Miami Heat hold Earth Day celebration with students at Driftwood Middle School

WSVN 7News 4/11 3:40A Jayme Berezdivin

Students and teachers at Driftwood Middle School in Hollywood celebrated Earth Day with the help from the Miami Heat. The event hosted a pep rally from the Heat mascot Burnie and the Hoop Troop, and students bounced basketballs. The school won...

Music star Pitbull makes surprise appearance at FIU house party

WSVN 7News 4/11 2:51A Jayme Berezdivin

A house party at Florida International University had a surprise guest after the major music star Pitbull made a special appearance. Video on social media showed the moment that Pitbull walked into the small gathering, hosted by FIU Athletics...

Students share plant research, take part in symposium at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

WSVN 7News 4/11 2:26A Jayme Berezdivin

Students from across the country shared their research and ideas at a symposium at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables. The Growing Beyond Earth event, a classroom based science program, was made to empower students to come up...

Patients at Niklaus Children’s Hospital meet UFC superstars ahead of upcoming event

WSVN 7News 4/11 1:55A Jayme Berezdivin

Patients at Niklaus Children s Hospital met with UFC fighters ahead of an upcoming event. Alexandre Pantjoba and former champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk played tic-tac-toe with patients. The stars also donated toys and sat in on radio interviews...

Father charged with lewd conduct involving 13-year-old daughter

WSVN 7News 4/10 6:05A Steven Cejas

A 39-year-old man was arrested Thursday and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct involving a child under 16. John Jairo Mendez was taken into custody on April 9 following an investigation into an incident involving his 13-year-old biological...

Search underway for 67-year-old man missing from Little Haiti since February

WSVN 7News 4/10 5:33A Rubén Rosario

Police seek the public s help in their search for a man who went missing from Miami s Little Haiti neighborhood two months ago. According to City of Miami Police, 67 year-old Kenneth Jones was last seen in an unspecified part of Little Haiti on...

SUV hits cement wall at Plantation senior living community

WSVN 7News 4/10 4:59A Rubén Rosario

Police are investigating a crash that sent a driver careening into a cement wall outside a building in a Plantation senior community. 7Skyforce hovered above the scene of the crash at The Pointe at Plantation Senior Living along the 8500 block of...

Miami Lakes woman faces multiple felony charges in alleged car loan scam

WSVN 7News 4/10 4:47A Steven Cejas

Dunia Sierra is facing multiple felony charges, including organized fraud, grand theft and vehicle-related fraud, following an investigation into an alleged auto loan fraud scheme, authorities said. The arrest stems from an ongoing investigation...

Man arrested for spitting on McDonald’s drive-thru employee

WSVN 7News 4/10 4:17A Allyson Castillo

A Key West man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly spitting on a McDonald s drive-thru employee in Marathon. The incident occurred on March 17, at approximately 10:14 p.m. According to the Monroe County Sheriff s Office, the victim told...

Miami-Dade condo association manager arrested for allegedly forcing vendor to pay $21,000 in...

WSVN 7News 4/10 4:01A Patrick Chalvire

A Miami-Dade condominium association manager was arrested after investigators said she forced a contracted vendor to pay thousands of dollars in kickbacks to keep his business at a local condo complex. Maria Del Alvarez-Concepcion, 57, faces...

Miami Police need to ID boy found wandering alone in Allapattah

WSVN 7News 4/9 3:24A Rubén Rosario

Police seek the public s help in identifying a boy who, they said, was found wandering alone in Miami s Allapattah neighborhood. According to City of Miami Police, the child was spotted in the area of Northwest Seventh Avenue and 17th Street, at...

Artemis II’s return to Earth will test Orion’s biggest flaw: the heat shield that keeps its...

WSVN 7News 4/9 2:11A Rubén Rosario

(CNN) — As four astronauts complete their historic trip around the moon in NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide Orion spacecraft, they’ll be testing a known flaw — one that had some experts urging the space agency not to fly the mission with humans on board....

27th annual Miami Riverday festival offering free family fun, live music and river boat rides at...

WSVN 7News 4/9 2:00A Patrick Chalvire

The Miami River comes alive Saturday with the return of Miami Riverday, a free, family-friendly festival now in its 27th year at the Lummus Park Historic District. The event runs from 1 to 6 p.m. at 250 NW North River Drive and features river...

South Florida insurance brokerage firm admits to $141.5M ACA fraud scheme

WSVN 7News 4/8 1:00A Steven Cejas

AP of South Florida, LLC, an insurance brokerage company, has agreed to plead guilty for its role in an Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment fraud scheme. The scheme resulted in $141.5 million in unwarranted federal subsidies. The Department of...

Southbound I-95 closures scheduled for concrete pavement work

WSVN 7News 4/8 12:00A Steven Cejas

The Golden Glades Interchange Project will require continuous lane closures on southbound Interstate 95 at NW 135 Street during two upcoming weekends. The closures are scheduled for the weekends of April 10 and April 17 to allow crews to perform...