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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — “Family over everything,” Vilma Vneshta wrote on Facebook, along with a picture of her only son. It’s a value that prosecutors believe was behind the 42-year-old Albanian-American mother’s alleged crimes. Vneshta was behind bars on Wednesday afternoon without bond. She was...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Firefighters responded to a one-story building on Wednesday morning in Fort Lauderdale’s Homes Beautiful Park area. According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, there was a fire in an apartment along Northwest 12 Avenue, near Eighth Street. A senior was in the apartment and made...

MIRAMAR, Fla. — Students, parents and teachers have been locked out of their Miramar private school following a contract dispute with the city. Now they’re demanding answers. Tuesday marked day two of the school year, but Light Academy of Florida students are spending their morning inside the lobby...

PLANTATION, Fla. — Plantation police are searching for a 15-year-old girl who they said ran away from home. According to police, Sa’nya London Herrera was last seen around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in the area of Cleary Boulevard and North University Drive. She was wearing a black hoodie, black...

Puerto Rican singer/rapper Jhayco was taken into custody early Tuesday (Aug. 12) morning in Miami for alleged possession of cocaine and marijuana. The 32-year-old reggaeton artist born Jesús Manuel Nieves Cortés — known for his billion-stream collaborations on hits like “Dákiti” with Bad Bunny and “No Me Conoce –...

Spirit Airlines, which emerged from bankruptcy protection earlier this year, enacted a series of cost-cutting measures.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — A Miami police officer was arrested Tuesday, years after he allegedly failed to show up to a court hearing regarding a littering citation he was issued in Broward County. According to a citation issued by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on April 18,...

MIAMI — South Florida real estate mogul George Pino pleaded not guilty to a new manslaughter charge related to a 2022 boat crash that killed a 17-year-old girl. Pino, 54, was already facing a vessel homicide charge in the death of Lucy Fernandez. The crash happened on 2022’s Labor...

DAVIE, Fla. — Authorities are investigating the death of a person after they said “partially skeletonized remains” were found behind a home in Davie. Davie police said the remains were found on Aug. 7 behind a home near the 13000 block of Southwest 40th Street. The identity of the deceased has not yet been confirmed.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Months after being fined more than $100,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for running an illegal radio station, a Miami-Dade man known as “DJ AJ 305” went back to operating the illegal signal ― then kept at it after the feds nearly tripled the penalty, authorities say.