South Florida Sun-Sentinel
- COVID-19 in Florida: 6,640 new cases, 138 more deaths
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 02:20 PMFlorida's death toll from COVID-19 reached 31,018 Thursday, with cases totaling nearly 1.9 million.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida Republican flips vote on bill to provide protections for LGBTQ people
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 06:47 PMU.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 | Share - To feed or not to feed? Neighbors’ argument over geese leads to gunfire
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 12:35 PMFowl 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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Driver whose license was revoked charged in fatal DUI hit-and-run
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 06:33 PMA 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 | Share - DeSantis calls criticism of pop-up coronavirus vaccination sites in wealthy neighborhoods ‘a joke’
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 12:03 PMFlorida 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 | Share - Florida reports 7,128 new COVID-19 cases, 127 more deaths
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 02:45 PMThe 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 | Share - 3 years after Stoneman Douglas, lawmakers try again to shift focus of threat assessment center to school violence prevention
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 06:12 PMA 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
- Florida lawmakers consider ‘baby box’ as a place to abandon newborns
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 11:31 AMA 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 | Share - Orlando man imprisoned after stealing $7M from investors who thought he produced concerts for The Weeknd, Kanye West
Monday - 02/22/2021 - 04:39 PMEdison 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 - DeSantis, Florida culture skewered on ‘Daily Show’ after coronavirus vaccines go to wealthy enclaves
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 10:34 AM"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.
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- Men used bitcoin and the darknet to hide sales of illegal fentanyl-laced opioids, feds say
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 03:04 PMSelling 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 | Share - Burglars fly off with 140 birds from Davie pet store after breaking in through ceiling
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 11:00 AMMore 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 | Share - Florida Senate moves to the right — faster than ever
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 12:56 PMThe 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 | Share - Florida Senate leader would target college tuition aid to programs that ‘lead directly to employment’
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 06:35 PMThe 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 | Share - DeSantis: Hundreds of thousands more COVID vaccine doses will arrive soon. He may lower eligible age to 55
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 02:01 PMCOVID 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 | Share - Free life-saving treatment for coronavirus patients going unused in South Florida
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 06:45 AMA 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 | Share - Palm Beach County says it won’t follow Gov. DeSantis’ order to fly flags at half-staff to honor Rush Limbaugh
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 10:53 PMFlorida 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
- Man accused of killing woman who came to friend’s aid during robbery attempt
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 01:57 PMWhen 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 | Share - Could Newsmax find a niche as home for Trump-loving dog haters?
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 07:02 AMGreg 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 | Share - A patient at a South Florida hospital was tested for coronavirus. The public remains in the dark.
Wednesday - 02/05/2020 - 05:05 PMHealth 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.
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- Trump’s false fraud claims to be key theme at CPAC, the first significant Republican gathering since the 2020 election
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 02:28 PMAt 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 | Share - Trump’s tax records now in hands of New York prosecutor
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 11:33 AMThe 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 | Share - Stephanie Murphy starts ‘listening tour’ as she ponders challenging Marco Rubio
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 12:53 PMU.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 | Share - Mitt Romney predicts Trump will win 2024 GOP nomination ‘in a landslide’ if he runs again
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 08:51 AMThe 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 | Share - Breaking from big business, some Florida Republicans call for closing corporate tax loopholes
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 12:56 PMA 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 | Share - DeSantis’ $1 billion resiliency program raises questions among lawmakers who were slow to acknowledge climate change
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 08:30 AMA 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 does still have COVID test sites, despite website glitch
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 06:55 PMBroward County health department still operates six test sites despite what the state Department of Health website shows
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida reports 5,610 new COVID-19 cases, with 148 more deaths
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 02:19 PMFlorida's death toll from COVID-19 reached 30,749 Tuesday, with total cases nearing 1.9 million.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s tax returns: Here’s what New York prosecutors could learn after Supreme Court ruling
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 06:38 AMFormer 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 | Share - Coronavirus-exposed doctors and nurses remain at work without proper gear at some South Florida hospitals
Thursday - 03/19/2020 - 08:11 PMUnder 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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