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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 »

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Just a few years ago, Camelot Elementary was overrun with students. Portable classrooms took up the basketball court and baseball diamonds, and 1,320 children were being educated on a campus built for 740. Full Story »

POMPANO BEACH,, Fla. (AP) -- A South Florida man allegedly retaliated against his mother by throwing her caged dogs into a lake. Broward County deputies arrested Deangelo Veus Saturday on two counts of animal cruelty. Full Story »

MIAMI (WSVN) -- Police are investigating a shooting which resulted in the death of a 3-year-old. According to Miami-Dade Police, a 3-year-old girl was visiting family at 13731 SW 280 Terr. at around 5 p.m. Sunday, when some how she got a hold of a gun. The gun was loaded and she shot her self. Full Story »

EL PORTAL, Fla. (WSVN) -- Authorities responded to a fire which destroyed a trailer park. Officials responded to a fire which took place at a trailer park located at Biscayne Boulevard and 85th Street Saturday. Full Story »

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Detectives have finally caught a South Florida man who allegedly killed his friend two years ago and stuffed him in a freezer. Full Story »

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A West Palm Beach man faces child neglect charges after authorities say he left his infant daughter in a car while he went to a strip club. Full Story »

BARTOW, Fla. (AP) -- An Orlando man has been sentenced to life in prison for strangling his girlfriend and burning her body on the side of a road in central Florida. Full Story »

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) --Florida's high school graduation rate jumped by 3 percent points to a record 76.3 percent this year, state education officials said Friday, but a critic said the state is still a "dropout factory." Full Story »

MIAMI, Fla. (WSVN) -- A baseball club has been left empty handed after a crook stole their fundraising items. Robert Martin woke up Saturday morning to realize his car was stolen. The car was stolen Friday night from Martin's driveway on 16th Avenue and 17th Terrace. Full Story »

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) -- The FBI is now involved in the search for a suspect in the fatal Thanksgiving Day shootings of four of his relatives, according to documents filed Friday in federal court in West Palm Beach. Full Story »

MIRAMAR, Fla. (WSVN) -- A South Florida teacher is in trouble after he is accused of an alarming crime against a child over the course of seven years. Full Story »

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A contentious Everglades restoration project that a judge once called an "environmental bridge to nowhere" kicked off Friday with a visit from the interior secretary, two decades after Congress authorized it. Full Story »

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Oops! In an embarrassing blunder, Gov. Charlie Crist mistakenly directed parents of uninsured children to call a toll-free sex line. Full Story »

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (WSVN) -- Police hope surveillance video footage will help put the brakes on a purse snatcher. The crook was caught in the act by a security camera at the BP gas station on Ives Dairy Road, west of Interstate 95, at around 10 a.m., on Nov. 24. Full Story »

MIAMI (WSVN) -- Despite being bedridden with numerous broken bones, a 17-year-old girl who was left for dead by a driver who struck her as she walked on a Florida City street Sunday night is assisting police in their search for the motorist. Full Story »

MIAMI (WSVN) -- Friday is the last day for Miami residents to announce their candidacy for two open city commission seats. A special election is being held next month to fill positions left open by former Commissioner Angel Gonzalez and suspended Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones. Full Story »

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- Organizers and participants are making their last minute preparations before a big annual boat parade next Saturday. Full Story »

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- As the U.S. Marshals Office increases the amount of agents looking for Paul Michael Merhige, new photos have come to light showing the suspected shooter buying a gun. Full Story »

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) -- Twelve people have been arrested in an undercover drug operation in Boca Raton in which authorities say the group used children as young as 8 as lookouts. Full Story »

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Federal authorities have confiscated 4 paintings from an Art Basel Miami Beach gallery to satisfy a civil judgment. Full Story »