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Florida health officials have confirmed the state’s first measles case of the year, a high school student. The case is renewing concerns about declining vaccination rates, which doctors warn could put more children at risk.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Wednesday evening at Homestead Air Force Base to speak on the issue of illegal immigration, touting some of the state-led steps that have been taken to enforce immigration laws.
A man was arrested on Wednesday after a couple of black swans and their six eggs were stolen from a mobile home park in Polk County, according to the sheriff’s office.
Florida International University’s Board of Trustees has appointed Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez as its interim president, marking a major leadership transition at the institution.
With 2024 all wrapped up, Florida officials have now released last year's statewide crash data. However, some might be surprised by which counties ranked among the deadliest.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announces lower premiums for some customers of homeowners and car insurance providers, expected during 2025.
According to an arrest report, in December, detectives had a confidential informant purchase drugs from Deputy Francisco Javier Melo.
Police have confirmed a 10-year-old girl celebrating New Year’s Day with her family in northwest Miami-Dade was killed by a stray bullet, according to News 6 partner Local 10 News.
Two little piggies will not become Christmas Eve roast pork thanks to a holiday pardon they received from a Florida mayor.
Miami Beach police have confirmed that a human head which washed ashore on Key Biscayne belonged to a 19-year-old swimmer who disappeared off South Beach, according to News 6 partner Local 10 News.
The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Bahamas Defense Force are searching for a 66-year-old woman who went overboard from Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas near Nassau.
Those taking a trip to Biscayne Bay in South Florida may spot an odd sight on the horizon. Far out in the water, six shacks stand on rickety-looking stilts.
Nearly 5 miles off the coast, this yacht sits at the bottom of the ocean. How it got there is a longer story.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference at a deli in Aventura, previewing the state’s upcoming back-to-school sales tax holiday.
Despite a record 46-day streak of triple digit feels-like temperatures, Miami’s unprecented brutal summer last year wasn’t that deadly, contrasting with the rest of the nation where federal records show heat fatalities nationally spiked to a 45-year high.
Four Florida police officers have been indicted for manslaughter in connection with a 2019 shootout on a busy rush-hour street that left a hijacked UPS driver and a passerby in a nearby car dead.
A fire erupted Monday morning at a four-story apartment building in the city of Miami, and a man was found shot on the third floor of the building, authorities confirmed.
In an arrest affidavit, police said that the man — Jasiel Manfarrol, 33 — entered a hobby store in the area called “Pro Play Games."
Florida Highway Patrol troopers released dash cam video of a recent police chase related to pending cases in Miami-Dade County court.
Surveillance video allegedly shows Carlos Guillermo Alonso with his 42-foot Boston Whaler in Coral Gables after he unintentionally struck and killed Ella Riley Adler off Key Biscayne, according to News 6 partner Local 10 News.
Orange and Osceola County State Attorney Andrew Bain explores creating a mental health diversion program for some suspects arrested for low-level crimes.
TSA officials said that officers at the Miami International Airport detected the bag hidden inside the passenger’s pants, prompting a call to Customs and Border Patrol.
Body-camera footage shows an officer pulling over the model, who was identified as Gisele Bündchen.
A woman tells News 6 partner WPLG that she and her boyfriend, a fellow bodybuilder, made a huge mistake when they conducted a photoshoot with an assault rifle at a West Kendall strip mall.
Nine people were shot, two of whom have died, in a police-involved shooting early Saturday at CityPlace Doral, according to News 6 partner Local 10 News.
Rapper Diddy’s home on Miami Beach’s exclusive Star Island was among three of the music mogul’s properties raided by agents with the Department of Homeland Security Monday, according to the Associated Press.
The bill would require public schools to teach about the history of communist groups in the U.S. and abroad, as well as the problems with communist principles.
A 14-year-old Paso Fino horse named Paloma was among three horses believed to have been slaughtered for their meat in southwest Miami-Dade’s rural Redland area, according to News 6 partner Local 10 News.
Florida health officials are tracking hundreds of care facilities that have operated or are currently operating as assisted living facilities without the proper license.
Former Miami-Dade School Board Vice Chair Lubby Navarro is accused of making about $100,000 worth of unauthorized purchases on her district credit cards for personal purposes, according to News 6 partner Local 10 News.
After the date arrived, Johnson approached his car while carrying a 1-gallon water jug and asked him for money to fix her vehicle, an affidavit shows.
During questioning, the boy's mother confessed to using a tablecloth to attack him while he slept in the backseat of her car, according to police.
U.S. support for Israel's offensive against Hamas is being closely watched in South Florida's Jewish community.
Deputies said that a group of suspects removed approximately $1.6 million from a liquor distribution center over the span of days.
Police say they have arrested a man who trespassed twice in one day at the California home of independent presidential candidate Robert F.
Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Florida as counter-programming to the third Republican presidential primary debate, which he is once again choosing to skip.
The former president of a Florida condominium association was caught slashing tires and trying to set a truck on fire back in April, according to News 6 partner WPLG.
According to state officials, there are over 20,000 American citizens — including Florida residents — in Israel who wish to return to the U.S. but don’t have the means to do so.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday called for increased state sanctions against Iran for aiding Hamas in the deadly surprise attack in Israel over the weekend.
Given Florida’s popular beaches, warm weather and amazing tourist attractions, it’s no surprise that the state brings in its own crowd of celebrities wanting to live here.
The village of Pinecrest in Miami-Dade County is planning to use vasectomies to help solve the issue of its overwhelming number of peacocks.
Thirty-two vehicles were found at the bottom of a lake in Doral over the weekend by divers searching for cars connected to missing persons cold cases.
Miami police say an 18-year-old mother tried to hire a hitman to kill her 3-year-old son, who was living with his grandmother at the time.
Police arrested a 32-year-old North Miami man over the weekend after they accused him of kidnapping a 6-year-old girl in the city’s Little Haiti neighborhood, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.
The federal charges against former President Donald Trump over classified documents have propelled the city of Miami to the center of a storyline that had been thought to be unfolding in Washington.
A man was hospitalized after a possible lightning strike Thursday afternoon in southwest Miami-Dade, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.
The father of a former UFC fighter is facing an attempted second-degree murder charge after he’s accused of shooting a man in both of his arms during a fight at the home of mixed martial artist Jorge Masvidal.
Boys track and field athletes from Rockledge High and Miami Northwestern were disqualified from the Region 4-3A meet Thursday in Miami after a reported altercation between team members.
Authorities are investigating swatting incidents that occurred Tuesday morning at both Florida International University’s main campus in west Miami-Dade and City College in Hollywood, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.
A police sergeant with the Golden Beach Police Department was shot overnight Saturday during a pursuit of two suspects in a stolen vehicle, authorities said.
An Amber Alert was issued Saturday morning for Oliver Williams, a 3-year-old boy missing out of Miami and considered endangered, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
The Florida Senate on Monday released a 98-page bill that includes proposed changes ranging from clamping down on voter-registration groups to relaxing campaign-finance reporting rules.
State troopers arrested a Doral man Monday morning they say was seen on social media firing gunshots from a moving Lamborghini on the Palmetto Expressway this past week.
A man and woman from southwest Miami-Dade stand accused of kidnapping and robbing a 75-year-old woman in Hialeah as part of what police are calling a “pigeon drop” scam, according to News 6 partner WPLG-TV.
The arena where the Miami Heat play will soon have a new name, after the team and Miami-Dade County decided Friday to begin actions to terminate their relationship with FTX on the same day that the cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy.
If you have a vote-by-mail ballot you need to fix or a provisional ballot you need to provide documents for, you have a couple more days to do that because of Hurricane Nicole.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Val Demings visited a Coral Springs community center Thursday, calling for passage of “common sense” gun control laws and calling out her challenger, incumbent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, for not supporting them.
Officials with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office released surveillance video Wednesday showing last month’s violent attack on a canvasser for Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio in Hialeah.
