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The lawsuit challenges the county's decision to comply with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests. It claims the immigration detainers are unconstitutional, among other reasons, because people are being held without probable cause.
Eileen Higgins, center, candidate for vacant Miami-Dade County Commission District 5 seat, reacts with campaign communications director Guillermo Perez, left, after learning the first results of the special election during a party at American Social in Brickell on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Political newcomer Eileen Higgins won a seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission on Tuesday, defeating the better-funded campaign of the former commissioner's wife to scramble the conventional wisdom of who can get elected in a heavily Hispanic district in Miami.
Bridges don't usually crumble into dust. So when a pedestrian walkway at Florida International University collapsed Thursday, killing six people and crushing eight cars, people were rightly horrified and confused.
Search and rescue crews worked through the night, using dogs, search cameras and sensitive listening devices in a frantic bid to find survivors. At least four people have been killed after a pedestrian bridge collapsed on to a busy road below in Miami.
Authorities said vehicles were crushed beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel in the incident on Thursday in which at least 10 people taken to hospital. Search and rescue crews worked through the night, using dogs, search cameras and sensitive listening devices in a frantic bid to find survivors among the debris.
The company that designed a pedestrian bridge that collapsed in Florida is the same company that designed the new Interstate 35W bridge in Minnesota, after the old span collapsed more than 10 years ago. The engineering company is FIGG Bridge Group.
Six to 10 people were killed when a newly installed pedestrian bridge spanning several lanes of traffic collapsed at Florida International University on Thursday, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida told local TV station CBS Miami. Emergency personnel searched for signs of life amid the wreckage of concrete, twisted metal and that rained from the collapsed structure and crushed vehicles on one of the busiest roads in South Florida.
A week after Hurricane Irma devastated Big Pine Key near Marathon, Florida residents return and start to rebuild their homes on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017.
Sister Margaret Ann of Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High School in southwest Miami-Dade County decided to help out in hurricane cleanup efforts by cutting down a fallen tree in a full habit. No, this is not a sneak peek of the 2018 horror film "The Nun," but it is a nun wielding a chainsaw.
All hurricanes are brutal, but geology, geography and good old-fashioned capitalism have conspired to make Florida hurricanes particularly damaging events. South Florida, in particular, is a kind of paradise for many people who live there, but as far as Mother Nature is concerned, it's a fragile kind of paradise.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, flanked by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez and Tom Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, hailed the Florida county as a place that reversed its "sanctuary" policies for illegal immigrants and lowered ... more > Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a direct challenge to Chicago on Wednesday, saying the high number of homicides is no coincidence for a city that refuses to cooperate with federal deportation authorities, while Miami is cooperating - and reaping the benefits of public safety.
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the first Cuban-American elected to Congress, is retiring at the end of her term next year, saying it's time to move on after 38 years in office. The 64-year-old Republican was elected last November to Florida's redrawn 27th district, a stretch of southeast Miami-Dade County that is heavily Democratic.
There are still 110 active fires covering 20,285 acres, according to the Florida Forestry Service. The destructive wildfires, which have been burning from the Florida-Georgia border down to Miami-Dade County, led Gov. Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency on Tuesday, which remains in effect Sunday.
Miami-Dade County, Florida, became the first major metropolitan area to drop its sanctuary status for undocumented immigrants after President Trump's pledge to pull federal funding from such areas. As Manuel Bojorquez reports, the move has spread fear and anger.
Miami-Dade County's mayor instructed jail officials in that South Florida community on Thursday to honour all immigration detainer requests, a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would strip federal funding from sanctuary cities. Mayor Carlos Gimenez sent a memo to the county's corrections director saying jails should hold undocumented immigrants detained by police and turn them over to the Department of Homeland Security when requested.
Florida Democrats vowed to move forward after a bitter fight for state party chair - but the matter could still end up in court. At the state party's meeting at the Rosen Shingle Creek outside Orlando on Saturday, the state executive committee elected Miami-Dade County fundraiser Stephen Bittel as their new chair.
US is braced for a new influx of Cuban immigrants in wake of Fidel Castro's death as previous generations who have settled in America say they WON'T return to the island US authorities fear thousands of Cubans will take advantage of Fidel Castro's death to flee the island and move to Miami. Miami Dade County Schools Superintendent Albero M Carvlho warned that thousands of Cubans may arrive in Miami with their children.
Two years ago, Miami-Dade County closed the ninth floor of its Pre-Trial Detention Center, which held mentally ill inmates awaiting trial in putrid, dangerous, and obscene conditions. For years, CBS4 had dubbed the ward the "Forgotten Floor,"and the U.S. Department of Justice called the conditions there unconstitutional.
Agriculture officials say efforts to rid Florida of a destructive, parasite-carrying snail have been so successful that nearly half the core areas under surveillance can be dropped from the program. In a statement Friday, Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam said over 164,000 giant African land snails have been eliminated since the invasive species was discovered in Miami-Dade County in 2011.