A Florida lawmaker is demanding answers after a Haitian woman died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a facility in Pompano Beach, officials said. Marie Ange Blaise, 44, died at the Broward Transitional Center on April 25, ICE officials said in a statement Tuesday. Her cause of death remains under investigation. ...

A hostel turned largely into a homeless shelter in Miami Beach could soon be demolished and neighbors could not be happier. The development comes as a developer cut a deal with the owner of the Bikini Hostel to buy the property. That move prompted the Miami Beach city commission last week to unanimously approve the developers request to move forward ...

King Charles III on Wednesday opened up about the lessons he has learned from his cancer diagnosis and treatment, an experience he said “brings into sharp focus the very best of humanity.” Speaking at a Buckingham Palace celebration of community-based initiatives raising cancer awareness and supporting those living with the disease, Charles said that ...

A man charged in a 2023 indecent exposure case involving a girl walking to school in Lauderhill has been arrested again for a similar act in Fort Lauderdale, police said. Travis Davis, 32, was arrested Tuesday on charges of exposure of sexual organs-second offense, along with violation of pre-trial release, Fort Lauderdale Police officials said. ...

Newly released audio reveals the man now charged in the murder of Cuban reggaeton star El Taiger had called 911 after allegedly shooting the singer in the head, prosecutors said. El Taiger, whose real name was Jose Manuel Carbajal Zaldivar, was found unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound in the back of an SUV near Northwest 9th Avenue and 17th ...

Amazon announced it will spend $4 billion by the end of 2026 on expanding deliveries to small towns in rural America. After making two-day delivery the standard, the company has invested in shuttling packages to shoppers’ doors in one day, or in some cases, within a few hours. It’s been able to speed up deliveries, in part, by increasing its in-house ...

A Miami-Dade nurse convicted in the 2018 death of her 7-year-old adoptive daughter and the abuse of her other two adopted children was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. Gina Emmanuel, 56, was convicted earlier this month on first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges after a jury deliberated for just an hour. The charges stemmed ...

A Florida man with ties to a teen girl behind a deadly shooting at a Wisconsin school last year has been arrested for allegedly making mass shooting threats. Damien Blade Allen, 22, was arrested Tuesday by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office on charges including intimidation-threatening a mass shooting, unlawful use of a two-way communications device and ...

The Doral Police Department is hosting a news conference Wednesday after officers saved the life of a little girl who nearly drowned over the weekend. It happened on Sunday at a community pool at 8245 Northwest 41st Street. Police said they had received reports of an unresponsive child. Once at the scene, officers found the girl, administered CPR ...

Authorities are still investigating how a 4-year-old accidentally shot himself in the foot inside a Broward home. The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon at a home along Northwest 27th Avenue and 6th Street in unincorporated Central Broward near Fort Lauderdale. Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said the boy was in the care of a family member when ...

A Florida man who bought a yacht, a private jet and a fleet of luxury cars including more than two dozens Ferrari’s thanks to a $22 million tax fraud scheme has been sentenced to prison. Matthew Brown, of Palm Beach Gardens, was sentenced to 50 months in prison last week in connection with a years-long scheme to defraud the U.S. out of millions in ...

A mom of 10 has died weeks after being diagnosed with a rare cancer that began with a sensation of fullness in her belly. Angela Goodrich was 45. She had just started chemotherapy and was exhausted after her first cycle of treatment, but wanted to be interviewed to spread awareness about the disease adrenocortical carcinoma, a malignant tumor that ...

A Florida woman known as the “Candyman” tried to hide drugs in her body as she was busted in a major narcotics operation, authorities said. Two people were arrested during “Operation Tooth Fairy,” including 41-year-old Julianne C. Perez and 28-year-old Dillon James Clark, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. During the operation, ...

A crash Tuesday morning left millions of dimes scattered across the highway in Texas’ Wise County and closed down southbound lanes of U.S. 287 for most of the day. The driver of an 18-wheeler hauling freshly minted dimes veered off the roadway, overcorrected and overturned just after 5:30 a.m. near Alvord High School, according to the Texas Department ...

A man was shot and killed early Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale, according to police. It happened at around 3:07 a.m., when police and fire rescue responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the area of the 1300 block of Northwest 8th Avenue. There, they found one man who had been shot. He was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced ...

A Sarasota officer jumped onto an abandoned boat to stop it as it sped out of control, and the incredible save was caught on video. The Sarasota Police Department shared the wild video taken on Monday, after a boater fell off his 26-foot Everglades vessel north of the Ringling Museum, authorities said. The boater told officers he was returning the ...

A federal judge told attorneys for the state of Florida on Tuesday that an order freezing the enforcement of a new state immigration law absolutely did apply to all of the states local law enforcement agencies, despite a recent letter to the contrary from the states attorney general. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said during a hearing in Miami ...

Two crashes on Interstate 95 in Broward County backed up traffic on the southbound and northbound lanes early Wednesday. The first crash happened in the northbound direction and blocked several lanes, including the express lanes, between Hollywood Boulevard and Stirling Road. Video showed a mangled black vehicle on the shoulder as an officer ...

A death investigation is underway in Brickell early Wednesday after witnesses reported hearing gunfire. The police activity is at Southwest Eighth Street and 1st Court. Video of the scene showed a body on the ground, covered with a tarp, and yellow markers typically used to mark bullet casings. Miami police have not revealed what may have caused ...

A South Florida food bank is urging the public for help after they say two thieves stole two mobile teaching kitchens from their warehouse over the weekend. Surveillance video shows the moments two men broke into Feeding South Florida’s Pembroke Park warehouse on Sunday and stole the kitchens valued at $15,000 each. “The robbery comes at a dire ...

A runaway kangaroo named Sheila shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama on Tuesday before state troopers and the animals owner wrangled the wayward marsupial. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said the kangaroo was spotted Tuesday hopping along the side of Interstate 85 in Macon County, which is between Montgomery and Auburn. The sight snarled ...

A case of tuberculosis was confirmed Tuesday at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, officials said. The Florida Department of Health in Broward County said an individual with active tuberculosis (TB) was recently on campus. Officials didn’t specify whether the person was a student, staff or faculty. “DOH-Broward and BCPS (Broward County Public ...

In recent months, a group of researchers conducted a secret experiment on Reddit to see how artificial intelligence can be used to influence human opinion. Now, Reddit says it is considering legal action.  Researchers from the University of Zurich deployed a slew of AI bots posing as real people and engaging with users without their knowledge or consent ...

A Haitian woman died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a facility in Pompano Beach, officials said. Marie Ange Blaise, 44, died at the Broward Transitional Center on April 25, ICE officials said in a statement Tuesday. Her cause of death remains under investigation. Blaise, a Haitian national, had entered the ...

New surveillance videos captured a fiery crash, gunfire and a confrontation outside a Miami Gardens gas station early Tuesday. The wild scene unfolded around 3 a.m. outside the Marathon gas station near the 3700 block of Northwest 199th Street. One video shows a vehicle with its underside on fire speed around the corner and crash into a tree outside ...