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The Miami Open attracts the world’s top tennis players to South Florida and at the foundation of their success is their health.

A Miami-Dade County Public Schools maintenance worker was arrested on child pornography charges in Hollywood, police said.

The owner of a Miami-Dade med spa was arrested after she was caught illegally selling lollipops laced with weight loss drugs, authorities said.

An 80-year-old man apparently shot and killed another man and a woman before turning the gun on himself at a home in a Pompano Beach retirement community, authorities said.

In a measure named after a dog found tied to a fence along Interstate 75 during Hurricane Milton, the Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill aimed at preventing animal cruelty. “Trooper’s Law” (SB 150) would create a new offense of animal cruelty for people who restrain dogs outside during natural disasters and abandon them. The offense woul...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an 11th-hour stay of execution for Edward James, setting the stage for him to be put to death in the 1993 murders of a Seminole County woman and her 8-year-old granddaughter.

A Florida woman was arrested after police said she drowned her dog in an Orlando airport bathroom so she could board a plane.

A Miami man wanted in connection with a frightening indecent exposure incident at a Brickell building has been arrested in that case and a separate attack on a woman who was walking her dog, police said.

A wildfire in Southwest Miami-Dade closed roads and snarled traffic to the Florida Keys starting on Tuesday, and it also displayed a lesser-seen phenomenon caught on NBC6 cameras: a fire tornado. A fire tornado or a “firenado” can form within wildfires when the flames heat up the air, causing the surrounding air and smoke to rise very rapidly. This...

The U.S. Coast Guard is offloading more than 45,600 pounds of seized drugs at Port Everglades on Thursday. Authorities said the haul, the result of 14 interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean by the crews of U.S. Coast Guard cutters Stone and Mohawk, has a value of more than $517.5 million. The drugs, mostly cocaine and some marijuana, weigh a&#8...

A man and his father were arrested months after the former allegedly hit a bicyclist while driving in Fort Lauderdale, killing him, and fled the scene. Pedro Vasallo II, 24, is charged with failing to stop/remain at an accident involving death and leaving the scene of a crash involving death. Pedro Vasallo Sr., 64, is accused of accessory after the...

Authorities are investigating after three people were found shot to death in a Pompano Beach home Wednesday night. Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said deputies responded to a welfare check call at a home near the 300 block of South Golf Boulevard at around 7 p.m. The scene is in a retirement community called Leisureville.   When deputies a...

A driver is dead after officials say they drove recklessly and on the wrong side of the road and crashed into other cars Wednesday in Plantation.

Crews are working to contain a wildfire in southwest Miami-Dade that has shut down access in and out of the Florida Keys.