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FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Dramatic cellphone and body camera video is among newly released evidence in the 2019 carjacking of a UPS driver that led to an intense shootout between the hijackers and authorities in the middle of rush hour that left four people dead. Bodycam video shows a...

Several South Florida high schools have earned top marks when it comes to rankings of Best High Schools in the National by U.S. News & World Report. According to a media release, 15 Broward County Public Schools high schools are among the top 27% of all ranked high schools in the nation in the 2025/26 edition of U.S....

MIAMI - A month into his detention at Alligator Alcatraz, Daniel Ortiz Piñeda faced a stark choice: continue his legal fight for asylum or give it up to end his extended stay at the makeshift immigration detention camp in the Everglades. The Colombian national, with no criminal record, had...

The wheels of justice might be taking a detour this week in the much-publicized case involving a former Key Biscayne gymnastics coach accused of sexually assaulting multiple underage students. Last Thursday in a Miami courtroom, Oscar Olea, now 40, accepted a plea deal with prosecutors, saying he will plead guilty...

A Miami-Dade man and woman ended their four-day Carnival cruise in handcuffs after authorities said they used fraudulently obtained Winn-Dixie gift cards to pay for the trip. Deputies arrested Rogerio da Cunha Fernandes, 45, and Aida Parada la Paz, 43, at PortMiami on Monday morning as they disembarked from the...

A Catholic priest says he's leaving his South Florida parish after he was initially denied re-entry into the United States. The announcement by Father Gustavo Santos was posted by St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Miami-Dade. The Archdiocese of Miami said Santos was "unexpectedly and wrongfully" denied admission...

A Miami man was arrested in Martin County after authorities say he allegedly tried to deposit a fraudulent $1 million check at a local bank.

Swedish candy fever has officially hit Miami. Scandy Candy is the new Coral Gables shop devoted to imported sweets from Sweden. It opened on August 9 on Miracle Mile and almost immediately went viral on TikTok and Instagram. It got so busy that by Monday, August 18, the store announced on Instagram that it would be...

Police said Crystal Lee tried to kill her spouse of just two months while armed with a gun, a knife, and a hunting knife. Records show the Florida Department of Corrections last released Lee—who has felony convictions in Broward, Levy, and Marion counties—from prison about 24 years ago.

Yesica López was walking in Little Havana one afternoon when she came upon an abandoned building that was set to be demolished. Her reaction to the building’s impending demolition led her to getting picked up by police and detained in a mental health facility for nine days against her will, she says. The building...