Florida governor signs into law bill to speed up recounts
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that allows local elections officials across the state to use a secondary system to speed up recounts and verify the accuracy of results.
View ArticleAd seeks to link former Sheriff Scott Israel with Donald Trump and hammers...
A campaign ad for Sheriff Gregory Tony is reminding Broward Democratic primary voters of former Sheriff Scott Israel’s ties to Roger Stone, the notorious political dirty trickster and decades-long...
View ArticleFlorida posts 5,266 new cases of coronavirus Monday
Florida posted 5,266 new cases of COVID-19 Monday, down from Saturday's record case count but continuing the high counts leading to renewed beach closures, mask regulations and other attempts to curb...
View ArticleGov. DeSantis slashes $1 billion from state budget amid coronavirus outbreak
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a $92.2 billion state budget Monday after vetoing $1 billion from a spending plan approved by the Legislature just before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
View ArticleDeSantis signs controversial sunscreen law blocking cities from banning...
Gov. Ron DeSantis late Monday signed a a controversial measure that will prevent local governments from imposing bans on certain types of sunscreen. The sunscreen bill stems from a plan by Key West to...
View ArticleDisney ruling could save hotel companies millions in taxes
Walt Disney World and the lodging industry lobby just won a sweeping legal victory that could save Disney and other big hotel owners millions of dollars in taxes.
View Article$3,000 reward offered for information on West Park fatal shooting
A reward of up to 3,000 is being offered for tips to track down the shooter who killed Wayne Whyte, 32, of North Miami Beach, in West Park.
View ArticleMonitoring Florida’s coronavirus case surge: 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 ArticleSex videos bring appeals fight in Robert Kraft’s prostitution case
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, 78, was charged with two misdemeanors in a massage parlor sting. Now prosecutors are seeking to save their case through an appeals court.
View ArticleDeSantis signs Alyssa’s Law to require panic alarms in Florida schools
A law named after one of the students killed in the 2018 Parkland high school massacre to make schools safer was signed by Florida’s governor Tuesday.
View ArticleTrump re-election campaign makes huge Florida TV ad buy
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, which is seeing warnings that he’s vulnerable in Florida and other critical states, has gone on a buying binge of TV ad time for the final months of the...
View ArticleBroward touts its 340 coronavirus contact tracers; independent model says...
Broward County has just brought on board an additional 150 people to trace contacts of people who have coronavirus — almost doubling the number of people available to help combat the spread of the virus.
View ArticleUniversity of Wisconsin students call for removal of Abraham Lincoln statue...
Lincoln's presidency includes actions that the Black Student Union says warrant replacing the statue with someone “who stands for the justice of all people.”
View ArticleVirginia man told police fatal shooting of wife’s friend in Fort Lauderdale...
A woman who died in the hospital from a gunshot wound is the victim of an accidental shooting according to accused killer Decarlos Keshawn Smith, 22, of Fort Belvoir, Va., court records showed.
View Article‘Plantation’ school names won’t change any time soon
The Broward School Board is debating whether to rename schools that may be racist or offensive to groups of people, but the fate of schools named Plantation remain uncertain.
View ArticleFlorida reports 6,093 new coronavirus infections, fourth-highest mark for one...
The Florida Department of Health reported that 152,434 people have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. At least 3,604 people have died from the new coronavirus in Florida, 58 more...
View ArticleProgressive activist Mitchell Stollberg dies, ‘loved what he did with...
Mitchell Stollberg, a longtime progressive political activist in Broward County, has died at the age of 66.
View ArticleBroward students will have to wear masks
The Broward school district will buy masks for teachers next year, but students would have to bring their own to class to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
View ArticlePorsche hit-and-run killer is back in jail 11 years later, accused this time...
A wealthy driver who killed two British tourists in a 2009 hit-and-run case is back in a Broward jail cell, this time over violating probation in the case — 11 years later.
View ArticleAfter series of sewage spills in Fort Lauderdale, Gov. DeSantis signs bill to...
The sewage spills that fouled Fort Lauderdale waterways last year will result in heavier fines if they happen again, under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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