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A Florida Keys judge threw a surprising lifeline to a mentally ill man facing life in prison for killing his younger brother as he slept in his bed nearly five years ago. Daniel Weisberger was sentenced to therapy and decades of probation.

Defense attorneys had hoped to convince Circuit Judge Mark Jones that Daniel Weisberger was schizophrenic and not-guilty by reason of insanity when he brutally — and fatally — stabbed his younger brother Pascal on May 7, 2020, as he slept in the bedroom they shared. They instead hoped to get him committed for treatment.

A woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that two luxury real estate brokers and their brother, who on Wednesday were charged in a federal indictment with sex trafficking, alleges that two of the brothers “violently assaulted” her in Miami in 2016, say the woman’s attorneys.

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Eleven counts of DUI with serious bodily injury have been filed against Bryan Howard, already facing eight counts of DUI-manslaughter in the May 14 crash.

The provision ramps up a previous measure that only applied to violent offenders.

A detective who has been with a South Florida sheriff’s agency for nearly 21 years is accused of falsifying information and closing out sex crimes cases without a thorough investigation.

In Monroe County, the growing number of drug overdose deaths — driven in part by the rise of fentanyl — are leading law enforcement to prosecute alleged drug dealers for murder to stem a deadly crisis.

Charlie Adelson is the first member of his family to be arrested in the slaying of the Florida State University law professor.

Police say gunmen have left a threatening message for Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi and opened fire at a supermarket owned by his in-laws in Argentina's third-largest city.

A 19-year-old Florida man is now facing three first-degree-murder charges related to a shooting that killed a television news reporter, a 9-year-old girl and a 38-year-old woman.

Court records show a Florida judge has issued an arrest warrant for rapper Kodak Black for failing a drug test while on bail for a drug charge.