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South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world's most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster.

A small plane crashed into a parking lot near a South Florida airport Friday afternoon, killing all three people onboard and burning about a dozen cars. No one on the ground was hurt.

A child has been airlifted to a hospital after being shot on a school bus in South Florida. Miami-Dade Police are investigating the Tuesday morning shooting in Homestead on a private bus for a Miami-area charter school. It's unclear whether the student was shot by someone on the bus or hit by a stray bullet.

Word that a giant eyeball washed up on a South Florida has created a buzz on the Internet and in the marine biology community. The huge, blue eyeball may have come from a deep sea squid or a large sword fish, said Heather Bracken-Grissom, an assistant professor in the marine science program at Florida International University in Miami.

A Sunrise home suffered severe damage due to an apparent tornado on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011. (CBS4 Miami) SUNRISE, Fla. - A possible tornado left a 2-mile long trail of damage, peeling off roofs and tossing cars in a suburban South Florida ...

Five young men who police said died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a South Florida motel room were constant companions who acted like brothers and even went shoe shopping together before Christmas so they all would have the same pair, relatives said Tuesday....

Seventeen schools in and around Pembroke Pines in south Florida are under a lockdown Wednesday because of a "credible threat," a spokeswoman for Broward County Schools told CNN.

An SUV carrying former NBA star Dennis Rodman in South Florida flipped over but he wasn't hurt.

Officials are trying to avert a mass exodus from the island that could lead to deaths at sea or a refugee crisis in South Florida.