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An 8-year-old girl who was the lone survivor of a murder-suicide shooting in Pembroke Park that claimed the lives of her mother, three siblings and the gunman is still hospitalized as she recovers from the traumatic experience but is getting better day-by-day, family members said Wednesday.

A lockdown was lifted at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Wednesday afternoon after there were reports of a suspicious person near the school

A mother and father were arrested after they both overdosed on drugs in their unkempt Miami Beach apartment in front of their 2-year-old daughter, police said.

A man has been sentenced to two life sentences in a Miami-Dade human trafficking case involving a child who was in foster care and an adult, prosecutors said.

A University of Florida student who was detained by ICE after his arrest in Gainesville voluntarily returned to Colombia, officials with the agency said.

A Key Largo kayak tour guide was arrested on a murder charge after a woman was found beaten to death in a hotel room at a resort, authorities said.

A Broward Sheriff’s Detention Deputy was arrested on Monday, accused of domestic battery, the department said.

An FBI investigation was underway at a business in Coconut Grove on Wednesday.

Human remains that were discovered in a car found submerged in a pond in Plantation over the weekend are connected with the cold case disappearance of a woman who went missing 25 years ago.

A man is recovering from his injuries after, he said, he was run over while he was sunbathing on a Florida beach

A Cutler Bay woman won $1 million from a $5 scratch-off she bought at Publix, Florida Lottery officials said Wednesday.

A suspected DUI driver was arrested after he allegedly drove the wrong way on the road and plowed into a woman who was eight months pregnant in Palmetto, Florida, causing her to lose her unborn baby. Laurentino Serrano-Juarez, 31, of Bradenton was allegedly driving an SUV the wrong way on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge when he struck a sedan head-...

A bill aimed at preventing a return of efforts to build golf courses, pickleball courts and resorts in state parks is ready to go to the full Florida House. The House State Affairs Committee on Tuesday unanimously supported the measure (HB 209), which sponsor John Snyder, R-Stuart, said seeks to prevent “unintended development within the state park...