by Michael Wilkins | Nov 6, 2025 | Miami News
Nearly 30 years after one of Miramar’s most horrifying crimes, the family of four murder victims is pleading for renewed focus on the still-unsolved case. On April 30, 1997, 69-year-old Theresa Laverne, her daughter Marie Altidore, and Marie’s two young children —...
by Michael Wilkins | Nov 6, 2025 | Miami News
Several families in Florida and around the US are suing Roblox, accusing the massively popular gaming platform of failing to protect children from sexual predators. One lawsuit, filed by a Miami-Dade family, centers on their 11-year-old daughter, who was sexually...
by Michael Wilkins | Nov 5, 2025 | Miami News
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic Socialist and outspoken anti-Israel activist, won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, becoming the city’s youngest mayor in more than 100 years and its first Muslim mayor. Mamdani defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo...
by Michael Wilkins | Nov 5, 2025 | Miami News
Miami’s crowded mayoral race has narrowed to two finalists: Eileen Higgins and Emilio T. Gonzalez, who will face off in a December 9 runoff after emerging as the top vote-getters from a field of more than a dozen candidates. With 96% of precincts reporting, Higgins...
by Michael Wilkins | Nov 4, 2025 | Miami News
Half a century after 15-year-old Martha Moxley was found beaten to death beneath a tree in her upscale Greenwich neighborhood, her killing remains one of America’s most notorious unsolved crimes. Now, Michael Skakel — whose overturned conviction once tied him to the...
by Michael Wilkins | Nov 4, 2025 | Miami News
More than four decades after a brutal 1984 attack, Robert Koehler — long known as the “Pillowcase Rapist” — has been convicted in Miami-Dade. The 66-year-old was found guilty of sexual battery, kidnapping, and burglary after jurors deliberated for just 90 minutes on...
by Michael Wilkins | Nov 3, 2025 | Miami News
Nine years after his emotional viral courtroom reunion with Judge Mindy Glazer, 58-year-old Arthur Nathaniel Booth is back behind bars—this time accused of committing a new string of robberies. Police say Booth posed as a plumber to target elderly victims, including...
by Michael Wilkins | Nov 3, 2025 | Miami News
A tragic wrong-way collision early Sunday morning left two drivers dead and shut down all northbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike near Bird Road in Miami. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a blue Honda was traveling the wrong way around 4 a.m. when it slammed...
by Michael Wilkins | Nov 2, 2025 | Miami News
A Miami woman has been arrested after allegedly fatally shooting 50-year-old Abdul S. Rolle inside a smoke shop early Tuesday morning near Northwest 27th Avenue and 45th Street. Miami-Dade deputies responded shortly before 6 a.m. after a ShotSpotter alert detected...
by Michael Wilkins | Nov 2, 2025 | Miami News
Justin Bieber is opening up about the emotional turmoil he experienced during the birth of his and Hailey Bieber’s son, Jack Blues Bieber, now 15 months old. Speaking on an Oct. 27 Twitch livestream, Justin recalled a tense clash between the doula, the nurse — and...
