Miami Dade County News

Incumbent Broward judges rarely face opposition, but this election cycle two County Court judges - both appointed by former Gov.

Legal Announcement Service - Attorney General Bill McCollum today joined members of the Mortgage Fraud Task Force in Miami-Dade County in announcing the arrests of 14 members of a criminal mortgage fraud ...

The Miami-Dade County Commission is scheduled to vote today on a plan to consolidate all fire rescue operations.

Two Miami-Dade police officers were among 20 people arrested Wednesday, accused of operating a cocaine ring in Miami's Liberty City.

Westchester police are looking for the man who attacked a 63 year old woman in broad day light after pushing his way inside her home.

A Honduran government official who was forced to quit as foreign minister after a drunken brawl with police is facing new charges of resisting arrest in the United States.

Miami-Dade School Board memebers voted Monday to put the Board's attorney on leave.

Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Gerald Darling is leaving his post after a tenure marked by controversy.

Naples City Manager Bill Moss this morning named Naples police Integrity Control Manager Thomas Weschler as the interim director of the city's police and fire department.

A round 2 p.m. December 12, 2002, Mercedes Hernandez dialed her son George Collazo's cell phone.

Someone shot up a block party early Sunday morning in a Miami-Dade County neighborhood, injuring five people and killing one, authorities said.

Police arrested one man and were looking for two others suspected in the armed robbery of a Miramar drug store Thursday, authorities said.

Marvin Iniqua Silver, 18, was found hiding inside a Dumpster in Hialeah, three hours after the 4 a.m. armed robbery of the Miramar CVS in the 16000 block of Miramar Parkway, authorities said.

His suspected accomplices were still at large later Thursday.'We are satisfied that we caught one of them. Unfortunately, two were able to elude us, despite our efforts to catch them,' Hialeah police spokesman Detective Carl Zogby said. 'We do need to get those guys off those streets.'

In auto dealer Norman Braman's attempts to block a new Marlins stadium and other projects from going into motion, judge Jeri Beth Cohen has unleashed her own curveball.

Florida sex offenders on probation can possess pornography so long as it does not relate to an offender's ''particular deviant behavior pattern,'' the state's Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The trial in the lawsuit filed by auto dealer Norman Braman challenging the financing of a $515 million Florida Marlins ballpark at the site of the Orange Bowl and $3 billion in Miami projects, begins today in Miami-Dade Circuit Court.

The suit names the Marlins, Miami-Dade County and city of Miami as defendants. It targets a city-county plan to generate millions of special property tax dollars for Miami projects.

What is the suit about? Braman argues using public tax dollars and issuing bonds for a private enterprise - in this case, the ballpark - violates the state constitution, as does shifting $50 million in general obligation bond funding voters approved in 2004 to renovate the Orange Bowl to the ballpark project.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue welcomed its newest recruit -- a 4-legged one -- on Tuesday.

The death of a Haitian man while being detained by U.S. immigration authorities in Florida deserves an independent investigation, family members and community leaders said Tuesday.

A Florida man survived being bitten by a poisonous pygmy rattlesnake while browsing the garden department at Wal-Mart, rescuers say.

The wife of New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez has filed for a divorce. A lawyer for Cynthia Rodriguez filed the papers in Miami-Dade County Family Court today.

The number of people who died from methadone overdoses on the Treasure Coast last year was more than triple that of Miami-Dade County, according to the annual report from Florida's Medical Examiners on drugs ...