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Six months after Hurricane Ian slammed into southwest Florida, hope is seen through the rebuilding of homes and businesses, even the return of tourism.

A Tampa-area plastic surgeon who’s been charged with murder following the disappearance of an attorney may have traveled to Miami-Dade after the lawyer vanished last week, police said Tuesday.

As the University of Miami Men’s basketball team prepares for a trip to the Final Four, the team managers are also heading to a tournament of their own in Houston.

Legislation limiting the discussion of sex education in schools and banning certain topics in elementary grades is moving closer to becoming law in Florida.

The Florida Senate on Thursday will take up a proposal that would prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, amid a debate refueled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The Florida chapter of the NAACP voted unanimously earlier this month to ask the national NAACP to issue a travel advisory, urging the Black community against visiting or moving to the Sunshine State.

The South Florida operators of a telemarketing scam that called hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide to pitch them expensive “extended automobile warranties” have received a lifetime ban.

Police in Miami are searching for a purse thief who was caught on camera knocking a 74-year-old woman to the ground during a violent robbery.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will travel to Jerusalem and speak at a museum event next month. The Jerusalem Post and Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem say DeSantis will deliver a keynote speech at an event that will address the tensions in Israel. The governor’s office confirmed the travel plans. DeSantis is quoted in a press release as saying, “At ...

A second man has been arrested in connection with a $1.5 million masked heist at a Macy’s in Hialeah last month that was caught on camera.

One of the first historically Black towns in the U.S. is suing the local school board to stop the sale of land that is tied up with Florida’s legacy of racial segregation and the state’s fast-paced growth nowadays. An association dedicated to the preservation of the town of Eatonville’s cultural history on Friday sued the Orange County School...

Dozens of officers swarmed a medical office building in southwest Miami-Dade Tuesday morning after receiving reports of a person making threats with a gun, officials said.

An overturned tractor-trailer left a stretch of U.S. 27 in Weston closed Tuesday morning.