South Florida Local News

George Hanbury, president and CEO of NSU, said that requiring staff and students to be vaccinated is the best way to ensure their safety against COVID-19. But Gov. Ron DeSantis has prohibited "vaccine passports" at Florida businesses.

On the day former FSU football star Travis Rudolph allegedly shot a man dead, he had gotten into an altercation with his girlfriend, then fought with a group of men and shot at them while they were trying to leave in a car, according to a sheriff’s arrest report released Thursday.

State law gives Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis the right to replace commissioners if they run to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings. That could result in two Republicans on the all-Democratic Broward County Commission.

The letter filed Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court is the latest in an increasingly hostile dispute over the conditions of the British socialite’s confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park.

A forecast by Colorado State University predicts eight hurricanes, with a total of 17 named storms in 2021.

The Florida Senate approved a bill that would permanently allow restaurants to sell alcoholic drinks with take-home meals.

Florida has vowed to hold the owner of the Piney Point phosphate plant “accountable” for problems at the facility, according to the Bradenton Herald.

Shortly afterward, a DeSantis spokesman said the governor had privately received his vaccination shot. DeSantis joins Trump in receiving his shot off-camera, without publicizing it.

Federal investigators are probing a trip to the Bahamas that U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz allegedly took with former Orlando International Airport board appointee Jason Pirozzolo as part of a probe into potential sex-trafficking violations, CBS News reported Wednesday evening.

A Trump casino or sports betting? It isn't on the table in Florida's latest gambling bills.

After a stellar high school football career, Travis Rudolph starred at Florida State University and even made it to the NFL, bringing pride to his small community in Palm Beach County. Now he’s accused of opening gunfire on four people early Wednesday, killing one and wounding another

Florida Department of Corrections facilities will receive 33,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, a spokeswoman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management said Tuesday evening.

U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings made his wishes clear before his death: No funeral. His wish was to be cremated.

Florida lawmakers are poised to add a large business tax cut to a bill that would require online retailers to collect more sales taxes from purchases, avoiding violating a pledge made by three dozen Republicans not to raise taxes, according to the anti-tax group that organized the pledge.

Florida reported 5,885 new COVID-19 cases and 42 more deaths on Wednesday.

One Florida sheriff's department has been busy rounding up wayward alligators. One was 10 feet, 2 inches long.

Two alligators intertwine and roll around on a grassy shore in what could be a courtship ritual. Gator courting season is going on now.

Within hours of his death on Tuesday, Florida’s top Republicans all paid warm respects to Congressman Alcee Hastings, the outspoken liberal Democrat. But the words from one – Gov. Ron DeSantis – stood out as different from the others. His statement was much more perfunctory.

Congressman Alcee Hastings died Tuesday. The South Florida congressman, who was 84, made history in many ways — positive and negative. He was a civil rights lawyer in 1960s and '70s Fort Lauderdale. He was Florida's first Black federal judge, and was later impeached and removed. He was part of the first Black members of Congress from Florida since Reconstruction.

In the final weeks of Donald Trump’s term, Matt Gaetz is said to have privately asked the White House for blanket preemptive pardons for himself and unidentified congressional allies.