As tragedy hits South Florida, severe blood shortage looms
As tragedy hit South Florida with the Surfside condo collapse, blood reserves dwindled further, hitting a critical point where local hospitals report a desperate need for blood.
View ArticleFanDuel, DraftKings pursue sports betting ballot measure in Florida
Florida’s new compact with the Seminole Tribe gives it a monopoly over sports betting, but two online betting companies are seeking to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat after being shut out of the...
View ArticleThe number of new Florida COVID cases is rising as Delta variant spreads
The Florida Department of Health reported 11,873 new COVID cases for the week ending June 24, compared with 10,629 for the prior week. Test positivity rose to 3.8% from 3.3% a week earlier.
View ArticleHere’s where to find a COVID-19 vaccine in South Florida
Looking to get vaccinated for coronavirus? Here are the places where you can get a COVID-19 vaccine in South Florida.
View ArticleNikki Fried rejects Broward officials’ concerns; distributor of food for...
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried has decided to proceed with a plan to change the organization that distributes government food aid to the hungry in Broward and Palm Beach counties. The fight...
View ArticleJoy and sorrow amid boy’s dramatic rescue from rubble and his mother’s death
Jonah Handler, 15, and his mother Stacie Fang, 54, were among those who seemingly free fell from their homes early Thursday — oblivious that their condo tower collapsed while they slept.
View ArticleHopes dwindle as risky Surfside condo rescue turns up no other survivors...
Using heavy machinery, search dogs and microphones, exhausted rescue workers labored under heavy rain Friday morning to search for survivors in the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condo in...
View ArticleTropical wave off coast of Africa becoming less organized
The tropical wave moving west off the African coast has been given a low chance of development over the next five days, but still could be a tropical depression at some point next week.
View ArticleShould you drop your home insurer and go to state-owned Citizens?
As prices for private market insurance skyrocket in Florida and insurers pull out of South Florida and other regions altogether, state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is picking up the slack....
View Article‘Deep fire’ inside partially collapsed condo tower in southern Florida slows...
Firefighters battling back a massive blaze, sparked deep inside a partially collapsed condo tower in Southern Florida, simultaneously continued their search alongside other first responders on Saturday...
View ArticleInternational tragedy in a Florida town: Victims in Surfside condo collapse...
The Champlain Towers South condominium was a true reflection of Miami’s international mix — South American immigrants, Orthodox Jews, foreign retirees. The 12-story building’s stunning collapse quickly...
View ArticleSouth Florida police quietly ran facial recognition scans to identify...
Police photographed protesters and ran protest-related images through a vast and unregulated facial recognition database, records show. That’s like going through a crowd and asking to see driver’s...
View ArticleMayor: Inspection needed for condo near the collapsed Surfside tower
The mayor of Surfside said he is working on a plan to temporarily relocate residents of a condominium tower built by the same developer of the nearby building that collapsed earlier in the week.
View ArticleNo more survivors found, death count increases to five as questions arise...
Saturday was another sorrowful day, where no survivors were pulled from the rubble of the Surfside condo collapse and the official death count rose to five (with authorities identifying four of the...
View ArticleDid driver huffing or truck malfunction cause devastating crash that killed...
Paul Streater was behind the wheel of a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado that collided at 107 mph into the rear of a stopped 2018 Dodge Caravan carrying the victims — two kids and their mom from Mexico, and an...
View ArticleNews quiz for week of June 20
Think you are all caught up with the news? Test your knowledge of current events with the South Florida Sun Sentinel's news quiz, from the week of June 20, 2021.
View ArticleTropical depression could form off southeastern U.S. coast, forecasters say
A tropical depression could form from a low pressure system located several hundred miles off the coast off Georgia, according to the National Hurricane Center.
View ArticleFour more Surfside victims identified as toll rises to 9 dead, 152 missing
More than 150 people remain missing in the collapse of the Surfside tower. Barring a miracle, it’s clear the disaster will rank with the worst in Florida history, with a death toll that could be more...
View ArticleTreasured but suffering, Florida springs get ‘minuscule’ attention, says...
The Florida Springs Council issued a report Wednesday condemning the state’s caretaking of springs as generally dismal, woefully underfunded and not likely to restore spring health for many decades or...
View ArticleAs the aggressive COVID Delta variant spreads, Floridians don’t know where it...
Want to vacation in Florida, or bring your children to Disney? You will have to make decisions without knowing whether the county you visit or live in is a hotbed for a COVID variant.
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