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The last known address for Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was about 10 miles north of Miami. The yellow house with a red roof is in a working-class neighborhood that features large houses, mostly with fenced backyards and basements. Some neighbors who talked with The Associated Press on Friday said they had never seen Neves Valente.

The 27-year-old was shot and killed earlier this month while responding to a traffic crash in south Miami-Dade.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said Friday’s fatal shooting of MDSO deputy Devin Jaramillo “was not an ambush” but happened during a “minor traffic crash” investigation.

The officers were in stable condition, the Miami police chief said. The gunman was later found dead, the chief said.

The $5.4 million budget increase for more police officers comes amid a systemic overhaul of the West Palm Beach Police Department.

Investigators say that on Aug. 12, a stray cat named "Hawkeye" was found with a dart lodged in its body in the 700 block of S.W. 6th Street, Hallandale Beach.

At a news conference in Jacksonville, 22-year-old William McNeil Jr. spoke softly as he made a few brief comments with his family and civil rights attorneys by his side.

Ohad Fisherman, a Miami real estate broker who was accused of participating in an alleged sexual assault in 2016, had the charge dropped Monday after he produced timestamped video evidence showing that he was aboard a boat very close to the same time a woman said she had been attacked.

Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. immigration officials have deputized a record number of local police to function as deportation agents, despite repeated warnings from government watchdogs since 2018 that the program does not adequately train and oversee officers.

Florida’s attorney general asked federal courts Wednesday to let authorities enforce a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter Florida by eluding immigration officials.

Feeding South Florida, the region’s largest hunger-relief organization, is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying two male suspects who agency officials say stole two mobile teaching kitchens — worth $30,000 — from its warehouse in Pembroke Park on Sunday.

Pembroke Park town officials and Memorial Healthcare System are offering grief counseling on Monday following last week’s fatal shooting of a woman and her three young children in their apartment.