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The mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, is backing off a proposal to terminate an independent theater’s lease and financial support after it screened an Oscar-winning documentary about the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Mayor Steven Meiner introduced a resolution last week describing the film “No Other Land” as antisemitic, but he withdrew ...

A man accused of biting a victim’s ear off during a fight in Fort Myers Beach was arrested, deputies said.

A couple returning from a trip to the Florida Keys barely escaped the large brush fire burning in Southwest Miami-Dade. Kathy and Richard Williams were driving back to Deerfield Beach after a daytrip to Islamorada, but they never imagined they’d be the last car out of U.S. 1. According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, fire units and air rescue resp...

An investigation is underway Wednesday after a person was fatally shot in West Little River, deputies said.

A Clay County couple was arrested in Michigan on Tuesday after a woman falsified records to help her fiancée impersonate a nurse, deputies said. Alexiea Irwin and Julien Williams are facing several charges, including 14 counts of practicing medicine without a license. According to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, the monthslong investigation...

Authorities are investigating after a man’s body was found floating in the Miami River on Wednesday.

A man and woman were arrested after police said they uncovered a motorcycle “chop shop” at a home in Coral Gables.

Streets along 18th Avenue in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood are about to get co-named in honor of iconic songs and artists who called the area home. The Miami-Dade County Commission approved the item put forth by District 3 Commissioner Keon Hardemon on Tuesday, in the hopes it would continue the historic area’s economic revival.  “If you p...

A woman has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a television reporter last month while he was on assignment to cover the Super Bowl in New Orleans, authorities said Tuesday.

A 2-year-old boy who was found roaming the streets of Hollywood alone Wednesday morning was safely found by officers, police said. According to Hollywood Police, the boy, named Emmanuel, was seen walking at 1201 South 19th Avenue. Emmanuel was safely reunited with his parents.

It sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie.  Two sisters, separated by an ocean and decades of life, were brought together by a simple DNA test.

Crews battled a brush fire down south in Miami-Dade County that shut down roadways and snarled traffic to and from the Florida Keys on Tuesday.

A car on fire at the end of an exit ramp of the Palmetto Expressway heading northbound shut down lanes and backed up traffic Wednesday morning. The fire burned at the exit on Northwest 103rd Street. Hialeah Fire Rescue said when they arrived, the driver and passenger were already outside the vehicle. The fire was put out, and no injuries…...