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The City of Miami Commission approved an emergency resolution Thursday asking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and state agencies to retroactively compensate Florida residents who have lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Florida election supervisors have asked Gov. Ron DeSantis for emergency measures they say will help them cope with an anticipated "significant statewide shortage" of poll workers later this year because of the novel coronavirus.
A Florida man is facing aggravated assault charges after allegedly coughing on a cashier and claiming that social distancing precautions for the coronavirus pandemic are "getting out of hand," according to a police report.
South Florida is preparing for a possible surge in serious COVID-19 cases.
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has launched a mobile-friendly site for unemployment help.
A Broward County jail inmate died Wednesday of COVID-19, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.
Governor Ron DeSantis joined Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber and the commanding general of the U.S Army Corps of Engineers at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Wednesday where a field hospital will be constructed over the next week or so.
Gary Marion, best known as drag queen "Sushi" who "drops" each New Year's Eve in a giant red high-heel shoe on Key West's Duval Street, is sewing colorful cloth masks for facial protection against the coronavirus.
Democrats, who successfully used health care as a key issue in winning back control of the U.S. House two years ago, are reigniting the issue in Florida amid the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic that has sent the state's economy into free fall.
Unable to feed people inside, Divieto Ristorante in Doral is taking the meals on the road, delivering them to the parking lots of South Florida hospitals.
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 6:30 p.m. on April 8, 2020.
Key Biscayne has over the years been ravaged by hurricanes, but never by a silent hurricane-like COVID-19 has turned out to be.
As fast as workers can pick up gloves and masks that are thrown on the ground in parking lots, more show up.
In an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the city of Miami has issued a mandate requiring people to wear masks while shopping or on the job.
As we are rolling into April people spending most, if not all, of their time at home are thirsting for more social time.
At the Jack & Jill Children's Center in Fort Lauderdale, the drive-through food distribution run by the Salvation Army and Feeding South Florida ran like an assembly line.
A pregnant woman battling coronavirus on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma has delivered a baby girl in Washington state.
The president of Jackson Health System has canceled plans to furlough workers at Miami Dade's three public hospitals.
A Georgia woman who received a hero's escort home after surviving COVID-19 credits God for her recovery.
Americans stressed out by the coronavirus outbreak are finding out that sleep is not necessarily a time for relaxation or peace of mind.
The spread of the virus to inmates and prison workers has fueled panic among detainees and their loved ones. Even before COVID-19 showed up in the state's prisons, corrections officials canceled face-to-face visitations, cutting off one of the ways families and friends can communicate with inmates.
The number of reported COVID-19 infections at nursing homes and assisted living facilities has quintupled during the past week.
Florida International Unversity, in conjunction with the Florida Department of Health, has opened a new drive-thru coronavirus test site at the Miami-Dade Youth Fairgrounds.
More than two dozen libraries across Miami-Dade are handing out and collecting unemployment applications to those who have been left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.
Publix Supermarkets confirmed more cases of COVID-19 at additional South Florida stores on Wednesday morning.
Claudia Carolina Rodriguez had planned to travel to North Carolina to watch World Cup matches with friends when she was detained after passing through a TSA checkpoint, according to her family.
Alina Acosta has relied on the same bus route for four years to get to work on time, but a proposed change in the Miami-Dade County budget could force her to rethink her daily commute.
Wilkhari Jones is the 3rd and final man sentenced in the 2020 Brownsville shooting that nearly killed Officer Erica Socarras.
North Miami Police identified the driver as Eros Gehrig. Authorities said Gehrig was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle without a valid driver's license.
The warrant calls for Harold Gene Lucas, 74, to die Sept. 1 by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke.
Claudia Carolina Rodriguez had planned to travel to North Carolina to watch World Cup matches with friends when she was detained after passing through a TSA checkpoint, according to her family.
Alina Acosta has relied on the same bus route for four years to get to work on time, but a proposed change in the Miami-Dade County budget could force her to rethink her daily commute.
Wilkhari Jones is the 3rd and final man sentenced in the 2020 Brownsville shooting that nearly killed Officer Erica Socarras.
CBS Miami is hosting a The Price Is Right contestant search at Toyota of Hollywood on Aug. 28.
North Miami Police identified the driver as Eros Gehrig. Authorities said Gehrig was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle without a valid driver's license.
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.
If confirmed by the full Senate, Dr. Erica Schwartz would become the 22nd director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CBS News has learned that four of the nation's largest Latino civic organizations are joining forces for the first time, combining their voter outreach operations ahead of the crucial 2026 midterms.
President Trump said Todd Blanche will remain acting attorney general as a holdup on his nomination continues.
The Trump administration on Thursday reiterated its view that China's alleged efforts to collect millions of American voter registration files constituted election interference.
President Trump is asking the Supreme Court to throw out an $83.3 million defamation judgment the writer E. Jean Carroll won against him.
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.
Four women say Hollywood star Jared Leto committed sexual crimes against them when they were teenagers, in interviews with the BBC.
Carly Simon, the singer known for 1970s hits like "You're So Vain," announced she has Parkinson's disease and also was treated for basal cell carcinoma.
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.