DCF Looks To Twitter To Boost Adoptions
Florida's Department of Children and Families is turning to a popular social networking site it hopes can help the state's 850 foster children find adoptive families.
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Florida's Department of Children and Families is turning to a popular social networking site it hopes can help the state's 850 foster children find adoptive families.
The City of Pembroke Pines is no longer going to give red light runners a warning. Last month, four new red light cameras were activated but police allowed drivers time to get used to the new cameras and only gave warnings to violators, until now.
A fight in Miramar Sunday night ended with four people being treated for stab wounds and one arrest.
Just about two and a half weeks before the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season gets underway, meteorologists, emergency managers and government officials are meeting in Ft. Lauderdale at the annual Governor's Hurricane Conference.
It was a day as dark as any for South Florida law enforcement - January 20, 2011. That was the day Miami Dade police detectives Amanda Haworth and Roger Castillo were gunned down while trying to serve a homicide warrant.
Jury selection resumed Monday in Clearwater for the murder trial of Casey Anthony.
Dillard Center for the Art's 25 member jazz band has won what is know as the "Super Bowl" of high school jazz band competitions.
Average gas prices dropped by about a penny a gallon across the state of Florida, according to the AAA, but prices are still high and there is no indication of a major drop any time soon.
If you couldn't get the phone company to pay attention to your problem, or some billing snafu was being ignored by your credit card company, you could always turn to Miami Herald's Action Line for help. For 40 years, the newspaper had staff bulldogs get to the bottom of the problem and fix it, in one of the newspaper's most popular features. Sunday, that came to an end.
Police increased their patrols around a mosque in Margate on Sunday, a mosque where Izhar Khan, 24, once served as imam, or spiritual leader.
Family and friends of a North Miami Beach man who was gunned down by a Miami-Dade police officer last week plan gather Sunday in peaceful protest.
Quick to fire, slow to hire – apparently Miami-Dade voters are in no hurray to elect a new mayor.
Fear of government intervention in Miami-Dade's heavily Hispanic and Haitian communities has led to the county having one of the lowest rates, among Florida's larger counties, for calls to the state's child abuse hotline.
Several South Florida drivers helped the Florida Highway Patrol nab the driver of an SUV who reportedly struck a motorcyclist on I-95 early Sunday morning.
