Woman Accused of Fatal 2006 DUI in Hialeah Extradited from Mexico, Faces Justice in...
After a near two-decade manhunt, Leydis Menendez Abdala, the woman accused of causing a fatal DUI crash that took the life of 40-year-old Gloria Marcia Hall, a mother of two, has finally been apprehended and extradited back to Miami from Mexico. The arrest, which occurred over this past weekend, puts Abdala in the...
Couple Charged After Allegedly ‘Hot-Boxing’ in the Car With 2-Year-Old in Back Seat
A New York couple has been charged after allegedly “hot-boxing” in a parked car as a 2-year-old boy was in the back seat. Phillip Fraisar, 36, of Hamlin, and Kasey Renee Buckmann, 27, of Rochester, were arrested August 31, 2025, in Miami Beach, Florida, Local 10 News reported.
‘I was scared for my life’: North Beach man targeted in armed home invasion...
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - A Miami Beach man shared his account of the disturbing moments when he was robbed at gunpoint after being pushed into his apartment by a man who police said followed him home after getting off a transit bus. Speaking with 7News on Friday, restaurant server...
Zoo Miami says goodbye to Kwame, its last lion
Zoo Miami announced the euthanasia of Kwame, its last remaining lion, after worsening health issues ended his almost 18-year life, marking the end of an era.
New video shows moments before, after woman’s fall from Brickell Avenue Bridge
MIAMI — Video obtained by Local 10 News shows the moments before and after a woman’s plunge from Miami’s Brickell Avenue Bridge. It happened on June 28. The 49-year-old woman, said to be acting erratically, clung to the top of the open drawbridge but lost her grip and fell.
Miami-Dade Chamber Of Commerce Returns To Liberty City After 50 Years To Boost Black-Owned...
The Chamber’s new headquarters includes a small business incubator with a focus of a launchpad for Black entrepreneurship. The Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce has made Liberty City its home with the first permanent headquarters in the organization’s 50-year history, in effort to uplift Black entrepreneurs, Miami-Times...
South Florida People of Color: A Decade of Change
MIAMI – South Florida People of Color (SFPoC), a nonprofit dedicated to fostering equity, healing, and inclusivity across the region, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special fundraising reception on Thursday, September 18, 2025, at the Black Archives – Historic Lyric Theater in Overtown (819 Northwest 2nd...
After 11 hours, Miami-Dade mayor’s budget advances. A retreat on gas tax helped
Miami-Dade’s mayor on Thursday abandoned an uphill push for a higher gas tax , retreating on a plan that was expected to raise $5 million for the county’s underfunded transit system. At the start of an 11-hour budget hearing that adjourned after 4 a.m. Friday, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava dropped the proposed 1-cent...
Stephen Muss, developer who helped revive Miami Beach, dies at 97
Stephen Muss, a third-generation New York real estate developer who became a multimillionaire power broker after migrating to Florida — where, by reviving the flamboyant Fontainebleau Hotel, he helped transform Miami Beach from a refuge for older adults into a gaudy global resort — died Aug. 23 at his home in...
David Schaecter, Holocaust survivor and founder of Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial, dies at 96
Schaecter was born in Czechoslovakia. He was 11 years old when he was forced into cattle trains and taken to Auschwitz.