Amanda Plasencia

Erika Hernandez woke up a few days ago and decided to make an impromptu plea on TikTok. “On May 12th, it would have been Jovan’s 20th birthday. My dream is to be able to take my son and all of my bonus children to Universal Studios to celebrate Jovan’s birthday,” she posted on her TikTok page @by.erikahernandez. The mother lost…

Florida House to hear bill that will lower gun purchasing age to 18

Many of the residents who live at the Oasis Living Quarters in Fort Lauderdale are elderly and need extra care, but they say they weren’t given extra time to move out. 

An underground network of appointment scalpers operating in Miami-Dade County may soon set up their last Department of Motor Vehicle appointment. The county’s tax collector, Dariel Fernandez, who is now in charge of the DMV, said they have uncovered a network of scalpers that have been hoarding free slots. According to Fernandez, bad actors book appointments online by using fake…

A South Florida man already on probation after he was convicted in a 2017 child pornography arrest has been arrested again on new allegations of child pornography. Jonathan Rivas, 33, was arrested Thursday 15 counts of possessing images of sexual performance by a child, records showed. Rivas works as a security guard at a building on Northeast 69th Street. Rivas…

Two Miami-Dade food inspectors were arrested in a nearly year-long corruption investigation that found they were extorting restaurant owners out of thousands of dollars, authorities said. “Operation Grease Trap” began in April of 2024 after Miami-Dade Police were contacted by the restaurant owners who alleged extortion by county employees, Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said at a news conference Wednesday with Miami-Dade…

The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Internal Revenue Service to provide detailed contact information for thousands of undocumented immigrants who pay their taxes, according to reports.

This Florida trip was a sudden departure as the pair were being held in Romania since their arrest in 2022.

A mother spoke out Friday after a Miami-Dade teacher was arrested for allegedly trying to lure her 14-year-old daughter.

‘He pushed me': Teen recalls fighting off attempted kidnapper in South Miami