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A man was shot and killed early Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale and now police are searching for a suspect. The shooting happened shortly after 3 a.m., when police and fire rescue responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the area of the 1300 block of Northwest 8th Avenue. Once there, they found one man who had been shot. He was taken…

A Sarasota officer jumped onto an abandoned boat to stop it as it sped out of control, and the incredible save was caught on video. The Sarasota Police Department shared the wild video taken on Monday, after a boater fell off his 26-foot Everglades vessel north of the Ringling Museum, authorities said. The boater told officers he was returning the&...

A federal judge told attorneys for the state of Florida on Tuesday that an order freezing the enforcement of a new state immigration law absolutely did apply to all of the state’s local law enforcement agencies, despite a recent letter to the contrary from the state’s attorney general. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said during a hearing in ...

Two crashes on Interstate 95 in Broward County backed up traffic on the southbound and northbound lanes early Wednesday. The lanes have since reopened. The first crash happened in the northbound direction and blocked several lanes, including the express lanes, between Hollywood Boulevard and Stirling Road. Video showed a mangled black vehicle on th...

Police are investigating after a man was shot and killed during an argument early Wednesday in Brickell, officials said. Miami Police said officers were called to investigate the shooting at around 12:45 a.m. at Southwest 1st Avenue and 8th Street. Once there, officers found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. He died at the scene, Miami police sp...

A South Florida food bank is urging the public for help after they say two thieves stole two mobile teaching kitchens from their warehouse over the weekend.

A case of tuberculosis was confirmed Tuesday at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, officials said.

A Haitian woman died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a facility in Pompano Beach, officials said. Marie Ange Blaise, 44, died at the Broward Transitional Center on April 25, ICE officials said in a statement Tuesday. Her cause of death remains under investigation. Blaise, a Haitian national, had entered the Unite...

Two Venezuelan men living in South Florida with Temporary Protected Status have been charged in a scheme that defrauded the U.S. government’s COVID-19 relief program out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, authorities said.

A juvenile was stabbed Tuesday afternoon after a fight broke out outside a school in Hollywood, police said.

Authorities seized over half a ton of narcotics and arrested two suspects after intercepting a vessel suspected of smuggling in Miami-Dade.

New surveillance videos captured a fiery crash, gunfire and a confrontation outside a Miami Gardens gas station early Tuesday.

A Tampa Christian school has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court in a battle about whether the Florida High School Athletic Association violated First Amendment rights when it blocked the school from offering a prayer over a stadium loudspeaker before a 2015 high-school football championship game.