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What was supposed to be one of South Florida’s quiet, behind-the-scenes lifesavers is now at the center of a federal takeover. Investigators say years of staffing shortages, training gaps and basic verification errors pushed regulators to decertify the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency and hand off South Florida’s organ procurement work to a new provider. The Miami-based group, which covered six...

Florida has a reputation for plenty of things: spring breakers, retirees, alligators, hurricanes, year-round sunshine — the list might go on. One thing that it doesn't, though, is public transportation. Floridians use public transportation at a rate well below the national average, positioning the state as far more car-centric than most. But that's not for lack of trying: Florida is home to some...

Sending hospitals the wrong organ. Severe understaffing. Failing to properly identify at least one organ that tested positive for an infectious disease known to cause complications in transplant patients. Those are some of the reasons why the Miami-based nonprofit tasked with recovering organs for transplantation across South Florida and the Bahamas was ordered shut down last year by the federal government, records show...

MIAMI — A 32-year-old man was arrested after he was captured on CCTV abusing his dog after it peed in the elevator of the condominium building where he lives in Miami, authorities said. According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, the incident happened shortly before 4:30...

Police say a Cutler Bay man waited in his car a block away for a man to come out of his Hialeah house and then fatally shoot him late last month. Hialeah detectives say Johnny George Mays, 48, shot the man several times in the upper body with a .9 mm handgun before driving off around 7 a.m. Saturday, March 28. Police found the...

Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Marine Deputy Jason Farr MONROE COUNTY, Fla. – A morning patrol...

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. — A suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting that occurred last month at a bar in Pembroke Park, authorities announced Monday. According to online jail records, Angel Mario Vicens, 43, was arrested last Friday on charges of attempted murder and carrying a concealed firearm at specific locations.

MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) — A Florida teen has been indicted as an adult on federal murder and sexual abuse charges in the killing of his 16-year-old stepsister aboard a cruise ship. The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide caused by strangulation. Initially charged as a juvenile,...

SUNRISE, FLA. (WSVN) - A Sunrise man working as an armed security guard outside a banquet hall in Sunrise was charged with second-degree murder after shooting a wheelchair-bound man who had been denied entry to a birthday party at the venue, according to an arrest report. According to the arrest...

COOPER CITY, FLA. (WSVN) - A South Florida woman has been arrested in connection with a months-long scheme that stole more than $120,000 in government food assistance benefits from hundreds of victims, including elderly residents and single parents. Tamica Brown, 43, is accused of targeting recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition...