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Federal agents are cracking down on credit card skimmers, creating a task force that will spend two days going to businesses all over South Florida, in what feds call an “outreach” operation to educate people on the prevalence of card skimmers and check their equipment for the skimmers. The initiative is led by the...

MIAMI (WSVN) - A Miami man was sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiring to defraud the United States by concealing more than $20 million in income and assets in undisclosed Swiss bank accounts over several decades, officials said. Dan Rotta, a dual U.S. and Brazilian citizen, hid...

An airman from Florida will finally be laid to rest after he disappeared off a mountain in Laos over 50 years ago during the Vietnam War.

Police in Plantation have located a missing elderly woman. Authorities said 84-year-old Marla Robles had last been seen along the 8200 block of West Sunrise Boulevard at approximately 4:40 p.m. Wednesday. Police said she was found in good health. She is described by police as a white female standing 5-foot-2,...

A man was hospitalized on Tuesday after allegedly being bitten by a shark at Hollywood Beach.

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – With free lunches for each student in Broward County Public Schools over, the school board approved a funding package to make sure students eat. The school district was previously using COVID-19 pandemic funds to cover free lunches for all students, but the funding ran out and students must...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — About a week before Christmas, Veanitta Lenon shared a post on Facebook exclaiming that her priorities were God, work, family, and “living comfortably.”. Lenon, 37, was under investigation in Fort Lauderdale after a 15-year-old boy told detectives that he had found his father dead...

The collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside in 2021 prompted significant changes in condo safety regulations across Florida. These reforms aimed to prevent similar tragedies by mandating inspections and requiring condo associations to maintain substantial reserve funds for future repairs — but this year,...

(WSVN) - The Broward Sheriff’s Office has issued a strong warning against scammers targeting residents in South Florida. BSO said scammers are posing as bank employees to fool people into giving up thousands. The scammers claim your account’s been compromised, then tell you to withdraw cash or hand over...

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — Police have released video of suspected thieves who they believe targeted at least two Sephora stores in Broward County. According to Coconut Creek police, a woman was seen stealing from the shelves at the Sephora in Promenade at Coconut Creek earlier this month, on July 3.