A 23-year-old man wanted in connection with a murder in North Miami Beach was captured in Jacksonville Wednesday evening.

Florida will require statewide recertification of condominiums over three stories tall under new legislation Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law.

City officials in North Miami Beach ordered residents of a five-story apartment building to evacuate after deeming the building “structurally unsound” during its 50-year recertification process.

Florida’s employment picture continues to brighten, while the state jobs agency envisions conditions slowing to a more “stable” pace over the next two years.

Police say a 15-year-old South Florida girl may have been kidnapped and taken to North Carolina by someone she met in an online video game.

Authorities say someone opened fire on a police sergeant as he attempted to stop a vehicle while on patrol in North Miami Beach.

The death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condo building rose to 79 on Friday, a number the mayor called “heartbreaking” as recovery workers toiled for a 16th day to find victims in the rubble.

North Miami Beach has ordered the evacuation of a condominium building after an inspection showed it was unsafe.

The city of North Miami Beach has ordered the evacuation of a condominium building after a review found unsafe conditions.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s estimate for Florida for the week ending March 27 was down from a revised count of 17,349 for the week ending March 20. Last week marked the lowest total for the state since 74,313 claims were filed during the week ending March 21, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic crashed into the state. Florida had 6,463 claims during the week ending March 14, 2020. The January numbers peaked at 69,140 new claims during the week ending Jan. 30. Florida’s jobless rate went from 4.8% in January to 4.7% in February, according to numbers released Friday by the state Department of Economic Opportunity.

FILE - In this, Wednesday, May 6, 2020 photo, a now hiring sign is displayed on a street corner in North Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – First-time unemployment claims fell in Florida last week, while the U.S. Department of Labor also vastly reduced its estimate of claims for the prior week. The department reported Thursday an estimated 26,559 new unemployment claims were filed in Florida during the week that ended Jan. 16. But with the numbers released Thursday, the department revised its Florida figures for the week ending Jan. 9 to 30,583 claims. It projected 900,000 new claims nationally during the week that ended Jan. 16. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity will issue a December unemployment report on Friday.