Transgender Day of Remembrance has been held annually since 1999, and the vigils and memorials have only gotten larger. Thats 25 years of honoring lives lost to hate crimes. Wednesday was another solemn day for the trans community. Dozens of trans people were killed this year alone two of them here in South Florida. Right now we are in a time that we ...

A South Florida community came together Wednesday to pray after a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed over the weekend. Pastors, teachers, neighbors, Florida Citys Mayor and city commissioners, and others stood with the boy’s family to pray for them and call for justice. It’s unacceptable and not excusable, Mayor Otis Wallace said. Police say ...

Miami Gardens released new information Wednesday on the deadly shooting of a woman at an apartment complex. The victim has been identified as 27-year-old Chavley Acanda Gonzalez. She had just celebrated her birthday on Sunday before her body was found in a parking lot outside her apartment building Tuesday morning. She had been shotmultiple times, ...

A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday. Comedian, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was a phenomenon when it debuted in 2019 at Art Basel Miami Beach, as festivalgoers tried to make out whether the single yellow piece of fruit affixed to a white wall with ...

Florida has agreed to pay $725,000 in legal fees and costs for businesses that successfully challenged part of a 2022 law that Gov. Ron DeSantis dubbed the Stop WOKE Act. A court filing Tuesday said the state and the plaintiffs reached a settlement Nov. 4 on attorney fees and other legal costs. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker quickly issued an ...

The Miami-Dade County Commission passed an agreement with the city of Miami Beach on Wednesday to fund the Homeless Trust. That city had canceled a referendum which could have raised millions of dollars for the Trust through a restaurant tax. That move incensed the county because Miami Beach was one of only three cities in the county not contributing ...

Leaked info can turn your life and bank accounts upside down. One man knows this all too well. Our NBC colleagues interviewed a consumer who we will call Stephen. We are not using his real name or location because crooks launched a repeated, all-out attack on his identity. I want to scream the message, Stephen said. I was so paranoid I was, like, ...

Women and racial diversity are vital to the strength of U.S. armed forces, outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in an exclusive interview with NBC News as he prepares to shortly exit the top military post after four years. I have spent 41 years in uniform, three long tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, and everywhere I went on a battlefield, there ...

Miami-Dade commissioners have approved a resolution aimed at getting rid of single-use plastics and Styrofoam at county venues. At a meeting Wednesday, commissioners voted in favor of the resolution to ban the items at places like Miami International Airport, PortMiami, public parks and county office buildings. The ban will apply to future vendors who ...

Shocking new video shows a stabbing outside a restaurant in Tamiami that left a man fighting for his life and police searching for a suspect. The incident happened around 7:40 p.m. Tuesday outside of Sabor Cubano Cafeteria in a shopping plaza on Southwest 8th Street, Miami-Dade Police said. Witnesses said a man with distinctive blue hair started ...

An FDA inspection of a Toms of Maine manufacturing facility led to the discovery of significant violations, including bacteria in water used to make toothpaste and a black mold-like substance.  The FDA sent a warning letter Nov. 5 to parent company Colgate-Palmolive, which was publicly released Tuesday, detailing how microorganisms were found in water ...

A Venezuelan man has been convicted of murder in the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, a case that fueled the national debate over immigration during this years presidential race. Jose Antonio Ibarra wascharged with murder and other crimesin Rileys February death, and the guilty verdict was reached on Wednesday by Athens-Clarke County ...

A well-known South Florida high school football coach is being investigated after he was reportedly caught watching inappropriate material in a school classroom. Students at Miami Jackson Senior High School said coach Max Edwards was caught watching sexual content on a school computer while in class. Miami-Dade County Public Schools haven’t ...

Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla is no longer facing charges following an investigation into alleged bribery and money laundering, prosecutors said. The Broward State Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that they were dropping all charges against Diaz de la Portilla and co-defendant William Riley Jr. Both men were arrested in ...

Police are investigating after a woman was struck and killed by a private school bus in Sweetwater Wednesday morning. The incident happened in the area of Southwest 2nd Street and 109th Avenue. Aerial footage showed the woman’s body covered by a yellow tarp in the roadway next to the bus. Her identity hasn’t been released. Miami-Dade Police ...

Time is up for the owners of an old building that’s covered in graffiti in downtown Miami. On Tuesday, the city’s code enforcement board voted not to give the owner any more extensions to clean up the graffiti at the former VITAS building. Members of the board called the building an eyesore. It looks like the because they allowed it to be open ...

A truck on fire snarled traffic on the MacArthur Causeway during morning rush hour Wednesday. The incident happened around 7:30 a.m. in the westbound lanes of the Causeway at Watson Island. Footage showed fire rescue crews working to extinguish the blaze. It was unknown what cause the fire of if anyone was injured. At one point, all westbound lanes ...

Police are investigating a drive-by shooting in a southwest Miami-Dade neighborhood that left a man dead early Wednesday morning. The shooting happened shortly before 1 a.m. near the 19300 block of Southwest 116th Avenue. Miami-Dade Police said officers responding to reports of a shooting found the injured man. He was rushed to Jackson Memorial ...

A major storm swept across the northwest U.S., battering the region with strong winds and rain, causing widespread power outages and downing trees that killed at least one person. The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks through Friday and hurricane-force wind warnings were in effect as the strongest atmospheric river  a large ...

Members of the House Ethics Committee will meet behind closed doors Wednesday afternoon to discuss whether to publicly release a report detailing their sweeping investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trumps pick for attorney general. Several Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have said they want to review the House ...

A highly publicized cold front will be making its way through South Florida by Wednesday evening. A few scattered showers are expected Wednesday afternoon before the cold front clears the area. Youll feel the front by Thursday morning as temperatures for most of the region will be in the mid-upper-60s. Believe it or not, this is where we should be ...

An Illinois man was arrested in Chicago in an alleged plot to abduct “a little boy” from a Fort Lauderdale school and hold him for a ransom, federal prosecutors said. Devontay Shields, 35, of Danville, Illinois, was arrested Saturday at Union Station as he attempted to board an Amtrak train to Miami, according to a criminal complaint filed Sunday in ...

The United States said Wednesday that its embassy in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, had closed after receiving “specific information of a potential significant air attack.” “Out of an abundance of caution, the Embassy will be closed, and Embassy employees are being instructed to shelter in place,” it said in a security alert, recommending U.S. ...

Kicked out of the house, on the streets, and homeless unfortunately, thats the reality and experience of way too many youths who are transgender. According to one organization, a staggering third of LGBTQ+ youth reported experiencing homelessness or housing instability. That number is even higher for transgender youth. We met an 18-year-old ...

Police are searching for a man with blue hair who they say stabbed another man Tuesday night outside of a restaurant in Tamiami. It happened at around 7:40 p.m. outside of Sabor Cubano Cafeteria in a shopping plaza on Southwest 8th Street, police said. Witnesses said a man started harassing a waitress inside the restaurant. A customer intervened, and ...