Miami school named for Mourning over Reno

MIAMI (AP) - A new North Miami high school will be named after former NBA star Alonzo Mourning, rather than the first female U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno.A naming committee had earlier settled on the Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School Biscayne Bay Campus.The Miami-Dade School Board on Wednesday gave it the final OK.Mourning was a star for the Miami Heat, but it was the work he and his wife have done in local schools, including mentoring, that spurred the nomination.Reno was a longtime Miami-Dade state attorney before serving as the country's attorney general from 1993 to 2001.Many in South Florida's large Cuban-American population disagree with her order to return 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba in 2000 despite protests by his family in Miami. SOURCE:FOX NEWS