Sandeep Basran’s 9-year-old son has been playing football in the Chicago area for four years and has had only a minor leg injury this season. That’s not an accident. He’s on a flag football team, with no blocking or tackling. Basran is among the parents who are paying attention to the pervasiveness of brain injuries suffered by professional ...

Authorities have identified the people involved in a murder-suicide that shocked a 55+ community in Northeast Miami-Dade on Wednesday. The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a shooting at around 7 p.m. at an apartment complex near Northeast 14th Avenue and 171st Street, where they found a man and a woman dead at the scene. ...

Flvio Bolsonaro is now in Miami after fleeing to the U.S. following his stunning defeat to Luiz Incio Lula da Silva in Brazils presidential elections. Bolsonaro has refused to concede and has positioned himself as the leader of Brazil while declaring that there was electoral fraud, without providing evidence. In a letter on Wednesday, the senator for Rio ...

An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve accelerated last month, showing that prices remain elevated less than a week from midterm elections in which affordability concerns have become a central issue. Consumer prices rose 3.6% in September compared with a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Thursday, up from 3.4% in August. On ...

A water main break in Davie left a gaping hole in the roadway and disrupted traffic in the overnight hours and on Thursday morning. Davie police told drivers at around 1 a.m. to avoid South Pine Island Road from Southwest 30th Street to Southwest 36th Street due to a collapsed roadway from a water main break. The northbound lanes of South Pine ...

Delivery giant DoorDash is buying to-your-door grocery service Instacart for $17 billion, the company announced Thursday. The deal means users will be able to order groceries and items from other retailers via DoorDash and its delivery network. The companies said Instacart customers can now shop at more than 50,000 additional stores on top of the ...

The small-ball Milwaukee Brewers playing in the smallest market in the majors are World Series champions for the first time in franchise history. Hey, Milwaukee: grab a brat, raise a beer and prepare for that parade. Young ace Jacob Misiorowski threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings of two-hit ball, rookie Cooper Pratt got two more hits and two RBIs, and the ...

Deputies investigated a murder-suicide Wednesday in northeast Miami-Dade. The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a shooting with injuries in the area of 17000 Northeast 14th Avenue. Check back with NBC6 for updates.

The first elimination game of the 2026 WNBA Finals is on deck. The Golden State Valkyries have a chance to close out the Finals and secure the franchise’s first championship in Game 6 against the Atlanta Dream Thursday. And there’s a chance Valkyries fans will be celebrating a championship victory at around noon PT on a weekday. That’s because ...

Actor Hayden Panettieres death has been ruled an accident, and the case is now closed, police in South Carolina announced Wednesday. Based on the Medical Examiners determination and the findings of the investigation, Hayden Panettieres death has been ruled accidental, Greenville police said, noting the investigation has concluded. Panettiere, 36, ...

Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flvio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on Wednesday after he refused to concede the election to President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva and fled the country. In a circuitous journey, Bolsonaro left for Argentina on Tuesday with his wife and two daughters, then traveled to Ecuador, according to Argentine ...

One year after Miami Beach Police Sergeant David Cajuso was killed in a motorcycle crash, his widow is opening up about raising their three young children without him, the unanswered questions surrounding his death and how she’s turning her family’s heartbreak into hope for others. There’s no guidebook for navigating what I’m navigating in my ...

Subscribe to our YouTube channel! NBC6 South Florida Wilton Manors Police issued an alert to the community after a resident spotted an alligator in a residential area Wednesday afternoon. According to the police department, king tides allowed the reptile to make its way into the backyard of a home on the 2800 block of NW 10 Avenue. The alligator ...

Subscribe to our YouTube channel! NBC6 South Florida A man is accused of using a cellphone to secretly record an 11-year-old girl through a bathroom window at a Weston home Sunday night, according to the Broward Sheriffs Office. Authorities identified the suspect as Joel Luis Rivera, 27. The girl noticed a cellphone outside the bathroom window ...

One year after Miami Beach Police Sergeant David Cajuso was killed in a motorcycle crash, his widow is sharing her story for the first time about raising their three young children, the questions that remain and the faith helping her navigate life without her husband. This past year has been the most difficult year of my life, Eileen Cajuso said. On ...

After what started as a welfare check in Miami Beach on an elderly woman, officers were shocked and visibly upset by what they saw: 19 dogs living in deplorable conditions, including four puppies found inside a cooler covered in urine and feces. The discovery happened Tuesday in the 4300 block of North Michigan Avenue. In the bodycam, officers are seen ...

A Florida mom was arrested and charged with child neglect after she left her four kids home alone for nearly three days while she was in Las Vegas, the local sheriff reported Monday. Irene Miller was busted after a dispatcher received a 911 call on Oct. 21 from one of the kids in the Kissimmee home who reported that her 9-year-old brother had been ...

The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday at about 3.9% despite elevated inflation, while providing little hint about the central banks next moves. Inflation remains elevated, the Fed said in a statement released after its two-day policy meeting. Holding off on an increase will allow the accumulation of more information that will help ...

Federal investigators say two people are behind a drug operation on the dark-web that shipped hundreds of packages across the countryincluding into the hands of undercover agents in South Florida. Nicholas Aguilar and Jessica Marcolina are accused of selling drugs as a vendor on the dark-web called HotGirlzClub and laundering the proceeds through ...

A dinosaur that looks like a miniature T. rex is now one of the world’s most expensive fossils. The rare skeleton of a Nanotyrannus recently confirmed to be a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, not just a young specimen sold for $47.3 million to a mystery buyer at auction in New York City on Tuesday, according to Sothebys. The auction house had ...

What to KnowFarmworker and labor movement icon Dolores Huerta has died at 96, her family says. Huerta co-founded the Stockton, California chapter of the Community Service Organization (CSO) in 1955 and later the Agricultural Workers Association.She co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. The UFW formed from the movement three years later ...

Anxious Israelis watched election results near completion Wednesday, as no clear winner emerged and weeks of negotiating could lie ahead for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an array of opposition parties trying to unseat him. Arab-led parties made a historic showing, but its not clear if the other opponents of Netanyahu’s far-right government would ...

Subscribe to our YouTube channel! NBC6 South Florida The peak of King Tides left several parts of South Florida water, especially Fort Lauderdale. The city could see the worse flooding Wednesday as another cycle makes way. Fort Lauderdales chief resilience officer Dr. Nancy Gassman said Wednesdays flooding will be worse than Tuesdays high tides, ...

The United Nations is set to vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning the decades-long U.S. economic embargo on Cuba as President Donald Trumps administration intensifies its campaign to undermine Cubas socialist government, including by threatening military intervention. The annual exercise aimed at calling out the U.S. governments maximum pressure ...

At least 10 people were killed when two high-speed trains crashed into each other in central Spain on Wednesday, officials in the country said. That number will surely rise, said Esther Padilla, spokeswoman for the Castilla La Mancha region. The accident took place just after 9 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET) between the towns of Mora and Orgaz in the ...