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Prosecutors today are expected to present the case against Casey Anthony -- the mother of missing 3-year-old Caylee Marie -- to members of a grand jury who will decide whether she will face more serious charges, possibly murder.

A small step today by state officials may be a giant step for Florida's fight against global warming.

Waste Management Inc., the largest U.S. trash hauler, on Monday withdrew its $6.73 billion cash bid for rival Republic Services Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, saying that the upheaval in the financial markets increased the transaction's financial risk.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says a tropical depression over the eastern Caribbean could reach tropical-storm strength before turning north in the next couple of days.

Two South Florida school districts will learn Tuesday if they are the winners of $1 million in scholarships for their students -- through an award that has been called the Nobel Prize of public education.

Pembroke Pines police are looking for a gunman who was caught on video Thursday just before robbing and shooting at a man in a parking lot in the 7800 block of Johnson Street, just east of University Drive.

One of the two nuclear reactors at the Turkey Point power plant in South Miami-Dade has been shut down since Saturday as specialists repair a valve, according to Tom Veenstra, a spokesman for Florida Power & Light.

North Miami police responding to a 911 call Monday afternoon found two people dead in an apartment and a woman shot in a neighboring building.

It has been 27 years, but Belen Jesuit Prep School teacher Pat Collins still remembers a 17-year-old Joe Garcia sitting in his 11th-grade government class full of questions.

Jack Garcia has been described as the best undercover agent the FBI has ever had, a man who could juggle identities and characters with the ease of a Hollywood star.  CBS4's Jim Defede sat down with Garcia for a one-on-one interview.

North Miami Police found two bodies and an injured person in two apartment buildings Monday afternoon.

Some might wonder if the West Palm Beach Congressional district is simply cursed. According to an ABC News report, Representative Tim Mahoney, who famously replaced the disgraced Mark Foley, allegedly paid $121,000 to a staffer he had an affair with.

Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the British Virgin Islands and parts of the Dominican Republic remain under a Tropical Storm watch because of Tropical Depression 15.

Former Broward Sheriff and convicted felon Ken Jenne has a new job.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- A police K-9 is recovering after he was caught in the crossfire.

MIAMI -- The defense is getting its turn put on witnesses and evidence in the Miami murder trial of former Boston FBI agent John Connolly.

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. -- Police in North Miami are investigating after finding two people dead in an apartment and a woman with a gunshot wound in a nearby building.

MIAMI -- Convicted killer Kirby Archer will soon learn his fate after pleading guilty to last year's hijacking of the "Joe Cool" charter boat and slayings of four people aboard.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Former U.S. Rep. Paul G. Rogers, a Democrat who earned the nickname "Mr. Health" for his work on environmental and health care legislation during a 24-year career in Congress, has died. He was 87.

President George W. Bush will detail his administrations new plan to pump money into U.S. markets as a part of the $700 billion bailout.

A small-town Texas teacher stands accused of offering a girl a better grade for sex.

See what happened in entertainment history on October 14.

The attorney general's office says a Broward County lawyer never fixed the finances of thousands of clients who paid her to fix their credit.

The Bush administration plans to spend an initial $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout buying stock in private banks, an official says.

MIAMI -- The popular primetime television game show, “Wheel of Fortune,” is now the theme of a new attack ad against candidate for congress Raul Martinez.

A small-town Texas teacher stands accused of offering a girl a better grade for sex.

Two people are reported dead and dozens of homes are in ruins as several wildfires scorch California.

U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney is under investigation amid reports the democratic lawmaker had an affair with a staffer and then offered her more than $120,000 in hush money.

President George W. Bush will detail his administrations new plan to pump money into U.S. markets as a part of the $700 billion bailout.

Wall Street rallied Monday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 936 points, its biggest-ever point gain, and the largest one-day percentage advance — 11 percent — since March 1933. (FPL) (CCL) (R) (RCL) (BKC) (FDP) (RSG) (WSO) (AN)

Fort Lauderdale-based RRA Consulting has hired former Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne. The firm is a separate entity from the law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler.

German air carrier Lufthansa is adding a seasonal flight between Miami International Airport and Düsseldorf, Germany. The airline’s three-cabin Airbus A340-300 will start flying between the two airports six days a week, beginning Oct. 26.

Aerospace company Rockwell Collins will be shutting down its Miami service center and letting go 60 employees who work on in-flight entertainment equipment.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. said Monday it plans to enter Dubai with the deployment of Brilliance of the Seas in 2010. (RCL)

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