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After a jury couldn’t agree on the death penalty in the Parkland school shooting, Republican lawmakers in Tallahassee are proposing to make it easier to send condemned convicts to death row.

A civil rights group is demanding answers after saying that law enforcement agencies in Broward County are “cheating” non-violent offenders.

With backing from Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers could scrap a requirement that unanimous jury recommendations are needed before death sentences can be imposed.

Florida’s move toward allowing people to carry concealed weapons without having to get a permit drew condemnation Monday from South Florida leaders and people affected by the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. "This proposal is a step back in time, not just to pre-Stoneman Douglas. ... It’s a step back in time to the days of the Wild West."

A multi-vehicle accident badly impacted traffic in northern Broward County on Sunday.

A multi-vehicle accident badly impacted traffic in northern Broward County on Sunday.

The MSD Safety Commission discussed a new training policy in hopes a tragedy like what happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School could be averted.

Valentine's day next month will mark five years since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Parkland, will serve as a co-chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force in the U.S. House, continuing his yearslong work on the issue. As a state representative, Moskowitz was instrumental in passage of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which raised the age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21, created a statewide waiting period for long-gun sales and made it easier for law enforcement to seize weapons from people suspected of being dangerous.

Detectives with the Broward Sheriff’s Office identified Harvey Goldberg as the pedestrian who died Thursday in Parkland.

In an unusually secretive move, the state has refused to disclose the location of convicted killer Nikolas Cruz, 24, who was sentenced to 34 consecutive life terms for the murders and attempted murders he committed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School band has been shining around the world in memory of Alex Schachter, a 14-year-old band member killed during the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre.

The woman who alleged that professional boxer Gervonta Davis assaulted her this week in Parkland now says she and her daughter were never harmed and that the couple is undergoing counseling.

Professional boxer Gervonta Davis declared he never hurt a woman who, 911 calls show, desperately summoned police this week and alleged he was going to kill her.

Professional boxer Gervonta Davis has been jailed in Florida after he struck a woman in the face, authorities said Wednesday. An arrest report obtained by The Associated Press said Davis hit the woman with a “closed hand type slap” at a home in Parkland, Florida, on Tuesday, causing a small abrasion to the inside of her upper lip.

Boxer Gervonta Davis has been arrested and charged in a domestic violence case in Parkland. The Baltimore native was being held in the Broward County Jail after the incident occurred on Tuesday, court records show.

Davis, 28, a native of Baltimore, was arrested in Parkland on a charge of domestic battery causing bodily harm.

Missing, lost and even stolen dogs are pretty common in South Florida. But one family has quite literally brought in the big dogs to find their missing pup.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who handled the Parkland mass shooting case, is so biased in favor of the prosecution that she cannot be trusted to oversee cases handled by the Public Defender’s Office, according to dozens of motions filed in court last week.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel is taking applications for paid summer internships for 2023 in news, entertainment and sports reporting, multimedia/interactives or data reporting, and photo/video.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission met on Wednesday to discuss some ongoing safety issues still plaguing schools, from threat management to the embattled 911 communications system.

Nearly five years after the Parkland school massacre, the county’s 911 emergency system still faces some of the same problems that could cause delays in the police response, a state school safety panel warned Wednesday.

Parkland survivors and fellow gun-violence-prevention activists parked themselves on the largely quiet Florida Atlantic University campus Tuesday morning, the second stop of their Election Day bus tour to Orlando to rally voters in support of gun control.

When the judge hugged the prosecutors after the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing hearing ended on Wednesday, some attorneys who followed the case closely were concerned about the repercussions.

The Florida Bar is investigating one of the assistant public defenders who represented the Parkland school shooter.

The Florida Bar is investigating one of the assistant public defenders who represented the Parkland school shooter.

After Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer sentenced the Parkland school shooter to 34 consecutive mandatory life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole and remanded him to the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections, the 24-year-old convicted felon waited in the Broward County main jail.

Una empresa de medios latinos comenzó el proceso de adquirir 18 estaciones de radio en las principales ciudades del país con el fin de combatir la desinformación y el flujo de información falsa que se transmite en algunas estaciones de radio de habla Hispana.

CBS News will be covering election results on all platforms throughout the evening on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz has been formally sentenced to life in prison without parole. Before Cruz was sentenced, parents and other relatives of Cruz's victims spent two days telling him of their anger and hate toward him. (Nov. 2)

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz received multiples life sentences in prison from a judge after a jury declined to recommend the death penalty.

After a jury recommended the sentence, the judge could not change it. But she did allow victims and families to speak directly to Nikolas Cruz for the first time to express their anger and grief.

An argument over whether or not the relatives of the victims should address the Parkland school shooter’s defense attorneys during the sentencing hearing prompted Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer to ask Broward Public Defender Gordon Weekes to sit down Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale.

Families of the victims of the Parkland school shooting and a survivor address the killer before he is sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer sentenced the Parkland school shooter to 34 consecutive mandatory life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole. One for each of the 34 victims: 17 killed and 17 injured.

A Broward County judge will formally sentence the Parkland school shooter after a jury recommended life in prison for the 2018 killing of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Watch Day 2 of the proceedings live.

An argument over whether or not the relatives of the victims should address the Parkland school shooter’s defense attorneys during the sentencing hearing prompted Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer to ask Broward Public Defender Gordon Weekes to sit down Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale.

A Broward County judge will formally sentence the Parkland school shooter after a jury recommended life in prison for the 2018 killing of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Watch the proceedings live.

The Parkland school shooter will have to listen to relatives of the victims killed in the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School speak for at least two days in Broward County court in Fort Lauderdale.

Next week is the sentencing hearing for confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz.

Nikolas Cruz, 24, will be one of more than 15,000 inmates serving time because they took another life. That he took 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and wounded 17 more, will be of little consequence outside the prison walls. He will eventually lose the asset he appeared to value most — his fame.

A Parkland business owner was still recovering from injuries Friday after a Coral Springs man, furious that he was asked to move his car from a parking space, knocked him to the ground.

Broward schools forged a path to give $26 million to the victims of the Parkland shooting — turning a negligence case into a civil-rights dispute, newly released documents reveal.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling for change to Florida’s death penalty law.

Backlash over the Parkland shooting penalty phase verdict is reaching the highest levels of the state.

Miami-Dade Public Schools is once again asking county taxpayers to continue doing what the state does not: fund better salaries for teachers and school security officers mandated by the state in the months following the Parkland shooting.

The verdict in the Parkland school shooting trial penalty phase was life with no parole for the young man who staged a murder rampage at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Senior High School.

With their emotions still raw, Christopher Hixon’s widow and Joaquin Oliver’s father struggled to understand how any juror would decide that life in prison without the possibility of parole was an appropriate punishment for the perpetrator of the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The jury foreman said the jurors were divided.

New research is finding that jurors assigned to traumatic trials, such as the Parkland school shooting case, could benefit from post-trial counseling.

One of the jurors who rejected the death penalty and voted for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz to have life in prison wrote a letter to the judge.

Prosecutors in the case of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are calling for an investigation after a juror said she felt threatened by another member of the jury during deliberations.

A jury has recommended a sentence of life without parole for the attacker in the 2018 shooting massacre that left 17 people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Here are the victims:

The deliberation room where 12 jurors decided the fate of confessed mass shooter Nikolas Cruz may have been a crime scene itself, prosecutors say. A juror “informed the support staff member that during deliberations she received what she perceived to be a threat from a fellow juror while in the jury room.”

Editor’s note: Daily coverage of the Parkland trial is being provided to all readers as a public service. The deliberation room where 12 jurors decided the fate of confessed mass shooter Nikolas Cruz may have been a crime scene itself — a juror says she was threatened during deliberations, and prosecutors want the claim investigated. According to a motion filed late Thursday, prosecutors want ...

The Broward Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday afternoon that there is an investigation at the Broward County courthouse after the Broward State Attorney’s Office provided information about a complaint from a juror in the Parkland school shooter’s penalty phase.

On Thursday in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom, the jury in the Parkland school shooting trial penalty phase decided not to impose the death penalty on confessed gunman Nikolas Cruz.

Broward County Public Defender Gordon Weekes praised the jury for carrying out “a solemn responsibility” on Thursday after putting an end to the penalty phase of the Parkland school shooter by recommending life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The confessed gunman from the Parkland school shooting that killed 17 people and injured 17 others will be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

All lanes on a stretch of the Sawgrass Expressway near Coral Springs and Parkland were closed late Thursday afternoon as police responded to a report of a hit-and-run crash.

"That you can allow 17 dead and 17 others shot and wounded and not give the death penalty? What do we have the death penalty for? What's the purpose of it?" Alhadeff said, adding that he believed the jurors set a precedent today that could affect future mass killings.

Thomas Benjamin told CBS Miami three jurors voted against the death penalty for the gunman, who was convicted of killing 17 people in 2018.

Twitter reacts to the life in prison recommendation by a Fort Lauderdale jury in the Parkland shooting trial of Nikolas Cruz.

Families of the 17 people killed in the Parkland school shooting appeared to be sad, angry and shocked by the jury’s recommendation Thursday that confessed shooter Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

He will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 massacre after the jury said it could not unanimously agree that he should be executed.

A jury reached a verdict on Nikolas Cruz, who pleaded guilty to murdering 14 students and three staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

Watch from inside the courtroom as the jury reads their verdict: Will Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to death or life in prison? Jurors are deciding whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison.

Corey Hixon, who lives with Kabuki syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, walked out of the courtroom while Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer was reading the jury’s 17 verdict forms on Thursday in Fort Lauderdale. Corey’s mother Debra Hixon, a Broward County School Board member and the widow of Christopher Hixon, said her son walked out because he just felt the pain that others around him were feeling.

These are the 17 counts that Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer read to the jury on Wednesday before deliberations began.

Coral Springs Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a missing, endangered 84-year-old man.

The penalty phase for the Parkland school shooter’s trial started six months ago in April as a methodical process as thousands of people were screened to potentially sit on this historic jury.

Watch from inside the courtroom as the judge gives her final instructions to the jury before they begin deliberating the fate of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. Jurors are deciding whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison.

Before the jury’s deliberation began Wednesday morning, Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer read instructions to set the parameters of their decision on the punishment that Nikolas Cruz should face for the 17 murders during the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The jurors who will decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is sentenced to death or life without parole have begun their deliberations.

As the death penalty trial of the Parkland school shooter wraps up, with both sides presenting closing arguments Tuesday, Local 10 News is taking a look at some of the important numbers in the case.

Multiple schools were on lockdown in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties Tuesday morning as police responded to calls of active shooters at the same time as the closing arguments for the trial of Parkland school shooter Nicolas Cruz started.

Watch from inside the courtroom as the prosecution and defense give their closing statements in the sentencing trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. Jurors are deciding whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison.

The case is soon headed for a jury, which will decide if the gunman will get a death sentence or life behind bars.

Closing arguments will be held Tuesday in the penalty phase of the Parkland school shooter’s case.

A contentious hearing on Monday set the final details of the Parkland school shooter’s case to move forward with closing statements on Tuesday morning.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count 16 of first-degree murder.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count 15 of first-degree murder.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count 14 of first-degree murder.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count 13 of first-degree murder.

Count 11 of 17 in the penalty phase is for the murder of Aaron Feis who Nikolas Cruz killed on Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count 10 of first-degree murder.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count eight of first-degree murder.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count six of first-degree murder.

A former district chief in Parkland didn’t want the public to know that guns were found in a school, instructing detectives to leave reports vague or blank to keep it on the “down low,” according to records released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

“If his attention problems were as bad as this, he couldn’t even complete the test,” said neuropsychologist Robert Denney, who was called by the prosecution to rebut testimony introduced last month about Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz.

The principal of Somerset Parkland Academy, a K-8 charter school in Parkland, has been charged with bringing guns on campus, after faculty members this summer found the guns in a bag left in a conference room that children “had easy and unsecured access to,” sheriff’s records show.

A jury will decide whether Nikolas Cruz lives or dies for killing 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018. Not all victims' relatives are convinced the death penalty will bring them a sense of justice.

Parkland father Manuel Oliver joined survivors and family members of victims from a growing list of mass shootings since Parkland at a "Pass the Ban" event in Washington, D.C., on Thursday meant to encourage the U.S. Senate to approve an assault weapons ban.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer refused to step down from the sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz, the confessed gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

To ease overcrowding, school district officials say they want to trim Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s enrollment by as many as 500 students. And eventually, other overcrowded schools also could face adjustments.

This week, experts told a Broward jury that the Parkland shooter has fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). If these disorders spawned a killer, how common are they and what are the signs?

Nikolas Cruz has already pleaded guilty to killing 17 people and wounding others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Jurors are deciding whether he'll be executed or spend life in prison.

Broward Sheriff’s Gregory Tony said his investigators were able to get a potential school shooter off the street by nabbing him for defacing the shrine for Parkland shooting victims at the site of the high school.

Editor’s note: Daily coverage of the Parkland trial is being provided to all readers as a public service. The Parkland gunman’s eighth-grade teacher was so troubled by his disturbing schoolwork that she saved a copy for her records in case it was ever needed. Those documents now provide crucial insight into the mind of a killer-in-the-making after Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people at ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a grand jury up on its recommendation Friday afternoon to remove four Broward School Board members after a scathing report that accused them of having “engaged in acts of incompetence and neglect of duty.”