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An investigation revealed incidents that left two University of Miami students hospitalized with severe injuries, one with kidney failure requiring surgery, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office reported.

Yusiel Lopez Insua pleaded guilty to seaman’s manslaughter. Officials say he was piloting a tugboat pushing a construction barge that ran over a sailboat. Three girls were trapped in the wreckage and drowned.

The now-retired Judge Steven Leifman said he envisioned a place that could divert people away from the ninth floor of a detention center into a facility where they would receive individualized treatment.

The office has revoked key licenses of more than two dozen companies that allegedly do business in Cuba, according to enforcement letters seen by WLRN. A critic calls the move a "fiscal drive-by."

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said Friday's fatal shooting of MDSO deputy Devin Jaramillo "was not an ambush" but happened during a "minor traffic crash" investigation.

In Florida, six of the nine existing incinerators are where the percentages of people of color are higher than the statewide average of 46%, according to the EPA. As Miami-Dade is experiencing, there is no perfect location to build a new one.

Emilie Ashbes overcame her drug addiction and is now helping others do the same. The work of IDEA is especially critical in Miami-Dade, which has the nation’s highest HIV infection rate, with dirty syringes, in part, to blame.

Researchers with the University of Miami, FIU and others found that many parts of the county could get an average of 6 degrees hotter than the official reading.

The Republican swing was interpreted as a sign of support among the region's Hispanic voters for Gov. Ron DeSantis and a lack of enthusiasm for his Democratic challenger, Rep. Charlie Crist.

Joe Martinez was charged last month with unlawful compensation and conspiracy to commit unlawful compensation in a case involving $15,000 in payments from a business owner facing code violations.

AdventHealth in Orlando has reactivated its COVID command center. Meantime, omicron has been detected in Tallahassee and the variant has become the dominant strain in Miami-Dade.

The Miami Herald reports that numerous sources confirmed the case was detected by a private lab in Doral after sequencing the variant in a sample it received Thursday.