More than a dozen people in Southwest Florida face charges after law enforcement agents busted a drug-trafficking organization that had brought more than $100,000 in drugs from Mexico and Puerto Rico.

BOSTON (SHNS) – Marisol Garcia has devoted her career to representing children and beginning on June 1 she will take the helm of the independent state agency created in 2008 to give a stronger voice ...

Marisol Garcia, a lawyer with decades of experience advocating for young people, has been tapped to lead the state’s watchdog agency for children. Garcia will succeed Maria Mossaides, who has led the ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Nine people are facing charges after investigators said they dismantled a major drug trafficking operation moving cocaine from Puerto Rico into Central Florida. The investigation ...

A drug ring was responsible for smuggling hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into Central Florida from Puerto Rico through the mail, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said Monday while announcing the ...

Four of the six candidates vying for state Assembly District 66, which encompasses the South Bay area, attended a local League of Women Voters forum in Torrance last week to discuss education, housing ...

At age 43 and after two-and-a-half decades in the saddle, jockey Edwin Maldonado was starting to wonder if he would ever have the opportunity to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Now, he knows his quest was ...

When the sun rose on barn 41 at Churchill Downs April 26, it met jockey Edwin Maldonado. The veteran rider was already there and prepared, fresh in from California, to climb aboard Pavlovian for his ...