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Rickey Smiley was in Miami for a promotional event on Friday. Before that, HOT 105 hosted a meet-and-eat event with Smiley and his fans. The station's program director extended a special invitation to Denise Kinsler to attend.

MIAMI — A teen accused of fatally stabbing her ex-boyfriend changed her plea on Monday. Loved ones of the 17-year-old victim packed the courtroom. Jahara Malik, now 18, pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter and carrying a concealed weapon. “It’s like bittersweet, it took a year, two months and...

MIAMI — A man was arrested Tuesday, days after he allegedly threw a rock through the glass door of a Burger King in Miami, authorities said. According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, the incident happened at about 7:15 p.m. last Friday at the Burger King at 10 SW Eighth St.

Miami's newest city commissioner, Rolando Escalona, has spent his first months in office sprinting to restore both pride and foot traffic on Little Havana's iconic Calle Ocho. His early agenda mixes hands-on cleanups and zoning proposals with a push to return cultural programming and building management to local...

In 2020, the first Motek restaurant opened in downtown Miami’s Seybold Building during a pandemic, an inauspicious start that turned out successful enough to lay groundwork for a Mediterranean culinary empire. Now, after the restaurant has spread across South Florida — to Aventura, Brickell, Coral Gables, Miami...

Miami police say a money dispute between roommates in Little Havana turned terrifying Monday night when a 60-year-old man allegedly pointed a gun at his roommate and squeezed off two rounds at the man’s feet inside their home. The roommate told officers he was not hurt, and investigators later recovered a handgun...

Early Sunday, March 15, a 58-year-old man was shot near his West Park home and later died at the hospital, and detectives are now urging neighbors and anyone with information to speak up. Broward Sheriff’s Office officials identified the victim as Timothy Motes, saying he was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital and...

MIAMI — Police in Miami are investigating an attempted abduction of a middle school student. It happened at approximately 8:30 a.m. Tuesday between Northwest Second and Third Avenue and 33rd and 34th Street, police said, in the city’s Wynwood neighborhood. According to police, a subject grabbed at the...

MIAMI — In Miami’s Little Havana, Amy Amargos, Joe Aguiar, and Leonel Nora were among the Cuban Americans who are convinced that the only way the island’s problems will be fixed is with new leadership. Amargos stood along Calle Ocho. She faced a 12-foot-tall dark gray hexagonal...

Last week Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed the government was in talks with the U.S. as their economic and energy crisis worsens.