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A 25-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after school police say he brought a handgun onto the campus of Miami Northwestern Senior High School, triggering a classroom sweep and a search of student belongings. Miami-Dade Schools Police identified the suspect as 25-year-old Johnbilly Forestal. Investigators say a teacher...

In 1980, as some 125,000 Cubans were fleeing the Castro regime during the Mariel boatlift, a lot of Spanish was being spoken in the Miami area. Too much of it, according to some residents who organized a petition drive and convinced voters, by an overwhelming margin, to approve an ordinance that declared English the...

MIAMI — FBI Miami special agents asked the public for help on Wednesday with capturing a fugitive from Haiti. The U.S. State Department announced there was a $1 million reward for Johnson “Izo” Andre, a suspect in the hostage-taking of a U.S. citizen in Port-au-Prince. FBI special...

Miami Beach billionaire Barry Sternlicht was among a small circle of guests at a 2018 dinner inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse, according to newly released Department of Justice records that are now fueling another round of scrutiny around the late financier’s social orbit. The emails show...

Florida is known for sunshine, citrus, and coastal bites, but there is another flavor trail running quietly through the state, and it leads straight to Germany. Step inside certain spots across Florida and the scene shifts almost instantly. Plates arrive hearty, pretzels land warm, and suddenly the air feels less...

Autonomous delivery robots operating in Miami Beach will now face stricter rules, including new visibility requirements, insurance mandates and annual permits. City commissioners adopted the regulations this week in response to growing concerns about pedestrian safety on the city’s narrow sidewalks. “We’ve narrow...

A double shooting inside the recreation room at Charles Hadley Park in Liberty City turned a neighborhood gathering spot into a crime scene Monday, leaving two men wounded and one in extremely critical condition, Miami police said. Paramedics transported both victims to Jackson Memorial Hospital, and investigators...

A Florida woman is accused of letting her 3-year-old daughter live in filth, including with a "severe infestation of lice in her hair." Roslain Perdomo, 36, is in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a charge of child neglect without great bodily harm. The underlying incident occurred on Sunday.

Valentine’s Day took a bizarre turn in southwest Miami-Dade when deputies found a dead cow loaded into the bed of a pickup truck and arrested a 48-year-old Miami man at the scene, authorities said. The discovery triggered an on-site investigation at the property, and detectives said it was not immediately clear how...

Morrison was arrested in Hollywood, Florida, after shooting his father dead in a Port St. Lucie garage following a family dispute Wednesday.