A high-level financial operator for the Sinaloa Cartel and two other prisoners facing extradition to the United States escaped from a Mexico City jail Wednesday with the help of guards, authorities said.

Officials gave few details on how or precisely when the escape occurred.

Nearly five years to the day that Lewis Drayton set fire to his grandmother’s Richmond Heights house, killing her, the 30-year-old learned he will be spending the rest of his life in prison.

Miami area law enforcement agencies are looking for connections between a series of weekend shootings that killed one rapper, wounded another rapper’s girlfriend and hit three bystanders, killing a man who was leaving work to be with his family on Mother’s Day.

For more than two decades, Ken White worked at a credit card processor. It was a good job, but it fell victim to the Great Recession. Today, at 56, White does similar work managing technology projects for a regional bank. And yet everything feels different. He is a contractor for a technology services firm that assigns him to the bank....

Attention, Miami Heat fans: If you want to see Dwyane Wade, Hassan Whiteside and other Heat players compete on their home turf during the playoffs, tickets go on sale Friday, April 6th.

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President Donald Trump returned to Florida Tuesday for what his campaign dubbed a “homecoming rally,” promising the crowd that “less than one year from now I will join voters across the Sunshine State, my home, as we head to the polls.”

A new satellite image of a factory where North Korea makes military equipment used to launch long-range missiles shows the construction of a new structure.

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Boston police have released the name of the person of interest in the case of a missing 23-year-old Boston woman. Louis D. Coleman is suspected of kidnapping 23-year-old Jassy Correia. She was last seen over the weekend following an outing with her boyfriend and friends at Venu Nightclub in the city’s Theater District.

NBC 6 meteorologist Ryan Phillips provides a forecast update.