Jay Weaver writes about federal crime at the crossroads of South Florida and Latin America. Since joining the Miami Herald in 1999, he’s covered the federal courts nonstop, from Elian Gonzalez’s ...

During Wednesday’s Miami-Dade school board meeting, several Miami Northwestern High football players asked for the reinstatement of their coach, Teddy Bridgewater.

Since opening earlier this month in the marshy Florida Everglades region, Alligator Alcatraz — named after a notorious federal prison off the coast of San Francisco — has drawn mixed reviews.

A Miami-Dade judge ruled Wednesday Jorge Barahona was competent to stand trial in the gruesome death of a 10-year-old girl he and his wife adopted.

In his final monologue, Tom Wingfield, a character in Tennessee Williams’ classic “The Glass Menagerie,” observes “... nowadays the world is filled with lightning.” ...

The mother of singer Sean Kingston will spend the next five years behind bars for fleecing jewelers and other businesses out of more than $1 million, a Fort Lauderdale federal court judge ruled ...

Three people in Pennsylvania were arrested after police say they found children living in cages inside a deplorable home. On ...