NEWS

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000.

The Federal Reserve is expected this week to send its clearest signal yet that it will start reining in its ultra-low-interest rate policies later this year, the first step toward unwinding the extraordinary support it’s given the economy since the pandemic struck 18 months ago.

A South Florida man made his first appearance in federal court Friday after he was charged with defrauding a religious charity organization that he previously worked for.

A South Florida man made his first appearance in federal court Friday after he was charged with defrauding a religious charity organization that he previously worked for.

A local author brings her community together with a book about her childhood neighborhood.

Panda Express and Donna’s Caribbean were among 11 places ordered shut by Inspectors with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation last week.

The first climate-changed themed conference will be held in Miami Beach in 2022 and is expected to be held annually bringing international attention to the city, Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber along with Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced Monday.

Miami-Dade police say 30-year-old Alfonzo Amaker is the gunman who shot and injured four people over the weekend at a house on Pierce Street.

Miami-Dade police are investigating a shooting that left a 14-year-old boy dead on Sunday.

Panda Express and Donna’s Caribbean were among 11 places ordered shut by Inspectors with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation last week.

A threat of violence kept some students from coming to class Monday morning at South Broward High School in Hollywood.

The Florida Department of Health in Broward County issued a rabies alert Sunday for a portion of Weston after a fox tested positive on Friday.

A North Lauderdale family is experiencing immense loss after their home caught on fire earlier this morning.

Police said it appeared the driver swerved to avoid hitting an iguana before the vechile rolled over.

After a shooting on Friday in Margate, there was a police pursuit that ended in Fort Lauderdale. Two people, including a 17-year-old boy, were injured, authorities said.

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue says firefighters responding to a Lake Worth field found a horse with its hind legs stuck in the ground.

The 7-day moving average for new cases in Florida sits at 18,436, the lowest in a month, an indication that the state is coming down from the peak of the summer surge propelled by the delta variant.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a young man who they said was captured on surveillance video stealing a donation box from a business that contained money for Guatemalan children with leukemia.

A 56-year-old man pled guilty on Thursday after traveling from Minnesota to Florida for what he thought would be a sexual escapade with a 15-year-old girl, according to prosecutors. It was an undercover pedophile hunter-style sting operation involving Miami federal agents.

A Palm Beach County resident claimed the $1.75 million jackpot from the July 24 drawing, Florida Lottery announced.

As of Wednesday night, 10 school districts in Florida were implementing face mask mandates in defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s executive order.

Deputies arrested three teenage boys after a sexual video of one of them with a 12-year-old girl surfaced on SnapChat at school, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies announced on Tuesday.

A 54-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with the 2017 murder of a woman in Key Largo, authorities confirmed.

A man from Waldorf, Maryland, was arrested Friday morning after he spit on a gas station clerk in South Florida before fleeing from deputies, authorities said.

Deputies arrested a 43-year-old Cutler Bay man for boating while under the influence of alcohol on Sunday night after he sprayed deputies with saltwater from his center console boat’s outboard engines, deputies said on Monday.

Monroe County Commissioner Mike Forster died on Monday morning of complications with COVID-19.

Two South Florida officials, a Sunrise police sergeant, and a Monroe County commissioner, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.