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“You are the embodiment of evil,” Judge James C. Babler told Jake Patterson before sentencing him to life without parole for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents, “and the public can only be safe if you are incarcerated until you die.” Watch Judge Babler’s full statement in the player above.

A Broward Sheriff’s deputy was found not guilty Thursday of falsifying a police report in the case of a teen’s rough arrest earlier this year.

The teen whose rough arrest was caught on camera back in April testified in court Wednesday in the trial for one of the Broward Sheriff’s deputies charged in the case.

Federal police officers arrested a Silver Spring, Maryland, woman suspected of attempting to steal sensitive medical specimens and equipment from the clinical center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

A 47-year-old plastic surgeon from Westchester County allegedly had a huge weapons cache in his car, one including assault rifles, body armor, a ballistic helmet, knives and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, among other weapons, when police stopped him as they investigated a report he had threatened his estranged wife and family.

A man accused of multiple package thefts at homes in Miami Shores has been arrested, police said Wednesday.

A South Florida swim instructor was arrested after he was accused of molesting two 9-year-old girls during practice, police said.

Amber Portwood is accused of wielding a machete while attacking her boyfriend Andrew Glennon during a confrontation that led to her arrest last week. On July 5, the 29-year-old “Teen Mom” star was arrested after allegedly assaulting her boyfriend in their Indiana home while he was holding their 1-year-old son, James. She was charged with three felonies: domestic battery, domestic...

A man is facing a murder charge for allegedly shooting another man to death in broad daylight at an apartment complex in Miami last month.

Former USC campus gynecologist George Tyndall, who is charged with sexually assaulting 16 patients, had his nearly $2.1 million bail reduced to $1.6 million Tuesday, despite his attorneys asking that the amount be set as low as $350,000.

Former USC campus gynecologist George Tyndall, who is charged with sexually assaulting 16 patients, had his nearly $2.1 million bail reduced to $1.6 million Tuesday, despite his attorneys asking that the amount be set as low as $350,000.

A man facing DUI manslaughter and other charges after a violent hit-and-run crash in Hialeah that left a woman dead and a man hospitalized has two prior DUI convictions, authorities said.

A 16-year-old accused of fatally shooting a 17-year-old high school football star in Miami Gardens last month is being charged as an adult.

A Wisconsin man was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents in a case that mystified authorities until the girl made a daring escape from the remote cabin where she was held for 88 days.

A Miami man is facing multiple animal cruelty charges after police say they rescued more than 30 dogs and puppies found living in “unsanitary conditions” with no access to food or water in his home.

A driver accused of intentionally running over a pedestrian in Oakland Park and fleeing the scene in an incident that was caught on camera has been arrested, authorities said.

A Hialeah man already on probation on burglary and drug possession cases is now facing more charges after a series of car and business burglaries, authorities said.

A man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl and killing her parents waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday, telling his father, “I love you,” moments after he was ordered to stand trial. Jake Patterson, 21, is accused of killing James and Denise Closs on Oct. 15 and kidnapping their daughter, Jayme Closs, from their Barron home. Jayme...

Three men are facing charges following a botched armed robbery of a Miami food truck that ended with one of them hospitalized following a shootout with the truck’s owner, authorities said.