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When police asked the boy where his mother was, he told them that she "left him to be with a friend to get food." He told police that he was "scared." The post Mom left her 6-year-old at the park by himself after she bumped into a friend and went to get food: Police first appeared on Law & Crime .

MIAMI — A 29-year-old woman was behind bars on Monday after police officers accused her of hitting her co-worker in the head with a bottle in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, records show. Virgen Pereirasardui got into an argument with her co-worker about “serving alcoholic beverages to customers” at about...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — A 23-year-old man faced 21 new charges on Monday after an alleged two-day crime spree in Miami-Dade County that included trying to kill an ex-girlfriend and firing a rifle at a detective, records show. On Aug. 9, Karyne E. David fired into his ex-girlfriend’s home...

Stealing a car would already be a bad idea. Stealing something that stretches 53 feet behind you is an even tougher way to keep a low profile. A Florida man is facing charges in North ... Read more

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A 39-year-old man stands accused of placing a wicker basket on top of a sign and lighting it on fire at a church’s entryway in North Miami Beach, records show. Joseph Drew admitted he was recorded on surveillance video on Aug. 10 at...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A man arrested by Miami Beach police on state charges in July after being accused of stealing high-end vehicles is now facing a federal charge alleging a broader scheme to ship the rides overseas. According to a federal court case filed on Monday, Hakam Shahin,...

A Miami businessman who once drove a pair of Ferraris and held property from Miami Beach to the U.S. Virgin Islands is scheduled to learn his prison sentence this week, closing a tax-fraud case that prosecutors say concealed nearly $35 million from the federal government. The reckoning carries a price tag few fraud def

Florida knows how to do sunshine. It also knows how to make your skin crawl. Once daylight fades, some of the state’s oldest cemeteries trade postcard scenery for whispered legends, unexplained sightings, and stories locals have repeated for generations. Moss hangs from ancient oaks. Weathered headstones disappear into

Several South Florida restaurants were ordered shut this week after state inspectors found serious food-safety violations, including live rodents, roaches, flies, mold and food being held at unsafe temperatures. The closures included restaurants in Miami Beach, Miami, Aventura, Plantation and Cutler Bay. All of the res

Authorities are investigating a shooting in West Park early Monday that left a man dead. According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, deputies arrived at the 2300 block of Southwest 46th Avenue after receiving a call about a shooting around 1 a.m. At the scene, deputies found a man suffering from...