A Utah couple faces federal kidnapping charges after allegedly deceiving family members and fleeing to Cuba with a 10-year-old child, whom relatives feared was to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Rose Inessa-Ethington, 42, the child's biological father who later...
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...
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...
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 Miami-Dade...
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 abolished...
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...
Negotiations between the US and Iran showed cautious signs of progress Saturday, but the Strait of Hormuz remains a flashpoint. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf acknowledged movement in talks while warning that "a big distance" still separates the...
Every spring, millions of migratory songbirds pass through South Florida on their way north to breed. Many never arrive. Up to a billion birds die annually in the US from window collisions, according to the National Audubon Society, with artificial light a leading...
One person was airlifted to a hospital Saturday morning after a pickup truck struck the rear of a semi-truck on Interstate 75 near Indian Trace Boulevard in Broward County. Rescue crews extricated the trapped driver, who was transported as a trauma alert but remains...
The FBI has published new surveillance images in its investigation into the April 6 shooting of rapper Offset outside the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. According to officials, a large group assaulted the rapper before one suspect shot him...
Lisa Hochstein, a cast member on Real Housewives of Miami, surrendered to Miami-Dade authorities Wednesday on a felony charge of intercepting communications — accused of secretly recording her ex-husband, prominent plastic surgeon Lenny Hochstein. Hochstein, 43, was...
A Florida surgeon has been arrested on manslaughter charges after allegedly removing a patient's liver instead of his spleen during a 2024 operation, causing the man to bleed to death on the table. Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky of Destin was performing a laparoscopic...
