Police are searching for a man who raped and robbed a teenager at gunpoint inside her North Miami-Dade home. The sexual battery and home invasion happened about 4 a.m. Friday when a man broke into a home near Northwest 95th Street and Sixth Avenue, according to Detective Bobby Williams, a Miami-Dade police spokesman.
A woman was bitten by a shark as she swam near a sandbar in Biscayne National Park Saturday afternoon. The bite, while severe, was not life-threatening, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials.
A monsignor, expelled from Cuba as a young priest, looks back on a half-century of serving his church and his people.
Ruth Shafer Fleisher knew she wanted to fly planes as soon as she ``was old enough to walk.'' Frances Rorher Sargent caught the flying bug when she was in her early 20s.
Itstarted at first light, with 5Ks and Peace Walks, and didn't stop till long after dark, with the grand finale of a fireworks show. Throughout South Florida, people commemorated the United States' Independence -- albeit each in their own way. Along with the Star-Spangled Uncle Sams and tributes to veterans, there were Trinidadian steel drummers, Scottish bag-pipers, Nigerian cookouts -- and even a stripping marathon runner. After all, this is South Florida.
An out-of-work trucker and a biology major-turned-barmaid are careening around an 18-by-18-foot wrestling r...
Two veteran Miami city commissioners offer starkly divergent visions and styles as they seek to replace ter...
It started at first light, with 5Ks and Peace Walks, and didn't stop till long after dark, with the grand f...
Sixty-thousand people are expected at downtown Miami's Bayfront Park for its flagship Fourth of July show S...
Ousted from their longtime spot at the Flagler Dog Track, vendors are hoping to move to a new site on LeJeu...
Two teens were arrested in last week's vandalism of an Islamic school in West Kendall. They allegedly plann...
In the heart of old Coconut Grove, Commodore Plaza is attempting a comeback by closing down -- to cars -- f...
Gov. Charlie Crist and the Seminole Tribe of Florida began negotiating a new gambling compact Wednesday tha...
The University of Florida's efforts to bolster its biotechnology brand got a boost earlier this month with ...
The northbound lane of the 18-Mile Stretch connecting Key Largo to the mainland is now open after being clo...
Fatal overdoses from prescription drugs jumped again in 2008 -- a trend fueled by Florida's abundance of st...
A higher-than expected interest rate left the county $6 million short in funding for a new baseball stadium...
New property insurance companies coming to Florida may not be available to typical homeowners.
Charlie Crist seated his fourth Supreme Court nominee, burnishing his reputation as a center-leaning governor
A state senator is renewing his criticism of privatization over a no-bid contract.
Gov. Charlie Crist on Monday signed into law one of his top priorities of 2009: a bill that allows all 11 s...
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed a controversial growth management bill that some say will stimulate the s...
Though Gov. Charlie Crist bragged state worker pay wouldn't be cut, his salary and that of a thousand other...
A grand jury investigating Ray Sansom's ties to a Panhandle college issued a second round of indictments We...
Gov. Charlie Crist signed the state budget and vetoed only two items -- but broke a no-new-tax pledge.
Authorities say a boat owner and his passenger escaped without injuries when an explosion occurred on a 20-...
Deputies in Volusia County are investigating an apparent drive-by shooting near DeLand that left a young bo...
Authorities say a woman was killed when she walked on an Interstate 95 ramp in South Florida and was struck...
A lightning strike at a Fourth of July gathering in central Florida killed one person and 18 others were ta...
Fireworks lit the night sky above New York with a kaleidoscope of colors shooting 1,000 feet into the air o...
Officials say one person was killed in a lightning strike at a Fourth of July gathering in central Florida ...
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says deputies have discovered a dead manatee in Tampa Bay.
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