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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 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.

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.

Authorities are investigating after the body of a person was discovered inside a vehicle that was found engulfed in flames in Pompano Beach Tuesday morning.

A man was treated for injuries after police said he was shot while driving Tuesday morning on a roadway in northwest Miami-Dade.

A bill that recently passed a Florida Senate education committee could allow middle and high school students in the state to get a few extra minutes of sleep.

Officials say a rescued juvenile dolphin that was airlifted from Texas to the Florida Keys about one year ago is thriving. The young bottlenose dolphin is living in a Keys-based marine mammal facility. The orphaned male calf dubbed Ranger was discovered in June 2021. He was stranded and suffering from a respiratory infection and dehydration. Ranger...

Street racing, street takeovers and stunt driving incidents are happening all too often on the streets of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. 

Cell phone video shows a man climbing the Brickell Avenue drawbridge in Miami while it was raised.