South Florida Sun-Sentinel

The crane that collapsed and killed one worker and injured another on I-95 in Broward County this week is being used in a highway improvement project that has pitted Florida’s transportation department against the construction company contracted for the road work.

With Florida lawmakers poised to start a special legislative session, a financial-ratings agency issued a report Thursday that warned about the possibility of additional insolvencies of property insurers and said long-term changes are needed in the state’s troubled insurance market.

Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said.

Despite the setback, sources said there are still pathways to getting the journalism bill approved before the 117th Congress wraps up business.

The Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has been indicted on charges of defrauding a federal coronavirus loan program for small businesses, officials said Wednesday.

Congressman-elect Jared Moskowitz, who has extensive state and local government experience, has chosen top congressional staffers with decades of experience in Washington, D.C., and South Florida to run his offices and advise him on legislation.

A group of tourists aboard a boat to dive with sharks were conned by their captain and mate into helping them steal an authorized commercial fishing set up in the waters off of Jupiter, thinking they were helping free tangled sharks from illegal lines, federal prosecutors said.

A Fort Lauderdale police officer is accused of battery on a Black Lives Matter protester in a May 31, 2020, demonstration, shortly after the George Floyd death in Minneapolis.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up a First Amendment challenge to a Florida law that prevented a woman from providing dietary advice to clients in her health and nutrition coaching business.