Sweetwater

Demolition moved forward Thursday at a Sweetwater mobile home park where hundreds were forced to move to make way for new housing.

Residents of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park gathered in a protest to demand more safety and security, saying squatters are targeting their neighborhood, and days after a fire ripped through an abandoned home. NBC6’s Lorena Inclan reports

A fire at a mobile home park in Sweetwater is sparking a new round of fighting between the landowner and families being forced to move out.

NBC6’s Julia Bagg reports that residents and attorneys say neglect is to blame for the fire. 

Video of the scene showed how a white vehicle was pulled from the water and dangled from a crane as traffic was diverted. Water poured out of the car for several minutes.

Two cars went into canals Friday morning in Miami-Dade, and in one instance, one person was taken to the hospital.

Crews worked early Friday to get a car out of a canal on NW South River Drive.

Friday is the deadline for people at a Sweetwater mobile home park to move out of their homes and receive the highest possible financial incentive package. NBC6’s Niko Clemmons reports

Friday is the deadline for people at a Sweetwater mobile home park to move out of their homes and receive the highest possible financial incentive package.

Hundreds of mobile homeowners aren’t leaving quietly after getting notice that they have to vacate their place to make room for another development. NBC6’s Jamie Guirola reports.

Nearly 200 residents of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater have signed onto a class action lawsuit as they fought against being vacated from their homes. NBC6’s Jamie Guirola reports

Nearly 200 residents of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater have signed onto a class action lawsuit as they fought against being vacated from their homes.

Police are searching for a South Florida man accused of taking advantage of a decades-long friendship to make off with over $134,000 worth of Rolex watches.

Police are searching for a South Florida man accused of taking advantage of a decades-long friendship to make off with over $134,000 worth of Rolex watches.

A repeat porch pirate is behind bars after police say he made off with packages that didn’t belong to him in Sweetwater.

Homeowners are no longer alone in their fight. Several Florida International University students are showing up to the protests as a show of support. NBC6’s Niko Clemmons reports

Nearly a month has passed since people living at Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater learned they’ll have to find a new home, and hundreds of them still don’t know where they’re going to go.

A South Florida man says he invested in what he thought would be his lifelong home at Li’l Abner mobile home park, which is now facing demolition to make way for redevelopment. NBC6’s Ana Cuervo reports

A woman spoke exclusively to NBC6 on Thursday from her hospital bed after her forceful arrest was caught on camera amid tensions over the demolition of a mobile home park in Sweetwater. Laura Rodriguez reports

A woman spoke exclusively to NBC6 on Thursday from her hospital bed after her forceful arrest was caught on camera amid tensions over the demolition of a mobile home park in Sweetwater.