The Latest Breaking News from South Florida

Greg Cote: Zero to perfect: 50 years later, how Shula’s Dolphins made Miami matter as a sports town

MIAMI — It is fair to say the Miami Dolphins put the city and South Florida on the national sports map, but the notion needs explaining. It didn’t happen right away.

Miami Herald · Sep 15, 2022

Report: Tesla driver lost scholarship before fiery crash

Federal investigators say a 20-year-old Tesla driver who died with a passenger in a fiery, high-speed crash on a South Florida street last year might have been upset after learning he had lost a scholarship

The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2022

New ALS drug funded by Ice Bucket Challenge already in use in South Florida trials

While the country awaits federal approval of a new ALS drug, people in South Florida with the disease already are using it.

Tribune News Service · Sep 14, 2022

More Cuban kids are showing up at the border without parents. Some are in South Florida

Hundreds of unaccompanied Cuban children have shown up at the U.S.-Mexico border this past year, as more parents appear to be sending their kids away amid deteriorating conditions in Cuba that have already brought a record number of people from the island to the United States.

Miami Herald · Sep 1, 2022

Florida Keys migrant landings continue. Up to 150 Cubans arrived since Wednesday

MIAMI — Border Patrol agents assigned to the Florida Keys have taken into custody up to 150 people from Cuba since last Wednesday as the migrant exodus from the island nation to the archipelago is on track to reach a seven-year high.

Miami Herald · Aug 31, 2022

Dolphins senior VP of communications Jason Jenkins, a well-known figure in the community, dies

Miami Dolphins senior vice president of communications and community affairs Jason Jenkins died on Saturday, the team announced during halftime of the preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles. He was 47.

Tribune News Service · Aug 28, 2022

Mookie Betts and Dodgers go to work early to beat Marlins

MIAMI — Getting started that early on a Sunday morning in South Florida should only involve mojitos and an omelet station.

The Orange County Register · Aug 28, 2022

Is it vanilla preseason play calls? Can FB Alec Ingold help? Dolphins look for answers in run game.

It’s only the preseason, but this is not the run game the Miami Dolphins envisioned coach Mike McDaniel bringing to South Florida after his San Francisco 49ers ranked top seven in rushing yards two of the past three seasons.

Tribune News Service · Aug 23, 2022

How US gun laws and South Florida ports help fuel Haiti’s escalating gang violence

MIAMI — When the cargo ship “Miss Lilie” left Miami one recent afternoon and pulled into port along Haiti’s northwest coast, it had all the markings of a legitimate government operation.

Miami Herald · Aug 19, 2022

Back in Florida, CB Mackensie Alexander feels at home with Dolphins

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — As Mackensie Alexander absorbed the South Florida heat and humidity for a third training camp practice with the Miami Dolphins this week, he was reminded on Thursday of the hard work he had to endure both working with his parents in his youth and as a…

Tribune News Service · Aug 18, 2022