A homeless Miami-Dade man is facing a felony charge after authorities said he sexually accosted a 10-year-old girl sitting in the passenger seat of her mother’s car stopped at a red light Wednesday evening.

Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and Democratic former U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell are making their final pushes for votes for the Senate ahead of Election Day.

A suspect in the Hammocks Homeowners Association fraud case appeared in court before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer on Friday in Miami-Dade County.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle is holding a press conference Thursday to announce the most recent arrest in the ongoing investigation into the Hammocks Community Association.

Police officers were investigating a crash on Sunday afternoon in southwestern Miami-Dade County.

An investigation is underway after an elderly woman was killed in a house fire in southwest Miami-Dade Tuesday morning.

Miami-Dade prosecutors announced Friday that they’ve made another arrest in a yearslong, ongoing investigation into the Hammocks Community Association.

FBI agents surrounded and raided a home in southwest Miami-Dade Wednesday morning, but have remained mum about what they were there to investigate.

A 24-year-old man preyed on a 13-year-old girl at the Kendall Ice Arena in Miami-Dade County’s The Hammocks neighborhood, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department.

A Miami-Dade judge put the Hammocks Community Association in receivership on Thursday allowing a court-appointed receiver to handle the business of the association after arrests earlier this week.

Detectives arrested a man on Tuesday over child porn in Miami-Dade County, about eight months after The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cyber tip from Facebook/Meta Platforms, Inc.

Family members said Moraima 'Mori' Chirinos was last seen on Friday at approximately 6 a.m.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to a police-involved shooting on Friday night near The Hammocks neighborhood. According to Miami-Dade Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, the shooting was at Southwest 162nd Avenue and Southwest 88th Street, also known as Kendall Drive. This is a developing story.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Nine-year-old Alejandro Ripley is dead. And in a sinister twist, detectives and prosecutors are accusing his mother, Patricia Ripley, of killing him in southwest Miami-Dade County. Patricia Ripley arrives to TGK early Saturday morning after detectives arrested her. Fernandez Rundle said Patricia Ripley waited in her parked car for more than 15 minutes before lying about the abduction. “The vehicle then blocked her.”The mother said the men ambushed her at Southwest 158th Avenue and Southwest 88th Street.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Detectives on Friday afternoon were going in and out of the family home of a 9-year-old autistic boy who was found dead after police say he was abducted Thursday night in The Hammocks. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement canceled an Amber Alert for Alejandro Ripley on Friday morning, saying his body had been found. Miami-Dade County police say they’re operating under the assumption that the body is that of Ripley. The area is just four miles away from where Alejandro was allegedly abducted in Southwest Miami-Dade. The car then blocked her as a passenger got out of the car, ambushing Ripley and demanding drugs from her, authorities said.

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesPALMETTO BAY, Fla. - Gas stations continued to run out of gas in Palmetto Bay and The Hammocks on Thursday night ahead of Hurricane Dorian's expected landfall in Florida. American Gas at 10801 Caribbean Blvd . Chevron at 9500 SW 160th St.St. Marathon at 16815 S. Dixie HighwayMobil at 20201 S. Dixie HighwayMobil at 12795 SW 137th Ave., in the Hammocks neighborhoodAve., in the Hammocks neighborhood Shell at 11690 Quail Roost DriveShell at 16051 S. Dixie HighwayValero at 17250 S. Dixie HighwayFor the latest updates in your neighborhood, search the Gas Buddy data base. Copyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

The encampment near the intersection of Northwest 71st Street and 32nd Avenue had some 300 registered sex offenders. "Miami-Dade County should be embarrassed because of what these people are living like," said Steve Grafton, owner of Grafton Furniture. Registered sex offenders, whose victims were younger than 16, are required to live away from schools and day cares. Workers from Miami-Dade's Homeless Trust arrived Sunday night with police to give the offenders their eighth and final warning. "We're not going to let another encampment like this grow -- it's just not productive," said Ron Book, with Miami-Dade Homeless Trust.