As polio surfaces in other states, how vulnerable are Floridians?
For the first time since the U.S. declared polio officially eradicated in 1979, Floridians are concerned about their odds of getting the disease. Florida is beginning the groundwork to learn if polio...
View ArticleThe hunt for Florida’s dinosaurs is on as gator harvest season wraps up first...
Florida's two-and-a-half month gator hunting season kicked off on Monday with expanded hours and lots of competition for permits to harvest the animals.
View ArticleVacant land, ID theft and a $500,000 deal signed at Burger King. How the plan...
A man has been arrested on federal money-laundering charges as authorities allege he stole 10 acres of land worth more than a half-million dollars in a posh Broward neighborhood in a deal signed and...
View Article18-year-old Broward School Board candidate asks opponent to ‘immediately...
Raymond Adderly III, an 18-year-old Broward School Board candidate, asked his opponent, Donna Korn, to suspend her campaign Saturday. Korn is among the School board members recommended for removal by a...
View ArticleWrong-way crash leaves 5 dead in Miami-Dade County
A man driving the wrong way on a busy South Florida highway crashed into another car, killing all five women in the other vehicle
View ArticleTropical storm chances decreasing as system approaches landfall in northeast...
Parts of Texas and Mexico remain under tropical storm warnings Saturday as a system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico threatens to make landfall as a tropical storm this weekend.
View ArticleIt was marvelous night for coral sex: Barry White, climate change and the...
The night was perfect, a few days after a full moon. Balmy air. Calm water. All the conditioned aligned for staghorn coral to mingle their eggs and sperm on the gentle incoming tide. But these weren't...
View Article30 years after Hurricane Andrew: How resilient is South Florida?
Thirty years after Hurricane Andrew devastated the southern part of Miami-Dade County and shook the rest of South Florida's economy and psyche, the region's economy and ability to recover from future...
View ArticleUCF student dies in shootout with would-be robber in Alabama woods
UCF student Adam Simjee, 22, was exploring the Alabama wilderness with his girlfriend Aug. 14 when he was killed during a shootout with a would-be robber, according to the Clay County Sheriff's Office.
View ArticlePromises and failures: the $800 million Broward school bond timeline
Timeline: Broward County schools have thus far failed deliver on promises made in the bond referendum approved by voters in 2014.
View ArticleWrong way crash on Palmetto kills five people. ‘Potential criminal...
A man driving the wrong way on a busy South Florida highway crashed into another car, killing all five women in the other vehicle
View ArticleHurricane Center forecasters monitoring tropical wave in moving in general...
While the 49-day string is only third place in length, the current streak of no named storms represents the latest in the year a drought of such duration has stretched.
View ArticleCrist, Fried campaign across South Florida in final push toward primary
Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried spent the last day of early voting in their primary contest for governor courting voters in South Florida, home to the largest concentration of Democratic voters in the...
View ArticleWatch live: Defense opens its case in the Parkland school shooting trial
Watch the opening statement from the defense in the sentencing trial of the Parkland school shooter, which resumes on Monday. Aug. 22, 2022. The prosecution rested its case two weeks ago after trying...
View ArticleFlorida primaries 2022: Some of the top races to watch in Tuesday’s election
Floridians have been voting for weeks through early voting, now leading up to the primaries’ election day this Tuesday. There’s the contest over who’ll win the Democratic primary in the governor’s...
View ArticleFlorida judge in Trump search case issues written order seeking redactions
The federal magistrate judge in Florida who signed the warrant authorizing the search of former President Donald Trump’s private club and residence issued a formal order Monday directing the government...
View ArticleHurricane Center forecasters monitoring tropical disturbance moving slowly...
The tropical disturbance was producing disorganized showers Monday, and is forecast to move west-northwest to northwest at 15 to 20 mph in the direction of the Caribbean.
View ArticleFlorida amendment proposes near total ban on abortion
A political committee has proposed a ballot initiative in Florida to impose a near total ban on abortion.
View Article‘His brain was irretrievably broken’: Florida school shooter was damaged even...
The defense side of the sentencing trial for confessed Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz began with an opening statement and several witnesses portraying him as a damaged human being with a brain that was...
View ArticleInmate held on sex assault charges is attacked in Broward courtroom
An inmate charged with sexually assaulting a child was attacked while he was in the courthouse Monday, authorities said.
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