Former baseball all-star Manny Ramirez has been formally charged with misdemeanor domestic violence/battery, just over two weeks after being taken into custody after allegedly hitting his wife, Florida authorities announced Friday.
The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for South Florida has been arrested on child pornography charges, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.
All-star slugger Manny Ramirez was ordered Tuesday to stay away from his wife after his first appearance in a Broward County courthouse on domestic violence charges.
All-star slugger Manny Ramirez is granted $2,500 bond after being arrested on charges stemming from a domestic dispute.
A former Transportation Security Administration employee was charged with two counts of grand theft for allegedly stealing electronics from luggage, authorities in Florida said Thursday.
Two people were killed and 10 others injured in a nightclub shooting early Thursday morning in Broward County, Florida, police said.
The wife of Miami Dolphins star receiver Brandon Marshall has been charged with stabbing him in the abdomen with a kitchen knife during a domestic violence incident, according to a report from the Broward County, Florida, sheriff's office.
Being attacked in the courthouse was the last thing Catherine Scott-Gonzalez expected when she showed up for the final hearing in her divorce case.
A Florida woman who fled to California has been arrested on charges of making a threat that led to the lockdown of schools in Broward County, Florida, authorities said Tuesday.
With the threat diminished, officials lift a lockdown on schools in Broward County, Florida.
Police lifted the lockdown on all schools and district facilities in Broward County, Florida, Wednesday after receiving information that a threat to the facilities had diminished, authorities said.
It's quite clear. No guns may be brought to school. Period. It's the law.
A 7-year-old with a plastic toy gun still sits home a year after he brought it to school. CNN's John Zarrella reports.
A 25-year-old teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student at a Florida middle school.
A former high school teacher in Freeland, Michigan, has been arraigned in two counties on 29 counts of sexual misconduct with an underage student, a Midland County prosecutor said Wednesday.
Parents of a teen who was set on fire say they are proud of how he is recovering.
Just taking a sip of water or walking to the bathroom is excruciatingly painful for 15-year-old Michael Brewer, who was burned over 65 percent of his body after being set on fire, allegedly by a group of teenagers.
A 13-year-old who witnessed another teen being set on fire last month apologized Tuesday, saying he is praying for the boy's recovery and he is sorry for what happened.
A 13-year-old who witnessed another teen being set on fire last month says he's sorry for what happened.
After an officer involved in two deadly shootings in four days, John Zarrella looks at decompression time for police.
On the grainy, silent black and white video, it's hard to tell exactly what happened the night of June 14 in Miami Beach. But one thing is certain: A tourist, Husien Shehada, can be seen falling to the ground, shot by a police officer. Shehada, 29, later died.
CNN's John Zarrella reports black market trade has likely led to the slaughter of pet horses.
Geronimo was a beautiful painted quarter horse.
Howard K. Stern and two doctors entered "not guilty" pleas to charges of conspiring to provide drugs to Anna Nicole Smith before her fatal overdose in 2007.
Class-action lawyers are offering cash-strapped municipalities a new way to fill their dwindling coffers: sue online travel companies like Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Priceline and Travelocity.
Accusing local media in the Orlando, Florida, area of a "barrage" of coverage, Casey Anthony's lead defense attorney asked Monday to have her death-penalty case moved from Orlando to Miami, Florida.
Police think it started with a dispute over an ex-girlfriend. Threats were made on social networking sites and via text messages.
A mother and her teenage son are kidnapped. The kidnappers place a cell phone in the car of the boy's father so they can communicate their ransom demands. The son is burned with a blowtorch. The mother implores the father to pay the ransom.
You don't expect to hear an electric saw in church, but Kevin Cross uses the tool along with a frying pan, blender and toaster oven to help free people from debt.
At dawn Wednesday, Jews around the world celebrated the Blessing of the Sun, an event that happens once every 28 years.
A defense attorney used the courthouse steps Tuesday for a blistering attack against the California attorney general for bringing conspiracy charges against his client, Howard K. Stern, in the Anna Nicole Smith case.
New evidence about prescription-pill arrests may shed more light on her death
Prosecutors in Florida are taking a new look at the 2007 death of Anna Nicole Smith to see if recent evidence that California investigators gathered might cause them to open an inquiry.
Do newly-released photos show Anna Nicole Smith's indicted doctor using drugs? Jane Velez-Mitchell reports.
Rebecca Hodges, who's been unemployed for a year, sat down at a computer in a public library in New York.
If you want to mark the moment when real estate morphed from every American's dream investment into every American's nightmare, try the third quarter of 2007. That's when the foreclosure rate, which had been slowly creeping upward for three decades and was flat all spring, suddenly leaped 32%, from .59% to .78% of all mortgages.
With his webcam trained on him, a Florida teenager died in his bed of a drug overdose while others watched over the Internet, officials said Friday.
A teenage boy uses a webcam to broadcast his suicide live over the Internet. "Prime News" reports.
Dana Zoladz and four friends thought they would cast ballots Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. Then they learned how long they'd need to stand in line.
Not even the early birds could avoid long lines at some voting centers Saturday as pre-Election Day ballot casting continued in parts of the United States.
In many states across the country, voting has begun, and in some cases, so have the headaches.
CNN's John Zarrella reports glitches and long lines on first day of early voting in Florida's populous Broward County.
The world's favorite legal drug isn't just in your coffee anymore. And do you know how much of it your kids are taking?
One of the nation's poorest urban school districts won a coveted $1 million prize Tuesday for guiding its nearly 50,000 students toward academic achievement
Some states, like California, are having trouble paying their bills. Others are simply having to pay higher interest rates
A federal agent was fatally shot outside a busy south Florida post office after a fight Tuesday, and dozens of police officers searched the area for the gunman
A convicted sex offender who had not spent a day in jail finally goes to prison. CNN.com's Ashley Fantz reports.
A former Florida teacher, who for a year avoided serving a 43-year sentence for sexually molesting a 13-year-old boy, was handcuffed and ordered back into state custody Friday.
A convicted South Florida child molester who has avoided serving a 43-year prison sentence may soon be taken back into custody, according to a court document filed Thursday afternoon.
For nearly two years, the South Florida middle school art teacher forced the boy to have sex in a classroom supply closet.
Florida police say they arrested a man after tapes were found in his old apartment of him having sex with a child.
Florida investigators have identified two victims of apparent underage sexual abuse seen on a video found in the former home of a man arrested last week, authorities said Tuesday.
Police in Hallandale Beach, Florida, are looking for at least two victims of underage sexual abuse seen in videotapes found in the apartment of a man arrested last week on child pornography charges.
A Florida police officer was shot by a prisoner he was transporting.
A man serving a life sentence for robbing a drugstore has confessed to overpowering and fatally shooting a deputy who was taking him to court Wednesday, authorities said.
Hollywood, Florida, police on Wednesday were trying to sort out a bizarre bank robbery in which a bomblike device was strapped to a bank employee.
Authorities disabled and destroyed a device used in a robbery in Hollywood, Florida. WSVN's Nicole Linsalata reports.
Authorities disabled and blew up a device used Tuesday in a bizarre bank robbery in Hollywood, Florida.
A gunman killed a police officer and injured three others during a traffic stop Thursday, triggering a manhunt in a suburban Miami neighborhood
Columbia County ordered evacuations Monday about three miles east of U.S. Hwy. 441 after the 100,000-plus-acre Bugaboo fire in northern Florida jumped a fire line and spread west, according to county spokesman Harvey Campbell.
Thick smoke from area wildfires forced officials to reclose stretches of I-75 and I-10 in northern Florida on Sunday.
Former reality TV star and Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, Seminole tribal police Chief Charlie Tiger said Monday. Several prescription and over-the-counter drugs were found in Smith's system, including three antidepressant or antianxiety drugs, according to Joshua Perper, Broward County medical examiner.
Police investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith said Friday they are seeking additional information in the case and may need a court order to obtain it.
The cause of Anna Nicole Smith's death has been determined, but it will not be announced for one to two weeks to give police time to finish their investigation, the medical examiner's officer said Wednesday.
A Florida appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for Anna Nicole Smith to be buried next to her son, Daniel, in the Bahamas.
A Florida judge said Friday he is not sure courts in his state -- or in California -- have the authority to order Anna Nicole Smith's DNA samples turned over for testing in a paternity dispute.
Broward County Circuit Court Judge Larry Seidlin, who is hearing arguments over the status of the remains of Anna Nicole Smith, has come under fire from some legal observers who say he has allowed the proceedings to become a circus.
The body of Anna Nicole Smith was embalmed Saturday at the Broward County Medical Examiner's office, officials said.
Anna Nicole Smith does not appear to be a victim of foul play, according to preliminary results of an autopsy performed Friday.
Authorities believe they have found and killed the alligator responsible for the death of a 28-year-old aspiring model this week after hunters found two human arms in the animal's stomach.
Three Florida teenagers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of first-degree murder in connection with the beating death of a homeless man in January.
"The spirits gave it to me," a Haitian woman told a Homeland Security officer about what appeared to be a human skull in her suitcase.
A ship worker was rescued Wednesday after he fell from a cargo freighter and spent more than 12 hours in the Atlantic Ocean, the Coast Guard said.
Convicted child murderer Lionel Tate, 17, who got a second chance at life as a free man in January, has been arrested on a probation violation that could put him back in prison.
Retiree Seymour Schuss accepted a plea agreement Tuesday that spared him a possible 15-year jail sentence and circumvented a retrial on manslaughter charges for a squabble at a Florida cinema that turned fatal.
Two South Florida boys are charged with the sexual battery of a 10-year-old girl at an elementary school, local sheriff's officials said.
Terry McAuliffe couldn't have written today's lede better himself: President Bush visits Palm Beach for the first time since '00 today, while Katherine Harris ponders an '04 Senate bid and Broward County grapples with yet another election debacle featuring hanging chads.
An attorney for the Florida teenager serving a life sentence for the 1999 death of a 6-year-old girl said his client will appear in a Fort Lauderdale court January 26 for a bond hearing after signing a plea deal Sunday.
So what makes today's South Florida--and the town of Hollywood, in particular--the image of what America at large will look like 25 years from now? Mostly, it's the diverse mix of people. "This pla...
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