One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States springs up unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard just off a busy New Jersey state highway.

A 49-year-old man who owned a post-operative recovery home in southwest Miami-Dade is accused of sexually battering at least two women after they had cosmetic surgeries.

Two men have died after an argument devolved into a shooting on Sunday afternoon in southern Miami-Dade County, authorities confirmed.

When Walter Arrington was 20 years old, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies seized his iPhone, records show.

Police arrested a 43-year-old man after accusing him of masturbating in front of three teenage girls on a Miami-Dade Metrobus on Tuesday afternoon.

Authorities say a woman’s murder in Homestead Thursday was an act of revenge at the hands of her daughter’s teenage ex-boyfriend.

With most of the major conferences having their tournaments finished, there are a few anxious teams waiting to see if their names will be called for the NCAA Tournament on Sunday when the field is announced.

Hundreds of employees at independent bookstores, from Chapter One in Victoria, Minnesota, to The Cloak & Dagger in Princeton, New Jersey, will be receiving $500 holiday bonuses from author James Patterson.

A burglar said, “Do me a favor,” and pointed at a cash register before stealing it in Miami-Dade County’s Princeton neighborhood, according to police.

Medics airlifted a man to Jackson South Medical Center following a drive-by shooting at a 7-Eleven in southwest Miami-Dade Monday afternoon, according to police.

A retired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent remained hospitalized on Thursday after a gunman shot him and took off in his car in Miami-Dade County.

Police investigated a shooting in southwest Miami-Dade they said stemmed from a carjacking Wednesday afternoon.

A criminal complaint says the Minnesota man accused of shooting five law enforcement officers told his wife it was “his day to die” when he learned that drug task force officers were at his home.

Authorities say five drug task force officers were shot and wounded while serving a search warrant near the Minnesota city of Princeton.

Police arrested a southwest Miami-Dade man Monday on two felony charges after they said he threatened to extort a woman by sharing her “explicit” photographs after she wanted to end their polyamorous relationship.

A 39-year-old woman is facing criminal charges in Miami-Dade County in a case related to a two-story four-bedroom house that neighbors said Wednesday often had a strong odor of marijuana coming from the inside, and people coming in and out regularly — including a group who fired guns nearby.

A 39-year-old woman is facing criminal charges in Miami-Dade County in a case related to a two-story four-bedroom house that neighbors said Wednesday often had a strong odor of marijuana coming from the inside, and people coming in and out regularly — including a group who fired guns nearby.

Police took one half of a pair of men accused in a fatal shooting over the weekend in southwest Miami-Dade into custody Wednesday.

Creighton used its size, 3-point shooting and a swarming second-half defense to end the March Madness run of Princeton, beating the 15th-seeded Tigers 86-75 in the Sweet 16.

Alabama was expected to be in the Sweet 16 as the overall top seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Princeton forward Tosan Evbuomwan spent three college seasons fighting through one disappointment after another.

Blake Peters made five 3-pointers in the second half and Princeton shocked another power conference team to reach the regional semifinals for the first time in 56 years by beating Missouri 78-63.

Tosan Evbuomwan and Princeton used a late-game run to earn the school’s first NCAA Tournament win in 25 years, topping No. 2 seed Arizona 59-55.

A pair of basketball players from Brown are alleging in a federal lawsuit that the Ivy League’s policy of not offering athletic scholarships amounts to a price-fixing agreement that denies athletes proper financial aid and payment for their services.

A 15-year-old boy’s mother stood by her son on Tuesday morning in Miami after he was accused of injuring a 9-year-old girl on a school bus earlier this month.

A 22-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man were facing charges Friday after a shooting wounded a man in south Miami-Dade County, records show.

Two men were hurt in a drive-by shooting in the Princeton area of southwest Miami-Dade Wednesday morning, according to police.

Authorities say a Princeton University student from Ohio who went missing near campus roughly a week ago has been found dead.

The old-school Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril has died.

March Madness is finally part of the women’s NCAA Tournament vernacular and the first round has so far aptly fit that phrase.

Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize for physics for work that found order in seeming disorder.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Surveillance video shows a speeding gray minivan with the passenger rear-side door open heading toward a canal on Sunday in south Miami-Dade County. A fatal single-vehicle crash on Sunday left a guard rail damaged and debris at a canal in Miami-Dade's Princeton neighborhood. The crash killed Santamaria near the intersection of Southwest 248th Street and Southwest 110th Avenue in Miami-Dade’s Princeton neighborhood. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel respond to a single vehicle crash on Sunday in Miami-Dade's Princeton neighborhood. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel in a helicopter picked up the girl and ambulances took Madrigal and Olivares to the Kendall Regional Medical Center.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A fatal crash caused traffic delays on Tuesday afternoon after shutting down the Florida Turnpike’s southbound lanes in Miami-Dade County’s Princeton area. A motorhome that was towing a Jeep, both with Texas license plates, crashed at the Turnpike’s Exit 9 ramp to Southwest 112th Avenue, also known as Allapattah Road. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel took her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. A fiery crash caused traffic delays on the Florida Turnpike Tuesday afternoon in south Miami-Dade County. (FDOT)Traffic backed up to the Exit 12 ramp to Caribbean Boulevard in Cutler Bay, according to the Florida Department of Transportation’s Advanced Traveler Information System.

The Ivy League became the first Division I conference this year to cancel all winter sports, including mens and womens basketball. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)The Ivy League became the first Division I conference this year to cancel all winter sports, including men’s and women’s basketball. That's still well below the peak of about 2,200 deaths per day in late April,The Ivy League has tried to be in front of the virus. The Ivy League announcement affects not just basketball, but wrestling, indoor track and field, swimming, fencing and other sports. Also, Conference USA announced Rice at Louisiana Tech scheduled for Saturday had been postponed because of COVID-19 issues with La Tech.

PRINCETON, Fla. – A federal hearing was held over Zoom on Tuesday with U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to discuss backlogged mail at U.S. Post Office buildings. The U.S. Post Office facility provided evidence that there is no backlog and that all of the ballots found at the facility in Miami-Dade County’s Princeton area were returned to the elections headquarters in Doral. A notice stated that postal managers had completed searching all 180,000 pieces of delayed mail at the Princeton post office and no additional ballots were located Monday. Vote-by-mail ballots have to be delivered to the Elections Department by 7 p.m.Sullivan ordered the U.S. Postal Service to rush the delivery of vote-by-mail ballots and to “ensure that no ballots have been held up.”Judge Sullivan's order (U.S. federal court)

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. – The post office in Princeton, where video surfaced which appeared to show mail containing possible vote-by-mail ballots stranded for at least a week, might not be the only place with a ballot pile up. McGee and community leaders spoke to Local 10 outside of the Princeton post office on Saturday. “There is a similar situation playing out at the Homestead postal service and the same issues are also happening within the Florida City post office,” McGee said. “The postal service is aware of an online video alleging mishandling of ballots at a post office in south Miami-Dade County. Postal Service, they did reassure us that those vote-by-mail ballots would reach the Supervisor of Elections office by Tuesday, Election Day.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – U.S. Post Office investigators are looking into allegations on Friday that there is a mail-in ballot backup at a facility in southern Miami-Dade County. House Democratic Leader Kionne McGhee said tweeted a video showing mail piled up in bins. I am working to ensure that mail delays do not impact participation in this election.”Suzy Trutie, the deputy supervisor of the Miami-Dade County Department of Elections, also released a statement. Administrative action was taken by the Office of the Inspector General regarding the employees' negligence at the Princeton distribution center, Fernandez-Rundle said. For more information about your ballot, call the department of elections at 305-499-8683.

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Austrian author Peter Handke, while the 2018 award, postponed from last year, was given to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. Handke won the award "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Tokarczuk won the 2018 award "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." Hide Caption

Once part of Manhattan's social elite, a 30-year-old Princeton graduate lived off his parents, prosecutors say, spending his time surfing in the Hamptons -- until he killed his father over a cut to his weekly allowance.