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What would Mar-a-Lago be without drama? Long before the FBI’s search this week at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, authorities have been a fixture there: They’ve often been summoned to detain people accused of trespassing and other violations. Advertisement Over the past five years, there have been complaints of drivers whizzing past gates, people crossing the line in their attempts to meet Trump, as well as Chinese nationals accused of trespassing. Here’s a look at... Read More

A man who was flown to a local hospital after he was stabbed in Tamarac on Monday afternoon died from his injuries, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said late Monday. Deputies found the victim, who was stabbed multiple times, in the 6500 block of Landings Way shortly before 4 p.m. The Sheriff’s Office said deputies detained another man at the scene, and a suspect was in custody by Monday night. Advertisement The victim’s name is being withheld after his family invoked Marsy’s Law,... Read More

SpaceX continues its record pace for 2022 with what would be its 35th launch of the year aiming to send up another 52 Starlink satellites atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center tonight. Liftoff from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A is has been delayed, now targeting 10:14 p.m. because of upper-level winds. A backup opportunity opens at 6:36 p.m. Wednesday. Advertisement The Space Launch Delta 45 weather squadron predicts a 70% chance for good conditions citing the... Read More

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said Tuesday that the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club shows the federal government was akin to the actions of the Gestapo, the notorious secret police in Nazi Germany. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, condemned Scott’s statement, calling it “repulsive” and said the senator should apologize for using “such a disturbing and reckless analogy.” Advertisement “To compare the serving of a search warrant... Read More

PALM BEACH — It’s all eyes on Mar-a-Lago, yet again. The 17-acre estate of former President Donald Trump has come under a glaring national spotlight after the dramatic FBI raid that set the political world afire on Monday. Advertisement Supporters from around the region headed straight for the town of Palm Beach on Tuesday to show their discontent. Before noon, a crowd of angry supporters had gathered near the former president’s oceanfront estate to defend their hero and blast... Read More

TALLAHASSEE — Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried called on Gov. Ron DeSantis to uphold the rule of law and drop his “divisive rhetoric” in the wake of the FBI’s unprecedented search of former president Donald Trump’s seaside resort and Florida residence. “No one wants to see a past president’s house searched. For the first time in American history,” Fried told a group of reporters Tuesday in front of the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee, which she hopes to occupy come... Read More

A disturbance in the far eastern Atlantic could become a tropical depression this week, the National Hurricane Center said. As of 2 a.m. Tuesday, it had a 40% chance of developing in the next five days and a 20% chance of developing in the next 48 hours. Advertisement It was producing thunderstorms as it headed generally west across the Atlantic at 15 to 20 mph. Gradual development is expected this week. Conditions are expected to be less favorable for its development by the weekend,... Read More

Former President Donald Trump said Monday that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided Mar-a-Lago, his estate and private club in Palm Beach. The circumstances were not immediately clear, the Associated Press reported. Spokespeople for the FBI and the Justice Department did not return messages seeking comment Monday evening. Advertisement In a statement shared on Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, he wrote that his Palm Beach mansion is “currently under... Read More

A salon worker in Pembroke Pines has been arrested after a months-long investigation found she misrepresented herself as a licensed masseuse and practiced nursing without a license by treating a woman’s wounds after a surgery in South America, police said. Jenny Reyes-Leon, 42, of Miramar, was arrested at the Couture Salon & Spa in Pembroke Pines on Friday. Advertisement A Florida Department of Health investigator contacted Pembroke Pines Police in February about Reyes-Leon, who... Read More

It’s election season in South Florida, with in-person early voting starting for the primary elections. Voters on Monday started showing up at dozens of locations across Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, and Broward’s early voting soon will follow, starting this Saturday. Advertisement “It’s not a huge turnout,” Wendy Sartory Link, Palm Beach’s supervisor of elections, said Monday. “We’d love to have more voters.” Still, “it’s going well,” she... Read More