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The trial against Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, who has been charged with sexually abusing a minor, sexual and commercial exploitation against a minor, and human trafficking, has been postponed until June 2, 2025.
A widower who owned Miguelito Barber Shop in Miami-Dade County’s Florida City stands accused of moving cocaine and cash while working in both cocaine trafficking and money laundering for traffickers, records show. Investigators say he worked in the Orlando and Miami areas, Colombia, and his native Dominican Republic.
A Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, came under gunfire during its landing attempt Monday, and passengers are now sharing their frightening experiences with Local 10 News.
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has been granted supervised release after being arrested and charged for illegally carrying a gun in his vehicle during an altercation in a parking lot in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic says it will start massive deportations of Haitians living illegally in the country and expel up to 10,000 of them a week.
The president of the Dominican Republic has warned that his administration would take “drastic measures” to protect the country if a U.N.-backed mission in neighboring Haiti targeting gang violence fails.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say at least 11 people were killed and more than 30 injured when a truck plowed into a bar.
Ernesto continued to strengthen on Thursday morning as it churned northward into the Atlantic about 250 miles northeast of the Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas.
Activists in the Dominican Republic are protesting against a bill for a new criminal code that would retain a total abortion ban.
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has been formally charged by prosecutors in the Dominican Republic with sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.
Border Patrol agents are investigating after they say five individuals from both Haiti and the Dominican Republic were apprehended following a “migrant landing” on Hillsboro Beach Sunday night.
As soaring violence and political turmoil grip neighboring Haiti, the Dominican Republic will hold elections Sunday that have been defined by calls for more crackdowns on migrants and finishing a border wall dividing the countries.
Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas moved to the United States from the Dominican Republic about five years ago. Her life as a U.S. Citizen was short and detectives are trying to figure out why.
Tampa Bay All-Star shortstop Wander Franco was placed on administrative leave through June 1 under an agreement between Major League Baseball and the players’ association while the investigation continues in an alleged relationship with a minor.
A Florida Division of Emergency Management flight from Haiti landed early Sunday morning at Orlando International Airport with 21 Floridians rescued from the crisis. Hundreds more want to leave.
Miriam Cinotti, a Florida missionary, was one of 13 U.S. citizens who were evacuated from Haiti over the weekend after gang violence sent the country into chaos.
There is an ongoing scramble to staunch the street violence in Haiti's cities and neighborhoods and help the people whose families are watching from South Florida, helpless and bracing for the possibility of a Florida-bound mass exodus.
The U.S. military has flown in forces to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and evacuate nonessential personnel.
Dutch music producer DJ Tiësto has withdrawn from performing at Sunday's Super Bowl due to an undisclosed family matter.
A judge has conditionally released U.S. rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine after he was arrested in the Dominican Republic last week on domestic violence charges.
Wander Franco is facing a lesser charge after a judge in the Dominican Republic analyzed evidence that alleges the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl and paid her mother thousands of dollars for her consent.
A judge in the Dominican Republic has ordered the conditional release of Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco.
Dominican prosecutors have accused Wander Franco of commercial sexual exploitation and money laundering following allegations that the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a minor whose mother also faces the same charges.
The Dominican Republic is one of four Latin American countries criminalizing abortion without exceptions.
The Dominican Republic is accusing Haiti of multiple border violations in the latest dispute involving their shared frontier on the island of Hispaniola.
President Joe Biden is gathering leaders from 10 other countries across the Americas in the U.S. capital to discuss the tightening of supply chains and address migration issues.
President Joe Biden discussed the security situation in Haiti and the Israel-Hamas war zone on Thursday during a White House meeting with the president of the Dominican Republic.
Authorities say the Detroit Tigers complex in the Dominican Republic has been targeted in the latest robbery of a Major League Baseball facility in the country.
Authorities are seeking at least five people in an armed robbery of the St. Louis Cardinals complex in the Dominican Republic on Friday.
The Dominican Republic has partially reopened its border with Haiti to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier amid an ongoing spat over construction of a canal targeting water from a shared river.
The Dominican Republic government says it will temporarily allow the trade of essential Dominican products, including food and medications, on the border with Haiti.
Haiti’s government is doubling down on the construction of a canal on Haitian soil that prompted the neighboring Dominican Republic last week to shutter land, air and sea borders that both countries share.
The president of the Dominican Republic is defending his decision to close air, sea and land traffic with neighboring Haiti in a dispute over construction of a canal targeting a river that runs through both countries.
The Dominican Republic’s president has announced he will close all borders with neighboring Haiti starting Friday in a dispute over a canal on the Haitian side that would divert water from a border river.
Haiti’s government says it has met with Dominican officials in the Dominican Republic to talk about a threat by that country’s president to close all borders in response to a row over the construction of a supposed canal.
Three people have been arrested in the Dominican Republic as part of an ongoing investigation into a powerful explosion at a plastics company that killed at least 34 people earlier this month.
The Dominican Republic, Australia and Italy have advanced to the knockout stage of the World Cup.
The Dominican Republic is getting back on its feet after Tropical Storm Franklin struck the island nation, causing heavy flooding that killed at least two people and knocked out power and water to hundreds of thousands.
Tropical Storm Franklin is unleashing heavy floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic after making landfall in the country’s southern region.
The Dominican Republic has shut down much of the country as Tropical Storm Franklin takes aim at the island of Hispaniola that it shares with Haiti and threatens to unleash landslides and heavy floods.
A prosecutor in the Dominican Republic says the investigation into Tampa Bay Rays All-Star shortstop Wander Franco’s alleged relationship with a minor is being handled by a division specializing in minors and gender violence in the province of Peravia.
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has ruled the opposition-dominated National Assembly can take up the question of whether to impeach President Guillermo Lasso over allegations of crimes against state security and corruption.
The U.S. government says it will detain all imports of sugar and related products made in the Dominican Republic by the country's largest sugar producer amid allegations that it uses forced labor.
The Dominican Republic said it “profusely rejects” the denunciation of its crackdowns on Haitian migrants by a growing number of countries and human rights agencies.
Federal authorities say customs officers at New York’s Kennedy International Airport seized $450,000 worth of cocaine from a traveler who was smuggling the drugs in the wheels of her wheelchair.
An unusual and impactful late season storm developing north of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico – designated Invest 98L – will gradually organize over the next several days and slide westward toward Florida, bringing dangerous seas, widespread coastal flooding and beach erosion, gusty squalls, and the potential for heavy rain to a wide stretch of Florida’s Atlantic coast starting Tuesday into Wednesday.
Hurricane Fiona strengthened into a Category 4 storm Wednesday after devastating Puerto Rico, then lashing the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was forecast to squeeze past Bermuda later this week.
Hurricane Fiona was unencumbered after clipping the eastern shores of the Dominican Republic Monday morning, and steadily strengthened into the Atlantic’s first Category 3 hurricane of 2022 overnight.
Hurricane Fiona is blasting the Turks and Caicos Islands as a Category 3 storm after devastating Puerto Rico, where most people remain without electricity or running water.
Hurricane Fiona unleashed more rain on Puerto Rico on Monday, a day after the storm knocked out power and water to most of the island, and National Guard troops rescued hundreds of people who got stranded.
The center of Tropical Storm Fiona passed over Guadeloupe – part of the chain of islands flanking the northeastern Caribbean – last night, bringing heavy rains and gusty winds, at times reaching nearly 60 mph, while hurricane watches went up this morning for Puerto Rico and portions of the Dominican Republic as the storm tracked westward into the eastern Caribbean.
Tropical Storm Fiona was forecast to move across the Caribbean’s easternmost islands Friday night before slowing to a spot just south of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico late Saturday and Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Authorities say at least five Haitian migrants have drowned and 68 others have been rescued after a suspected human smuggling boat dropped the group off in waters near an uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico.
The World Baseball Classic will return in 2023 and on Thursday the dates, venues and pools for the tournament were revealed.
One of two runways closed after the fiery landing of a Dominican airliner at Miami International Airport is likely to reopen Friday, according to airport officials.
Some of the 126 people who were aboard an MD-82 jetliner that caught on fire on Tuesday during a rough landing at Miami International Airport said they feared for their lives.
Haitians are fleeing in greater numbers to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where they step onto rickety wooden boats as they attempt to reach Puerto Rico — a trip in which 11 Haitian women drowned this week, with dozens of other migrants believed missing.
The drugs are worth more than $160 million and were offloaded at Coast Guard Base Miami Beach before returning to homeport in Pensacola by the Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless’ crew.
Private investigators hired by David Ortiz say a Dominican drug trafficker who was jealous of Ortiz and felt disrespected by him had Ortiz shot at a Dominican nightclub in 2019.
U.S. authorities say a businessman accused in the July 7 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was extradited to face criminal charges in Miami after he was detained in the Dominican Republic.
Puerto Rican music producer Flow La Movie was among nine people killed when a private jet bound for Florida crashed in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday.
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A 54-year-old fugitive who was wanted for sexually abusing teenage boys flew from the Dominican Republic to Miami-Dade County on Thursday afternoon.
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Henri dumped record rainfall on New York City and surrounding areas in the hours before landfall Saturday night. An outer band related to then-Hurricane Henri was enhanced by a strong upper-level low-pressure system to the west to produce the torrent that fell in some areas.
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Tropical Depression Grace is not going to head toward Florida. Just like Fred last week, it insists on tracking down the left side — the south side — of the cone.
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South Florida largely dodged Fred, which could now strengthen back into a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, but we’ll be carefully watching Tropical Storm Grace as it moves its way in this direction in the coming days.
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Remnants of Fred have entered the lower Gulf of Mexico amid forecasts it would regain tropical storm strength late in the weekend as it moves toward the northern U.S. Gulf Coast.
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As expected, Fred’s circulation was ripped to shreds by the tall mountains in the Dominican Republic and Haiti last night. What’s left of it has moved out over the Atlantic near the eastern tip of Cuba. The question is, can it recover? And if it does, how quickly?
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Tropical depression Fred is heading for a drenching of Cuba and the Bahamas on a forecast track that would carry it toward South Florida as a tropical storm by Saturday.
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Tropical Storm Fred is a messy-looking tropical storm just south of the eastern tip of the Dominican Republic.
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Tropical Storm Fred has weakened to a tropical depression while sweeping over the Dominican Republic and dumping heavy rains that forecasters warn could cause dangerous flooding and mudslides there and in neighboring Haiti.
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The tropical disturbance we are following – officially designated Potential Tropical Cyclone Six – has moved into the Caribbean Sea on a track that will take it near or over the mountains of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
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Tropical Storm Fred officially became the sixth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season late Tuesday night as it strengthened and became better organized while moving south of Puerto Rico. The center of Fred is now just south of the eastern Dominican Republic.
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Kai Takuya drove in the tying run with a perfectly placed sacrifice bunt, Hayato Sakamoto followed with a game-ending, bases-loaded single and the Japanese rallied from three runs down in the ninth inning to beat the Dominican Republic 4-3 in the Olympic baseball opener.
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