Stolen 10-week-old puppy dies one day after being recovered by Pembroke...
Vahid Anthony McLaughlin, 47, accused of stealing a 10-week-old, $6,000 Pomeranian-poodle mix, named Toby, that died shortly after being recovered.
View ArticleNursing homes soon may get visitors after 6-month lockdown. All that is left...
By the end of the week, long-term care facilities could reopen to visitors. A task force has sign off on recommendations for how to allow visitors back into nursing homes. The next step is the...
View ArticleHeart surgery patient, 75, allegedly punched in chest in dispute over social...
Daytona Beach Shores police have found the man who allegedly punched a 75-year-old man in the chest and knocked him to the ground after a social distancing dispute in a Publix grocery store.
View ArticleKyle Rittenhouse, 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, is arrested in...
Police arrested a 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, on murder charges following overnight shootings at violent demonstrations in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
View ArticleFlorida legal fees pile up — to $1.7M and growing — in challenge to felon...
Florida taxpayers have spent more than $1.7 million — and are on the hook for hundreds of thousands more — in the state’s defense of a 2019 law requiring felons to pay “legal financial obligations” to...
View ArticleThe damage from monster hurricanes is growing. The reason? Mostly us.
America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion-dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurricane Laura, which is menacing the U.S. Gulf Coast, because of a combination of increased...
View ArticleThese 19- and 21-year-old women trafficked girls for sex, prosecutors say
Kiara Nunez, 21, of Hollywood, and Alexandra Ramirez, 19, of Coral Springs, face charges of child sex trafficking. The government accuses the pair of selling two girls, one as young as 15, for sex at...
View ArticleCincinnati Bengals’ Mackensie Alexander arrested amid search for his missing...
Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Mackensie Alexander was jailed Wednesday on a charge of misdemeanor battery after deputies say he beat up a man shortly after returning to Florida to help search for his...
View ArticleCould legalizing recreational marijuana help solve Florida’s COVID-19 budget...
Could legalizing recreational marijuana help solve Florida’s COVID-19 budget shortfall? Don't get your hopes too high.
View ArticleFlorida Bar rejects Brenda Forman’s claim of attorney misconduct
Broward Clerk of Courts Brenda Forman is a public figure who cannot lean on privacy rights to punish a lawyer to who took her picture and recorded video in and near the Broward courthouse. The Florida...
View ArticleNew York attorney general probes perplexing Trump Tower Chicago loan deal
New York attorney general Letitia James is probing a perplexing Trump Tower Chicago loan deal.
View ArticleMap: With coronavirus cases rising in Florida, how much capacity do hospitals...
This map updates hourly to show the number of hospital beds available in Florida by county. A surge in coronavirus beds is pushing the state's healthcare system toward capacity.
View ArticleFlorida reports 11,000 people dead from COVID-19
The Florida Department of Health on Thursday reported the deaths of another 139 people linked to COVID-19, plus 3,269 more people who have tested positive for infections.
View ArticleNew charges for teen accused of snatching his 19-day-old son in Coconut Creek
Jonathan Garcia, 18, is accused of grabbing his 19-day-old son by the legs and pulling him from the car seat held by the baby’s mother and grandmother and then running off with the baby.
View ArticleSchools ruling won’t be put on hold, says judge who deemed reopening order...
Siding with teachers unions, a judge on Thursday lifted a stay of his earlier ruling that a state order requiring schools to reopen in August is unconstitutional.
View ArticleSmall plane makes an emergency landing near Weston; 2 aboard
A single-engine Cessna 172 landed in a field in the Everglades near Weston with two people aboard.
View ArticleDeSantis overstepped authority in picking justice but no going back now,...
Gov. Ron DeSantis exceeded his authority when he appointed Renatha Francis to the Florida Supreme Court even though she didn’t meet the legal requirements, the court ruled Thursday. But there’s no...
View ArticleLaura weakens to tropical storm, leaves deadly path of destruction up Gulf Coast
Hurricane Laura weakened to a tropical storm Thursday afternoon after paving a path of destruction throughout Louisiana, with at least four deaths blamed on the storm.
View ArticleLaura moves over Arkansas as Louisiana and Texas survey the destruction
Laura, now moving inland over Arkansas, has weakened more but remains a tropical storm, the National Hurricane Center says.
View ArticleAmid Florida’s budget shortfall, corporations lobby for more tax cuts
A $2 billion package of temporary corporate tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of next year. But now, under the cover of COVID-19, businesses are pushing Florida leaders to turn those...
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