Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz

Miami-Dade now has an independent elected sheriff who can appeal to the state over budget needs — and essentially force county cuts of other services. At an intense overnight budget hearing, Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz did not get all her demands and would not rule out going to Tallahassee to get more money.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz identified the five people who died in a deadly cargo plane crash at a press conference on Tuesday.

Miami-Dade Commissioner JC Bermudez and Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz came spoke out Thursday in opposition to the county's proposed plans to rename parts of Miami International Airport to "Vice City Airport," a nod to GTA VI's fictionalized version of Miami.

The 27-year-old was shot and killed earlier this month while responding to a traffic crash in south Miami-Dade.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said Friday’s fatal shooting of MDSO deputy Devin Jaramillo “was not an ambush” but happened during a “minor traffic crash” investigation.

“From AI-generated scams to cryptocurrency theft and robocalls threatening arrest, these crimes are devastating,” Cordero-Stutz told the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging in a field hearing in Doral on Thursday morning. The hearing was chaired by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida.

In an interview aired Friday on WLRN’s South Florida Roundup, Levine Cava outlined the key factors behind the shortfall, including the creation of five new state-mandated constitutional offices, inflation-related cost increases, and a sharp drop in state and federal funding.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz says her deputies will be getting trained to work with federal immigration authorities “to get very bad criminals off of our streets” as part of an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive plan to deport undocumented immigrants.