One year later, the backlog is gone, but Florida’s jobless system still...
One year after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered Florida’s tourism industry and led to a flood of unemployment compensation claims that broke the system, the status of jobless citizens relying on...
View ArticleFlorida Senate OKs $1 billion online tax to replenish unemployment fund
The Florida Senate on Thursday approved a proposal that would require out-of-state online retailers to collect sales taxes, with the money slated to be used to help Florida business owners avoid...
View ArticleWe asked our COVID-19 Reader Panel: How would you have changed the vaccine...
The Sun Sentinel asked the COVID-19 Reader Panel how they would have changed the vaccine rollout if they were in charge.
View ArticleDominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims
It’s the first defamation suit filed against a media outlet by the voting company, which was a target of misleading, false and bizarre claims spread by President Donald Trump and his allies in the...
View ArticleTracking COVID-19 in Florida: Here are the latest statistics including new...
Here are Florida's key coronavirus data as reported by the state, including new cases, death, hospitalizations and the progress of vaccine distribution.
View ArticleHere’s where to find a coronavirus vaccine in South Florida
Here's where to find coronavirus vaccines in South Florida.
View ArticleHackers may have stolen patient information from University of Miami Health...
The University of Miami is investigating a possible data breach that could compromise medical information for patients in the UM Health System. The hack was part of a nationwide ransomware attack on a...
View ArticleFear of losing pro-Trump viewers to rivals like Newsmax led Fox’s false...
Concern about then-President Donald Trump’s fans dumping Fox News Channel — and turning instead to its rivals, like Boca Raton-based Newsmax — helped convince Fox to air false claims of election fraud,...
View ArticleA lawyer predicts a bad outcome if he stays on his client’s case. The judge...
Donnie Murrell pleaded with Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Kirk Volker for permission to stop representing David Remland, 56, of Boca Raton. “It is hard to imagine any scenario where this ends well,”...
View ArticleFlorida reports 5,750 new COVID cases and an increase in deaths
Florida reported 5,750 new coronavirus cases on Friday and another 159 new resident deaths linked to COVID-19.
View ArticleDeSantis demands an end to cruise ship ‘national lockdown’ and threatens...
“I want to see these ships sailing,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a meeting Friday with cruise industry leaders.
View ArticleDouble shooting triggers 120 mph police chase through Palm Beach County
A Boynton Beach man is accused of shooting two people and then leading police on a 120 mph chase through Palm Beach County with a 15-year-old girl in an SUV.
View ArticleBracing for next health care crisis, Florida House panel approves...
Proposals requiring the governor to justify closing schools and businesses to limiting the authority of local governments have been lumped into a House bill aimed at preparing Florida for the next...
View ArticleFlorida House passes anti-riot, COVID-19 liability protection bills
A sharply divided Florida House passed a bill Friday to impose harsher penalties on rioters, a major priority of Gov. Ron DeSantis and an attempt to curb the violence. in the wake of some of the Black...
View ArticleFlorida Senate Democrats call for federal probe of ‘widespread and ongoing’...
Florida Senate Democrats are urging U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate “widespread and ongoing” attempts to tamper with elections, citing last week’s arrest of a former state senator...
View ArticleLake Worth Beach health care worker pleads guilty to taking senior client’s...
Health care worker Jamie Jakia Cofer is accused stealing from five senior citizen clients, federal prosecutors said.
View ArticleU.S Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan resigns after more than two years of...
U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan resigns, and Juan Antonio “Tony” Gonzalez will become the next federal prosecutor for South Florida. One of the accomplishments of Fajardo Orshan's office during her...
View ArticleSwiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss joins bidding for Sun Sentinel parent,...
Hansjörg Wyss (pronounced Hans-yorg Vees), the former CEO of medical device manufacturer Synthes, said in an interview Friday that he had agreed to join with Maryland hotelier Stewart W. Bainum Jr. in...
View ArticleBroward Sheriff’s sergeant dies at 48 from COVID
Owens is the seventh employee of the Broward Sheriff's Office to die from the coronavirus.
View ArticleNews quiz: Test your knowledge of current events from the week of March 21
Think you are all caught up with the news? Test your knowledge of current events with the South Florida Sun Sentinel's news quiz.
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