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The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice said it has extended until April 30 a ban on visitors to juvenile detention and residential-commitment facilities.
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The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice said it has extended until April 30 a ban on visitors to juvenile detention and residential-commitment facilities.
First-time unemployment claims this week appear headed toward a record.
Nine workers with the state Department of Children and Families have tested positive for COVID-19, and 16 others are self-isolating after being exposed to the novel coronavirus, officials confirmed.
The Florida Commission on Ethics rejected a request to alter the state's 15-year-old lobbying "gift ban," as a cable-television and internet company wanted to run public-service announcements from Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina told CBS 4 News, the number of officers with coronavirus has increased this week. There are now eleven.
Jeff Bell, the president of the 1,400-member Broward Sheriff's Office Deputies Association, has been suspended by Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony.
The head of the Department of Children and Family Services is worried victims of child abuse and domestic violence are not getting the help they need.
Small businesses throughout South Florida are being tossed a lifeline by the US government and commercial banks with Paycheck Protection Program loans.
More than two dozen cars took part in a mobile protest on Friday, blowing horns and yelling chants while passing by the Broward State Attorney's Office and the jail.
Two new sick crew members from Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas were evacuated from the ship Friday off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.
New cases of the coronavirus are surfacing every day across the nation and around the world. Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 6 p.m. on April 10, 2020.
Reality TV star, philanthropist and entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel's bstrong initiative, in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission, is taking on the COVID-19 outbreak, to help the people who need it most.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is making a big change at the three major coronavirus testing sites in the state, by allowing just about everyone, regardless of age, occupation or symptoms to get tested.
One by one, Broward Sheriff patrol vehicles from each division arrived at headquarters to get more supplies to take back to deputies and staff.
The Chairman of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust says a new plan to move elderly people out of shelters and off the streets and into hotels and an assisted living facility could save lives by slowing the spread of COVID-19.
As the country grapples with an unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic that's thrown millions of Americans out of work, the U.S. Department of Education is automatically giving most federal student loan borrowers a break from their monthly bills until at least October.
Florida International University officials announced Friday that emergency cash grants would be made available for students that have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The City of Fort Lauderdale will be the latest city to require people to wear a face-covering when inside any essential business or service.
A majority of South Florida's hardest-hit businesses are struggling to keep employees.
An inmate at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami has tested positive for the coronavirus.
With more and more people out of work due to the coronavirus, food distributions across South Florida have been drawing big crowds.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is on the fence about shutting school campuses statewide for the rest of the academic year, but he said on Thursday some students may return to school sooner than others.
With travel and vacation plans put on hold due to coronavirus safety concerns, Universal Studios has announced that it has extended the closures of their theme parks in Orlando and Los Angeles.
As Americans wait to get their hands on their stimulus checks, scammers are trying just about everything to get a piece of the action.
Nearly 170,000 first-time unemployment claims were filed last week in Florida, as the coronavirus-caused surge continues.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he has issued an investigative subpoena to the NFL regarding the Rooney Rule.
Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office deputies and Fire Rescue crews responded near the Gladeview neighborhood at NW 73rd Street and 29th Avenue.
The nail-biting incident took place about 80 miles east off the coast of Melbourne, Florida, which is about 175 miles north of Miami.
The delegation of business leaders underscores the deep ties many major U.S. companies maintain with China despite years of trade tensions.
South Florida homeowners face a difficult balance between rising costs and the unpredictable threat of severe weather.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he has issued an investigative subpoena to the NFL regarding the Rooney Rule.
Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office deputies and Fire Rescue crews responded near the Gladeview neighborhood at NW 73rd Street and 29th Avenue.
The nail-biting incident took place about 80 miles east off the coast of Melbourne, Florida, which is about 175 miles north of Miami.
The delegation of business leaders underscores the deep ties many major U.S. companies maintain with China despite years of trade tensions.
South Florida homeowners face a difficult balance between rising costs and the unpredictable threat of severe weather.
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 CBS News review of internal government documents and information provided to Congress shows immigration detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay are nearly empty.
The Trump administration plans to name longtime immigration official David Venturella as the interim head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, replacing acting director Todd Lyons, a spokesperson and two U.S. officials said.
The closure comes amid escalating operating costs for the facility, which are now estimated to total nearly $1 billion.
President Trump said Americans' financial situation isn't motivating him to make a deal, "Not even a little bit," and that he is only focused on preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the $1.5 trillion the Pentagon is seeking is "admittedly a historic budget."
CBS News Miami has confirmed from multiple sources that the Miami Dade State Attorney's office is investigating A3.
State Senator Rosalind Osgood is urging Wasserman Schultz not to run in Florida's 22nd Congressional district.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
The head of the World Health Organization says "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
More than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus are set to be disembarked.
In 2002, Zermeño found out he contracted hantavirus after cleaning the family house following the death of his mother and sister. He had been exposed to rodent droppings and became infected.
Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.
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.
"The Devil Wears Prada 2" edges out "Mortal Kombat II" at the North American box office this weekend.
A trial in the lawsuit between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was set to begin later in May.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.