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More than a year after the Seminole Tribe started offering online sports betting, a new lawsuit alleges that voter approval was needed to allow such gambling.

Multiple people were hospitalized after a shooting at a business in southwest Miami-Dade prompted a massive police response on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

A man identified as the father of a firefighter and a Miami-Dade judge has died after a fire ripped through a house in Wilton Manors on Wednesday. When Chopper6 hovered over the home in the 500 block of Northwest 21st Street after it caught fire at about 1:30 p.m., smoke could be seen coming out from a portion of the…

The FBI in Miami is warning about an increase in scams targeting South Florida residents over the phone. The scam starts with a phone call, in which callers identify themselves as federal officers and tell people to “wire or mail ‘settlement’ money or to assist law enforcement with an investigation against a bank.” Authoriti...

Crews continued to battle a brush fire on Thursday in western Broward County near Weston. The fire broke out in the Everglades off of U.S. 27 on Wednesday and impacted traffic at the time. Aerial footage from Chopper 6 on Wednesday showed flames and thick smoke rising in the air as fire rescue crews poured water from an engine truck….

A South Florida man is behind bars after police say he scammed a woman by posing as a licensed immigration lawyer. Rafael Moreno, 49, is accused of practicing law without a license and unlawful use of a notary commission, which is a felony. According to the arrest report, an Alabama woman was told the suspect could help her with asylum…...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is hosting a news conference alongside his wife, Casey DeSantis, in St. Augustine on Thursday. Signs that read Hope Florida, the foundation founded by the first lady, were placed in front of the podium. The news conferences comes after Republican lawmakers raised questions over millions of dollars donated to Hope Florida. ...

A grieving family is demanding urgent safety improvements at a busy Miami intersection where their loved one lost his life in a crash earlier this year. Fabricio Gonzalez, a 34-year-old motorcyclist, was on his daily commute to work when he collided with a car at the intersection of Southwest 27th Avenue and Southwest 27th Street in January. The im...

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami will battle the Vancouver Whitecaps in the first leg of the Champions Cup semifinals. Here’s how to watch.

A motorcyclist was killed in a crash that shut down a stretch of the MacArthur Causeway early Thursday, Miami Beach police said. The crash was reported around 5:30 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of the Causeway and involved the motorcycle and a sedan. The motorcyclist was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center after the crash,...

A man and a cat were able to escape a blaze at a Fort Lauderdale high-rise early Thursday. The flames could be seen on the fifth floor of the Marina Bay Apartments at 2610 Marina Bay Drive East, according to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue. One person made it out and a pet cat was rescued by firefighters, authorities said. Video…

A South Florida man is accused of stealing his co-worker’s cellphone and then sending nude pictures and videos from the woman’s phone to himself.

Frantic 911 calls reveal the moments witnesses saw a woman with a knife in Deerfield Beach before deputies fatally shot her earlier this week.