Miami News

Share + Jul 7, 2009 8:16 pm US/Eastern MIAMI Miami's police chief is speaking out again about the carnage on our streets being caused by thugs wielding high powered assault rifles.

Pitbull's claims that he was "erroneously arrested" in December of 2007 on DUI charges have been validated, as the rapper was found not guilty of DUI charges yesterday .

The Miami Herald is reporting that a 17-year-old football player, wounded early Monday in a mass shooting in Overtown, outside Miami, has died, officials said.

As almost 100 people packed into the local YWCA for a community meeting about the shooting that killed one and wounded 12 early Monday in Overtown, even Miami City Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones admitted the solutions she offered were all too familiar.

Share + Jul 8, 2009 1:17 pm US/Eastern One of the women shot when three gunmen open fire on a crowd celebrating a birthday early Monday morning in Miami is speaking about what happened to her that night.

The DUI trial of rapper Pitbull started today in Miami, Florida. Pitbull, born Armando Perez, landed his second DUI charge in December of 2007, after police stopped him driving 93 miles-per-hour on the Palmetto Expressway.

Police are searching for a landlord after his tenant was found dead underneath the floorboards of the home he was renting in a Miami suburb.

TALLAHASSEE - Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the conservative foil to centrist Charlie Crist in the Republican race for U.S. Senate, faces an even tougher fight against the enormously popular governor, at least according to campaign finance reports released Tuesday.

Share + Jul 8, 2009 8:26 pm US/Eastern Seventeen-year-old Brandon Ware says even though he was struck by two bullets at an Overtown birthday party early Monday, he still did his best to help other victims.

Share + Jul 7, 2009 1:30 pm US/Eastern A young woman who was rushed to the hospital after at least three gunmen unloaded a barrage of bullets at a birthday party in Overtown has died, according to our news partners at the Miami Herald.

The mystery surrounding a long-forgotten cemetery unearthed by construction crews two months ago has only deepened with a genealogist's discovery of records suggesting hundreds of black Miamians may have been buried there more than 75 years ago.

CHATTAHOOCHEE - U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek of Miami on Monday wound up a holiday weekend Panhandle tour with a reminder that, even in a long-distance U.S. Senate race, all politics are local.

Miami police officers place cones at the crime scene where three gunmen stormed a birthday party.

Bright pink, blue and green balloons hung from a party sign welcoming hundreds of young adults to the birthday celebration in Overtown Sunday night.

More than two hundred Hondurans lifted candles, waived their blue and white flags and chanted "Zelaya must go," outside the Central American country's consulate in a show of support for their interim government.

Dr. Pete Gutierrez is the Director of a new health clinic at the Miami Rescue Mission.

More than a dozen people were rushed to the hospital early Monday morning after a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a party in Miami.

Police say 12 people were shot when up to three gunmen stormed a Miami house party and opened fire.

Miami is a city of excess with some of the hottest bars, beaches and nightclubs around.

By Risa Polansky Las Vegas-style slot machines could be on the horizon at Miami International Airport.