A man was caught on camera knocking a tray out of a waiter’s hand, sending food all over the floor at a restaurant along the Miami River.

A 27-year-old Miami-Dade County mother stands accused of biting her 8-year-old daughter while she was out on bond for another violent case.

New Mexico was poised to adopt the tortilla its state bread, but the bill that got unanimous support in the Legislature fell flat with the governor.

A man told a state trooper that he was traveling southbound on the Turnpike’s Homestead Extension in Miami-Dade County when a speeding car passed him while swerving in and out of lanes, records show.

Broward County Judge Michael Usan sentenced 29-year-old Junior Bazile to two years of probation following his arrest for grand theft.

Annetta Garcia was grieving her 22-year-old son on Thursday at a roadside memorial in Miami-Dade County.

Caroline Garcia, a U.S. Open semifinalist two years ago, is drawing attention to the problem of cyberbullying in tennis, particularly by people who bet on matches.

A Broward County woman is facing 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty to leading a $190.7 million Ponzi scheme.

A fire erupted early Thursday morning at a mobile home in Miami-Dade County’s Tamiami area.

Fans of the Florida Panthers are dedicated and excited as their team is four victories away from winning the Stanley Cup.

A determined Spirit Airlines passenger was on a mission to find her stolen luggage.

Broward County Public Schools officials said a fifth-grade teacher’s alleged misconduct during testing is under investigation at Eagle Ridge Elementary School in Coral Springs.

Manchester United has won its first major trophy by routing Tottenham 4-0 in the Women’s FA Cup final at Wembley.

Golden Boy Promotions said in a statement Thursday that it stands by Ryan Garcia after a report that he had tested positive for a banned substance before his dominant victory over Devin Haney in New York.

A suspect in the deadly April 11 carjacking of a South Florida woman near Winter Springs claims he was paid to deliver the victim to someone else, and was also given the gun used in the attack, according to a federal affidavit.

A concrete pavement project caused westbound traffic delays on the Rickenbacker Causeway that affected drivers starting Sunday from Virginia Key to Key Biscayne.

Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner won his 20th match of the year to reach the Miami Open semifinals for the third time in the past four years with a victory over Tomas Machac.

A 13-year-old boy who is accused of fatally stabbing his mother inside their Hialeah apartment last year is expected to appear in court Tuesday.

A 13-year-old boy who is accused of fatally stabbing his mother last year inside their Hialeah apartment is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.

Newly-released doorbell camera videos show Derek Rosa speaking to his mother moments before police say he fatally stabbed her at their Hialeah apartment; they then show the 13-year-old calling police afterward.

DashOne is a wearable technology system that empowers athletes to improve their form and performance in real-time.

The trial continues Thursday for Charlie Adelson, who is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of his ex-brother-in-law, Florida State University professor Daniel Markel, in 2014, in Tallahassee.

Thirteen-year-old Derek Rosa wasn’t present for an arraignment hearing in Miami-Dade court Tuesday morning, in which his attorney pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder on his behalf.

The Florida Bureau of Insurance Fraud has arrested three men and are searching for a woman after a fraudulent insurance claim was filed after they staged a car crash in southwest Miami-Dade, authorities said.

A teen is being hailed as a hero after rescuing his 3-year-old cousin from drowning in a pool at a home in Davie.

A southwest Miami-Dade babysitter claimed that a 7-year-old’s severe head injury was from doing cartwheels. But police said the girl told staff at a local hospital it was all a lie.

A dog attack in Miami left a woman hospitalized and led to an officer opening fire on another dog Friday morning, authorities said.

Police arrested a west Miami-Dade woman Wednesday, accusing her of running unlicensed post-operative cosmetic surgery recovery homes in both the city of Miami and the county’s Tamiami area.

As safety takes the national spotlight, one Miami-Dade student was honored by Miami police Wednesday after showcasing her bravery during a shooting scare nearly two months ago.

Florida’s Republican lawmakers have the majority to pass a state bill that Democrats fear could end up hurting homeowners who are already struggling to cover their cost of living.

Aryna Sabalenka has stunned top-ranked Iga Swiatek to reach the championship of the WTA Finals.

Another South Florida police officer found themselves in trouble with the law this week; in the latest case, an El Portal police officer is facing a charge of simple battery after Miami police arrested her Wednesday.

An angry mother recounts the moments she and her daughter became victims of a road rage encounter in southwest Miami-Dade.

Salome Garcia, a Cuban artist based in Spain, has been following the way the Cuban judicial system punished the many young people who dared to protest against the regime.

Some of the 126 people who were aboard an MD-82 jetliner that caught on fire on Tuesday during a rough landing at Miami International Airport said they feared for their lives.

California prosecutors say the leader of Mexican megachurch La Luz del Mundo has admitted he sexually abused three girls.

A former no-party-affiliated state Senate candidate and the chairman of the Republican Party of Seminole County are among the three people arrested in connection to the shill candidate scheme in Central Florida.

Eight House Democrats are demanding the Bureau of Prisons make public an audit of sexual assault reports at a federal women's prison in California where inmates say they were subjected to rampant abuse.

New signage has cut down on dangerous boating in the Miami Marine Stadium basin, and lawmakers are looking to further crackdown on illegal activity in Florida waterways.

Revised vote counts in New York City’s mayoral primary show Democrat Eric Adams has maintained a thin lead.

The Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was thrown into a state of confusion Tuesday when election officials abruptly retracted their latest report on the vote count after realizing it had been corrupted by test data never cleared from a computer system.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill to help protect Biscayne Bay on Thursday at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne. It allocates $20 million for projects.

Miriam Garcia hit for the $500,000 top prize in the $5 “Pay Me!” scratch-off game that launched in February, Florida Lottery announced.

A beloved father was killed after being struck by a boat while riding a personal watercraft, and the man who police arrested for the hit-and-run has been released from jail.

A horrific crash that involved four vehicles in Homestead has claimed the lives of 2 people including a pregnant woman.

The Democratic groups, however, want a new election, saying the one in November was tainted. AdBy all accounts, everyone knew about this ahead of the election, raising the question of why opponents didn’t raise the issue then. The plant candidate Alex Rodriguez got more than 6,000 votes despite not actually campaigning. The actual election mechanics in this year’s District 37 race were lawful and smooth. Planting a shill candidate is not illegal, but the funding in this case was, prosecutors allege.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Florida Democratic leaders are calling for Republican State Senator Ileana Garcia to step down or to voluntarily resign and for a new election to be held. This comes in the wake of former state senator Frank Artiles being charged with election fraud Thursday, accused of masterminding and funding a sham candidate to manipulate voters last November. Faced with proof of fraud that clearly impacted the outcome of an election decided by 32 votes. He lost the election by 32 votes to Republican Ileana Garcia. It is unlikely that Garcia would voluntarily resign her seat and there is no provision in state law that says she must step down.

Miami-Dade police officers said the rope around his neck was tied so tightly that it left cuts in his skin. White Park in Miami-Dade’s Richmond Heights neighborhood when police officers found him suffering. “When the call came out it was stating that there was a dog that was possibly dead,” Officer Albert Hernandez said. “He was just extremely, extremely dehydrated, and very, very anemic,” Ferreira said. Officer Lauren Garcia stepped up after colleagues told her the story.

DORAL, Fla. – Newly minted Republican state Sen. Ileana Garcia is unloading on Twitter, saying she is being “vilified by insinuations” as evidence mounts that a little-known, late-entry, no-party candidate was planted to disrupt votes for her incumbent Democrat opponent Jose Javier Rodriguez. Garcia has not returned calls, but her press releases and tweets take shots at the media and the predecessor she defeated. The founder of Latinas for Trump insists her win is valid — and untainted — even as Local 10 reporting found the people and connections behind a dark money campaign apparently staged to pull Democratic votes. Garcia asks an interesting question: Where was the outrage four years ago when Rodriguez won despite a little known, no-party candidate who pulled more than 5% of the vote? PREVIOUS COVERAGE OF DARK MONEY SENATE CANDIDATES:Following the money behind two apparent shill candidates in state Senate racesEvidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark moneyMiami-Dade State Senate candidate turns out to be shill funded by dark money that lives two counties away

That’s Southwest Miami-Dade along the coast to Downtown Miami, and the lower part of Miami Beach. This Week in South Florida wanted to get some input on that, as well as other big stories from the week, on our roundtable. Rafael Yaniz is a political analyst and attorney from Miami who usually comes at things from the center-right perspective. Burnadette Norris-Weeks is an attorney in Fort Lauderdale and founder of the Women of Color Empowerment Institute, and she’s a Democrat. They joined This Week in South Florida with hosts Glenna Milberg and Michael Putney, and the discussion can be seen at the top of this page.

Both Peter Antonacci, the Broward County supervisor of elections, and Christina White, the Miami-Dade County supervisor of elections, talked to reporters during separate news conferences. Joe Scott, Broward’s newly elected supervisor of elections, said that he decided to run after what happened with Brenda Snipes, Broward’s former supervisor of elections. Dr. Brenda Snipes, Broward County Supervisor of Elections, looks on during a canvassing board meeting in Lauderhill, Florida. In Miami-Dade, White said early voting “helped tremendously” with the estimated 1,165,000 ballots from about 75% of registered voters. FILE - An election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Board of Elections in Doral, Fla., on Oct, 26, 2020.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A man from Miami called Local 10 to say that he had received two vote-by-mail ballots. He was concerned about what was going on and said he thought perhaps receiving the ballot was some type of fraud. That’s the law.”Local 10 reached out to the Miami-Dade County Elections Department and they assured us it wasn’t fraud and provided clarity on the situation. Mr. Garcia changed his party affiliation on Sept. 18 but his first ballot was generated on Sept. 6. The Miami-Dade County Elections Department operates on a live voter registration system that will only allow a voter to cast one ballot.”Officials said that if they receive two ballots from the same person, it goes to the canvassing board for a review.

(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)PARIS – The Latest from the French Open (all times local):___7:00 pm. Wawrinka won the French Open in 2015. ___2:50 p.m.Simona Halep had no trouble reversing the result of her loss to Amanda Anisimova at last year’s French Open. She opened her campaign with a first-round upset of 2019 French Open finalist Marketa Vondrousova. The two-time French Open quarterfinalist defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 7-5.

Generations of young children raised in La Luz del Mundo have been forced to become the sexual servants of La Luz del Mundo’s apostles.”Martin appeared with her attorneys and husband in Los Angeles, where the lawsuit was filed a day earlier. Martin was born in Monterey Park and said she was a fourth-generation member of La Luz. Soon after Flores’ death in 2014, his son resumed his sexual relationship with Martin, according to the lawsuit. Afterward, the lawsuit states, La Luz del Mundo mounted a smear campaign against her family in Mexico and California and attempted to buy her silence, vandalized her home and followed her. “It is not a blessing, it is not a gift from God, it is not right.”Social mediaReddit: Ex-La Luz del Mundo (English and Spanish)

A body was found floating in the Miami River shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday near Garcia's Seafood Grille & Fish Market. MIAMI - A body was found Thursday morning in the Miami River. The body was discovered floating in the water shortly after 6 a.m. near Garcia's Seafood Grille & Fish Market. The body could be that of a person who was seen jumping into the water Wednesday morning near Jose Marti Park. Copyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

Garcia was among the dozens of Cuban Roman Catholics who traveled far to attend the funeral service of Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega, who died Friday aged 82. AP Photo/Javier Galeano Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega celebrates Good Friday mass during Holy Week in the cathedral in Havana, Cuba, April 6, 2012. Ismael Francisco/Cubadebate via AP Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega, right, stands behind Pope Francis in the popemobile as they arrive for mass at Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba, Sept. 20, 2015. He also secretly helped Pope Francis to deliver letters to Raul Castro and to former President Barack Obama in 2014. Puerto Rico Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves and Cardinal Sen Patrick O'Malley, of Boston, also attended the funeral service.