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After a quiet start to hurricane season, Hurricane Danielle and Tropical Storm Earl both formed Friday — but neither system is a threat to Florida. As of the National Hurricane Center’s 11 a.m. advisory on Saturday, Tropical Storm Danielle is expected to pick up strength over the next few days and turn back into a hurricane. The system, which became the first hurricane of the season Friday morning, lost some strength overnight and reverted to a tropical storm. Advertisement Tropical... Read More

A statewide grand jury’s blistering critique of a school renovation program led to the removal of four Broward school board members, but the report also accuses the school district of serious safety failures. The state Department of Education believes some of these issues — including under-reporting of crimes, failure to work with law enforcement and allowing students with serious felony issues back on campus — “are ongoing and require immediate action,” according to an Aug. 29... Read More

The cost of doing business for airlines serving Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and some other Florida destinations is on the rise as aviation departments move to make up lost revenue from sweeping flight cutbacks. But as carriers continue to wrestle with staff shortages and other problems that have caused unprecedented levels of canceled and delayed flights this year, it remains unclear the degree to which consumers will tolerate higher prices if airlines elect to pass along... Read More

Follow our live Artemis I launch updates from Kennedy Space Center. Latest updates below: The $4.1 billion moonshot is slated to lift off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-B during a two-hour window that opens at 2:17 p.m. The Space Launch System rocket looks to become the most powerful rocket to ever launch from Earth using 8.8 million pounds of thrust to propel the Orion spacecraft on its way to a 37-day mission to orbit the moon several times before heading back to splash down in the Pacific... Read More

The two prisons that house men on Florida’s death row stand on a pleasant two-lane road that runs past farms and cow pastures about 30 miles north of Gainesville. Union Correctional Institution and Florida State Prison, low-rise complexes surrounded by fences, razor-wire and flat open fields, are the most likely destinations for Nikolas Cruz if a jury sentences the confessed Parkland school killer to death. Advertisement For most of Florida’s 307 death row inmates, who are pursuing... Read More

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election-fraud show of force is casting light on a broken system for restoring the voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions and bringing flawed criminal cases against people who mistakenly thought they could vote, defense lawyers and advocates say. Rather than charging Floridians with crimes, DeSantis’ administration should address its own shortcomings that allowed voter registration cards to be issued to ineligible people, said state Rep. Michael Gottlieb, a... Read More

WASHINGTON — Along with highly classified government documents, the FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate found dozens of empty folders marked classified but with nothing inside and no explanation of what might have been there, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public on Friday. The agents also found more than 10,000 other government documents kept by Trump with no classification... Read More

Editor’s note: Daily coverage of the Parkland trial is being provided to all readers as a public service. Here are updates from Day 51 in the sentencing trial of confessed Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, 23; a jury will decide if he will be executed or sentenced to life in prison without parole. He pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Advertisement Search... Read More

FORT LAUDERDALE — Editor’s note: Daily coverage of the Parkland trial is being provided to all readers as a public service. The Parkland mass shooter was described in court Friday as a “loving kid” and “gentle soul” who descended into violent outbursts when he lost his temper, often while playing video games that did not go his way. Advertisement Lynda Cruz confided that her home had “polka-dotted walls” because of how often she had to spackle them after almost daily... Read More

If you’re planning on heading to this weekend’s Artemis I launch, you better gas up the car and hit the road as soon as possible. Between 200,000 to 400,000 spectators are expected to watch Saturday afternoon’s launch in Cape Canaveral, the first step in NASA’s attempt to land humans on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Launching from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B, the unmanned Artemis I will be the most powerful rocket sent into... Read More