The Heiken Children’s Vision Program provides free comprehensive eye examination and glasses when prescribed to low-income school children who fail their vision screening and have no insurance or other resources for eye care. The program was started in 1992, and since then, 75,000 children have received exams with 83 percent needing and receiving free eyeglasses.
Persistence paid off for an Archbishop Coleman Carroll senior. She asked (and asked) and ultimately received Dwyane Wade as her prom date.
Homeowners could save up to 70 percent on their insurance premium with a new policy offering from Citizens, but only 47 people have signed up for the cheaper coverage.
For sale: a $12.6 million Bombardier Challenger jet presumably grounded at the Opa-locka Airport.
Ana Alliegro, the Miami woman at the center of the federal corruption investigation involving former congressman David Rivera, is living in a small town outside of Managua.
One cop was arrested and claims his girlfriend’s pimps set him up. Another officer was charged with gun trafficking while a third was in an accident that killed a Miami Dade College student.
The largest oil drilling operation in South Florida is a stark contrast to the wild surroundings of the Big Cypress National Preserve.
Fueled by rising oil prices and new technology, the oil industry is planning to expand exploration and drilling across a huge swath of Southwest Florida.
Declaring it was necessary to “protect the safety of the community” and the “integrity of the [court] system,” a judge ordered a western Miami-Dade woman to remain in jail, at least for now, while she awaits trial on charges she killed her infant son by leaving him to bake in a hot car.
A Miami-Dade man serving life for killing his parents is leading the fight for kosher food in Florida prisons
Promposals, the act of asking someone to accompany you to the school prom, have become over-the-top productions splashed all over social media.
Ex-Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and his wife have to surrender their passports and limit travel while awaiting trial on tax-evasion charges.
Miami-Dade Animal Services is seeking the public’s help in identifying two people who stole a purebred Belgian Malinois shepherd dog from a county animal shelter on Tuesday.
University of Miami Hospital sent a team to Panama with the special Impella heart pump to help save an NCIS agent’s life.
Many Florida businesses and public institutions provide domestic partner benefits for unmarried employees. Some now also cover the tax on the benefit.
Fedrick Ingram grew up in the inner city, became Miami-Dade’s teacher of the year and rose to become president of the United Teachers of Dade.
Authorities in the Turks and Caicos have dropped charges against a retired Florida neurosurgeon and Texas businesswoman arrested at an airport after a bullet was found in their luggage.
Ivanna Villanueva, 21, was drunk when she killed Eyder Ayala, a grandmother driving home from work in 2011.
For the first time in five years, Jackson Health System is solvent, administrators say, but many financial challenges remain for Miami-Dade’s public hospitals.
The Hearing and Speech Center of Florida is be offering free hearing screenings and consultations with an audiologist during an open house May 21-24.
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