Hurricane Ida maintains wind speed at 85 mph, but still expected to be major...
Hurricane Ida has a high chance of becoming a major hurricane — possibly a Category 4 — before making landfall somewhere along the Louisiana coast. New Orleans is in the center of the forecast cone of...
View ArticlePembroke Pines police searching for woman as they conduct ‘suspicious death’...
Pembroke Pines police are searching for Michelle Gibb, 57, who they think could be involved in a man's "suspicious death."
View ArticleMAP: Here’s the latest forecast track of Hurricane Ida
Hurricane Ida on Sunday was devastating Category 4 hurricane set to make landfall on the Louisiana coast. Here is the latest forecast tracking map.
View ArticleTropical Storms Julian and Kate may soon form; 2 other systems in the...
Tropical Storm Julian is forecast to form Sunday from Tropical Depression Eleven over the central Atlantic Ocean. Tropical Storm Kate likely to form Sunday or Monday, forecasters say.
View ArticleTed Bundy’s lawyer has advice to save Parkland shooter’s life: Try to...
Lawyers for Ted Bundy, Aileen Wuornos and Gus Boulis' killers agree that the best Nikolas Cruz's attorneys can hope for is to persuade a jury not to send the Parkland shooter to death row.
View ArticleTrial No. 1 begins for man accused of 3 murders in stunningly quick succession
Jonathan Schuler pummeled a co-worker’s head with a crowbar at a construction site, detectives say. It was the first of three murders Jonathan Schuler, 37, committed in early 2017, according to Palm...
View ArticleHurricane Ida at Category 4 with top winds of 150 mph as it nears Louisiana...
Hurricane Ida has a high chance of becoming a major hurricane — possibly a Category 4 — before making landfall somewhere along the Louisiana coast.
View ArticleTropical Storm Julian forms in Atlantic. Kate may not be far behind.
Tropical Storm Julian formed Sunday from Tropical Depression Eleven over the central Atlantic Ocean. Tropical Storm Kate likely to form Sunday or Monday, forecasters say.
View Article14 portable morgues on way to Central Florida: ‘Number of deaths right now is...
Fourteen portable refrigerated morgues are headed to Central Florida to help beleaguered hospitals store bodies.
View ArticleDeSantis offers bonuses to lure out-of-state cops as Florida struggles to...
At a Fraternal Order of Police event in Indianapolis last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a plan to attract more cops to Florida: $5,000 signing bonuses for all new officers. He contrasted his support...
View ArticleMAP: Here are the 10 Florida school districts that have imposed mask mandates
Interactive map: See which Florida school districts have imposed mask mandates on students or teachers, some of which violate a state law pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to ban such mandates without...
View ArticleHomes in Louisiana and Mississippi under flood threat from former Hurricane...
Hurricane Ida, one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the U.S., has been downgraded to a tropical storm but is continuing to bring life-threatening river flooding to coastal and inland areas of...
View ArticleFlorida Supreme Court shields top corporate executives from depositions
The Florida Supreme Court has shielded high-ranking business executives from having to give depositions in lawsuits. The justices extended to corporate executives a protection that has long allowed top...
View ArticleTropical Storm Kate forms; forecasters monitoring 2 other systems besides Ida
In addition to monitoring Kate and former Hurricane Ida, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center are watching two other areas for potential storm development.
View ArticleFlorida nursing homes protest COVID vaccine mandate as deaths climb
The nursing home industry is railing against a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for workers over concerns many will quit rather than comply.
View ArticleDeSantis slammed for picking glitch-plagued unemployment agency to distribute...
Democratic lawmakers in South Florida say they’re troubled by Gov. DeSantis’ choice of the Department of Economic Opportunity — which oversees the state’s troubled unemployment agency — to distribute...
View ArticleCOVID stalks Florida teens in crowded school hallways, packed lunchrooms....
Florida teens now have the highest positivity rate of any age group and are seeing a big jump in coronavirus cases and hospital admissions. Experts say the teens are not only getting infected — but...
View ArticleDomestic violence shelter will bring hope for farmworkers
Colectivo Árbol was created to help communicate reliable information to Hispanic and farmworker communities across Central Florida.
View ArticleFlorida corrections trainee dies in accidental shooting
A Florida Department of Corrections trainee was killed in an accidental shooting, officials say.
View ArticleAnswers to your vaccine questions: Can I get booster if I received antibody...
Here are the answers to some of your biggest questions about COVID-19 vaccinations in Florida. Today's question: Are teachers resigning due to lax COVID rules in Florida?
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