuban exiles held a vigil Saturday outside the Little Havana home where Elian Gonzalez stayed until armed federal agents seized him a year ago this weekend. Religious leaders and ...

Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters NEW YORK -- Elián González, the Cuban boy whose custody battle stoked Cold War-era tensions, has been nominated to serve in the island's National Assembly, the ...

MIAMI (AP) -- Relatives of Elian Gonzalez claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that federal agents used excessive force in a raid on their home to seize the boy. Elian's cousin, great-uncle and ...

Elián González, the Cuban national whose precarious boyhood arrival in the U.S. in 1999 prompted a fierce international custody battle, is set to become a lawmaker. González was nominated by his local ...

A minister who headed the National Council of Churches, she was active in liberal causes in the 1990s and sought to counter the conservative Christian Coalition. By Trip Gabriel A new play, “Elián,” ...