Elementary school locked down as Hollywood police search for shooting suspects
Boulevard Heights Elementary students were redirected to McArthur High School as police searched for shooting suspects
View Article‘There’s fentanyl in everything’: 4 new hospitalizations linked to fentanyl...
Just days after four U.S. Military Academy cadets from West Point were among a group who overdosed on fentanyl-laced cocaine at a rental home in Wilton Manors, four other men were hospitalized Sunday...
View ArticleDeSantis: Approved Everglades water bill ‘much different’ than version he...
Gov. Ron DeSantis said a controversial environmental bill is “dramatically” improved from when he severely criticized the measure during the middle of the legislative session.
View ArticleKerouac still celebrated in St. Pete on 100th birthday
Jack Kerouac lived in St. Petersburg only a handful of years before he died here in 1969. But the Sunshine City still claims him as its own.
View ArticleFlorida man accused of stealing $30K worth of turtles: report
A Florida man is accused of stealing 18 turtles worth $30,000.
View ArticleHaitians aiming for Florida Keys outpace 2021 migration
Haitian migrants are reaching Florida’s shores in repeated suspected human smuggling operations, outpacing last year’s migration waves
View ArticleProud Boys leader charged in Jan. 6 plot jailed until trial
A Miami judge cited the danger that prosecutors say Henry “Enrique” Tarrio poses to the community in her decision to keep the Proud Boys leader in jail until his trial on charges that he remotely led a...
View ArticleDeSantis signs law ending Florida’s year-end school testing
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill scrapping the Florida Standards Assessment exams starting next year, replacing them with smaller, more frequent tests.
View ArticleDefense casts suspicion on stabbing victim’s husband in Broward escapee’s...
Attorneys for former fugitive Dayonte Resiles used the closing arguments at his murder trial Tuesday to cast suspicion on the victim’s husband, a respected scientist who sat stoically as jurors were...
View ArticleSenate approves bill to make daylight saving time permanent
The Senate unanimously approved a measure that would make daylight saving time permanent across the United States next year.
View Article‘People are passing out’: 911 call describes moment Spring Breakers overdosed...
A panicked call to 911 shows the moment a Spring Break vacation turned into a nightmare for the students — commotion and yelling in the background, uncertainty of the address for the Wilton Manors...
View ArticleDiapers will be tax free in Florida, starting on July 1
There will be a little wiggle room in parents’ budgets this summer: Diapers are going to be tax-free in Florida for one year.
View ArticleJudge denies former football star’s stand-your-ground claim in Palm Beach...
A former football star in the NFL and at Florida State University faces life in prison after his stand-your-ground claim is rejected in a Palm Beach County murder case. Travis Rudolph is charged with...
View ArticleDisney employees, politicians keep the pressure on over ‘don’t say gay’ bill
Even after CEO Bob Chapek said the company opposed the measure, the criticism of Disney has endured and even grown.
View ArticleFamilies from Parkland massacre to get $127.5 million for FBI’s inaction
Federal officials have confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the families of most of those killed and wounded in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman...
View Article‘He loved life’: Family and friends remember slain Shooters employee
Tearful employees of Shooters Waterfront gathered at the restaurant for a memorial for a co-worker, Jordan Saddiq, who was gunned down a day earlier. Police arrested a former employee in the Fort...
View ArticleJussie Smollett walks out of Cook County Jail after court orders his release...
Convicted actor Jussie Smollett has been ordered released from jail pending appeal of his 150-day sentence imposed last week for staging a hoax hate crime on himself.
View ArticleFlorida Legislature wraps up combative culture-war session
Florida lawmakers finished their work at the Capitol on Monday, delivering Gov. Ron DeSantis culture war victories as he heads into reelection but prompting protesters to shower him with fake money as...
View ArticleFlorida couple pleads guilty to $881K COVID-19 relief fraud
Lenders and the SBA approved 12 of the loans, allowing the Brueys to collect $881,058.35 in PPP and EIDL funds.
View ArticleProbe: No merit to COVID-19 data suppression charge at UF
A University of Florida investigation has found no merit to allegations that state or university officials pressured researchers to suppress or destroy COVID-19 research data, school officials said.
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