Florida reports 3,255 new COVID-19 cases; another 147 people dead
The overall coronavirus pandemic totals for the state are 13,247 deaths, including 161 nonresidents, and at least 674,456 cases.
View ArticleBloomberg’s $100 million Florida effort begins Friday with TV ads targeting...
The first advertising from Mike Bloomberg’s $100 million attempt to help Joe Biden win Florida will show up on TV screens throughout the state on Friday. Bloomberg gave $5.4 million to the Priorities...
View ArticleLev Parnas, Rudy Giuliani associate, faces new federal fraud charges
Federal prosecutors brought new wire fraud charges Thursday against an associate of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
View ArticleBoys, 16, wanted to go for joy ride. They shot a man dead for his Mercedes,...
The attack on Nelson Vega, a charismatic 39-year-old bartender from Miramar, came Sunday night after he had wrapped up his day at J.P. Mulligan’s sports bar and pulled into his girlfriend’s tranquil...
View ArticleTeddy is now a Category 4 hurricane; Tropical Depression 22 forms in Gulf of...
Hurricane Teddy strengthens to a Category 4 storm, and Tropical Depression 22 formed in the Gulf of Mexico.
View ArticleMonitoring Florida’s COVID-19 statistics: These are the numbers to watch
A month after Florida began the first phase of reopening, a critical point in which experts say we would begin to see any effects the moves have had on coronavirus cases. Use these updating charts to...
View ArticleOne of two men accused in Pembroke Lakes Mall armed robbery moved from...
Marquise Jamaal Wiley, 31, of Miami Gardens, who was shot during a holdup at Elite Fine Jewelry in the Pembroke Lakes Mall, is out of the hospital and in jail facing an armed robbery charge.
View ArticlePoliticized process sped Jaime Grosshans' rise to Florida Supreme Court,...
Jaime Rutland Grosshans' three-year journey from a law firm in Winter Garden to the Florida Supreme Court began when she was nominated to be a county judge by a commission that included her husband...
View ArticleYour guide to Florida’s six constitutional amendments on the 2020 ballot
The Nov. 3 election isn’t all about President Donald Trump. Six constitutional amendments will be on the ballot, including measures that would raise the minimum wage to $15 and change how primary...
View ArticleWill Florida’s referendums help or hurt President Trump?
Could Florida's voter referendums given an edge to President Donald Trump or Joe Biden? Experts say the six ballot questions likely won't move the dial.
View ArticleBroward and Palm Beach counties sent out small first batch of vote-by-mail...
The first, relatively small, batches of vote-by-mail ballots are getting sent out by the Broward and Palm Beach County elections offices on Friday. They're going to several thousand people in the...
View ArticleA polo multimillionaire went to prison over deadly DUI crash. Now John...
Wellington polo club founder John Goodman is making one last attempt to set aside his DUI manslaughter conviction and 16-year-prison sentence in the 2010 death of Scott Patrick Wilson. Goodman now...
View ArticleBlizzard of Florida polls provide constant look at presidential race. Here’s...
Public opinion polls are multiplying, both nationally and in Florida, like an invasive species taking over the Everglades. They’re not only difficult to escape, but they’re difficult to decipher. They...
View ArticleFinal two candidates jockeying to become Broward’s next top prosecutor
Democrat Harold Pryor and Republican Gregg Rossman each want the keys to the Broward State Attorney’s Office. They're the final candidates on the ballot heading into the Nov. 3 general election.
View ArticleSecond suspect, shot by store manager in jewelry store robbery, released from...
Markess James Sherman, 31, of Miami Gardens, is out of the hospital and out of jail awaiting trial on an armed robbery charge after being shot during a holdup at Elite Fine Jewelry in the Pembroke...
View ArticleTeen sex act used to videobomb virtual school class
The live video popped up during an environmental science class at McArthur High in Hollywood. The Broward school district is investigating to identify the students involved.
View ArticleFlorida corrections department enters controversial immigration agreement...
The Florida Department of Corrections will begin carrying out certain federal immigration enforcement tasks in a new partnership with ICE, becoming the latest agency to join a controversial program...
View ArticleMAP: Here’s the latest forecast track of Tropical Storm Beta
Here is the latest forecast path of Tropical Storm Beta, which is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane and affect the Gulf coast of Texas early next week, according to the National Hurricane Center.
View ArticleTropical Storm Beta joins Wilfred and Alpha on record-setting day in 2020...
For the first time in decades, three storms -- Wilfred, Alpha and Beta -- were all named in one day. It's only the second time in history that forecasters have had to turn to the Greek alphabet to name...
View ArticleFrom 2018: Potential Trump Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett, Catholic...
Amy Coney Barrett, a potential Trump Supreme Court pick, is a Catholic federal appellate judge in Chicago whose faith is stirring abortion debate amid Roe v. Wade questions.
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