BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Officers in Broward County surrounded a vehicle after stopping it following a possible armed robbery.
Unmarked police vehicles were parked around a blue sedan just after 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Authorities said they received a call just after 12:30 p.m. regarding a possible armed robbery that occurred along the 4800 block of Northwest 24th Court in Lauderdale Lakes.
Deputies followed the vehicle and eventually... [...]
MARATHON, Fla. – A 49-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday on accusations that she kidnapped a 16-month-old child from a hotel in the Florida Keys.
According to Monroe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Adam Linhardt, deputies were called to the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Marathon around 8:30 a.m. where an employee told authorities that Zita Gasperik took her child without her permission.
Deputies pulled over Gasperik on U.S.... [...]
The 2018 Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health has been awarded by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation to Judge Steven Leifman, an Associate Administrative Judge and chair of the board of the South Florida Behavioral Health Network.
The ceremony took place at the Pierre Hotel in New York on Oct. 26 following the annual Brain and Behavior Research Foundation International Mental Health Research Symposium. Leifman was honored for... [...]
A South Florida organization of prosecutors that includes Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle is telling the Florida Supreme Court that the latest version of the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law is unconstitutional.
The League of Prosecutors, in newly filed court documents, asked justices to strike down the law because it unlawfully forces state attorneys to try cases involving... [...]
HIALEAH, Fla. - The wife of a man killed in a car crash involving a Miami-Dade police
officer spoke to reporters Thursday, a day after the officer was arrested.
Prosecutors allege that the officer's actions resulted in the death of Emilio Vizcaino, who was driving down a dark southwest Miami- Dade roadway around 1:30 a.m. March 6.
Eileen Avalos fought back tears as she described her late husband.
"He was an excellent father, a... [...]
