Frank Artiles

Ex-Republican lawmaker Frank Artiles received a 60-day jail sentence and was banned from engaging in political activity for his role in a ghost candidacy scheme.

Artiles faces multiple charges related to the alleged scheme in which he paid a friend, Alexis "Alex" Rodriguez, to run as a no-party candidate in the 2020 Senate District 37 race against Democrat candidate Jose Javier Rodríguez.

After two years, a trial date has finally been set in the case against former Florida State Rep. Frank Artiles over the alleged scheme to field Alex Rodriguez as a spoiler candidate in the 2020 state Senate District 37 race, which was won by just 34 votes.

Starting in 2024, Miami-Dade County will be forced — thanks to a statewide ballot initiative — to elect a county sheriff. But what that new sheriff's office looks like is up for debate.

People as young as 40 years old will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in Miami-Dade County soon. A Delray Beach nursing home is the target of a COVID-19 lawsuit. And two arrests in the case of a straw political candidate.

Florida Democrats are demanding that a state senator resign and a special election be held after a prosecutor charged a former Republican legislator with fraud related to a razor-thin Miami-Dade County race last year.

Frank Artiles, the Republican political operative suspected of secretly arranging a sham candidate to run in a key 2020 state senate race, surrendered to a Miami-Dade County jail on Thursday to face felony campaign finance charges.

Republican Jose Felix Diaz and Democrat Annette Taddeo won their respective primary races Tuesday for the vacant Senate District 40 seat. They'll be in…

Updated at 4:39 pm. It's election day for the primaries in Florida Senate District 40 and House District 116. Voters will decide which Republican and…

Special election primaries for Florida State Senate District 40 and House District 116 will take place Tuesday. Mail-in voting is already underway, and…

Three candidates vying for the Senate District 40 seat vacated by Frank Artiles participated in a forum at the Miami Dade College Kendall Campus Wednesday…

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has picked the dates for a special election to replace Miami Republican Sen. Frank Artiles.The special primary will take place…