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A former member of Cuban intelligence was arrested in Broward by federal authorities, officials said.

A South Florida organization says Islamophobic civil rights complaints have skyrocketed in the state, highlighting several recent incidents, including the shooting of two men in Miami Beach.

More than a decade after a woman was abducted and violently raped in a wooded area in Miami, police said they’re arrested the man they believe is responsible.

A suspect has been arrested in the 2022 murder of a man whose body was found dumped in a garbage bin in Miami Gardens, police said.

A family friend turned codefendant of the real estate mogul Alexander brothers was allowed to get off house arrest and will no longer be tracked with a GPS monitor.

President Donald Trump has been visiting his Mar-a-Lago home recently in Palm Beach, and more than a few pilots have violated temporarily restricted airspace since he assumed his second term, triggering warnings from fighter jets. 

Cellphone video captured a road rage incident in Hillsborough County between two people where a driver fired a flare gun at a man armed with a baseball bat.

Two Miami-Dade food inspectors were arrested in a nearly year-long corruption investigation that found they were extorting restaurant owners out of thousands of dollars, authorities said. “Operation Grease Trap” began in April of 2024 after Miami-Dade Police were contacted by the restaurant owners who alleged extortion by county employe...

A small plane crash landed near an elementary school in Miramar on Wednesday, narrowly missing portable classrooms and coming to a stop near a playground where children had been playing moments earlier, officials said. The crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. near Coconut Palm Elementary School along Monarch Lakes Boulevard. Investigators said the p...

After months of waiting, a young boy from Cuba battling a medical condition is getting a second chance at life after he and his family received a visa to travel to South Florida for treatment. Damir Ortiz was diagnosed with type 1 neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic condition that causes tumors on nerve tissue. On Wednesday, he arrived at Nicklaus Ch...

Body camera footage captured the moment when a 3-year-old girl put her hands behind her back, copying her mother during a police situation in Winter Haven. There has been public outcry and criticism towards officers during the encounter after the footage went viral. “The optics are bad,” said Winter Haven Police Chief Vance Monroe. “We’re not going...

At least 10 people were detained on Wednesday during a SWAT situation at a meat market in Miami.

A crash involving two box trucks snarled traffic on a stretch of the Florida’s Turnpike in northwest Miami-Dade on Wednesday. The crash happened in the southbound lanes of the Turnpike just south of Northwest 199th Street. Aerial footage showed one box truck flipped onto its side, while the other was heavily damaged. There was debris scattere...