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A Miami-Dade Police officer, two Miami Beach firefighters and five code enforcement officers were arrested in separate corruption cases involving the extortion and drug trafficking conspiracy, the U.S. attorney announced Wednesday.

We’re coming up on a year since Memorial Day 2011, the Urban Weekend that ended so tragically with a death and gunfire from Miami Beach police on Ocean Drive.

Miami City Commissioners may vote this week on plan that could save a lot of money, but will give elected officials an extra year in office, the Miami Herald reported Monday.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which last year evoked rarely used emergency rules to temporarily extend endangered protections for the butterfly, announced Thursday that the listing would become permanent.

The dress rehearsals are over. Time, at last, to raise the roof on a colorful new era for baseball in South Florida. The Miami Marlins will hold a gala coming-out party in their $515 million showpiece ballpark Wednesday night for a national...

The rally in 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s hometown was one of the largest yet and drew basketball stars Alonzo Mourning and Isaiah Thomas, singers Chaka Khan and Betty Wright, politicians and civil rights leaders. Martin’s father,...

The impact of the pope’s trip to Cuba will be felt in the long-term, but the pilgrimage to the island from Miami has already brought healing to many Cuban-Americans who participated, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said Thursday.

They came from Miami by the hundreds on an emotional pilgrimage to see Pope Benedict in Cuba. For some Cuban American Catholics it was a bitter-sweet homecoming to a place they had left for exile in Florida as small children half a century ago....