Broward high school students will have longer exam days next week
Students will be expected to attend school for a full day on Dec. 14 to Dec. 17 when they take final exams. In past years, students took two exams in the morning and usually left by lunchtime.
View ArticleHospitalized COVID patient in Tampa is first case of omicron in Florida
Florida has its first confirmed case of the new COVID-19 omicron variant. A Tampa Bay hospital reported Tuesday the first confirmed case of omicron in the state in a patient experiencing mild symptoms...
View ArticleDeSantis proposes plan to fight rising seas without any ‘left-wing stuff’
Gov. Ron DeSantis submitted more than 70 projects to the state Legislature to improve drainage, raise sea walls and take other steps to fight flooding across the state. But he warned against people who...
View ArticleIn his new PSA, Florida surgeon general touts treatments with little track...
Florida’s surgeon general, the controversial doctor who has cast doubt on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, is the star of a new public service announcement that touts “innovative solutions”...
View ArticleWant more Trump? Four-city tour premiers Saturday in South Florida. You’ll...
Former President Donald Trump and former Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly are beginning a four-city series of conversations on Dec. 11 at the hockey arena in Sunrise. Trump is expected to draw...
View ArticleControversial speeches could be banned at Broward graduations
School Board members on Tuesday discussed ways to better vet graduation speech after a salutatorian at Western High in Davie made comments in June about the Middle East that some thought were...
View ArticleRep. Carrie Meek’s legacy remembered at funeral
The family of Carrie P. Meek was joined Tuesday in Miami Gardens by elected officials, ministers and hundreds of others touched by her work.
View ArticleVerdict reached in trial of former fugitive accused of stabbing Davie woman...
Jurors in the murder trial of Dayonte Resiles appeared to be on the verge of returning guilty verdicts late Monday, but not necessarily for first-degree murder.
View ArticleWoman says she was paid by Ghislaine Maxwell to give sexual massages to...
A woman told the jury in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial that she was driven to Jeffrey Epstein’s house and told she could make “a lot of money” by giving him a massage.
View ArticleBody of missing Florida woman Kathleen Moore found, police say. Her boyfriend...
Kathleen Moore, 34, and Colin Knapp, 30, had been in an “on-again, off-again” relationship for about five years, police said. Moore’s body was found Tuesday under some brush about 150 feet from Knapp’s...
View ArticleSouth Florida has elections in January. Monday is deadline to register to vote.
Monday, Dec. 13, is the deadline to register to vote in the January elections to finalize the next South Florida member of Congress and choose three members of the Florida Legislature.
View ArticleBody cam video documents deputy’s fatal shooting of 88-year-old Florida man
A body camera video shows that a Florida deputy who fatally shot an 88-year-old man while checking on his welfare repeatedly identified herself and asked him to put down his gun, firing only after he...
View ArticleFlorida firms balk at searching old death files to pay out life insurance...
The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday waded into a battle about the constitutionality of a 2016 state law that put new requirements on life-insurance companies to determine whether policyholders have...
View ArticleSports betting is again illegal in Florida, but some betters still have cash...
With sports betting off the table once again in Florida, many bettors who used the Hard Rock Sportsbook app now are eager to cash out and get their money back.
View ArticleManatees will receive emergency rations of romaine lettuce if starvation...
A total of 757 manatees died, mostly from starvation, over the past year around the Indian River Lagoon, where pollution from farms and lawns has killed off seagrass. State and federal officials are...
View ArticleGroups slam Florida over removal of anti-bullying resource
Advocacy groups are criticizing the Florida Department of Education for removing an anti-bullying webpage from its site, saying the decision will harm LGBTQ students.
View ArticlePublix heiress Carol Jenkins Barnett dies at 65
Carol Jenkins Barnett, a well-known philanthropist and the billionaire daughter of the Publix Super Markets founder, died Tuesday night at her home in Lakeland, the company said. She was 65.
View ArticleSouth Florida zookeeper sentenced to federal prison after undercover FBI...
Justin David Alban, a 31-year-old who worked as a zookeeper at a safari park in Palm Beach County, used an online file-sharing network called BitTorrent to download child pornography over an 18-month...
View ArticleNikki Fried didn’t properly disclose income, Florida ethics panel says
A Florida ethics panel on Wednesday announced it has found probable cause that Democratic candidate for governor Nikki Fried violated state law for failing to properly disclose her income on financial...
View ArticleWith omicron pending, businesses and citizens weigh how to proceed
As a new COVID variant appears on the horizon, state laws contradict federal laws, and local officials battle the state, leaving businesses, schools and citizens to devise their own safeguard.
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