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A state prison inmate so close to freedom that he was allowed to work outside the walls of one of the state's most minimum security prisons faces years longer at hard time, after he escaped briefly Tuesday, touching off a 90 minute manhunt.
Closing arguments are scheduled Tuesday afternoon in a civil lawsuit stemming from the 2008 case of a 5-year-old girl who alleged she was sexually abused by the teenage son of a teacher at a Miami day care center.
Broward Sheriff's investigators are asking for the public's help in finding a killer after the bodies of two women and an infant were found in an apartment over the weekend.
Less than a week after getting out of rehab, Michael Lohan's on again/off again girlfriend Kate Major has had another run in with the law.
A 20-year Brazilian citizen will remain behind bars at Broward's main jail after a judge rejected his plea to be released on bond as he awaits trial for allegedly assaulting a teenage girl aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
A reputed Liberty City gang member is going to prison for life without parole in the case of a South Beach nightclub slaying.
More than 1,300 marijuana plants were collected by Miami-Dade police in a day long sweep of grow houses.
A burglary last December in Hammocks in southwest Miami-Dade led to two arrests and quite a haul of stolen property. Now police are trying to return the items to their rightful owners.
Suspended Deerfield Beach commissioner Sylvia Poitier was sentenced to one year on probation and a $1,000 fine Wednesday for corruption charges.
A Hialeah man, found bleeding from a gunshot wound to head after he crashed his pick up truck into a funeral home, will be headed to jail as soon as he's released from Jackson Memorial Hospital.
An undercover Miami-Dade officer was forced to shoot a dog after the officer was attacked and bitten by the animal.
South Florida's so-called "gun-toting granny" who is accused of shooting her son-in law at point-blank range outside her house appeared in court Wednesday.
Two teens taken into custody after a deadly police involved shooting in Pompano Beach will remain behind bars.
It's case closed for a year old North Miami triple murder investigation. The suspected killer won't be arrested and prosecuted however because he's dead.
A confrontation between a suspect, a BSO Deputy, and a Coral Springs police officer led to gunfire Tuesday afternoon, with the suspect being sent to North Broward Medical Center. The suspect died of his injuries, but the deputy and the Coral Springs officer were unhurt.
A South Florida family mourning the loss of a loved one who was killed over $1.25 has made a desperate plea for help.
A Coral Springs woman has bonded out of jail after being charged with chaining her 19-year-old mentally challenged grandson to his bed at night for the past three years.
A suspected Islamic extremist who allegedly planned bombing Islamist-inspired attacks in Florida and was charged in federal court also recorded several videos of his views and posted them online.
The trial of a reputed Liberty City gang member got underway Tuesday for a South Beach nightclub shooting that left a 23-year-old man dead.
The trial of South Florida's former top official at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on child porn charges has been pushed back.
A Pompano Beach teen who reportedly tried to rob a man selling a phone on Craigslist found out the hard way that it sounds easier to do than it is.
A suspected Islamic extremist who allegedly planned to bomb and shoot up a number of crowded Tampa locations has been taken into custody.
When it comes to money and death, the old saying is, "You can't take it with you." That may be true, but it doesn't give someone else the right to take it instead. Cops say that's exactly what happened when a man came to remove the body of lately-departed Michael Bressler of Tamarac.
Miami-Dade police are investigating what they believe is a murder-suicide in the Hammocks. It happened some time around midnight Monday in a home at SW 155th Avenue and SW 94th Street.
A Miami man was caught reportedly trying to use phony credit cards a grocery store in the Keys.
