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A residential fire in Pembroke Pines has left several people, including children, in need of a place to stay. The fire broke out Wednesday morning on Northwest 16th Court and impacted several units, authorities said. According to police, Pembroke Pines firefighters extinguished the blaze...

A 62-year-old woman appeared in court on Wednesday to face charges for allegedly driving drunk when she killed a man in Miami-Dade County. She allegedly ran him over — severing his legs and crushing his torso — in the Three Lakes community. A toxicology report revealed that Ana Ruiz-Perez had a...

A federal judge on Wednesday convicted a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol together to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden delivered the verdict from the bench...

Broward County deputies arrested two Oakland Park parents after their 3-year-old daughter overdosed on fentanyl and had to be revived by first responders. According to arrest reports, Walter Carter, 40, and Janett Carter, 38, were folding laundry in their master bedroom Saturday when the...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America's pandemic response through two White House administrations, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The 81-year-old Fauci, who is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, was experiencing mild COVID-19 symptoms, according to a statement...

Abortion rights activists filed a legal protest in Malta’s courts on Wednesday demanding the legalization of abortion in the only European Union member where the procedure is criminalized. Toting banners reading “I decide,” “Abortion is a woman’s right” and “Abortion is health care, not a...

A South Florida man, accused of paying two girls, aged 12 and 14, “hush money” for oral sex and recording it, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. In March, 23-year-old Keivon McBride pleaded guilty in federal court to producing and distributing...

Florida’s governor announced the first director of a newly reactivated Florida State Guard on Wednesday to bolster the state’s National Guard with a focus on responding to disasters in the hurricane-prone region. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said the director of the re-upped force would be...

John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was freed from court oversight Wednesday, officially concluding decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals. “After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!,” he wrote on Twitter shortly after...

Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker acknowledged on Wednesday that he has a son whom he has not previously mentioned publicly, a disclosure that draws renewed attention to his previous outspoken calls for Black men to play an active role in the lives of their children. Walker's...

Gov. Ron DeSantis reacted to a tweet by Elon Musk on Wednesday morning that he is leaning towards voting for DeSantis if the Florida Governor runs for President in 2024. When asked about the support from the SpaceX and Tesla mogul, DeSantis said, “So what I would say is that I’m focused on...

New DNA testing implicates a man in a 1990 Pompano Beach murder case, even though he was previously found not guilty of the crime, according to a news release from the Broward County State Attorney’s office. In an ironic twist, the testing was conducted at the request of the Innocence Project...

American-Canadian writer Ruth Ozeki won the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for “The Book of Form and Emptiness.” Ozeki was awarded the 30,000 pound ($36,000) prize at a ceremony in London for her playful, philosophical novel about a bereaved boy’s relationship with books and...

A Missing Child Alert was issued Wednesday afternoon for a 12-year-old boy from Boynton Beach. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Yvens Clervoir was last seen Sunday in the 400 block of Northeast 11th Avenue in Boynton Beach. He was wearing a multi-colored shirt, black...

An international music festival founded by the father of singer-songwriter Dua Lipa to promote his native Kosovo has led to recriminations for the small European country after it lost the event to neighboring Albania. The Sunny Hill Festival made its debut in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, in 2018...

Ford is recalling over 2.9 million vehicles in the U.S. to fix a transmission problem that can increase the risk of inadvertent rollaway crashes. The recall covers certain 2013 to 2019 Escape, 2013 to 2018 C-Max, 2013 to 2016 Fusion, 2013 to 2021 Transit Connect, and 2015 to 2018 Edge vehicles...

Pope Francis has taken another step to reign in new religious groups in the Catholic Church after their unregulated proliferation in recent decades led to abuses in governance that allowed spiritual and sexual misconduct to go unchecked. Francis issued a new decree published Wednesday that...

Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the U.S., gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to have it recognized as an official holiday in the states has largely stalled. Although almost every state...

The Miami Children’s Museum is allowing students to send messages to Ukrainian refugees in Poland. With the help of Stars of HOPE, a non-profit organization focused on therapeutic art, the children at the museum in Watson Island Park will be able to write messages on wooden stars. The museum...

Two teenagers are being charged as adults for an armed robbery that occurred earlier this year in Oakland Park. Jaquan McFadden and Bryce McFadden, both 16, face charges of robbery with a firearm. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the victim posted a new PlayStation 5 for sale on the...