Miami FL

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors in Miami announced on Friday that a physician agreed to a $45 million settlement in a Medicare fraud case. Prosecutors described Dr. Ameet Vohra as one of the nation’s largest providers of bedside specialty wound care for nursing home patients. Investigators accused Vohra, the...

When Archie McKay put on his City of Miami Police uniform for the first time in 1954, 10 years after the city hired its first five Black officers, it was a bittersweet moment. While he was proud to be a police officer, he said some of his own people were not. “Some of our people rejected us calling us Uncle Toms and...

The FBI is investigating the mysterious death of a teenage girl whose body was found on a Carnival cruise ship this month, and the focus is on one of her step siblings, according to a court filing obtained by the Miami Herald. Anna Marie Kepner, 18, was found dead on...

A large, capacious yacht got swept up in a Coast Guard charter-vessel bust in Miami last weekend, adding to its curious legal history. The Round, a 98-foot Italian-made motor yacht, was boarded and allegedly found to be in violation of a Captain of the Port order, which the operator had allegedly violated once before...

An incident in North Miami has left one man hospitalized after his vehicle was struck by a Brightline train yesterday afternoon. The collision occurred near Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 141st Street, as Miami-Dade Fire Rescue teams were called to the scene shortly before 4 p.m., WSVN reports. The vehicle, after...

After an attorney for a Hialeah teen accused of fatally stabbing his mother withdrew from representing him, a trial date set for next year could be prevented from moving forward. It’s been more than two years since the now-15-year-old Derek Rosa allegedly confessed to stabbing and killing his mother, Irina...

Antilles Gas Corporation, one of the companies named in the wrongful-death lawsuit over the 2023 propane tank explosion. The widow of a man killed in an explosion and subsequent fire at the family home is now suing the companies she says are responsible for supplying the faulty propane tanks which caused the explosion.

A Florida Bar complaint alleging defamation was filed Thursday against a Miami Beach City Commission candidate who had long-celebrated her father — a serial killer who inspired ‘Dexter’ executed by the state in 2012 — on social media. The complaint by South Florida filmmaker Billy Corben alleges that Monique Pardo...

One man was arrested in a SWAT raid at a Miami smoke shop that was caught on video Wednesday night, according to police. There, authorities said they found thousands of grams of marijuana. Miami police said video shared on Only in Dade shows an undercover team serving a narcotics-related warrant...

Disturbing behavior down in Florida ... a man in Miami walked into a dance studio and stuck his nose in the couch cushion where an underage girl had just been sitting ... it's all on video and now cops are involved.