House passes ‘Tiger King’ bill that bans private ownership of big cats
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday on a bill seeking to end the trade and ownership of big cats, a highly anticipated measure highlighted in the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King.”
View ArticlePfizer slashes 2020 COVID vaccine roll out in half after supply chain problems
Pfizer will only be able to send about half of the coronavirus vaccine doses it had initially planned to distribute in 2020 after running into supply chain issues.
View ArticleDeSantis urges Trump to ‘fight on’ but concedes time is running out: report
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told a group of powerful business interests that he is still urging President Donald Trump to “fight on” when it comes to staying in the White House, according to a report in...
View ArticleMonitoring Florida’s COVID-19 statistics: These are the numbers to watch
Here are Florida's key coronavirus data as reported by the state, including new cases, deaths and hospitalizations.
View ArticleHigh school students have chance to turn ideas into law
With the Florida House of Representatives expanding the number of bills that a State Representative is permitted to file this year, local Representative Matt Willhite is hoping to give high school...
View ArticleFlorida elections supervisor says people casting doubt on Biden victory are...
A Florida supervisor of elections issued a rare and lengthy statement this week criticizing people he said are imperiling the nation’s democracy by casting doubt on the outcome of the presidential...
View ArticleWoman identified her grandson as suspect who shot at victim 16 times, police say
Grandmother identified Jayvon Robert Hollis, 19, from surveillance video of attempted murder in Boynton Beach, police said.
View ArticleFlorida senators seek to make COVID-19′s booze-to-go rule permanent
Two state senators have uncorked separate proposals to make permanent a coronavirus emergency order that has allowed restaurants and other food establishments with liquor licenses to include alcohol...
View Article‘Keep wearing those masks’: Widespread COVID-19 vaccination won’t happen for...
“We are just really trying to manage those expectations, plan ahead for what that might look like,” Mary Blakeney, a Palm Beach County emergency management official, said at a gathering of mayors...
View ArticleThree men shot in area of two-car collision in West Park
Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives investigate reports of a possible shooting in the area of a two-car collision in West Park near Hallandale Beach Boulevard.
View ArticleLeader of closed charter school accused of embezzling nearly $400,000
The funds were supposed to pay for the school’s operating expenses. They were allegedly used to purchase a new car, pay rent for a lavish home and other expenses.
View ArticleFlorida law includes Confederate holidays. That could change.
You might not know it, but Confederate observances are legal holidays in Florida. A South Florida state legislator wants to change that.
View ArticleSuspect identified in gas station shooting that killed bystander in Pompano...
Lonzo Miller Jr., 20, of Deerfield Beach, is wanted for the shooting death of Zion Lamar, 20, in Pompano Beach, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.
View ArticleInnovative COVID treatment, the antibody used by President Trump, arrives in...
The innovative antibody treatment for COVID given to President Donald Trump will become available on Monday in South Florida.
View ArticleBroward County crime crackdown nets over 50 arrests, seizing of guns, drugs...
Broward County's Operation Green Shield makes 54 felony arrests and seizes heroin, cocaine and fentanyl, $359,000 in illicit money, and 27 firearms.
View ArticleHow a solitary cow grazing on a million-dollar property created a beef...
A cow known as Bambi kept on church property in Broward County allowed the First Baptist Church of Southwest Broward to classify the land as a working agricultural business, saving thousands of dollars...
View ArticleHe kidnapped Cuban migrants, and his mother collected the ransom, feds say.
Jose Miguel Gonzalez, alias “El Chupa,” made his first appearance in federal court on Friday after a Cuban migrant he allegedly kidnapped, tortured and extorted in late 2018 began speaking to...
View ArticleThe ‘COVID slide’: More South Florida students are failing
More South Florida students are getting F's on their report cards and performing poorly district assessments, especially math, according to data.
View ArticleNo one can stop anti-gay therapy in Florida — for now. How LGBTQ advocates...
The prospects for local and statewide bans against anti-gay therapy appear dim, especially in the wake of a Supreme Court decision siding with church groups over anti-COVID restrictions in New York.
View ArticleRepublican presidential candidates for 2024 left waiting as Trump freezes the...
GOP White House hopefuls are essentially left to watch what Trump does next instead of courting fundraisers, building networks and visiting early-voting states.
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