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MIAMI (WSVN) - An attorney from Miami Lakes accused of knocking out a 67-year-old cruise passenger during a hallway fight is now sharing his side of what happened, claiming he was forced to fight. 7News cameras rolled Tuesday as Phillip Andrew Ortiz reenacted how he said he confronted the elderly...

The Broward Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting in Pompano Beach that left one person dead and another injured on Tuesday night.

Police say an officer opened fire when a speeding Dodge Challenger turned toward him; the car was later found abandoned.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — Hallandale Beach Police are investigating a shooting that left a man hospitalized Wednesday night in the city’s southwest area. Officers responded to reports of gunfire and found a man with a gunshot wound to his back, according to Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue. The...

A Thanksgiving Day update on Broward and Orlando-based Shawn Thompson, whose moving companies have extorted and defrauded customers up, down and beyond the state of Florida: A final order by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services fined Thompson $110,000 for 22 state statute violations , including...

DORAL, Fla. — Law enforcement agencies from across Miami-Dade County showed up to collect their share of a large amount of donated, uncooked Thanksgiving turkeys. Those birds will be distributed during their own community drives ahead of the Thanksgiving day holiday this week. The effort is part of the...

A man accused of going on a stealing spree spanning a year and targeting several stores in South Florida was arrested on Friday, authorities said. Lazaro Maury Cabrera-Calero, 36, was charged with third-degree grand theft and retail theft/prior conviction. Cabrera-Calero was previously arrested in connection to a...

Two people were shot near the Golden Glades Interchange early Wednesday, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office. Deputies responded to a shooting in an apartment complex in the area of Northwest 171st Avenue and Northwest 158th Street at around 12:51 a.m., the sheriff's office said. There, they found a man...

University of Miami graduate student faces charges after officer suffers hairline fracture during boardwalk encounter.

A Miami woman was arrested Saturday night after she spit on a Key West police officer called to intervene in a dispute with a golf cart rental company, according to her arrest report. Then, after officers took her to Monroe County jail, a sheriff’s office detention deputy found a small...