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A year after 98 people were killed in the Surfside condominium collapse, family members and the community honored those lost in the tragedy at a memorial service Friday.

A judge has given final approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion for victims of the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium. Ninety-eight people died when the 12-story Champlain Towers South suddenly collapsed. It was one of the deadliest building failures in U.S. history. The decision by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman on Thursday comes one day before...

Rescue workers who were part of the initial search and rescue efforts at the site after the June 24, 2021, collapse heard the woman’s voice coming from the building’s ruins but her identity has remained uncertain.

The pool of funds intended to compensate victims of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium will increase to more than $1 billion, attorneys Wednesday told the judge overseeing the resulting class action lawsuit.

There’s currently a hole in the beachfront skyline where the 12-story building once stood, as the property remains the subject of ongoing court hearings.

Commissioners in Surfside, Florida, have rejected a proposal to trade public land to the eventual buyer of the condominium collapse site.

Multiple arrests have been made in the identity theft cases that targeted victims of the Surfside condominium collapse, authorities said. At a news conference Wednesday, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said three “cyber grave robbers” targeted at least seven of the collapse victims, including five who were killed. Reports of identity theft cases began popping up just days after…

An oceanfront park is emerging as the leading site for a memorial to the victims of the deadly condominium building collapse in Florida

Authorities in Surfside, Fla., released released police body camera footage on Tuesday that shows the initial emergency response to the condominium collapse that left 98 people dead.

A cat named Binx was reunited with its family Friday after miraculously surviving the Surfside condo collapse. The feline was living on the ninth floor of Champlain Towers South when the building came crashing down, killing at least 78 people in what has now become an international tragedy. Several remain missing or unaccounted for following the collapse, which happened at…