Driver strikes light pole, 2 people, according to fire rescue

MIAMI – A dump truck driver hit and killed a pedestrian in a crash in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood late Monday morning, according to police. The crash happened just before 11:20 a.m. at the intersection of Northwest 12th Avenue and Seventh Street. The pedestrian, a woman whom police...

HIALEAH GARDENS, Fla. – The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating after a man was fatally struck by a car Sunday night on the Palmetto Expressway. The crash occurred in the southbound lanes of the highway off Northwest 103rd Street in Hialeah Gardens. According to troopers, authorities responded to the...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – Four deputies were involved in a fatal shooting after a chase on Monday morning in Pompano Beach, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said an armed bank robbery suspect died. Dino Standjofski said he was in the kitchen of his...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Authorities in Broward County are investigating after two cars were found submerged in a canal on Sunday. Crews responded to the scene in Fort Lauderdale near Powerline Road and West McNab Road. According to deputies, a woman with some kind of search boat spotted the...

HIALEAH, Fla. – A Hialeah man stands accused of taking his frustration over a blocked sidewalk to the extreme Sunday night. According to an arrest report, Andres Alejandro Pino, 35, was walking with a child and older man on West 53rd Street when he became angry that the victims’ vehicle was blocking the sidewalk and he couldn’t pass.

SOUTH MIAMI, Fla. – Two people are behind bars following a police chase over the weekend in South Miami. The incident happened Saturday afternoon and ended in the area of Southwest 62nd Avenue and 79th Street. The chase began after a police helicopter spotted a stolen BMW they say...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Rescue crews responded to a three-alarm apartment fire in Miami Gardens on Saturday morning. According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, crews received a call of an apartment fire around 10:30 a.m. near the 39500 block of Northwest 177th Street. Authorities said firefighters encountered heavy fire throughout...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A meeting inside a temporary shelter got heated Monday morning, two days after a fire erupted inside a condominium building in Miami Gardens, displacing dozens of residents. “They don’t care! They raised my motherf***ing rent -- I don’t appreciate that!” one resident said. “So what...

WEST LITTLE RIVER, Fla. – Authorities in Miami-Dade County are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another hospitalized. It happened early Saturday afternoon inside an apartment in the Sunset Point Apartments community in West Little River. The gated complex is located on the 1100 block of...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – After nearly a year paralyzed from a fall at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, family members are mourning 25-year-old Gabby Assouline, who died last week as a result of her injuries. Assouline’s family blames Southwest Airlines for the fall and has sued the carrier.

MIAMI – Police officers reported finding 16 forms of U.S. identification, including driver’s licenses and social security cards, and 47 debit cards in a man’s car and wallet on Sunday in Miami-Dade County. Luis Bonachea was in Sweetwater when police officers arrested him on Sunday, according to...

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. – A Miami man faces more than two dozen charges after deputies said he stole personal information from gas station customers in the Florida Keys, officials said Monday. Da’Vhun Amaru Kinson, 22, is already jailed in Miami-Dade County on a number of unrelated charges. Monroe...

LAUDERHILL, Fla. – Problems are persisting for residents of a Lauderhill apartment building that can’t seem to get its elevator fixed. Patrick Holt came in from out of state to help his sister, Shauna Gibson, who lives on the third floor of the building. Gibson is in a...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A large fire at an apartment complex in Miami Gardens has forced dozens of residents to relocate. In total, 75 units inside the building were affected. The flames sparked on Saturday morning and black smoke could be seen for miles. The roof of the building...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating a shooting that left one man dead in Pompano Beach on Saturday. According to authorities, the shooting happened around midnight near the 300 block of Southwest Second Place in Pompano Beach. According to BSO, deputies located a man...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A man was arrested in Miami Beach after allegedly breaking into a building and then running from police. It happened Saturday at a building located at 600 15th Street in Miami Beach. According to police, 20-year-old Allan Mauricio Anariva-Avila was observed by a witness breaking...

Below is a list of places ordered shut last week by inspectors with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. According to state records, no establishments were ordered shut in Miami-Dade and the Florida Keys last week. All the places mentioned that were shut were allowed to re-open following...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A man fired his gun while trying to separate two fighting dogs and injured a woman and the dogs on Friday in South Beach, according to the Miami Beach Police Department. Norman Irizarry said he was working at South Beach Tattoo when he heard a...

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. – A small plane made an emergency landing on the Rickenbacker Causeway in Key Biscayne Saturday evening, authorities said. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a single-engine Beechcraft A23A made the emergency landing around 5:20 p.m. Authorities said four people were on board when the plane...

MIAMI – A correctional officer accused a 37-year-old Miami-Dade County inmate from Wisconsin of exposing himself for the second time in one week at the West Dade Detention Center. Alan Anderson, of Milwaukee, has a “Kingism” tattoo above his upper lip and a crown on his neck, both associated...