MIAMI — Two people aboard a small plane were killed when it crashed into a Miramar house just before noon Monday, police said. The house, in the 2200 block of Jamaica Drive, is about a half mile from the southern edge of North Perry Airport. On its way…
Canada, US deliver long-awaited armored vehicles for Haiti police as gang attacks escalate
An Armed Forces of Canada Boeing C-17A Globemaster III aircraft arrived in Haiti Saturday, delivering the first four of more than a dozen new armored vehicles for the Haiti National Police. The vehicles are among 18 Haiti’s government purchased commerc…
Haitian singer Michael ‘Mikaben’ Benjamin dies at 41
He was one of the most talented musicians of his generation whose ode to his country — “Ayti Se” (Haiti is) — two years after its most devastating tragedy, the 2010 earthquake, touched Haitian hearts around the world. Michael Benjamin, who was better k…
Cops say a Trump supporter attacked Biden fans in Miami. Does an impartial jury exist?
MIAMI — While voters all over Miami-Dade County were casting their ballots in the contentious presidential election on Nov. 3, 2020, police say one Donald Trump supporter was dangerously expressing his political opinions out on Biscayne Bay with threat…
More than 40 Cuban migrants land in South Florida
MIAMI — More than 40 migrants from Cuba arrived in the Florida Keys and Key Biscayne aboard three separate boats Friday, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. Two of the vessels in the Keys were about 20 feet long and displayed what a veteran Florida Fi…
The Week Ahead: Is the housing market braking or breaking?
Imagine if the housing market were covered in the news like the stock market. “Split-level ranch homes from the 1970s in the Midwest fell today after a forecast for a colder than usual winter.” “Mid-century 3-bedrooms in the Mid-Atlantic rallied as new…
US sending ‘elite’ disaster response team to Haiti amid calls for help
MIAMI — The U.S. Agency for International Development is deploying an elite disaster response team to Haiti “as insecurity, gang violence, and the humanitarian situation worsens” throughout the Caribbean nation, a U.S. official told McClatchy and the M…
US begins deporting Venezuelans; some claim they entered before new measures began
MIAMI — The U.S. government began deporting Venezuelans held at immigration detention centers, transferring dozens to Mexico on Thursday even though many of them say they had entered the United States before the new immigration measures were announced….
White House says Parkland verdict ‘brought a measure of justice and accountability’
A Florida jury’s decision to recommend life in prison for the shooter who killed 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drew strong reaction from the families who lost sons, daughters and spouses in the attack, many of whom wer…
Greg Cote: Larry Csonka, ‘heart’ of Dolphins glory days, on his life of adventure — and perfection
It was 1987 when the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, made Larry Csonka one of its own. He had grown up on a farm a half hour north in Stow, Ohio, one of six kids in a Hungarian family of modest means. They made their own butter. When nature …