SHOCKING: 24 | Mind Blowing Facts

Prosecutors and defense clash over motion to block the death penalty in Parkland mass shooting case

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A judge’s willingness to strike more than 200 jurors from consideration in the Parkland mass shooting trial was an error so significant, according to lawyers for the defendant, that the state should no longer be permitted to seek the death penalty.

Tribune News Service · Apr 27, 2022

South Florida rents top New York area after tri-county region sees highest rent increases in the country

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The South Florida region saw the highest rent increases in the country in the past year, with some rents more than doubling.

Tribune News Service · Apr 27, 2022

Roger Stone won’t run against DeSantis for Florida governor — but says he might challenge ‘RINO’ Rubio

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Roger Stone said Monday he won’t run against Gov. Ron DeSantis, but he said he’s contemplating a Republican primary challenge to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.

Tribune News Service · Apr 25, 2022

11 prematurely dismissed jurors in Parkland trial are supposed to come back to court Monday. Has anyone told them?

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nearly a dozen prematurely dismissed jurors are supposed to return to court Monday to be screened for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting trial. There’s just one problem — it appears no one has officially told them to show up.

Tribune News Service · Apr 23, 2022

Continuing culture war focus, Florida Gov. DeSantis signs law restricting teaching of race-related issues in schools, private-sector employee training

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis imposed restrictions Friday on the way race-related issues are taught in public schools and in private workplaces in Florida. Lessons that might make some people uncomfortable would be banned.

Tribune News Service · Apr 22, 2022

Florida teen charged in a 151 mph crash that killed 6. Deputies say he recorded himself driving 182 mph weeks before

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two weeks before a teen was involved in a 151 mph crash that killed six people in West Delray, he was going even faster in his luxury car on Interstate 95 — reaching speeds of 182 mph, authorities say in newly released court documents.

Tribune News Service · Apr 20, 2022

In new ads, Florida's Broward County counters the law dubbed ‘don’t say gay’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A new ad campaign is putting diversity at the forefront as Florida draws attention over its controversial Parental Rights in Education law, nicknamed by critics as the “don’t say gay” law.

Tribune News Service · Apr 19, 2022

The old man and the high-rise: His tiny home surrounded, he battles developer over dying garden

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- On Fifth Avenue in the rapidly changing Flagler Village, a humble house surrounded by a forest of tropical trees looks like it’s about to be swallowed by a five-story wall of pale gray concrete.

Tribune News Service · Apr 19, 2022

Democrats condemn DeSantis congressional district map’s reduction in Black representation as ‘racist tactic’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One of Florida’s most prominent Black elected Democrats, state Sen. Shevrin Jones, said Monday that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to cut in half the number of Florida congressional districts with boundaries crafted to maximize the chance of electing Black representatives is a “racist tactic.”

Tribune News Service · Apr 18, 2022

DeSantis nominee for Florida wildlife commission was fined for manatee violation

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Coral Gables health care executive who had been fined for speeding in a boat in a manatee-protection zone was named this week to the Florida board in charge of protecting wildlife.

Tribune News Service · Apr 15, 2022