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Seven people, including five American citizens, have been killed in a safari helicopter crash in a remote part of northern Kenya.

For nearly 20 years, Sheila Dixon has lived outdoors in the neighborhood where she grew up, repeatedly turning down offers of housing. A new Miami ordinance may soon challenge the life she’s chosen.

Alejandro Marquina tells WLRN how he first learned of the twin earthquakes that devastated his native Venezuela in June. The earthquakes claimed the lives of five family members.

In his resignation letter, Perez, a Cuban-American Republican from Miami, said he would leave his legislative office on Friday, Aug. 21.

Yusiel Lopez Insua pleaded guilty to seaman's manslaughter. Officials say he was piloting a tugboat pushing a construction barge that ran over a sailboat. Three girls were trapped in the wreckage and drowned.

Over the weekend, the city of Miramar hosted its first ever Goombay festival, bringing the celebration of the Bahama’s rich history and heritage to the city for the first time.

Southbound lanes of Florida’s Turnpike are shut down in Southwest Miami-Dade County due to a fatal tanker truck crash Thursday morning.

The Trump administration is reviving a rule that could deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits that could include food stamps, Medicaid, housing vouchers and others. The policy, known as "public charge," appeared on Thursday in the Federal Register and will be formally published on July 20.