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Coordinates: 25.786°N 80.191°W. On August 5, 1974, at 10:24 a.m. EDT, [1] a Federal office building housing the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Miami Field Division office in downtown Miami, Florida, United States, collapsed after the roof caved in, causing the deaths of seven DEA employees and injuries to 15 others. [2]
On June 24, 2021, the same day as the accident, a lawsuit was filed in Miami Dade Circuit Court by a resident of the building against the Champlain Towers South Condominium Association, seeking $5 million in damages "due to defendant's acts and omissions and their failure to properly protect the lives and property of plaintiff and class members".
September 11, 1995. (1995-09-11) (aged 9) Redland, Florida, U.S. Samuel James "Jimmy" Ryce (September 26, 1985 – September 11, 1995) was a child who was abducted, raped, and killed by Juan Carlos Chavez in Redland, Florida, United States. On Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Chavez was executed at Florida State Prison in Raiford.
The Florida Building Code ( FBC) is a set of standards designed by the Florida Building Commission for the construction of buildings in the US state of Florida. [1] Many regulations and guidelines distributed are important benchmarks regarding hurricane protection. Miami-Dade County was the first in Florida to certify hurricane-resistant ...
During that time period, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office filed just 263 cases, involving over-payments of $3,922,226. Exactly how much in restitution was lost out on remains unclear.
In a Sept. 19 email to the head of Miami-Dade’s building-product division, a sales representative for Stanley Black & Decker warned that an unnamed company was improperly selling imitation ...
The Miami-Dade County Courthouse, formerly known as the Dade County Courthouse, is a historic courthouse and skyscraper located at 73 West Flagler Street in Miami, Florida. Constructed over four years (1925–28), it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1989. [3] The building is 361 feet tall with 28 floors.
Under a veil of secrecy, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office leaned on a confessed mass shooter for years, building cases using information he’d collected from jail in ways that experts ...