Florida voter registration site stops working hours before deadline
Those waiting until the last minute to register to vote experienced problems gaining access to the Florida’s voter registration website as the midnight deadline loomed.
View Article$2.1 million pro-Biden ad buy planned for Black and Caribbean radio stations...
A seven-figure advertising buy promoting Joe Biden is going on Black and Caribbean radio stations and streaming services in Florida. The $2.1 million effort is part of former New York Mayor Mike...
View ArticleA South Florida COVID-19 vaccine trial is recruiting minority participants....
As COVID-19 vaccine trials grow in South Florida, researchers need to overcome deep-rooted fears from a key segment of the population — the Black community — in order for the vaccine to work.
View Article‘He was just shot in the face!’: Second suspect sought in deadly Fort...
It's been four months since Gerald Gotcher, 43, was arrested for the June shooting death of Jamar Ahmed Mousakheel, 31, in Fort Lauderdale, but police are still searching for a second shooter.
View ArticleFlorida’s COVID-19 positivity rate tops 5% for first time in two weeks; new...
Another 2,251 people in Florida became infected with COVID-19 and another 59 people have died from the disease, according to the state Department of Health.
View ArticleTwitter locked President Trump’s account after he shared NY Post columnist’s...
Twitter said that it locked President Trump’s account on Monday after the commander-in-chief violated company policies by sharing the email address of a New York Post columnist in a chirp.
View ArticleSchool Board demands psychiatric records from Parkland parents
Parents and other victims are being asked to prove in court that they suffered mental anguish over the loss of their children in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
View ArticleBroward wants to isolate voters without masks. But that still won’t happen.
Will voters set aside coronavirus fears to cast their ballots in person? Pressure mounted Tuesday for Broward’s elections boss to do more to keep voters safe from COVID-19 at the polls.
View ArticleFlorida State University president tests positive for COVID-19
Florida State University President John Thrasher tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday afternoon, a day after his wife Jean Thrasher received a positive diagnosis, according to an announcement by the...
View ArticleCyberattack not behind ‘unprecedented' surge in traffic that crashed...
Florida elections officials said there was 'no evidence' that a malicious attack was behind the crash of the voter registration website on the final day to sign up, a crash that forced the state to...
View ArticleHurricane Delta remains Category 4 storm as winds drop to 130 mph
Hurricane Delta remains a Category 4 storm and is forecast to make landfall on the Gulf Coast later this week.
View ArticleBroward attorneys face charges in scheme to steal foreclosure surplus checks
The attorneys, Rashisa Overby and Ria Sankar-Balram, worked with Illya and Patricia Tinker, a married couple nicknamed “tomb raiders” for another multimillion-dollar scheme in which they stole...
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The South Florida Sun Sentinel embarked on a lengthy investigation of the daily perils of driving on Interstate 95 and found enforcement severely lacking. Troopers are writing fewer tickets, and...
View ArticleDanger Road: Politicians leave Florida’s busiest highway unprotected
Interstate 95 is the deadliest highway in Florida, a lawless ribbon of asphalt that police largely ignore compared to other highways, a South Florida Sun Sentinel investigation found. Troopers have...
View ArticleFederal judge sets Thursday hearing to consider whether to extend Florida...
A federal judge has fast-tracked a lawsuit seeking to extend the time for Floridians to register to vote in the November presidential election, after the state’s online system repeatedly crashed in the...
View ArticleFlorida surpasses 15,000 deaths from COVID-19
Florida officials on Wednesday reported another 2,582 people have been infected with COVID-19. The new cases, which are in line with recent daily averages, bring the pandemic total to 722,707.
View ArticleMan accused of beating his father and stepmother to death
Andrew Terje Olivier Grant, 30, is charged in the beating deaths of his father, 78, and his step-mother, 65, in Pembroke Pines, court records show.
View ArticleVice President Pence to campaign in Orlando and The Villages on Saturday
Pence has tested negative, but his contact with Trump and the other infected staffers has led to a plexiglass partition placed between himself and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris at Wednesday’s debate.
View ArticleBiden leads Trump by 11 points in latest Florida poll. But don’t get too...
A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows Democrat Joe Biden with an 11-point lead over President Donald Trump. Quinnipiac reported Biden had support of 51% of likely voters compared to...
View ArticleBoca Raton principal reinstated despite Holocaust statements
William Latson, former principal of Spanish River High, had told a parent he couldn't say the Holocaust was "a factual, historical event."
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