An employee of a company that provides services for Miami-Dade Drug Court and a man who was attending the treatment program are facing charges after they allegedly manipulated the urine test process to give the court clean test results, prosecutors said. Cedric Lee Pharr, 43, and Luis Maldonado, 42, are facing unlawful compensation charges, while Pharr ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis will hold a press conference Tuesday in Tallahassee. The conference will take place at 11 a.m. at the Florida Capitol. On Monday, DeSantis spoke in Orlando to reiterate his proposal to eliminate property taxes. “Of all the taxes impacting Floridians, property taxes are the most significant,” ...

The future of fluoride in Miami-Dade County’s drinking water is up to local leaders Tuesday morning. County commissioners are set to decide whether to remove it from tap water. Adding fluoride to the water is a decades-old practice aimed at supporting dental health. Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez is sponsoring legislation that would remove small ...

Two children were transported to the hospital Tuesday morning after being attacked by a dog in Lauderhill, fire rescue said. According to Lauderhill Fire Rescue, the children were transported to Broward Health Medical Center in serious condition. Fire rescue said the two children are 12 years old. This is a developing story.

A state Senate panel on Tuesday approved a proposal that would change the states defamation laws, with an opponent saying it would lead to newspapers and television stations airbrushing history. The bill (SB 752), sponsored by Sen. Corey Simon, R-Tallahassee, seeks to require newspapers and broadcast stations to remove false and defamatory articles and ...

April 1st is the day when pranks, hoaxes, and good-natured trickery take center stage. While its not an official holiday, April Fools Day is celebrated across the world, with individuals and even major brands joining in on the fun. But where did this tradition of playful deception come from, and what are some of the most iconic pranks ever pulled? ...

South Florida woke up to some patchy fog on Tuesday that could be noticeable through about 8 or 9 a.m. To get fog, you need a couple of ingredients: a lot of humidity and light winds. We have the humidity, with dew points above 70 degrees in many areas, and we have the winds, and those calm conditions mix with moisture to create fog. There are ...

The company that owns the embattled Miami Seaquarium has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, as a new report from this year cites conditions at the facility that left several dolphins injured. The Dolphin Company announced in a news release Monday that it voluntarily filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District ofDelaware to restructure its business ...

SpaceX will launch its first human spaceflight ever to cruise over the Earth’s polar regions on Monday. Four astronauts will be aboard the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule for the Fram2 mission launch, scheduled to lift off at 9:46 p.m. ET at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The flight is being privately funded by Chinese-born ...

The Bronx Bombers now have torpedoes in their arsenal. The New York Yankees officially launched the “torpedo bat” era over the weekend — with multiple players using a modified baseball bat during the teams historic offensive onslaught in its opening series of the 2025 season. The wood of the bat is shifted from the barrel towards the batter’s ...

An investigation is underway Monday after a man was fatally shot at a smoke shop in Pompano Beach, deputies said. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the shooting took place on Sunday, shortly after 12 a.m., in the 1200 block of E. Sample Road. Deputies said when they arrived at the scene, they entered the Fire Up Smoke Shop and found the ...

Police were continuing their investigation a day after a Miami-Dade Transit bus driver shot and killed two passengers during a disturbance on a bus, authorities said. The shooting happened shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday as the bus was in the area of Northwest 7th Avenue and 183rd Street in Miami Gardens. Miami Gardens Police said the bus driver was ...

Two No. 1 seeds are Final Four bound. The top overall-seeded UCLA Bruins and defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday punched tickets to Tampa, Florida, for the national semifinals in the 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament. The Bruins, led by First Team All-American center Lauren Betts, defeated the No. 3 LSU Tigers to reach the program’s ...

Three men were arrested on Sunday, accused of selling fraudulent wristbands at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, police said. Christopher Duckett, Timothy Tedford and Carlon Tedford were charged with organized scheme to defraud and doing business without a license. According to police, on Saturday, an undercover officer in plain clothes was at the ...

Dramatic new surveillance video shows the moment a Florida police officer fatally shot a man who charged at him with a knife. The incident happened Saturday morning in Stuart when an officer responded to reports of a man armed with a knife who was acting erratically, Stuart Police officials said. Surveillance video released by the department shows the ...

A soggy Sunday across South Florida led to several weather warnings and advisories as some areas saw up to 8 inches of rain. At the University of Miami Mahoney Pearson dorms, a portion of a patio ceiling collapsed. The area was blocked off but it was Monday as usual for students on campus Miami Beach saw more than 6 inches of rain that brought ...

Massachusetts native and astronaut Sunita Williams is scheduled to speak publicly on Monday for the very first time since splashing back down to Earth earlier this month. The former Needham resident will speak alongside fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. You can watch the 2:30 p.m. press conference live in the ...

A man who fatally shot his estranged girlfriend and three of her young children before turning the gun on himself in Pembroke Park has died, authorities said. Stephen McKenzie died at a hospital on Thursday, Broward Sheriff’s Office officials confirmed on Monday. The shooting happened Wednesday night at an apartment complex near the 3100 block of ...

Rapper YNW Melly is once again asking a Broward County judge to issue him a bond so he can try to get out of jail while he awaits his double murder re-trial. This is the second time attorneys for Melly, whose real name is Jamell Demons, filed a motion for pre-trial release since his July 2023 mistrial on the double murder charges. Demons is accused of ...

The Florida Department of Health (DOH) in Miami-Dade County issued a rabies alert for an unincorporated part of the county after a horse tested positive for the disease, officials said. The Health Department said the animal was tested on March 26 in unincorporated Miami-Dade County off of State Road 997 (Krome Avenue). Officials issued the alert two ...

A woman was arrested on Monday after being accused of burglarizing an officer’s apartment in Miami and stealing their car, deputies said. Andrea Assaf, 27, was charged with grand theft of a vehicle and battery of a police officer. Andrea Assaf According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, on Sunday night, deputies arrived at an apartment ...

Sunday was quite a day as multiple flash flood warnings were issued across South Florida. A disturbance interacting with high humidity brought widespread rainfall amounts of 3 inches or more across South Florida. Who saw the most rain in South Florida? Kendall took the top spot with a whopping 7.93 inches of rain on Sunday. Miami Beach was right ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a press conference in Orlando on Monday with the Florida Realtors Association. The conference will take place at 7025 Augusta National Drive. This is a developing story.

What’s Being Built Here is a franchise series that highlights development projects in South Florida, from new housing complexes to highway expansion and renovation. NBC6 anchor Roxanne Vargas follows the projects from the planning phase to the grand opening, while exploring how the changes impact residents and the core of their community. Watch ...

Chopper6 video showed the aftermath of a wreck that appeared to involve at least four cars on the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) on Monday morning. Florida Highway Patrol said it responded to the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway at 25th Street for a vehicle crash. It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured or what may have caused the ...