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A Miami chess teacher was arrested on Wednesday, accused of molesting a student, police said. Christopher Stormont, 50, was charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child. According to Miami Police, on Tuesday, the victim, a 6-year-old, went to Stormont's chess class, and after leaving his class, he told...

A Miami man has been arrested in a large-scale refund fraud scheme that bilked Marshalls and TJ Maxx stores out of tens of thousands of dollars, authorities said. Eduardo Rodriguez, 47, was arrested Tuesday on charges of grand theft over $100,000, attempted organized scheme to defraud, records showed. According to...

MIAMI — A 25-year-old man is facing multiple charges after allegedly beating his ex-girlfriend of nearly seven years so severely that she suffered a brain bleed, Miami police confirmed in an arrest report obtained by Local 10 News on Wednesday. Authorities said Bernard Lamont Marshall Jr. was arrested Monday...

Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners Vice Chairman Kionne McGhee is demanding an immediate halt to government subsidies for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, set to take place in Miami Gardens next June. The move comes shortly after Mayor Daniella Levine Cava revealed her proposed county budget for the 2025-26 fiscal...

At least one person is dead after a small airplane carrying two occupants crashed just short of an airport runway in Turks and Caicos on Tuesday. The flight was coming from a South Florida airport, officials said.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — An injured victim turned the tables on his attacker Tuesday night after he was stabbed in Hollywood, fighting off and disarming the man. Hollywood police say the victim, who is deaf and communicated with them through sign language, was attacked around 7 p.m. inside his apartment in the 1700 block of...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Fort Lauderdale police arrested a woman on more than a dozen charges Tuesday, exactly three months after they said she ran away from a deadly crash that she caused when she wasn’t even supposed to be behind the wheel. Court records show Broward prosecutors...

A large haul of over $73 million worth of cocaine seized by the U.S. Coast Guard was offloaded in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday. The crew of the Cutter Tahoma offloaded the 9,970 pounds of cocaine, nearly five tons, at Port Everglades, officials said. The cocaine, with an estimated street value...

A U.S. Coast Guard crew on Tuesday returned to Port Everglades to offload near 10,000 pounds of cocaine that they seized last month near Ecuador, officials say. On June 24, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma’s crew interdicted the cocaine, which has a value of $73.7 million, about 120 miles northwest of Ecuador, a...

In a highly unusual courtroom moment Tuesday, prosecutors assembled a bed inside a Broward County courtroom.