Jurors Award $5.25M In Charter School Sex Abuse Trial
Jurors have reached a verdict in the case of a former Downtown Miami Charter School student who was allegedly sexually abused by an older classmate.
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Jurors have reached a verdict in the case of a former Downtown Miami Charter School student who was allegedly sexually abused by an older classmate.
A second-year teacher at Zion Lutheran Christian School who was charged by the state after he was found partially naked in the backseat of a car with a 14-year-old student now faces federal charges.
Well that didn't take long. Less than 24 hours after releasing surveillance video of one of four car burglary suspects who hit a Weston neighborhood last week, the Broward Sheriff's Office announced all four were in custody.
Miami Gardens police are investigating a shooting that left one man hospitalized Tuesday.
Police are investigating after one person was fatally shot, and two others injured at a shooting in Miami.
It's an emotional day at Sunset Senior High School in West Kendall as students and faculty mourn the loss of two students who were killed in a multiple vehicle crash early Sunday morning. A third person, a good Samaritan who stopped to help the two friends after they were involved in a car accident, was also killed.
Bail has been granted for a man at the center of a deadly Orlando crash which killed a 4-year-old girl and injured 14 people at a daycare center.
Closing arguments got underway Monday in the case of a seven-year-old boy who was allegedly sexually abused while a student at the Downtown Miami Charter School.
Two guns were taken by a pair of burglars who broke into nearly a dozen cars in Weston earlier this month.
Murder suspect Michel Escoto spent most of the day questioning his defense witness, a DNA expert from Florida's panhandle--but it was no easy task.
Bond has been set for a Miami-Dade Police Lieutenant accused of conspiring to distribute cocaine.
Sentencing day has been set for the man convicted in the DUI manslaughter of South Florida teenager Kaely Camacho.
Miami-Dade police are investigating an officer involved shooting at nightclub just east of Miami International Airport.
Three people were killed in a multiple vehicle crash in southwest Miami-Dade early Sunday morning.
The FBI is asking for the public's help to identify a man accused of robbing a Broward bank Sunday afternoon.
Closing arguments are set to start Monday in the case of a seven-year-old boy who was allegedly sexually abused while a student at the Downtown Miami Charter School.
A Keys man was arrested after he allegedly kicked a dog in the face. Monroe County sheriff's deputies were sent to the Winn Dixie shopping center in Marathon on Saturday after someone reported seeing a man yank a dog by a chain and kick it.
A man suspected of shoplifting at Dadeland Mall died after he tried to escape from police.
Hollywood police arrested a man, Friday, and charged him with attempting to kidnap a teenage girl.
A deputy nearly shot a man this weekend after he allegedly found him waving a handgun around on a highway near Marathon.
The central Florida community came together to make get-well cards for children injured after a car crashed into a day care, killing a 4-year old girl.
Police say Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Ryan Malone has been charged with DUI and possession of cocaine.
A wealthy Florida doctor whose offices were raided by the FBI and who allowed a U.S. senator to use his private jet is again under scrutiny for receiving more money from the taxpayer-funded Medicare program than any other doctor.
It will be federal prison time for two South Florida brothers who started a scheme that netted them $1.6 million in fraudulent tax refunds.
The Broward Sheriff's Office says they arrested 97 people in an all-day, countywide operation called Operation Rundown. BSO says they targeted human trafficking cases, drug case, prostitution cases and also served several arrest warrants.
The Florida Department of Education is developing rules to adopt enrollment requirements that bar undocumented students from attending CTE programs.
The Justice Department argued that the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters had until Jan. 6, 2023, to sue the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, missing the deadline to file a lawsuit by over two years.
Nearly 40 years after an 85-year-old woman was assaulted in Deerfield Beach, Broward Sheriff's Office detectives have linked Gregory Rollison to the crime using advanced DNA technology.
South Florida is seeing a surge of beehives in unexpected places as rising heat and habitat loss drive bees to seek new homes.
Family members of the victim told CBS News Miami that she was in critical but stable conditions.
The Florida Department of Education is developing rules to adopt enrollment requirements that bar undocumented students from attending CTE programs.
Some of the key Florida races this year include the race for governor and U.S. senator.
The Justice Department argued that the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters had until Jan. 6, 2023, to sue the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, missing the deadline to file a lawsuit by over two years.
Nearly 40 years after an 85-year-old woman was assaulted in Deerfield Beach, Broward Sheriff's Office detectives have linked Gregory Rollison to the crime using advanced DNA technology.
South Florida is seeing a surge of beehives in unexpected places as rising heat and habitat loss drive bees to seek new homes.
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.
The Justice Department argued that the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters had until Jan. 6, 2023, to sue the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, missing the deadline to file a lawsuit by over two years.
Some of the key Florida races this year include the race for governor and U.S. senator.
Rising premiums forced many people in Affordable Care Act plans to give up their coverage. But the Trump administration claims a huge drop in enrollment is almost entirely due to its fraud crackdown.
The order came after Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn threatened to block Blanche's confirmation for Attorney General if the fund was not rescinded in writing.
Detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement set a monthly record high for the second Trump administration in July, internal agency data obtained by CBS News shows, as ICE widened its crackdown.
Months after leaving TV news, Rodriguez is competing against former prosecutor Robin Peguero for the CD-27 nomination.
On Sunday, Collins spoke about the ruling on this week in South Florida and explained why he believes he is trailing the Republican frontrunner, Byron Donalds.
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.
Two Michigan residents who had "significant underlying health conditions" have died after contracting cyclosporiasis, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said.
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.
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.
Ariana Grande had been due to star alongside her "Wicked" co-star Jonathan Bailey in a production of "Sunday in the Park with George" in 2027.
Vincent Pastore played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on all six seasons of "The Sopranos," which aired from 1999 to 2007.
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.