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In February, Phoebe Moon’s parents snapped a photo of the nine-month-old baby carrying a teddy bear on a plane to Miami.  “It was Phoebe’s first holiday,” said Phoebe’s mother, Aimee Moon, during a Zoom interview from the United Kingdom.  Once they arrived, they boarded the Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas—a ship that promotes activities for the little ones online. ...

A teen was left with a black eye after a supervisor at a juvenile detention facility hit her face. NBC 6 Investigators obtained exclusive video of what happened.

Photos, exclusively obtained by NBC 6 Investigators, show the bruised eye of a 17-year-old after she says a sergeant hit her face early September at the Broward Regional Juvenile Detention Center.

Luis Valdes says he loved being part of Miami Police Department’s elite crime suppression unit, or CSU, until he and some of his colleagues saw something that made them send an anonymous letter to the department’s internal affairs.

A former City of Miami police officer says he was investigated and fired for helping the FBI lock up his corrupt sergeant. In a lawsuit he filed against the city, the ex-cop accuses several officials, including the current chief of police, of retaliating against him.

A baby’s first vacation turned for the worse after she got sick on board. Her family is now suing the cruise line, saying its doctors didn’t do enough.

A judge ruled the agency was dishonest and acted in bad faith with a contractor it hired to set up a now-trashed toll-by-plate system — one that never worked properly. After two trials and two appeals, the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority finally surrendered — at a total cost of around $84 million.

It’s the biggest boondoggle in the history of the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority, and the costliest.

One of the lawyers representing the effort to recall Miami city commissioner Joe Carollo was the focus of an anonymous research packet emailed to several high ranking city leaders. So far, it’s led to the attorney, David Winker, being cited by the code department for having an illegal home office. Winkler says he’s being retaliated against for his legal work...

The city of Hialeah’s task force looking into COVID-19 outbreaks at local nursing homes and assisted living facilities found access to personal protective equipment is still a concern.  Members of the task force, which includes the city’s fire department, went to all the 94 long-term care facilities in the area and found 20 reported PPE shortages: 15 needed gowns, 14…

The city of Hialeah’s task force looking into COVID-19 outbreaks at local nursing homes and assisted living facilities found access to personal protective equipment is still a concern.

NBC 6 investigator Phil Prazan breaks down why some locations aren’t equipped with what they need and how the city aims to help.

A Hialeah nursing home had one of the state’s largest outbreaks of COVID-19. The NBC 6 investigators were first to reveal the scope of the problem at the facility, and as a result, the city created a task force to try to reduce the number of cases.

For the second time this year, the coronavirus life cycle is having its way in Florida: more cases, followed by hospitalizations and then, for some, death. The first phase of the resurgence appears to have leveled off this week. New cases are still being found at a high level, as testing increases. But the share of them coming back positive…

At a press conference Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez had a couple awkward moments over reporter questions about who was in charge of the county’s contact tracing program and how many people were actually working to find and stop the virus from spreading locally.  It added to a confusing few days when information and emergency...

The percent positivity for the new cases reported Tuesday was 16.27%, a record high. NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone reports.

For over four decades, Nathan Myers and his uncle Clifford Williams were inmates in state prison after being convicted of shooting two women and killing one of them. “I was a kid, I was 18-years-old so I have to develop myself to become a man, my own man,” Myers said. Myers, who is now 62, remembers the years behind bars….

Aerial videos showed from afar the gunfire that erupted after a carjacked UPS truck came to a stop on Miramar Parkway last week. Several cellphone videos captured the sounds of gunfire that killed two armed robbers, their hostage and an innocent bystander. But one element has so far been missing from the public record of the deadly encounter: combined video…

Electric scooters are seen as an option to reduce South Florida’s traffic congestion, but they can also be dangerous. NBC 6 Investigates how many accidents have happened in our area and why some are calling for more oversight.