South Florida Local News

Florida’s youngest children are now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines, but some parents are wondering if those under 5 years old even need them. Here's the argument on both sides.

Officials say two Florida deputies have each been suspended for about two weeks for leaking news about actor and comedian Bob Saget’s death before his family was alerted

Broward County Sheriff's Office issued more than 500 traffic citations through Operation Crossing Guard. The operation ended on Friday and enforced traffic safety along railroad crossings in response to increasing motorist and pedestrian accidents with Brightline trains.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputies shot and killed a black bear on Saturday in a Royal Palm Beach residential area.

DeSantis on Monday said state health departments will not ever offer COVID-19 vaccines to kids under 5.

Attorneys for the state and online-industry groups plan to go to the U.S. Supreme Court in a battle about a 2021 Florida law that would crack down on social-media giants such as Facebook and Twitter.

The announcement came from the school’s Board of Trustees chair in a campus-wide email Monday morning. President John Kelly will stay at FAU, moving into a position in the university’s research wing.

A Davie man was out for a morning walk with his dog and pet parrot when the parrot flew into a retention pond. Thinking his parrot was in distress, he waded in after it and drowned.

A Florida woman born without arms shares her challenges of daily life on social media. Simple, everyday tasks, like how she opens a can of olives, or applies false eyelashes, she shows her 140,000 combined followers on TikTok and Instagram. Unpaid for now, she hoped to turn social media into her career.

The Purple Alert Action Plan will be active July 1, sending notifications about missing adults who have mental, cognitive, intellectual or developmental disabilities. "There are times when that is the only way someone is going to be returning safely, with law enforcement activating one of these alerts," a disability advocate said.

A man from Jupiter and two others were treated at and released from a hospital after a 70-foot yacht burned and sank in New Hampshire

A conservative Washington, D.C., law firm has emerged as the courthouse defender of much of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ culture war agenda.

As tourists and new residents flock to South Florida's beaches, ocean rescue chiefs struggle to hire new lifeguards while current lifeguards work overtime to pick up the slack.

One survivor of South Florida's so-called 'Pillowcase rapist' in the 1980s hopes others come forward to tell their stories to keep the 'monster' behind bars forever. The Nancy J. Cotterman Center in Fort Lauderdale played a role when the Broward Sheriff's Office filed six arrest warrants for Robert Eugene Koehler, the suspect being held in Miami-Dade County on other rape charges.

As Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick began self-funding her successful 2021 congressional campaign, the company where she was CEO at the time started receiving a new source of income: providing COVID vaccines in underserved communities. "We risked our lives to serve the community,” Cherfilus-McCormick says. Now, those COVID-aid contracts are drawing new attention from her primary challenger's campaign.

A July 1 date looms for the effective date of a new Florida law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks gestation, severely restricting access to the procedure. Several legal actions, however, could prevent that from happening -- at least temporarily.

Florida reached a grim milestone this week: More than 75,000 people in the state have died of COVID-19. The new death toll comes as COVID hospitalizations are rising and two-thirds of the counties in the state have moved into the red zone for high-risk levels of community spread.

A 19-year-old Lauderhill man is facing charges in a February 2021 hit-and-run crash that killed a 22-year-old mother after he hit her while speeding over 70 mph and didn’t request paramedics to help, court records say.

A dog in Florida was attacked by an alligator, dragged into the water and eaten, despite the dog owner's brief attempt to stop the attack.

Former Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie co-authored a report with a private company about dealing with crises. One author also was working for the school district at the time.