Florida Democrats return $780,000 in PPP loans after criticism from party...
“The Democratic Party has been criticizing the PPP program” for loans to Trump Organization partners and other corporations, said state Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando. “What’s most frustrating about it...
View ArticlePresident Trump will be in South Florida Friday. On the agenda: a...
President Donald Trump will be in South Florida on Friday to preview a counter-narcotics operation in Doral and attend a high-dollar fundraiser in Hillsboro Beach. Air Force One is expected to arrive...
View ArticleDeSantis wants to speed up COVID testing in Broward, Miami-Dade, and says...
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he is asking the federal government for more medicine and will create designated drive-through lanes at coronavirus testing sites in Broward and Miami-Dade counties for...
View ArticleTropical Storm Fay forms off North Carolina, but it’s New York that should...
Tropical Fay formed Thursday off North Carolina, becoming the sixth storm of the 2020 hurricane season. The storm is expected to make landfall, likely in the Northeast.
View ArticleDeputy arrested and accused of claiming to work when he was at home
Cop who was supposed to be solving robberies accused of robbing taxpayers
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court asked to allow former felons to vote, despite fines and...
Wednesday’s Supreme Court filing, submitted to Justice Clarence Thomas for procedural reasons, urges the court to allow Hinkle’s order to go into effect allowing former felons with an inability to pay...
View ArticleBrothers charged in murder after shooting and police chase through Broward...
A police chase from Fort Lauderdale to Deerfield Beach ended with the arrest of 20-year-old murder suspect Travis Jabori Jenkins. His 18-year-old brother was arrested a short time later.
View ArticleTropical Storm Fay lumbers toward city
Isolated tornadoes are possible on parts of New Jersey, southeast New York and southern New England.
View ArticleFlorida sending $138 million to county health departments
The Florida Department of Health announced it is sending $138 million in federal pandemic funds to county health departments to hire epidemiologists, nurses and contact tracers. The bulk of it will go...
View ArticleHeat index expected to reach mid-100s in South Florida; heat advisory in effect
Heat index to soar to the mid-100s, with record-breaking temperatures possible across South Florida today.
View ArticlePandemic parties rage on across South Florida despite growing coronavirus crisis
South Florida is a world epicenter of coronavirus infections, but some irrepressible revelers insist on trying to live out the subtropical promise of fun, sin, and sun — global pandemic or not. Experts...
View ArticleAs COVID-19 cases pile up, Gov. Ron DeSantis follows Trump’s virus playbook....
Gov. Ron DeSantis is following President Donald Trump's playbook on the coronavirus, and his political future could hinge on the outcome.
View ArticleCOVID-19 relief money used for Medicare fraud, feds say
Carlos Belone, 37, of Coconut Creek, is accused of seeking several Paycheck Protection Program loans, part of which he intended to use in a scheme to defraud Medicare of at least $5 million.
View ArticleMaskless Trump visits campaign battleground of Florida as COVID cases...
President Donald Trump arrived in South Florida on Friday to preview a counter-narcotics operation in Doral and attend a high-dollar fundraiser in Hillsboro Beach. What is the first thing that...
View ArticlePresident Trump commutes sentence of longtime friend Roger Stone
President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone for crimes related to the Russia investigation, Stone told The Associated Press on Friday, just days...
View ArticleLoud partying and gunfire lead to an arrest in Pompano Beach
Several people were detained for questioning following neighbors’ complaints of loud partying and gunfire.
View ArticleFlorida COVID-19 cases are soaring. Can hospitals handle them?
As COVID-19 cases soar, South Florida hospitals prepare to avoid being overwhelmed.
View ArticleFay weakens to post-tropical system over eastern New York
In its final advisory for Tropical Storm Fay, the National Hurricane Center said the system weakened into a post-tropical cyclone Saturday and is expected to fully dissolve by late Sunday. Forecasters...
View ArticleFlorida to install charging stations for electric vehicles
More than two dozen charging stations will be installed along Florida’s busiest roads, paid for by the state’s share of a U.S. government settlement with Volkswagen after the German automaker violated...
View ArticleHeat index to climb as high as 107; chance of record-breaking temps and rain
High temperatures will be in the mid- to high 90s, but heat index could hit 107. Chance of scattered thunderstorms after 3 p.m.
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