Miami Dade County News Archives

HINY AND NEW: Final preparations take place ahead of the official opening. The North Terminal won't be fully completed until March 2011.

Miami-Dade County's top law enforcement officer is stepping down. Miami-Dade Police Director Robert Parker turned in retirement papers Friday, saying he has enjoyed working to reduce crime and serving the public.

The Committee for Fair Visitation at Jackson Memorial Hospital came into existence after doctors at the Miami facility refused to allow a lesbian visit her dying partner in Feb.

The tradition of negative campaigning in South Florida elections has taken an ugly turn in one Miami Beach Commission race.

Is your wife hot ... or not? A billboard battle along South Florida's busiest roads revolves around that very question.

An accused killer who left his car running in the street had no getaway vehicle available because a woman out walking her dog removed the keys from the ignition, police said Tuesday.

We've always known that the Census has underestimated the population in Miami-Dade County .

Poverty and climate hazards make the southeast United States the country's most vulnerable area to climate change impact, Oxfam America said on Wednesday.

Zombies are notoriously flatfooted -- cadavers trudging after victims, arms extended forward, mouths hideously agape.

Police have little to go on after three people were shot in Overtown, leaving two of them dead.

"When seconds count count on us." Aventura Hospital and Medical Center recently hosted an Aventura Marketing Council breakfast meeting saluting members of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department's Emergency Medical Services team - heralded as "#1 in emergency medical services." AMC Chair Cliff Schulman of Greenberg Traurig joined Aventura Hospital ...

A new state law designed mainly to crack down on Medicaid fraud is having unexpected consequences by keeping some health care professionals from getting or keeping their licenses at a time when the state is suffering a shortage.

A South Florida war veteran is speaking out after having trouble riding the local county bus with his service dog.

By Risa Polansky To ensure that a global financial services firm not only stays in Miami-Dade but also expands here, the county is asking the state to lower its wage standards.

A Miami-Dade County man is facing life in prison after being convicted of charges that he helped organize and outfit a human smuggling trip in which a 6-year-old Cuban boy died.

So how many jobs for his citizens did Charlie Crist get for hugging Preisdent Obama? Well, so far, just 1635.

Four armed robbers stormed the warehouse of a Hialeah business Tuesday morning, shooting at victims before leading police on a chase Hialeah police were called at about 11 a.m. to reports that four young men, all with handguns, tried to rob the business at East 10th Avenue and 32nd Street.

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Home invasion robberies have captured local headlines in recent months: a Parkland woman was sexually assaulted and a lone robber held a Lauderhill family at gunpoint in a bedroom.

Miami house painter Alexis Marichal was driving his work truck when police pulled him over, placed him under arrest and sent him to jail for a night.

Six people were charged Monday with falsifying billing documents for a Miami-Dade-funded wetlands restoration project that, in part, was supposed to go to a minority-owned or small business contractor.

A judge who routinely granted extensions in foreclosure cases for compassionate reasons has been chastised by a state appeals court, which said her rulings amounted to an abuse of discretion.

Cities and states are spending near-record amounts to retain their expensive cadres of Washington lobbyists, even as the worst economic recession in a generation prompts layoffs, mounting deficits and falling property-tax revenues.

Share + Oct 7, 2009 12:41 pm US/Eastern SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE A South Florida ranch owner and one of his employees have been arrested for illegally selling horse meat for human consumption.

A Miami-Dade County juvenile judge on Tuesday ruled that 17-year-old Andy Rodriguez will be tried as an adult in last month's stabbing death of a classmate at Coral Gables Senior High.

Budget cuts will decrease the workforce and increase response times for Animal Services.

South Florida is seeing a jump in the horse meat market as restaurants quietly serve up the illicit fare, butchers provide it to trustworthy customers and police officers find slaughtered horse carcasses on roadsides.

Miami Mayor Manny Diaz is set to hold his last downtown bicycle festival on Sunday before pressing his ambitious plan for hundreds of miles of new urban bikeways.

This Black Dada "Imma Zoe" remix comes courtesy of UB the Underboss from the THC crew.

Health officials confirmed the deaths today of three Duval County residents who died of swine flu over the span of three days last week.

The mother of a teenager who was fatally stabbed by another high school student says she blames the county school system for his death.

Several Miami-Dade County offices will be closing down as a result of budget cuts, the county announced Wednesday.