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MIAMI — Jurors on Thursday convicted a Miami-Dade police officer who was accused of unlawfully tackling a woman to the ground, then writing an arrest report riddled with lies.

The U.S. State Department said it has received credible evidence of unlawful killings, forced disappearances and torture of political activists in a scorching assessment of the Cuban government’s record, released this week as part of the agency’s annual report on human rights practices.

MIAMI — Ahead of last season’s sweep out of the first round of the playoffs, Jimmy Butler said he was “stupidly locked in.” Butler’s tone was a bit different as he stood in front of microphones for his preplayoff media session following Thursday’s practice at FTX Arena.

A bull market is developing in recession expectations. In the week ahead, investors will have the chance to hear if dozens of companies share that fear.

MIAMI — Most South Florida drivers have probably been too busy weaving through traffic on I-95, the Palmetto and the Turnpike to notice that a Formula One race track the size of 59 football fields — 17 Eiffel Towers in length — is being constructed and nearing completion around the…

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday kept his promise and proposed a redistricting map that blows up the state’s current congressional districts, creates four additional Republican-leaning seats, and eliminates at least two districts now held by Black Democrats in North and Central Florida.

MIAMI — Miami-Dade commissioners on Wednesday delayed a hearing on legislation requiring quicker reinspections of older buildings, the centerpiece of the county’s reform plan following the collapse of the condo building in Surfside last year.

MIAMI — Odette Joassaint called 911 repeatedly, sounding agitated and incoherent, unable to explain why she was calling. It became horribly clear when Miami police officers arrived. “Come get them, I don’t want them anymore,” she told officers, according to a police report.

MIAMI — A Miami mother accused of murdering her two young children told detectives her “kids were suffering and that they would suffer less if they were dead,” according to a police report.

MIAMI — The Cuban government has not been accepting deportations of Cuban nationals from the U.S. for more than six months, at a time when tens of thousands are leaving the island to reach the U.S. in the largest exodus since the 1980s Mariel boatlift.

MIAMI — Light is shed on the shadows from which Miami Dolphins ownership and management like to operate.