Homestead News

Jean-Claude Philippe received the maximum sentence for the crime. Photo from the Miami Herald. MIAMI — Jean-Claude Philippe, a 66-year-old priest in Homestead, Fla., was sentenced Jan. 21 to 15 years in prison for raping a…

MIAMI - Miami-Dade traffic homicide detectives arrested a 58-year-old man on Monday after he confessed to being involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Homestead, police said. David Linares was driving a 2004 Dodge Dakota pickup truck…

MIAMI — Jose L. Dotres, a product of Miami-Dade Public Schools, was elected the district's new superintendent late Monday night.The Miami-Dade School Board interviewed three candidates for the position during a special session Monday that…

Last week, US Sen. blond frameR-Fla., sent a letter to United States Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall urged him to stop considering a proposed Joint Use Agreement (JUA) to allow civil…

A public viewing will be held Friday and funeral services will take place Saturday for Andreae Lloyd, a pregnant woman whose body was found on Wednesday, December 8 in Homestead. Both the viewing and the funeral services will…

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Florida. - Northwest Miami-Dade County police are searching for a man after a machete attack.The incident happened around 8:37 a.m. Saturday morning at a convenience store near the intersection of Northwest 80th Street…

Rating Action: Moody's assigns Ba2 to Miami Community Charter Schools, Inc., FL's revenue bonds; outlook is stableGlobal Credit Research - 13 Jan 2022New York, January 13, 2022 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Ba2 rating to the…

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Florida. - The Miami-Dade school board is meeting Tuesday to discuss replacing Superintendent Alberto Carvalho amid criticism for rushing the process to support a backdoor deal that excludes community involvement.Without…

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Florida. - Law enforcement agencies were fanned out across South Florida on Monday as officers, lawmakers and soldiers prepared for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day horseback ride known as Wheels Up, Guns Down.In the…

MIAMI - Thousands of people are expected to take to the streets in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood on Monday for the return of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade.The annual event honoring the late civil rights leader had to be…