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Lawsuit to invalidate abortion rights amendment relies on flawed state report
NBC6 Investigates finds that the Florida Department of State report on alleged Amendment 4 petition fraud contains misstatements, questionable methodology and inaccurate numbers. Days after their release, those same numbers appeared in a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the abortion rights amendment.
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Negotiated Justice: Convictions difficult, plea bargains plentiful in sex assault cases
Numbers vary, but studies have found arrests are made in less than 20% of the sexual assaults that are reported – and many are not reported at all.
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‘The smoke has to clear': Pino murder-for-hire defendant recorded by FBI talking to cooperating co-conspirator
As the FBI built its case against men they suspected were hired by prominent South Florida developer Sergio Pino to murder his wife, one of the men agreed in July to cooperate, making a recorded call to the man he said recruited him to form what the FBI called one of two “murder crews.”
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More charges likely for gunman in Trump apparent assassination attempt
The gunman who lay in wait as former president Donald Trump made the rounds of his golf course Sunday is being held without bond on federal firearms charges, but a former federal prosecutor tells NBC6 more serious charges are likely coming.
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Setbacks in federal investigation delay answers in Champlain Towers collapse by another year
Families of the 98 people who died in the collapse of Champlain Towers South in June 2021 found out Thursday they will now have to wait at least another 19 months for answers from the federal government as to what caused the disaster.
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Boat racer among 27 charged in major South Florida drug trafficking bust: Feds
More than two dozen suspects are facing charges in connection with a major federal drug trafficking bust in Miami-Dade and the Florida Keys.
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Money dispute divides one Parkland school shooting victim from others
A lawyer for families of dead and injured said a dispute over the killer’s inheritance and intellectual property rights is being forced by the “greed” of the attorney for the most seriously injured survivor, former student Anthony Borges.
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Miami sued by police review panel it seeks to dissolve
The city says a new state law requires it to defund the civilian investigative panel, but that review board is fighting back in court.
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Miami ends civilian police oversight, citing new state law
Miami’s Civilian Investigative Panel is being dissolved effective Sept. 30, after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the legislature imposed a statewide ban on citizen oversight of police misconduct.
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Broward man finds his vacant lot offered for sale by would-be scammer
NBC6 Investigates a scheme targeting vacant lots across South Florida
