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South Florida emergency crews were off to the rescue in Texas.
Tropical Storm Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into the country's fourth-largest city Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers who could not keep up with the constant calls for help.
A task force with the city of Miami Fire-Rescue has been placed on standby to deploy a swift-water rescue team to the area of Texas in preparation for Hurricane Harvey.
Authorities called to a Walmart parking lot Sunday found eight people dead and 20 others in dire condition in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer, victims of an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong, police said.
A Texas police officer's bodycam was rolling early Friday when a train dragged a pinned SUV with two injured people trapped inside.
Hundreds of people protesting Texas' new anti-"sanctuary cities" law launched a demonstration from the Texas House on Monday, stopping work and prompting lawmakers on the floor below to fight, even threaten gun violence amid tensions over the immigration policy.
Parents wanting to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by state-funded or private agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples, under a proposal in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
Federal investigators are looking into a head-on collision between a church bus and a pickup truck that killed 13 senior adults returning from a church retreat in Texas.
A Texas lawmaker is trying to make a point about legislation that restricts women's access to healthcare and abortions by proposing men get fined $100 when they masturbate.
A jewelry heist inside a San Antonio shopping mall ended with shots fired on Sunday, leaving one person who tried to intervene dead, three others shot and another two people taken to the hospital with non-shooting injuries, police and fire officials said.
A Texas man coming down a water slide did not get to the end - instead he slid off over a rocky cliff.
The Supreme Court struck down Texas' regulation of abortion clinics in a controversial case in nearly a quarter century.
A woman wanted in connection to a murder in Dallas, Texas has been found in Miami.
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The mother accused of kidnapping her 1-year old son prompting a nationwide Amber Alert is back in Florida - in police custody.
Authorities arrested family members of a 1-year old Miami boy who had been taken by his mother over the weekend - prompting a nationwide Amber Alert
Google says it will begin testing its self-driving cars in Kirkland, Washington.
After sinking more than 500 points at one point on Wednesday, stocks did manage to recover by closing.
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Despite a growing pool of potential Hispanic voters in the United States, driven largely by young people, Latinos are likely to be underrepresented at the polls in 2016, a study released Tuesday has found.
The craft brewery industry has exploded over the last decade. Recognizing that, some universities are offering programs that can blend a passion for beer brewing with the business side of things.
They say everything is bigger in Texas. Well, for Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio, he hopes the support for his campaign is huge when he makes a stop in Dallas.
The 2015 Hyundai Sun Bowl featuring the Miami Hurricanes and Washington State Cougars could end up being one of the better games of the weekend.
The Miami Hurricanes will go for the school's first bowl win since 2006 when they face the Washington State Cougars at the 2015 Hyundai Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas.
Florida had the second largest population growth in the nation this past year.
Police say the suspect admitted to the shooting and was found with a gun after two men in their 20s were killed inside a Miami apartment.
Authorities are searching for Andrew Jansen of Palmetto Bay after he was hired through a pet-sitting website to care for an Air Force airman's dog, which was later found dead in Colorado.
From a round of golf with Scottie Scheffler to private dinners around Miami and a splashy event at Carbone, the new Cadillac Formula 1 team was everywhere.
Tickets for Monday's Metropolitan Museum of Art event in New York City are into the six figures — if you get an invite.
The new map makes significant changes to 21 of Florida's 28 congressional districts.
Police say the suspect admitted to the shooting and was found with a gun after two men in their 20s were killed inside a Miami apartment.
Authorities are searching for Andrew Jansen of Palmetto Bay after he was hired through a pet-sitting website to care for an Air Force airman's dog, which was later found dead in Colorado.
From a round of golf with Scottie Scheffler to private dinners around Miami and a splashy event at Carbone, the new Cadillac Formula 1 team was everywhere.
Tickets for Monday's Metropolitan Museum of Art event in New York City are into the six figures — if you get an invite.
The new map makes significant changes to 21 of Florida's 28 congressional districts.
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 federal appeals court blocked a FDA rule that allowed the abortion pill mifepristone to be dispensed through the mail.
The incident occurred one week after shots were fired during the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., and Mr. Trump was rushed off the dais.
The 81-year-old former New York City mayor has been hospitalized for pneumonia, his spokesperson said.
Before this map was created, there were 20 districts that favored Republicans and eight that favored Democrats.
State lawmakers approved the new map, which deeply affects both Wasserman Schultz and fellow Democratic congressman Jared Moskowitz.
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.
Luna said she expects Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to be the next member who either resigns or gets expelled.
Uthmeier was asked several times during a press conference in Miami this week if he had formally requested the judge overseeing the grand jury to keep the findings secret.
Seventy-three percent of Americans say delays and denials of medical treatment by healthcare insurers are a major problem. Now, a company called Sheer Health says they will fight insurance battles on behalf of their clients.
An unlicensed cosmetologist from Florida has been found guilty in a California court for providing an injection that killed a model who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
Food containing norovirus may smell and taste normal but still cause serious illness if consumed, FDA warns.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants the popular coffee chains to prove their surgery drinks are safe for teens and suggested the Trump administration could place limits on your cup of coffee.
Tests of dozens of baby formulas by Consumer Reports found that nearly half contained potentially dangerous chemicals.
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 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.
Jake was at the funeral for one of his closest friends when he learned of his parents' deaths, he said.
Michael Tilson Thomas, the 12-time Grammy Award winning composer and famed conductor who led the San Francisco Symphony for a quarter century, has died.