New Year's Eve celebrations in downtown Fort Lauderdale
CBS News Miami's Larry Seward reports from downtown Fort Lauderdale where hundreds had gathered to welcome the new year.
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CBS News Miami's Larry Seward reports from downtown Fort Lauderdale where hundreds had gathered to welcome the new year.
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CBS News Miami's Lisa Petrillo is in downtown Fort Lauderdale where revelers are turning out for the Orange Bowl Downtown Countdown. The anchor will drop at 7 p.m. and midnight. Other free events are in Miami, Miami Beach, Miramar.
Lisa Petrillo says activities for the kids include bounce houses, inflatables, face painting and games. There will also be a special countdown at 7 p.m. for the little ones to ring in the new year. There will be a second countdown at midnight for the adults.
Tuesday night the weather should be dry and mild for New Year's Eve festivities.
It will include fun for the whole family ending with their famous anchor drop at midnight.
After some patchy fog New Year's Eve morning, we'll enjoy mainly dry conditions with a partly sunny sky.
A Fort Lauderdale man has been charged with second-degree murder following the discovery of a body inside a business.
Alissa "Lisa" Taylor's family mourns her hit-and-run death and is pleading for answers.
Early Thursday, a 14-year-old who was shot during a teen gathering at a club in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
Early Friday, a body was covered by a tarp in the middle of the road at Northwest Eighth Avenue at East Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. At 4:02 a.m., Fort Lauderdale Police responded to a crash involving a pedestrian. Traffic homicide is investigating.
Two teenagers were injured in a shooting Thursday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.
Two teenagers were injured in a shooting Thursday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.
Two teenagers were injured in a shooting Thursday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.
Young people had attended a downtown club hosting a teen event at 200 Southwest Third Avenue.
CBS News Miami's Morgan Rynor is in Fort Lauderdale where a 14-year-old who was shot early Thursday among a large crowd of teens gathered outside after an event for young people in downtown.
CBS News Miami's Morgan Rynor is in Fort Lauderdale where witnesses say a teen was shot and taken to Broward Medical Center early Wednesday. It was at Southwest Second Street and Southwest Third Avenue. Police were on the scene.
Detective Ali Adamson said "I do not have any information suggesting the two shootings are related."
CBS News Miami's Steve reports from Fort Lauderdale where one man was fatally shot in a shopping center that includes Presidente Supermarket and another wounded about a mile away two hours later in apparently separate incidents on Christmas Day.
The fire was ignited when an engine start,ed DFC says.
CBS News Miami's Peter D'Oench is at Lauderdale Marina where a Quebec man died and six others were hospitalized when a boat exploded.
American Airlines says its systems are restored after a software outage preventing weight and balance calculations grounded all flights nationwide.
One body has been recovered and others were hospitalized.
CBS News Miami's Peter D'Oench is at Lauderdale Marina where one person died and others were hospitalized when a boat exploded and the fire spread to another boat the night before. The man's body was found Tuesday by a dive team.
A person was found dead in the water and five others had to be rushed to local hospitals following a boat fire at a Fort Lauderdale marina.
South Florida homeowners face a difficult balance between rising costs and the unpredictable threat of severe weather.
High temperatures are expected to climb into the 90s, but it will feel even hotter when you factor in the hunidity.
An interactive wildfire map shows active fires burning in Broward and Miami-Dade as smoke impacts air quality and visibility across parts of South Florida.
Researchers say the U.S. is experiencing a "reading recession" that predates the pandemic. But some places are bucking the trend, chalking up higher test scores.
An American Airlines flight from Miami landed at Chicago's O'Hare Airport with two flat tires.
South Florida homeowners face a difficult balance between rising costs and the unpredictable threat of severe weather.
High temperatures are expected to climb into the 90s, but it will feel even hotter when you factor in the hunidity.
An interactive wildfire map shows active fires burning in Broward and Miami-Dade as smoke impacts air quality and visibility across parts of South Florida.
Researchers say the U.S. is experiencing a "reading recession" that predates the pandemic. But some places are bucking the trend, chalking up higher test scores.
An American Airlines flight from Miami landed at Chicago's O'Hare Airport with two flat tires.
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.