2 Demoted Miami police officers file lawsuit, seek to be reinstated, $1,000,000 each
The lawyer for two Miami police officers is speaking out after filing a lawsuit this week.
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The lawyer for two Miami police officers is speaking out after filing a lawsuit this week.
"This has been really difficult and painful for my family," said Miami City Attorney Victoria Mendez when she discussed a lawsuit alleging she and her husband enriched themselves through a real estate scheme.
A new bill being proposed aims to reform how liable a business is for crimes or an accident, but crime victim advocates say it puts them at a disadvantage to get compensation.
Two attorneys and the parents of two teenagers who were killed when their car went into a canal are suing the City of Homestead, saying police should not have been pursuing their vehicle at a high rate of speed two years ago.
Famed civil rights attorney Ben Crump and other elected officials are expected to file a lawsuit in Tallahassee against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
The lawsuit claims Sicknick's death was a "foreseeable consequence" of Trump's alleged incitement of mob attack.
One lawsuit seeks $550 in damages for every time customers bought chocolate from the California grocery chain.
The director told them they must act in the nude or the movie "would fail" and their careers would be hurt, the suit said.
The territory's attorney general accused the bank of deliberately concealing evidence of Epstein's illegal enterprise for its own benefit.
Kari Lake asked a judge to either declare her the winner or order a revote in a key county.
A Texas judge issued the order for genetic testing Thursday in a paternity case brought by Alexandra Davis.
Woman says she was attacked by Miami Beach police officers and now she has filed a lawsuit.
Months after a baby died at a South Florida daycare, his family is taking legal action.
He is asking for punitive damages of $475 million.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing former President Donald Trump over alleged business fraud.
The state is trying to fend off a potential class-action lawsuit alleging that the Medicaid program is denying coverage for incontinence supplies.
The judge said the "Stop WOKE" act violates the First Amendment and is impermissibly vague.
An elected Florida prosecutor who was removed from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis because of his positions on abortion and transgender rights filed suit Wednesday to get his job back, saying the Republican leader violated his First Amendment rights.
In a win for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., a state appeals court Wednesday rejected a $6 million punitive damages award in a case involving a smoking-related illness.
A Nevada woman lost her bid to force international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo to pay millions of dollars more than the $375,000 in hush money she received after she claimed he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009.
Missouri court upholds judgment after a woman claimed she got HPV while having sex in a car insured by Geico.
The owner of a commercial nursery has won a $1.2 million judgment against the Florida Department of Agriculture in the latest verdict against the state agency for destroying citrus trees in the 2000s during an attempt to stop the spread of costly tree diseases.
Community activist Luther Campbell is speaking out about the Brian Flores lawsuit and allegations of discrimination.
The City of Miami firefighter whose daughter died in the Surfside Tower Collapse has filed a lawsuit.
Broward County residents struggling financially because of the COVID-19 pandemic have filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration to cut off federal unemployment money for Floridians.
The nail-biting incident took place about 80 miles east off the coast of Melbourne, Florida – which is about 175 miles north of Miami.
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 South Florida 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.
The nail-biting incident took place about 80 miles east off the coast of Melbourne, Florida – which is about 175 miles north of Miami.
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 South Florida 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.
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.
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.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
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.