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Miami, Florida - A 53-year-old high school teacher from Miami was arrested and is facing accusations that he got heart tattoos and romantically pursued a teenage student, for whom he "professed love." On Friday, police arrested Rudolph Infante, a 53-year-old music teacher, on charges that he has romantically pursued one of his students since August. According to the charges, Infante touched...

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The Hurricanes continue to beef up the offensive front.

State food cops hit a Miami Beach favorite with a gut punch of an inspection, ordering Moises Bakery to toss more than 250 pounds of pastries after finding rodent droppings, live cockroaches and a laundry list of sanitation problems. The crackdown sidelined display cases and equipment while the Collins Avenue shop scrambles to clean up and clear a follow-up inspection. Moises Bakery, long...

A controversial dredge at Port Everglades is on pause after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers withdrew a state permit, saying it wanted to re-evaluate parts of the project. In a letter to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Angela Dunn, the Corps planning chief in Jacksonville, asked to withdraw the permit. “Elements of the project description, including order of construction, are being...

New surveillance video shows a crowd running from a fatal triple shooting during a festival in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood as police continue their investigation into the incident. The shooting happened late Sunday near the main stage of the Taste of Miami Karnival in the area of Northeast 2nd Avenue...

On Monday the Nassau County Board of County Commissioners told the county attorney to draw up a 12-month moratorium that would freeze new data-center applications in the unincorporated county. The move follows a September announcement by Miami energy firm NextNRG about a 1,600-acre lease option near Jacksonville International Airport that flagged 400 acres as a potential hyperscale data-center site. County...

You may have seen them zipping around city streets: white cars, decked out with cameras and radars, and lacking one obvious feature. Yes, these robotaxis by the company Waymo have already been getting to know Miami's landscape and available to over 100,000 users since January, and to an even more limited number for more than a year.

Concern surrounding vector borne illnesses, pathogens transmitted by blood-feeding bugs, is growing among South Florida residents. South Florida’s warm, rainy climate and uniquely flat landscape create a near-perfect environment for mosquitoes to thrive year-round. This combination makes the region particularly vulnerable to these diseases that can be spread by insects like mosquitoes, ticks and fleas.

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