Gov. DeSantis outlaws mask mandate in Broward schools
Gov. Ron DeSantis said parents should have the right to decide whether their children wear masks, even as COVID-19 explodes in Florida.
View ArticleKey figures in ‘ghost’ candidate scandal had business relationship, records show
Frank Artiles and Alex Alvarado, key figures in the "ghost" candidate scandal, worked together through a political nonprofit, records show.
View ArticleWealthy candidate pumps staggering $2.3 million of her own money into South...
Sheila Cherlifus-McCormick, the CEO of a home health care company who has never been elected to office, has put $2.3 million of her own money into her campaign to fill the Broward-Palm Beach county...
View ArticleMan found dead near Fort Lauderdale beach; it’s second body found in area in...
A man was found dead at Las Olas Oceanside Park on Fort Lauderdale beach Friday night. Police suspect he's homeless. It's the second death in two months in the area.
View ArticlePort Everglades cruise passengers not worried about possible COVID outbreaks
Royal Caribbean cruise passengers at Port Everglades said Saturday they're not worried about a possible COVID-19 outbreak on their ships.
View ArticleNews quiz for week of July 25
Think you are all caught up with the news? Test your knowledge of current events with the South Florida Sun Sentinel's news quiz, from the week of July 25, 2021.
View ArticleJUSTICE STORY: The Bluebelle tragedy at sea
Terry Jo Duperrault, 11, was the only surviving member of a family of five lost when the Bluebelle, a 60-foot ketch, sank during a storm three and a half days earlier, on Nov. 12, 1961.
View ArticleDeSantis stops pushing COVID-19 vaccines as virus skyrockets in Florida
For most of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Ron DeSantis has followed a set strategy: protect elderly residents at greater risk of serious illness and death but impose no other restrictions and prevent...
View ArticleEx-prosecutor found dead same day he was due at Haiti conference in South...
The discovery came on the same day Claudy Gassant was expected to be in South Florida for a conference on Haiti’s widening insecurity. His death was described as suspicious.
View ArticleFour dead, including two teens, in Palm Beach Gardens car crash
Four people, including two teenagers and two adults, are dead after a 17-year-old driver sped through a red light in Palm Beach Gardens, plowing into a second car.
View ArticleKissimmee River reborn after decades and $1 billion for world’s largest...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers restored the Kissimmee River to undo damage from when the river was channeled into a canal a half-century ago.
View ArticleThree candidates trail in fundraising as DuBose, Holness show money muscle in...
Bobby DuBose and Dale Holness were the top fundraisers among candidates in the special election to fill the vacancy to replace the late Congressman Alcee Hastings. The first fundraising reports since...
View ArticleCondo safety: Of the older buildings due for checkups last year, only one in...
The South Florida Sun Sentinel analyzed the details of a first-ever audit of the Broward County's building safety program. These are our findings.
View ArticleAnswers to your vaccine questions: Why doesn’t Florida give daily updates?
Here are the answers to some of your biggest questions about COVID-19 vaccinations in Florida. Today's question: Is it the vaccines or the masks that will keep us safe?
View ArticleDeSantis, cruise line fight over ‘vaccine passport’ court battle. Norwegian...
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and the state of Florida are battling about which court should hear a challenge to the state’s ban on so-called “vaccine passports." Norwegian has sued for the right to...
View ArticleParkland victims, families would get $25 million under proposed Florida...
A proposal that would clear the way for the Broward County School Board to pay $25 million in compensation in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people is...
View ArticleHere’s where to find a coronavirus vaccine in South Florida
Here are the places where you can get a coronavirus vaccine in South Florida.
View Article‘Perfect storm’ of cancellations and delays slams Spirit Airlines and strands...
Crowds of frustrated travelers camped out on the floor near the Spirit Airlines terminal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and elsewhere around the country on Monday. Spirit canceled...
View ArticleNew disturbance forms in eastern Atlantic
A disturbance is in the far east Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said.
View ArticleRepublican Party official from Palm Beach County spreads COVID-19...
Florida’s Republican national committeeman, Peter Feaman of Palm Beach County, has compared Biden administration vaccine efforts to Nazi-era “brown shirts,” according to CNN, and called vaccines “the...
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