In a stunning admission, a prosecutor in the Luis Posada Carriles trial Friday complained that his defense lawyers had made an effective argument that the militant Cuban exile had been entrapped into making false statements under oath.
The tearful mother of the Liberty City man who gunned down two Miami-Dade police officers Thursday pleaded for forgiveness Friday, but added she had no idea her son would open fire when she let the officers into her home.
For the first time in decades, two Miami-Dade police officers were killed in the same incident.
Jan. 20, 2011: Miami-Dade officers Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth killed while trying to serve a warrant on a violent fugitive.
Four teens were injured in Hialeah Thursday afternoon after a driver lost control of his SUV, plowed onto the sidewalk and struck the teens, according to Hialeah police.
Lyglenson Lemorin, acquitted of all charges in the Liberty City Seven terrorism trial three years ago, was deported to Haiti early Thursday along with 26 Haitian nationals with criminal records in the United States.
America Service Group announced Thursday that Jackson Health System has asked its subsidiary, Prison Health Services, to negotiate details to complete a contract to provide correctional healthcare services for inmates.
The Miami-Dade County Commission agreed Thursday to establish a blue-ribbon panel to study alternative models for operating the Public Health Trust, the governing board of the Jackson Health System.
Art Kehoe, the only man to earn all five University of Miami national-championship rings as a coach, is being interviewed for the Hurricanes’ offensive line job.
Don Kirshner, the rock impresario who produced some of the biggest musical hits of the 1960s -- including Connie Francis' iconic ode to Fort Lauderdale and spring break, ``Where the Boys Are'' -- died Monday of heart failure in Boca Raton where he lived. He was 76.
Thousands of supporters greet former President Jean-Claude Duvalier in his surprise return to the country from exile.
Though Panthers captain Bryan McCabe played through multiple facial fractures suffered early in Saturday night’s win against New Jersey, he’ll miss the next several weeks after undergoing Sunday surgery, Panthers coach Pete DeBoer said Sunday morning.
Police are looking for a man who is accused of abducting and raping a woman in Kendall Wednesday morning.
Tens of thousands of visitors this weekend took in the 60th Annual Beaux Arts Festival on the grounds of the University of Miami in Coral Gables.
On Saturday and Sunday, visitors strolled through the displays of more that 240 artists from around the country who brought their works to sell and were also eligible to win cash awards totaling $20,000.
A Round-Heeled Woman, the memoir-inspired play starring a radiant Sharon Gless, is a sexy, funny, touching celebration of one mature woman's journey from unintended celibacy to a recharged sex life.
Defeated, but not dejected, Florida Democrats elected former Sen. Rod Smith as their chairman Saturday just two months after enduring one of their worst election years ever.
In the three hours that followed a bank robbery in Delray Beach at midday Tuesday, a frantic three-county police chase snarled traffic on major South Florida highways, stranded residents of a northwest Miami-Dade neighborhood, and ended, finally, with the arrest of a third suspect in the heist.
Firefighters extinguished a fire at an industrial warehouse in Miami's Little River area Thursday morning.
The now-famous purse that a Panhandle school board member used to smack gunman Clay Duke sold on the auction site eBay for $13,100, according to the Florida television station that organized the event in order to raise money for charity.
Police are investigating after a South Florida man died after he was shot during a robbery in Hialeah Friday.
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