What’s going on with Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial?
The prosecution has rested its sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell. Starting Thursday, her defense team takes its turn. With just days left in Maxwell’s trial, it’s time to take stock of...
View ArticleMan killed in Pompano Beach shooting is identified
The 27-year-old man shot and killed Monday morning in a Pompano Beach residential area has been identified.
View ArticleCalling it ‘state-sanctioned racism,’ DeSantis seeks ban of critical race...
Critical race theory shouldn’t be taught to Florida’s children or workers, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday, and he’ll seek legislation next year to ban the practice.
View ArticleSouth Florida man charged in Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol
According to an indictment, a South Florida man participated in an assault of a Metropolitan Police Department officer who was beaten by a group armed with a baton, flagpole and crutch during the...
View ArticleAfter Surfside collapse, grand jury recommends more frequent inspections for...
After Surfside collapse, grand jury recommends requiring frequent inspections and stricter association rules.
View Article14-year-old arrested for making social media threats against own school
A 14-year-old Pompano Beach Middle School student was arrested and booked into the Juvenile Assessment Center early Wednesday morning after making threats against their school on Snapchat, officials said.
View ArticleOperatives working for FPL arranged job offer to opponent of Jacksonville...
Jacksonville City Council member Garrett Dennis said he was offered a job by dark money group to leave council during JEA privatization vote.
View ArticleGOP Rep. Anthony Sabatini: A Florida House outcast the conservative base adores
Within the halls of the Capitol, Rep. Anthony Sabatini is a pariah among his GOP colleagues. His office is in a basement, his bills rarely given a hearing. But among the base of the Republican Party,...
View ArticleTwo dead, over 40 in Florida hospitalized with severe bleeding after smoking...
Two people have died and more than 40 people in the Tampa area have been hospitalized with severe bleeding after smoking synthetic marijuana, also known as spice, according to reports.
View ArticleU.S. bans company behind the fatal FIU bridge collapse. Florida is still...
After the bridge collapse, authorities and developers in Texas and Indiana looked more closely at work performed by companies under the FIGG banner, found problems, and removed them from their...
View ArticleFlorida’s nursing home residents are trailing most of the US in getting...
AARP on Thursday released the Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard, which shows Florida ranks the third-worst state in the nation with only 24% of nursing home residents receiving boosters – well behind the...
View ArticleCentral Florida authorities seek public’s help finding serial rape suspect...
Central Florida law enforcement asked for the public’s help to find Leslie Lagrotta, 61, who is linked to seven rape cases in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
View ArticleFeud ends over Florida school mask mandates
A standoff between Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and federal education officials about student mask requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic has ended after school districts nixed mask mandates.
View ArticleEx-Jeffrey Epstein worker says she ‘never’ saw misconduct by Ghislaine Maxwell
A former office worker for financier Jeffrey Epstein testified at the sex abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday that she worked on a daily basis with Maxwell for six years and had only...
View ArticleJudge questions validity of Broward school lawyer’s felony case
A judge will rule on whether prosecutors can use a key witness in a criminal case against Barbara Myrick, the former Broward schools general counsel.
View ArticleBroward men plead guilty in $35 million COVID relief fraud
James Stote, 55, of Hollywood, and Phillip Augustin, 52, of Coral Springs, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Akron, Ohio, federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to court records. They each...
View ArticleFlorida election officials hunt for snowbirds, others who voted twice in 2020...
So far three residents of the sprawling Villages retirement community have been charged with voting more than once in last year’s presidential election. Lake County has turned over another six possible...
View Article2022′s first South Florida election will pit a progressive Democrat vs. a...
Progressive Democrat. Trump-supporting Republican. Plus a Libertarian and two no party candidates, one of whom touts unproven COVID-19 treatments and says a government vaccine mandate is like rape....
View ArticleNaked Florida man leads police on chase in stolen truck: report
Florida man has doffed his clothing and led police on a chase in a stolen truck.
View ArticleThose traffic jams on Florida’s Turnpike? Here’s the plan to widen the...
The thousands of South Floridians who each day commute on Florida’s Turnpike will finally see some relief in the coming years — with the state advancing plans to widen stretches of the highway from six...
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