The minimum wage in Florida will rise Jan. 1, 2019, from $8.25 to $8.46, in accordance with a 2004 ballot amendment indexing the wage to inflation increases. For tipped workers, it will climb from $5.23 to $5.44.
A new culinary training center in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood celebrated its first class of graduates in December. Funded by Miami, Florida, hotels, the HEAT program helps prospective cooks land good jobs.
La Placita Puerto Rican restaurant will open New Year’s Day under literal controversy. Celebrity owners failed to get permission to paint it like a Puerto Rican flag. A petition hopes to save it.
Miami-Dade police are investigating a stabbing at a home on Northwest 95th Street and 30th Avenue.. A 50-year-old woman died, two men have stab wounds, and a 3-year-old child was not injured.
Miami-Dade cut police patrols in the Northside district outside Miami in August. The county said it couldn’t afford the extra police and send officers to guard schools, as Florida required after the Parkland massacre.
The owners of La Placita, a new Puerto Rican restaurant in the MiMo district, commissioned an artist to paint the building like the Puerto Rican flag. The city of Miami says they didn’t go through a historic board.
A 19-year-old man is being held on zero bond following the deadly shooting of a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office K-9 on Christmas Eve at a Florida mall, jail records show.
Darryl Sharpton, former chairman of the Public Health Trust that manages Jackson Health System, Miami-Dade’s taxpayer-owned hospital network, pleaded guilty to tax evasion this week. He faces up to five years in prison, plus fines and restitution.
Heavy rains at Newark, John F. Kennedy and Philadelphia International airports bring travel destination delays to Jersey, New York and Philly at Miami International and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airports.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian bought a multimillion dollar apartment in the Miami Beach condo tower, Faena House, at 3315 Collins Ave., from Alex Blavatnik, according to the New York Post’s Page Six.
Police said someone pulled up in a vehicle and unleashed several rounds of gunfire into a crowd that was hanging around an apartment complex courtyard in Miami’s Liberty City. Two people were killed. A third was injured.
Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal sided with Miami-Dade in a lawsuit over its policy accepting federal “detainer” requests for suspected immigration offenders. Judges said the dispute belonged in federal court.
Miami billionaire philanthropist Phillip Frost, CEO of pharmaceutical company OPKO Health, settled a civil complaint by the Securities and Exchange Commission that he committed penny stock fraud.
The family of Orlando resident Jose Antonio Reyes Bermudez, who died after being shot and crashing in a car he allegedly stole from a South Beach car wash, says little about the incident makes sense to them.
Miami Gardens police officer Victor Velez was traveling west on the Palmetto Expressway Saturday morning when he was rear-ended “by a drunk driver traveling at a high rate of speed.” He had minor injuries.
Miami-Dade cut police patrols in the Northside district outside of Miami in August. The county said it couldn’t afford the extra police and send officers to guard schools, as Florida required after the Parkland massacre.
Miami-Dade cut police patrols in the Northside district outside of Miami in August. The county said it couldn’t afford the extra police and send officers to guard schools, as Florida required after the Parkland massacre.
