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BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — Detectives asked the public for help on Friday with finding a 13-year-old girl who had vanished in Broward County and found her soon after. According to Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies with the missing persons unit, Stella Mitchell was last seen at about 3 a.m. on Friday, near the 900 block...

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A teen is behind bars after he was allegedly caught taking a picture with a gun in his high school's bathroom on Wednesday. According to an arrest affidavit against the teen from the Palm Beach County School District, a school resource officer responded to Lake Worth Community High...

Home purchases across Florida and the U.S. are getting canceled at a record rate, according to a new study from Redfin.

A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s officer readying for trial next week in the killing of two innocent men, including a UPS driver, during a wild shootout at a busy Broward County intersection six years ago made a last-ditch effort to have his case tossed on Friday. Suspended officer Jose Mateo, 33, who pleaded not guilty to...

Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale are being ordered to remove their rainbow crosswalks – or risk losing millions of dollars in state and federal transportation funding. The directive comes from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), which sent multiple cities across the state 14-day notices to take down...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A man is facing multiple felonies after police say he impersonated an FBI agent and tried to run over staff at a Palm Beach County high school. On Thursday morning, an officer with the Palm Beach County School Police said they received word...

The VIP Shadowood 16 in Boca Raton, Florida will be closing Sunday, August 24, 2025. Located in the Shadowood Square shopping center on the northeast corner of Highway 441 (State Road 7) and Glades Road, the movie theater announced on its social media page that it would be closing soon:

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A man was rushed to the hospital after setting himself on fire Thursday afternoon. It happened in North Miami Beach along Northeast 182nd Street. Police were there to serve that man with a restraining order when they said he poured an accelerant on himself.

SOUTH MIAMI, Fla. — A 52-year-old Hallandale Beach woman was arrested Thursday after police say she left her young son unattended and without food at a South Miami hotel. South Miami police said officers were dispatched around 7:45 a.m. to the Rodeway Inn at 5959 SW 71st St. after a boy, whose age was not disclosed...

Fort Lauderdale wants to use $350,000 in funds set aside for the 2026 World Cup for homeless initiatives in the city, officials said. In an Aug. 13 memorandum, Fort Lauderdale City Manager Rickelle Williams recommended reallocating the FIFA World Cup funds to support one-time homelessness initiatives. City...