A convicted felon avoided going to trial and pleaded guilty to killing a 10-year-old in a 2013 shooting inside the boy’s father’s nail salon in northwest Miami-Dade. Anthawn Ragan, 31, pleaded guilty on Thursday to 15 criminal counts including robbery, assault, and first-degree murder for killing Aaron Vu and attempted murder charges for shooting ...

A man has been arrested in Mexico in connection with the murder of a man who went missing from Hialeah last year and whose body was later found in a recycling bin, authorities said. Alfredo Carballo Gonzalez was taken into custody on Tuesday by Mexican authorities and extradited back to South Florida, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office officials said ...

A man facing charges in the sexual battery of a student at Florida Memorial University is now facing an additional charge for attempting to do the same to a female officer, according to an arrest report. Steven Rivers, 30, was taken into custody on Tuesday. The next day, police confirmed that DNA evidence tied him to the crime on campus, where he was ...

Olympic host cities go big when the Games are in town. From stadiums to villages and everything else, the cost of hosting adds up. But after just a few weeks of competition, the entire city is emptied. Stadiums aren’t filled, villages aren’t lively and tourists have hit the road. In some cases, world-class facilities can be unused for years after ...

Professional boxer Gervonta “Tank” Davis was arrested Wednesday in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident from last year, officials said. Miami Gardens Police announced that Davis, 31, was taken into custody without incident in Miami’s Design District by Special Investigations officers and the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force. ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the company would begin phasing out its Model S and Model X electric vehicles this year and retool a California factory to produce humanoid robots instead. The announcement signals an end of an era. The two vehicles introduced in 2012 and 2015, respectively helped to move electric cars from the consumer fringe ...

Bill Belichick will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and his former players are not happy about it. The former New England Patriots coach reportedly fell short of being enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility despite winning six Super Bowls. Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski, two former Patriots who themselves ...

Video shows Alex Pretti interacting with federal agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 13, a little over a week before Border Patrol agents shot and killed him. The video was recorded by The News Movement, which said it responded to a tip about agents blocking the street at the intersection of East 36th Street and Park Avenue in Minneapolis shortly after 10 ...

A Hialeah man is claiming his SNAP benefits disappeared for the month, possibly becoming one of many across the country who have fallen victim to a “skimming” scam. Richard Cano relies on SNAP benefits for food for himself and his mother. “They put the money on my card on the 23rd of every month… but on the 23rd of this month, when I checked ...

Police were at the scene of a death investigation Wednesday in Florida City. Chopper6 captured investigators in front of a townhome at 481 Northeast 2nd Terrace. A body was covered by a yellow tarp near a white car. Further details were not available. Check back with NBC6 for updates.

Throughout the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the U.S. mens hockey team received telegrams from fans from across the country telegrams they would then paste to the wall on the way onto the rink. As Team USA prepared to play the Soviet Union in the semifinals, a game in which the Americans were considered big underdogs, the players found ...

Figure skating, the oldest sport in the Winter Olympic Games, has a rich history that extends beyond the Winter Olympics. It first appeared in the Summer Games in London in 1908 and again at the 1920 Games in Antwerp. Until 1972, the sport included only mens and womens singles and pairs events. Ice dance was introduced to the Olympic program in 1976. ...

There are many ways to construct a championship-caliber roster, and the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks are proof of that. The two teams that will clash in Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara have taken very different paths to the doorstep of football immortality. The Patriots have built a lot of their team through free agency, but they ...

A U.S. Postal Service worker was arrested after he was caught on camera pepper spraying three dogs while he was delivering mail in Lauderhill, police said. Sian Spence, 47, was arrested Wednesday on three counts of aggravated animal cruelty, Lauderhill Police officials said. Sian Spence The alleged incident happened back on Jan. 2 near the 1600 ...

Two federal officers fired their guns duringAlex Prettis fatal shooting, according to an initial review by the Department of Homeland Security obtained by NBC News. Both agents were placed on administrative leave, according to DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. MS Now was first to report that detail. The preliminary report, from a Customs and Border ...

Miami Beach Police announced road closures will take place Wednesday in the Venetian Islands due to the U.S. Secret Service. According to authorities, the U.S. Secret Service, in coordination with Miami Beach Police, will implement the closures, which are expected to impact residents in the area. In a statement shared on social media, officials said ...

New details were released on Wednesday after burglary suspects crashed their vehicle into a lake in Deerfield Beach, resulting in an arrest and two bodies being pulled from the water. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office Pledidson Philibert, 21, is facing five counts of burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and three counts of conspiracy to commit ...

The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Tuesday moved the symbolic countdown to 85 seconds till midnight and warned that the world has never been closer to destruction on the metaphorical timepiece. But what is the “Doomsday Clock” and what happens when it hits midnight? What is the Doomsday Clock? The Doomsday Clock is a visual representation of ...

A student at a beauty school in Davie was killed in a murder-suicide shooting Tuesday involving her ex-boyfriend, police said. The incident unfolded outside the Aveda Institute South Florida in the 4100 block of University Drive. In a statement Wednesday, Davie Police said the victim was a 20-year-old student of the school and the shooter was a ...

The motorcyclist killed in a crash that shut down lanes on Interstate 75 in Weston on Tuesday night was identified as a retired Miami Beach police officer. The crash happened after 7 p.m. on I-75 south at exit 15 on Royal Palm/Arvida Parkway. According to Florida Highway Patrol, a Volkswagen Jetta and an Indian Challenger motorcycle were travelling ...

Authorities with Miami Gardens Police will hold a news conference on Wednesday after a person of interest in a sexual battery case at Florida Memorial University was identified. The news conference will take place at 10 a.m. at the Miami Gardens Police headquarters. According to police, the incident happened on Sunday, and the victim told officers ...

Are you bundled up yet? Because you’ll need to be for these next few daysnot to mention on Sunday, when an even stronger cold front rolls around with temperatures forecast to be the coldest South Florida’s seen in more than 15 years. Pull out the winter gear if you have it. Here’s what to know for this week. ...

Darian Mensah has enrolled at Miami, giving the Hurricanes another standout transfer at quarterback as they come off a season where they went to the national championship game and got into the College Football Playoff for the first time. Mensah transferred to Miami from Atlantic Coast Conference rival Duke on Tuesday night. Duke had agreed earlier ...

Former detainees planned to testify Wednesday about conditions at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz, as a federal judge considers during a two-day hearing whether they are getting sufficient access to the legal system. Civil rights attorneys representing the detainees were seeking a temporary injunction ...

The early bird may not only catch the proverbial worm but also have a healthier heart, new research suggests. People who naturally stay up late, self-described night owls, are likelier to have poor heart health than people with more traditional sleep-wake schedules, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart ...