Florida surpasses 300,000 coronavirus cases
The Florida Department of Health reported that 4,626 people have died since the pandemic began. The state added 10,181 cases of COVID-19 Wednesday.
View ArticleArrest made in death of woman found in burning building in Delray Beach
Sherric Jerome Lee, 31, is accused of killing 53-year-old Stacey Passick whose body was found in a vacant apartment that was on fire in Delray Beach.
View ArticleAfter failed attempt to get assault weapons ban before voters, Florida...
Having failed to get an assault weapons ban on the ballot for Florida voters, the group Ban Assault Weapons Now is changing tactics and transitioning into a political group aimed at altering the makeup...
View ArticleBoy, 15, says he was knocked out, sexually attacked while shooting hoops in...
Fort Lauderdale police are searching for a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy while practicing basketball shots at Bass Park.
View ArticleVideo seeks to punish Chip LaMarca and other South Florida lawmakers for...
A national super political action committee is out with a video highlighting South Florida Republican lawmakers’ support for the way Gov. Ron DeSantis has handled Covid-19. It's not favorable.
View ArticleEx-Broward sheriff and current candidate Scott Israel hospitalized with COVID-19
Former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is hospitalized with COVID-19. “Like most of you, I took precautions, followed the advice of health experts, wore a mask in public, washed my hands regularly...
View ArticleFlorida’s hidden data skews COVID-19 test results
The method used to calculate the “positivity rate” — a critical measure of the coronavirus pandemic — puts more emphasis on negative tests, slanting the results in that direction.
View ArticleFlorida changes COVID reporting requirements, saying labs did not share...
The Florida Department of Health is scrambling to correct problems in its dashboard with more than 300 labs reporting only positive COVID-19 test results. Because of the incomplete reports, communities...
View ArticleWould-be passengers hurl water bottles, shoes and storm the gate at Spirit...
Three women land in jail in Broward County instead of back home in Philadelphia
View ArticleTrump shakes up campaign staff amid sinking poll numbers, replacing campaign...
Trump and Parscale’s relationship had been increasingly strained. The final straw appeared to be a Tulsa rally last month that drew an unexpectedly low crowd.
View ArticleFlorida’s fight over felon voting rights playing out at US Supreme Court
A battle over voting rights in Florida is playing out at the U.S. Supreme Court, with the ability of hundreds of thousands of felons to cast ballots in this year’s elections at stake.
View ArticleGOP restricts convention attendance over coronavirus fears
The Republican National Committee is sharply restricting attendance on three of the four nights of its convention in Jacksonville, Florida, next month, as it looks for ways to move forward with the...
View ArticleSuspect arrested in woman’s death was bystander at the crime scene
Mateusz Lubnicki, 29, of Garfield, New Jersey, is accused of killing a woman in a home near Fort Lauderdale
View ArticleBroward school district joins federal lawsuit against vaping companies
The Broward School Board is joining five other districts in a federal lawsuit demanding compensation, aimed at curbing the use of vaping products.
View Article5 caught, 2 sought in Broward-based auto sales racketeering case
A statewide racketeering investigation involving fraudulent car sales through Broward-based Auto Sports of South Florida, has resulted in the arrests of five people, and two more are being sought.
View ArticleFlorida reports a record 156 deaths, plus near-high for new coronavirus cases
The state has never reported more fatalities on a daily pandemic report before, and there’s only been one other day with more infections.
View ArticleClimate change in Siberia: Extreme heat wave ‘effectively impossible without...
Scientists released a study that found the greenhouse effect multiplied the chance of prolonged heat by at least 600 times, maybe tens of thousands.
View ArticleHealth care worker shot dead at street party took great pride in her work...
A phlebotomist who had dreams of becoming a nurse, putting her younger sisters through college and buying her mother a house, 23-year-old Lunide Denis took great pride in her work. She was shot and...
View Article$7.25 million tobacco verdict upheld for Miami-Dade smoker
A South Florida appeals court has upheld a $7.25 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in a case filed by a man who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day by age 17 and later suffered from...
View ArticleSouth Florida hospitals running out of remdesivir, a potentially life-saving...
South Florida hospitals are running dangerously low on remdesivir, a drug showing promise in treating patients with COVID-19 by speeding their recovery and even preventing their deaths.
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