23+ hour, 41+ min ago   (553+ words) The man and woman who were discovered dead in a luxury high-rise apartment in Fort Lauderdale have been identified, and police are investigating their deaths as a murder-suicide. Just after 1:30 p.m. Sept. 5, Fort Lauderdale Police officers found Justin James Gelato, 38, and…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1003+ words) No country on Earth buys as much from the United States as its northern neighbor. For American farmers, Canada is second only to Mexico as an export market. A North American trade pact — negotiated by President Donald Trump in his…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (693+ words) TALLAHASSEE — A much-anticipated report of the spending habits of Florida’s emergency and disaster agency was finally released two months past deadline, revealing a $1.5 billion, worst-case-scenario deficit by next summer. The report was released Friday, about an hour before a legislative…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (510+ words) The case dates back to 2018 when Judge Shelley Joseph was accused of colluding with the immigrant’s attorney and a court officer to allow him to escape out a back door of the courthouse after a hearing on charges that included…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (149+ words) Conservationists raised concerns Wednesday that proposed rule changes in reaction to the deaths of more than 50 imported sloths for the once-planned Sloth World attraction in Orlando do not go far enough. Those rule changes would also increase the minimum age…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (517+ words) A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the “Hog Trail Murders” in the 1990s was scheduled Thursday to become the state’s 15th person executed this year. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, was sentenced to…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (403+ words) TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Realtors trade group is getting behind Amendment 3, the major property tax cut on the November ballot, putting $10 million to support the measure. “Affordability is on the forefront for every Floridian, and they need meaningful relief,” said Chuck…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (709+ words) A normally routine Broward School Board meeting to pass the yearly budget turned heated Tuesday night, amid concerns that there’s too little allocated for teacher raises. Two School Board members, Adam Cervera and Debbi Hixon, refused to approve the budget,…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (262+ words) Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout who came to the U.S. from Singapore, faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after pleading guilty to a federal racketeering conspiracy charge. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly didn’t immediately schedule Lam’s sentencing hearing in Washington. Lam…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1191+ words) As first-of-their-kind festivities open Wednesday, Trump wants to stoke his core supporters’ enthusiasm by making Election Day on Nov. 3 all about himself — a referendum on his record at an event he conceived to help his party, even if he’s not…...