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A Florida woman was arrested after police said she drowned her dog in an Orlando airport bathroom so she could board a plane.

A Miami man wanted in connection with a frightening indecent exposure incident at a Brickell building has been arrested in that case and a separate attack on a woman who was walking her dog, police said.

A wildfire in Southwest Miami-Dade closed roads and snarled traffic to the Florida Keys starting on Tuesday, and it also displayed a lesser-seen phenomenon caught on NBC6 cameras: a fire tornado. A fire tornado or a “firenado” can form within wildfires when the flames heat up the air, causing the surrounding air and smoke to rise very rapidly. This...

The U.S. Coast Guard is offloading more than 45,600 pounds of seized drugs at Port Everglades on Thursday. Authorities said the haul, the result of 14 interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean by the crews of U.S. Coast Guard cutters Stone and Mohawk, has a value of more than $517.5 million. The drugs, mostly cocaine and some marijuana, weigh a&#8...

A man and his father were arrested months after the former allegedly hit a bicyclist while driving in Fort Lauderdale, killing him, and fled the scene. Pedro Vasallo II, 24, is charged with failing to stop/remain at an accident involving death and leaving the scene of a crash involving death. Pedro Vasallo Sr., 64, is accused of accessory after the...

Authorities are investigating after three people were found shot to death in a Pompano Beach home Wednesday night. Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said deputies responded to a welfare check call at a home near the 300 block of South Golf Boulevard at around 7 p.m. The scene is in a retirement community called Leisureville.   When deputies a...

A driver is dead after officials say they drove recklessly and on the wrong side of the road and crashed into other cars Wednesday in Plantation.

Crews are working to contain a wildfire in southwest Miami-Dade that has shut down access in and out of the Florida Keys.

On Feb. 6, Wualner Sauceda was deported to his native Honduras. His story first surfaced the very same day he was deported. That Thursday, at a news conference, the Miami-Dade Teachers Union leadership tried to quell fears, assuring the public that Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids had not taken place at schools. At that point, very little ...

A growing number of Floridians are choosing not to vaccinate their children, as parts of the country are currently battling measles outbreaks. At least one measles case has been reported in South Florida.  While most students are vaccinated in Broward and Miami-Dade schools, the number of students with religious exemptions to vaccine requireme...

A woman who survived after she and another woman were struck on a sidewalk following a deadly crash involving a Miami Police officer is speaking out.

Many of the residents who live at the Oasis Living Quarters in Fort Lauderdale are elderly and need extra care, but they say they weren’t given extra time to move out. 

Police are investigating after a body was found floating in a waterway in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday. The discovery was made shortly after noon in the 1600 block of W. Broward Boulevard, just east of Interstate 95. Fort Lauderdale Police and Fire Rescue responded and were working to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the person’...

Florida lawmakers Wednesday moved forward with shielding school districts from a 2023 law aimed at later daily start times for high schools.