by Michael Wilkins | Apr 21, 2026 | Miami News
Leonardo Venegas, 35, was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for kidnapping a six-year-old girl outside her northeast Miami-Dade home in 2023. A jury convicted him last November after roughly two hours of deliberation. Prosecutors said Venegas grabbed the girl...
by Michael Wilkins | Apr 21, 2026 | Miami News
A Florida woman’s quick thinking saved her home and her life after an electric wheelchair exploded in her driveway Sunday morning. Alexandra Anaya heard clicking from a lithium-powered Zinger wheelchair she had recently bought secondhand and was charging with a...
by Michael Wilkins | Apr 20, 2026 | Miami News
With his execution days away, convicted killer Chadwick Willacy chose to spend some of his last hours testifying — not for himself, but for a friend. Willacy, on Florida’s death row since 1991 for murdering his Palm Bay neighbor, appeared via Zoom at a...
by Michael Wilkins | Apr 20, 2026 | Miami News
Florida is quietly phasing out the penny. The state Legislature has passed SB 1074, which would allow businesses to round cash transactions to the nearest five cents — down for totals ending in 1–2 cents, up for those ending in 3–4. The penny isn’t being...
by Michael Wilkins | Apr 19, 2026 | Miami News
Two Israeli reservists were killed in southern Lebanon within 24 hours despite an active ceasefire. Sgt. First Class Lidor Porat, 31, died Saturday when his engineering vehicle rolled over a Hezbollah-planted bomb. Nine others were wounded. A day earlier, Warrant...
