DeSantis now backs taking $200 million from schools that mandated masks
Gov. Ron DeSantis now supports taking money from districts that mandated masks, a spokeswoman says.
View ArticleBob Saget’s family asks judge to block release of records related to his death
Comedian Bob Saget’s family asked an Orlando judge to block the release of records related to his death investigation.
View ArticlePoll: Rubio leads Demings in Senate race; 55% disapprove of Biden in Florida
Republican Marco Rubio has a 7-point lead over Democratic challenger Val Demings, according to a new poll. The poll also shows President Biden with a 40% approval rating in Florida, compared to 55%...
View Article‘Lying is a sin’: DeSantis spokeswoman claims Miami archbishop lied about...
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary escalated the war of words on Tuesday with the leader of Florida’s Roman Catholic Church.
View ArticleCourt overturns conviction of North Miami cop who shot at unarmed autistic...
Jonathon Aledda claimed he believed the man was holding a firearm and holding another man hostage during a standoff in July 2016.
View ArticleShooting victim dies, baby saved when car crashes into Pompano canal
A woman died and a baby was pulled to safety when the vehicle they were traveling in crashed into a South Florida canal early Wednesday. The Broward Sheriff's Office said the woman had been shot.
View ArticleFlorida COVID-19 update: Case average drops to two-month low as omicron wave...
The number of hospitalized COVID patients in Florida continued to decline, falling to 5,188 on Tuesday, down 27% in a week and 56% from its peak, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleBob Saget lawsuit: Judge temporarily blocks release of death probe records
A judge temporarily blocked local officials from releasing records concerning comedian Bob Saget’s death after his family filed a lawsuit.
View ArticleBusinessman close to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was DEA informant,...
A businessman linked to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was secretly signed up by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a cooperating source in 2018 and provided agents with information about...
View ArticleFamily of 13-year-old girl falsely arrested for online school threats files...
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Nia Whims, the South Florida 13-year-old arrested in November for making online threats to kill a 12-year-old classmate and blow up Renaissance Charter School in...
View ArticleWATCH: Car cuts around crossing gate, gets hit by Brightline train in Lake...
A car cut around another car and a crossing gate before getting hit by a Brightline train in Lake Worth Beach Wednesday morning, the third accident in 24 hours and the fourth in a week for the rail line.
View ArticleDemocrats say Rubio shows ‘spinelessness’ and ‘cowardice’ for not supporting...
Gun control activists used this week’s fourth anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre to denounce U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for his failure to support what they termed...
View ArticleFlorida House passes $105.3 billion spending plan; Senate up next
What would be a record $105.3 billion spending plan bolstered by federal stimulus money was approved Wednesday by the Florida House, helping set up negotiations with the Senate on a final budget for...
View ArticleFlorida House votes to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy
The Florida House voted early Thursday to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest, putting the measure on track to reach Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk.
View ArticleDisney theme parks generate $7.2 billion in first quarter, a near record
Disney’s U.S. parks reported near all-time revenue and operating income records in the company’s first quarter of 2022, driven by larger crowds spending more.
View ArticleFlorida House passes GOP 15-week abortion ban
Florida’s bill contains exceptions if the abortion is necessary to save a mother’s life, prevent serious injury to the mother or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality.
View ArticleDevelopers’ defense in extortion case: Tamarac land really was contaminated
Bruce and Shawn Chait, the developers at the center of one of Broward County’s biggest political scandals, stand accused of squeezing a competitor out of $3 million by threatening to spread lies about...
View ArticleFlorida COVID-19 update: Testing positivity rates fall into single digits in...
Even as new cases and hospitalizations decline steadily, death reports have been stubbornly high for nearly three weeks in Florida. The state added 658 new deaths to its pandemic total on Thursday,...
View ArticleInvestigation: Broward schools took extraordinary steps to hide key details...
When the Broward School District learned that ransomware hackers may have accessed the personal data of thousands of people from district servers, its response was to hide and delay.
View ArticleBSO busts violent street gang that spread fear throughout South Florida with...
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has shut down a street gang whose members sold cocaine, heroin and fentanyl throughout South Florida, protecting their enterprise through violence that ranged from drive-by...
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