WATCH: Car cuts around crossing gate, gets hit by Brightline train in Lake...
A car cut around another car and a crossing gate before getting hit by a Brightline train in Lake Worth Beach Wednesday morning, the third accident in 24 hours and the fourth in a week for the rail line.
View ArticleDemocrats say Rubio shows ‘spinelessness’ and ‘cowardice’ for not supporting...
Gun control activists used this week’s fourth anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre to denounce U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for his failure to support what they termed...
View ArticleFlorida House passes $105.3 billion spending plan; Senate up next
What would be a record $105.3 billion spending plan bolstered by federal stimulus money was approved Wednesday by the Florida House, helping set up negotiations with the Senate on a final budget for...
View ArticleFlorida House votes to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy
The Florida House voted early Thursday to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest, putting the measure on track to reach Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk.
View ArticleDisney theme parks generate $7.2 billion in first quarter, a near record
Disney’s U.S. parks reported near all-time revenue and operating income records in the company’s first quarter of 2022, driven by larger crowds spending more.
View ArticleFlorida House passes GOP 15-week abortion ban
Florida’s bill contains exceptions if the abortion is necessary to save a mother’s life, prevent serious injury to the mother or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality.
View ArticleDevelopers’ defense in extortion case: Tamarac land really was contaminated
Bruce and Shawn Chait, the developers at the center of one of Broward County’s biggest political scandals, stand accused of squeezing a competitor out of $3 million by threatening to spread lies about...
View ArticleFlorida COVID-19 update: Testing positivity rates fall into single digits in...
Even as new cases and hospitalizations decline steadily, death reports have been stubbornly high for nearly three weeks in Florida. The state added 658 new deaths to its pandemic total on Thursday,...
View ArticleInvestigation: Broward schools took extraordinary steps to hide key details...
When the Broward School District learned that ransomware hackers may have accessed the personal data of thousands of people from district servers, its response was to hide and delay.
View ArticleBSO busts violent street gang that spread fear throughout South Florida with...
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has shut down a street gang whose members sold cocaine, heroin and fentanyl throughout South Florida, protecting their enterprise through violence that ranged from drive-by...
View ArticleU.S. Coast Guard offloads $1 billion worth of narcotics
A U.S. Coast Guard vessel on Thursday offloaded more than 30 metric tons of cocaine and marijuana worth over $1 billion that was seized at sea during a months-long deployment off the coast of South...
View ArticlePolice arrest Planned Parenthood organizer, ban 25 abortion rights protesters...
Capitol Police arrested a Planned Parenthood organizer and issued trespass warnings to 25 others after a protest broke out in the Florida House’s gallery during a heated debate over abortion. The...
View ArticleFlorida roads to get specialty license plate that celebrates going off-road
The newest specialty license plate headed for Florida’s vehicles may be more popular off of its highways than on.
View ArticleFlorida Senate approves $109 billion budget that doesn’t punish mask mandate...
The Florida Senate unanimously passed a nearly $109 billion spending plan Thursday with virtually no debate.
View ArticleFlorida Senate backs down from fight with DeSantis over Lake Okeechobee water...
The original bill would have helped sugar growers and city water utilities at the expense of the Everglades and coastal communities by requiring state state water managers to take steps to hold the...
View ArticleGirl, 2, left locked inside dark daycare, reports say
A mother trying to pick up her 2-year-old daughter from a Plantation daycare found the toddler alone and locked in the building, reports say.
View ArticleVolunteer killed after dog attack at Oakland Park rescue facility ‘did what...
A longtime volunteer at 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida died Thursday morning after a dog she was working with suddenly attacked.
View ArticleBicyclist clings to rail as drawbridge lifts | VIDEO
Man clings to railing as drawbridge in North Palm Beach lifts. The video showing the November 2020 ordeal was released by the attorney for the family of a 79-year-old bicyclist who died when a bridge...
View ArticleOrlando Marriott hosts white nationalist conference with Rep. Marjorie Taylor...
For the second year in a row, an Orlando hotel hosted a secret conference organized by a white nationalist as CPAC went on nearby, according to a report.
View ArticleCOVID-19 update: Testing positivity levels drop near or below critical 5%...
The number of patients with the virus in Florida hospitals dropped to 3,145 on Friday, a 28.5% decline in a week. In Broward and Miami-Dade counties, 5.4% of hospital beds are used by COVID patients;...
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