Stoneman Douglas shooting victims’ families can testify about trauma of the...
A judge rejected an attempt by confessed Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s attorneys to bar the parents and other relatives of his 17 victims from testifying before the jury about the trauma the...
View ArticleBroward teacher could be fired for not wearing mask
The recommended termination of John C. Alvarez, 57, a science teacher at Piper High in Sunrise, could reignite a bitter debate in Broward over the required use of face coverings to combat COVID-19.
View ArticleBrightline train death in Fort Lauderdale is third in South Florida in past week
Three people in South Florida have died in the past week in incidents involving Brightline trains. The high-speed train service from West Palm Beach to Miami restarted in early November.
View ArticleMan killed in shooting in residential area of Pompano Beach
The shooting victim was discovered outside in a residential area of Pompano Beach
View ArticleJan. 6 panel votes for contempt charges against Mark Meadows
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection voted Monday to recommend contempt charges against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as lawmakers demand his testimony about...
View ArticleNew guitar-shaped hotel planned as Seminoles and Hard Rock buy The Mirage in...
Hard Rock International has plans to build a guitar-shaped hotel on the iconic Las Vegas Strip after purchasing The Mirage Hotel and Casino for $1.075 billion in cash, the Seminole Tribe-owned company...
View ArticleMassive water line break left 7 cities dry for days. A jury blames the...
A private contractor that accidentally dug into a water main in Fort Lauderdale is responsible for financial damage suffered by thousands of area homes and businesses, a Broward jury determined Monday...
View ArticleFederal judge sets hearing in UF professors’ lawsuit over denying them right...
A federal judge will hear arguments next month in a lawsuit filed by University of Florida professors challenging a policy that gives the school discretion in blocking faculty members from testifying...
View ArticleCounty worker charged with stealing $109,000 in fees and deposits
A former South Florida government worker has been charged with stealing nearly $109,000 over two years from the Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts office, prosecutors said.
View ArticleMan found dead in car after being shot at Pembroke Pines intersection
A 20-year-old man was found dead in his car after being shot at a Pembroke Pines intersection Monday night. Police don't consider it a random act of violence.
View Article3 residents of The Villages arrested after casting multiple votes in 2020...
Three residents of The Villages were recently arrested and face charges of casting more than one vote during the 2020 election, according to affidavits.
View ArticleThis Broward teacher didn’t wear a mask. He has been fired for insubordination.
Teacher John C. Alvarez plans to appeal the School Board’s decision to an administrative law judge, who will decide if the district’s actions were justified.
View ArticleMiami-Dade finds omicron variant in its wastewater
Tests of wastewater in county plants show the concentration of virus in the samples includes omicron, further evidence the highly infectious variant has arrived in South Florida.
View ArticleBroward schools pays $26 million to Stoneman Douglas victims
The School Board hopes the settlement shows its commitment to the Stoneman Douglas community, a district lawyer says.
View ArticleHer husband reported her missing, but police say he had already killed her...
Ernest Gordon, 44, reported his wife missing on Nov. 7, telling Broward Sheriff's deputies he had last seen Wanda Gordon, 42, three days earlier in the morning before leaving for work. But when he...
View ArticleDisney guests evacuated at Magic Kingdom after small fire breaks out near...
Jon Shirey, president of the Reedy Creek Firefighters Association, said the call initially came in to the fire department around 6:45 p.m. as an electrical fire on a junction box outside the castle.
View ArticlePublix’s iconic entrance scales may soon be history
Those big historic and industrial looking scales at the front of Publix Super Markets could land on the scrapheap of supermarket history one day, because the scale manufacturer stopped making them.
View ArticleFlorida Supreme Court declines to take up ballot image dispute
The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a case about county elections supervisors, including in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade, preserving digital ballot images.
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman attorney to represent Embry-Riddle student accused of mass...
Mark O’Mara, who represented George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting, will now represent an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student who has been accused of plotting a mass shooting at the...
View ArticleBody of Florida man found in Banana River after 2 canoes capsize: report
A missing Florida man was found dead Tuesday afternoon after he previously disappeared following two canoes capsizing in the Banana River, according to various news outlets.
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