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MIAMI (WSVN) - Days after prosecutors dropped charges against a City of Miami Police detective, the 35-year-old is filing a lawsuit against the Broward State Attorney’s Office for what, he says, was an unwarranted arrest. Speaking to 7News alongside his attorney on Monday, Officer Guillermo Arteaga said this whole...

Preliminary enrollment numbers suggest the Miami-Dade County Public School District has nearly 12,100 fewer students enrolled so far this year compared to last. Why it matters: Miami is already facing a budget deficit upwards of $50 million, officials have said, and a continued decline in enrollment will mean even...

Ask just about any chef or restaurant owner around Miami, and they’ll tell you that the summer of 2025 is one of the toughest they’ve seen in terms of luring diners. Not all of them, of course. There are restaurants that are still drawing crowds, like the hot-spot-of-the-moment Sunny’s Steakhouse in Little River or...

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — A 30-year-old North Miami man who was accused of trying to kidnap a girl on her way home from school while on probation for sexually molesting a girl last year at a store’s toy section was the focus of a police investigation into the possibility that he may have preyed on other girls.

BAL HARBOUR, Fla. — A police chase ended bizarrely in Bal Harbour on Friday after police say a driver led officers on a wrong-way pursuit in which he crashed into two squad cars, then ignored cops trying to get him out of his vehicle after he got stuck on the beach, putting on a patriotic display instead.

MIAMI (WSVN) - Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 12-year-old girl reported missing from the Model City area. Arianna L. Amador, 12, is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 110 pounds, with medium-length black hair and brown eyes, according to Miami Police. She...

Even as interim Hialeah Mayor Jacqueline Garcia-Roves campaigns on a promise to lower residents’ soaring water and sewer bills, Miami-Dade County has filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming it owes nearly $18 million in unpaid utility debt. “I’m confronting the county right now,” Garcia-Roves said at a press...

It was a hot July summer day in Miami when, looking to make a little extra income, Ricardo Quintana Chavez took to the beach to sell ceviche. In just four weeks since, he’s been in four different detention centers – including the Dade County jail, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Florida known as...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Protesters are expected to hit the streets of South Florida Monday to fight back against state orders to remove rainbow crosswalks in places like Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach and Key West. Four crosswalks in Fort Lauderdale are in the crosshairs of the Florida Department of...

Inspectors with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation were busy last week, ordering several South Florida restaurants and even a food truck shut after uncovering a range of troubling conditions. The list includes rodent droppings inside a state park concession stand, roach infestations in...