- Florida Senate panel OKs Disney World monorail inspections
Disney World’s monorail system is poised to get state oversight as Gov. Ron DeSantis battles the theme park giant. ... read more - Father to be charged after student brings weapon to Broward elementary school
A father is facing criminal charges after his child brought a weapon to Park Lakes Elementary School in Lauderdale Lakes Tuesday morning, leading to a school-wide lockdown. ... read more - Perjury charge dropped against former Superintendent Robert Runcie, lawyer says
A grand jury that was investigating the operations of the school district had indicted the former Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie in April 2021, saying he had lied to the grand jury about being prepped for his testimony. ... read more - Hidden violence: Elder abuse was already hard to track — then the pandemic made it harder
Florida’s senior population, or people over 65, is greater than 4.5 million. Even as specialists and advocates warned that elder abuse rates would increase during the pandemic, the number of cases reported to help lines and law enforcement remained steady or declined. ... read more - Biden announces 2024 reelection bid: ‘Let’s finish this job’
President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish the job” he began when he was sworn in to office and to set aside their concerns about extending the run of America’s oldest president for ... read more - SpaceX Starship clobbered Texas launch pad; future Space Coast launches prompt contingency plans
The most powerful rocket to ever launch from Earth left a crater at the SpaceX launch site last week, but Elon Musk said teams could be ready to try another Starship launch in as little as one to two months. ... read more - Lawmakers back off immigration penalties that worried religious leaders
State lawmakers rewrote part of a sweeping immigration bill that religious leaders said could have subjected them to felony charges if they transported people living in the country illegally to church or Sunday school. ... read more - Broward homeowner fires three shots at grocery delivery driver who pulled into the wrong driveway
A South Florida homeowner fired three shots at an unarmed teenager who pulled into the wrong driveway while trying to deliver groceries this month. ... read more - Florida’s plan to get cheaper prescription drugs from Canada is snarled in legal back-and-forth
Four years after Florida lawmakers passed a plan to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, the plan remains snarled in disputes between the state and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ... read more - What’s next? Rain-weary airport, seaport rebound from surprise storm — and think about future mitigation
Now that Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades have more or less dried out from the recent "one-in-a-thousand-year" rainstorm, what are they doing to mitigate future washouts brought on by new storms, particularly during the forthcoming hurricane season? ... read more - Former bridge tender who pled guilty to manslaughter arrested after violating probation, records say
The bridge tender who pleaded guilty to manslaughter after lifting the Royal Park Bridge in West Palm Beach with a woman still on it was arrested again, accused of violating the terms of her probation. ... read more - Badly wounded ex-Broward deputy can’t get damages claim from Legislature
The ex-deputy has tried to get the state to pay him $10 million for his medical bills and lost wages after being critically wounded. ... read more - Weather service issues tornado warning for Hollywood, Dania Beach
A waterspout was sighted slowly moving ashore about 12:45 p.m. near Dania Beach and Hollywood. The National Weather Service Miami has warned that conditions are favorable for additional waterspouts to form. ... read more - Why is Ron DeSantis so determined to keep taking on Disney?
DeSantis’ preoccupation with Walt Disney World has flummoxed experts and some fellow Republicans, who are wondering why he would spend so much political capital on one of the most beloved companies in the country and one of the most powerful in the state. ... read more - MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to pay $5M over disproven Trump 2020 election lies
An arbitration board ruled in favor of Robert Zeidman, who took Lindell up on his public 2021 challenge to pay the bounty to anyone who could disprove his claims of foreign interference in the 2020 vote. ... read more - In response to new law, national nonprofit promotes abortion pills by mail to Florida women
A national nonprofit is responding to Florida’s recent approval of a six-week abortion ban with a media campaign to tell women they can still get abortion pills by mail well past that time frame. ... read more - Gulf and Florida waters are rising faster than other parts of the U.S. Expect more flooding as a result.
Florida has to contend with a double whammy of both human-induced sea-level rise and natural forces pushing the ocean its way. The result will be more flooding from king tides and possible hurricanes. ... read more - $10,000 home-hardening grants — for townhouses, too — could become available statewide, not just near the coast
A state grant program offering up to $10,000 for home-hardening improvements could be expanded from coastal regions to the entire state and get another $100 million in funding. Lawmakers are considering a proposal to expand the My Safe Florida Home Program and expand some of its eligible projects to townhouses. ... read more - Court shoots down latest appeal in Casey’s Nickelodeon murder case
An appeals court upheld the 2019 conviction of Pablo Ibar, who is serving a life sentence for the June 1994 “Casey’s Nickelodeon” murders that once had him on death row. Ibar, 51, was convicted after a second retrial that attracted international attention from opponents of the death penalty. ... read more - Florida’s death row is about to get a lot more crowded
It just got a lot easier to send a convicted killer to death row in Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death penalty reform law Thursday that allows judges to impose capital punishment as long as eight out of 12 jurors recommend it. Before the new law was passed, juries ... read more