The U.S. government released from Guantánamo Wednesday a Kuwaiti Airways engineer whom a judge freed from eight years detention because American interrogators wrung a false confession out of him years ago. Full Story »
A Florida International University law student visiting the Dominican Republic was killed in a car crash over the weekend. Jorge Pupo, 33, a second-year student and a member of the law review, was killed in a head-on collision along with another family member, Jorge Ramos Pupo, 63. Full Story »
Emergency crews were called to Pioneer Middle School in Cooper City at about 2 p.m. Wednesday following reports that some students had taken some sort of medication. Full Story »
Florida will receive $8.5 million from a settlement with Roxane Laboratories, a Columbus, Ohio, pharmaceutical company, to partially resolve a Leon County Medicaid fraud lawsuit, the state attorney general said Wednesday. Full Story »
Police swarmed a Plantation bank Wednesday morning searching for a man who robbed the branch. The robber fired shots outside the Bank of America at 8190 W. Sunrise Blvd., but no one was injured, police said. Full Story »
The jury deliberating the fate of 16-year-old Teah Wimberly has reached a verdict and found the teen guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of her Dillard High School classmate Amanda Collette last November. She could receive a life term in prison. Full Story »
Five Cooper City middle school students were treated by paramedics Wednesday afternoon after they reportedly swallowed a number of pills. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue received a call about the situation at Pioneer Middle School, located in the 5300 block of SW 90th Avenue, around 3p.m. Full Story »
Bertha Fullton is devastated. Her oldest child, 42-year-old Stephanie Lanier, was found lying in the roadway at SW 222 Street and busy US-1 shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday morning. She'd been hit by a car; the driver kept going and left the mother of seven for dead. Full Story »
An Obama administration official says some Transportation Security Administration employees have been placed on administrative leave after it was discovered that sensitive guidelines about airport passenger screening were posted on the Internet. Full Story »
While experts have been saying that the economy has turned the corner towards a recovery, many homeowners continue to face the growing threat of foreclosures. And while the federal government is extending their massive financial bailout program until next fall, a Congressional watchdog has declared the government's foreclosure prevention plan a failure. Full Story »
A turtle suns itself on a rock along the edge of a dark and placid comma-shaped lagoon that marks the center of campus. Casually dressed students carrying schoolbooks saunter across manicured lawns or slouch at patio tables outside the modest student activity center. A pleasant breeze ratt... Full Story »
Last Wednesday, a former bookmaker named James Giordano pleaded guilty to promoting gambling in New York. The 55-year-old Pinecrest resident was indicted in 2006 for running a sports betting website in the Caribbean that took millions of dollars in bets from dozens of U.S.-based bookies and gambl... Full Story »
From its base in South Beach, V Georgio Vodka was supposed to take over the world. Started by college basketball player, recording artist, and sports agent Victor Harvey, the company long ago hooked up with disgraced lawyer Scott Rothstein, who became a part-owner. Rothstein not only bought a sta... Full Story »
This past June 6, Miami Dade College French professor Bob Michel was walking across the Wendy's parking lot on Biscayne Boulevard at 79th Street. "I hear this incredible screeching, and before I know it, this thing was on top of me," he recalls. "All I saw was this big grille hitting me in the ri... Full Story »
Assistant State Attorney Richard Scruggs usually nails bad guys. But a Miami-Dade judge last Friday chastised the veteran prosecutor for improperly handling the case against Rev. Gaston Smith, a popular Liberty City pastor. Scruggs admitted he withheld key information from attorneys on bo... Full Story »
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Only in Miami can a $15 per day penance for jury duty turn into a $150,000 pay day Full Story »
Octogenarian's survival story still has people talking. Full Story »
A jury has found Teah Wimberly guilty in the shooting death of classmate Amanda Collette. Full Story »
City turns to A&E show to clear up woman's clutter. Full Story »
A suspect was arrested Wednesday in connection with the sexual assault of a 91-year-old woman last month. Full Story »
Two suspects have been indicted on drug charges after one of them allegedly led police on a chase through three counties last month, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Full Story »
Deputies said they have recovered human remains from the wreckage of a Cessna found in a central Florida lake. Full Story »
Police are searching for an armed man in a motorcycle helmet who robbed a Plantation bank Wednesday morning and fired a shot at an employee who tried to chase him. Full Story »
The Florida Highway Patrol is searching for a hit-and-run driver who killed a woman riding a bicycle. Full Story »
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (WSVN) -- A 54-year-old woman is dead after being shot multiple times and left to die while in her vehicle. Police are looking for the person who shot and killed Carol Taylor. Full Story »
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (WSVN) -- Authorities are investigating the scene at a fast food restaurant where two men robbed employees at gunpoint. Full Story »
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- An inmate's near-escape got four Palm Beach County corrections deputies in trouble. Twenty-year-old Michael Opalenik tried to escape from the West Palm Beach detention center on May 5. Full Story »
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A Jacksonville mother has been killed and two children critically injured after their SUV plunged into a pond at a resort near Orlando's theme parks. Full Story »
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- Panhandle school officials have found a simple but novel solution to cell phones interruptions: Confiscation. The Escambia County School District previously issued suspensions for cell phone violations, but that didn't seem to work. Full Story »
Despite continuing bad news about growing unemployment, investors are still slowly pushing the envelope. Full Story »
The 2009 version of BMW’s Z4 two-seat sports car is really something special. It’s the second generation of the Z4 (the Z3 debuted in 1996) and it’s an all-new vehicle, right up to the nifty retractable hardtop. Full Story »
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Javier Souto is tired of commissioners and administrators meeting behind closed doors and making deals that should be made in front of the public. Full Story »
Violations of the Sunshine Law surrounding the termination of the city manager and the zoning issue, the whereabouts of the $700+ that was left over from the farmers market from a couple of years ago. And then there was the mysterious appearance of cash. Full Story »
The Young Women’s Academy at JRE Lee in South Miami, which provides atrisk girls throughout South Dade with an opportunity to turn their lives around, set goals and get back on the right track, has become a great resource for our community. Full Story »
By Yudislaidy Fernandez Ten Miami-Dade County inspectors are enforcing new Florida fuel storage tank regulations that mandate that all gas stations have double-walled tanks in place by January, whittling down the list to 220 out-of-compliance stations. Full Story »
By Risa Polansky Municipalities can continue vying to annex unincorporated areas after Miami-Dade commissioners killed a proposed moratorium in a tie vote in committee Tuesday. Full Story »
By Scott E. Pacheco Two new downtown Miami hotels are getting their management in order as they look forward to July 2010 openings. Full Story »
By Zachary S. Fagenson Although Wells Fargo won't abandon Wachovia Bank's Jacksonville headquarters as it converts its new subsidiary's branches to its own, Miami is playing a rapidly expanding role for the bank statewide. Full Story »
By Risa Polansky An up-to $46 million cost increase to the complex baggage-handling system for Miami International Airport's new north terminal comes on top of an added $70 million spent to comply with federal requirements for the system. Full Story »
A woman was hospitalized in serious condition after she was shot at her home, police said. Full Story »
Boyd H. Anderson High School was briefly evacuated Wednesday morning as firefighters responded to a reported gas smell. Full Story »
Rescue workers are treating five middle school students who reportedly swallowed some pills, authorities said. Full Story »
A Boca Raton tennis instructor aced a slot machine Tuesday night. Kennis Collins, 51, won $1,589,193 at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. He was playing the Jeopardy! MegaJackpot game. Full Story »
A city police dive team Wednesday morning scoured bodies of water near the scene of a Thanksgiving Day quadruple murder, searching for evidence in the shootings. Full Story »
The former manager of the defunct Cristal Clear Rentals no longer faces criminal charges in Monroe County. Full Story »
A former Boot Key Harbor resident is scheduled to be sentenced Friday on firearms charges stemming from death threats he made against then-President George Bush and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008. Full Story »
How's this for scary? Full Story »
It's shaping up to be a subdued election this March in Key Colony Beach. Full Story »
Somewhere during a span of a dozen years, the Florida Keys lost 145,982 anglers. Full Story »
Christmas decorations illuminate Berlin's main shopping streets. AP Photo/Franka Bruns
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