Regulators Eye Group Fighting FPL Rate Hike
As Florida Power & Light began pursuing an increase in base electric rates this year, a new group, Floridians Against Increased Rates, emerged to oppose the utility.
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As Florida Power & Light began pursuing an increase in base electric rates this year, a new group, Floridians Against Increased Rates, emerged to oppose the utility.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says there's an important step adults can take to protect children who are too young to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Prosecutors in Lakeland said they may never know why former Marine Bryan Riley reportedly killed four people he didn't know, including a mother holding her infant son, on Sunday during a shooting spree.
The man then engaged in a firefight with law enforcement officers before he was taken into custody, and he later attempted to take a gun from an officer at a hospital, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Millions of families around the world are coming together to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Larry remains a Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday with sustained winds of 120 mph.
The US Coast Guard announced Saturday it had repatriated 35 Cubans found at sea to the island nation.
With committee meetings starting this month in advance of the 2022 legislative session, the Florida Senate is not planning to limit public access as the state continues battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Jacksonville store that inspired the famous Lynyrd Skynyrd lyrics "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" was demolished.
It's already time to start thinking about flu season. With COVID-19 cases once again on the rise, doctors are concerned hospitals could be overwhelmed by both flu and coronavirus cases. That's why they hope you'll get your flu shot this fall.
Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at ensuring money for affordable housing continue adding petition signatures as they try to get on the November 2022 ballot.
Florida is in the grip of its deadliest wave of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, a disaster driven by the highly contagious delta variant.
Confessed Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz cannot be called derogatory terms such as "animal" or "that thing" by prosecutors or their witnesses at his upcoming trial, but calling the killings "a massacre" is legitimate, the judge has ruled.
The latest number from the CDC revealed Florida had its worst surge in pandemic history. Yet those numbers could still increase.
A single-engine plane ended upside down Friday afternoon at Fort Lauderdale's Executive Airport.
President Donald Trump canceled a ceremony and is refusing to sign a rare bipartisan housing bill that aims to increase availability and help lower costs for Americans because lawmakers have yet to sign his Save America Act, which he considers a “national emergency.”
Former University of Miami football player Rashaun Jones is facing a new charge while he awaits his second murder trial in the case of his former teammate Bryan Pata.
It was a somber day across South Florida as the Town of Surfside came together to honor the 98 people who died when the Champlain Towers South collapsed five years ago. CBS News Miami’s Marybel Rodriguez has more.
A man already in custody on an unrelated murder charge has been arrested again in the shooting death of a teenager in October 2019.
A South Florida woman got the chance to come on down when she appeared as a contestant on The Price is Right, and her appearance is sure to go viral. CBS News Miami’s Austin Carter has the hilarious interview.
Emergency crews are on the scene as officials work to contain the blaze, which is now 60% under control.
Miami-Dade authorities say victims were beaten with canes and paddles after allegedly answering fraternity-related questions incorrectly.
With thousands of TPS holders working in South Florida's healthcare system, the end of temporary protections could leave families and patients at risk, as caregivers face possible deportation within days.
Center fielders Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones and second baseman Jeff Kent were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.
Ft. Lauderdale officers said a woman escaped an alleged domestic violence incident and called for help, leading to an hours-long standoff.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling that halted President Trump's efforts to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot.
Nearly as many Americans are following news about the cyclospora parasite as they are the conflict with Iran.
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's accusations of Russia helping Iran target U.S. troops are not the first.
A substance found in the work van of a Mexican immigrant killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has tested negative for illicit drugs, the top prosecutor in Houston said Friday.
CBS Miami's Jim DeFede spoke to former Republican State Senator Jeff Brandes, president of the Florida Policy Project, who is behind one of those lawsuits.
As Florida attorney general, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation
The sordid life of Fabian Basabe is one CBS Miami first began covering on this show three years ago.
Larkin spoke this week to CBS News Miami's Jim DeFede.
Dotie Joseph said after talking with neighbors and looking at the field, she thinks she has plenty of experience to assume the governorship.
Since May, more than 11,000 cases of illness caused by the parasite cyclospora have been reported in 41 states. This comes after the Trump administration drastically cut FDA and CDC staff, prompting one expert to call this summer's outbreaks "a national wake-up call."
The case accuses OpenAI of practicing medicine without a license and failing to safeguard users seeking health advice.
Taylor Farms said none of its branded salads or kits contain the iceberg lettuce associated with the outbreak.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
Officials are still searching for the source of the outbreak, prompting consumers to seek advice on social media about which foods to avoid.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
Paramount Skydance on Friday said it would delay the deal until as late as June 2027.
Tenisha Warner sat down for an exclusive interview with "CBS Mornings" before a lawsuit over her late husband's estate became public, and discussed her grief and raising her daughter alone.
A lawyer says influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate will fight extradition to the United Kingdom.
New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for "Jurassic Park" and "The Piano," died Monday at 78, his family says.
A total of 22,141 fans wore the caps in London's Hyde Park on Friday ahead of his set at the British Summer Time festival.
