Florida's death toll from COVID-19 reached 31,018 Thursday, with cases totaling nearly 1.9 million.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareU.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart voted against the Equality Act, a bill that would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation by amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act to explicitly include new protections.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFowl play: Argument over the feeding of wild geese in Hallandale Beach ended with one neighbor shooting the other, according to police.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA Lauderdale Lakes man with dozens of traffic violations in the past decade is accused of killing a 19-year-old man in a DUI hit-and-run collision.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking Wednesday at a senior community in Hernando County, lashed out again at criticism of pop-up sites for coronavirus vaccines. “There’s some people who are more upset at me for vaccinating seniors than they are at other governors whose policies have killed seniors, and that is a joke,” he said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Florida death toll for COVID-19 reached 30,878 Wednesday, counting non-residents. The total number of cases neared 1.9 million.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA bipartisan group of federal lawmakers is making another push for a law aimed at trying to stop future school shootings. The proposed Eagles Act would expand the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center for a greater focus on school violence prevention.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature would pave the way for distressed parents to surrender newborn children through a box, but there is opposition to the idea.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEdison Denizard and Andres Fernandez, of Orlando, claimed they were helping produce and promote concerts The Weeknd, Kanye West, Pitbull and Garth Brooks, when in fact the Securities and Exchange Commission said their company only promoted a handful of concerts for “lesser-known artists at small Orlando-area venues.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share"Ron DeSantis' Club Vax" is biting satire from "The Daily Show" about Gov. Ron DeSantis and COVID-19 vaccines going to a wealthy Florida enclave.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSelling drugs on the darknet for bitcoin payments land Olatunji Dawodu and Luis Miguel Teixeira-Spencer in jail, federal authorities said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareMore than 140 birds were stolen from a Davie pet shop when robbers entered the business through the ceiling. The birds were valued at more than $70,000.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe November elections, the coronavirus pandemic and an expanded GOP caucus have emboldened Senate leaders to embrace what may be the most conservative agenda in recent years as they prepare for the 2021 legislative session.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Florida Senate leader has backed a proposal that would tie eligibility for state aid to enrollment in programs that “lead directly to employment” and require lawmakers to determine the value of Bright Futures awards each year as part of the budgeting process.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCOVID vaccine doses are about to flow into Florida more freely, and Gov. Ron DeSantis could soon lower the age requirement to 55.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA life-saving COVID-19 treatment involving antibodies is available in South Florida for those newly diagnosed with the virus and at high risk. The problem is few people know about it, particularly hard-hit minorities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the U.S. and Florida state flags to be flown at half-staff Wednesday at Florida’s Capitol, the Palm Beach County courthouse in West Palm Beach and at the town hall in Palm Beach to honor Rush Limbaugh.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
When Nicole Frissora tried to push the gunman off of her friend, he fired a fatal shot from close range that hit Frissora in the upper left chest.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareGreg Kelly, one of the marquee hosts on the Boca Raton-based Newsmax cable channel, has been shredded online after he disparaged one of President Joe Biden’s dogs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareHealth departments across the nation are divided on whether to inform the public when they are testing people who may be infected with coronavirus, and Florida has taken the side of keeping the public in the dark.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAt the Conservative Political Action Conference, featuring Trump and most of the GOP’s leading 2024 prospects, organizers say election fraud will be a theme.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Manhattan district attorney’s office enforced a subpoena on Trump’s accounting firm within hours of the Supreme Court’s ruling and now has the documents in hand.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareU.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy is launching a listening tour to help Florida Democrats in 2022, part of a bid to widen her statewide profile as she considers a bid for Senate against either Marco Rubio or Rick Scott.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe staunch Trump critic, who voted twice to impeach him, argued that one just has to look at the polls to know who’s the White House favorite.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA Republican lawmaker is pushing to clamp down on tax avoidance by corporations, in an apparent to break from other GOP legislators and Big Business lobbyists who have fought hard to keep Florida’s tax laws as lax as possible.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA few years ago, Republican lawmakers were averse to publicly acknowledging climate change, outside of rising sea levels affecting some coastal South Florida communities. Now, as many lawmakers accept the science and back the need to develop a statewide plan to address the impacts of rising sea levels, hurricanes and flooding on a predominantly flat state, questions focus on a debt-adding $1 billion resiliency program pitched by Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Broward County health department still operates six test sites despite what the state Department of Health website shows
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFlorida's death toll from COVID-19 reached 30,749 Tuesday, with total cases nearing 1.9 million.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFormer prosecutors say the trove of records could give investigators new tools to determine whether Trump lied to lenders or tax officials, before or after he took office.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareUnder what appears to be new CDC guidelines, doctors and nurses at some South Florida hospitals have been asked to keep treating patients even after they have been exposed to the new coronavirus.
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