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Florida abortion clinics are operating longer hours, opening on the weekends and training new doctors as they treat double the number of patients now that nearby states have made abortions illegal. “This is a dangerous and scary time for women but also for the doctors who are trying to provide care and do what’s best for their patients,” said Christina Noce, communications director for Planned Parenthood of Southeast and North Florida, which operates 10 health centers across the... Read More

Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, interrupted President Joe Biden’s speech Monday during a White House event commemorating the new law aimed at reducing gun violence. Oliver could be heard shouting, but exactly what he said wasn’t audible on the video stream of the event on the White House grounds or to news reporters present at the event. Advertisement At one point, Biden said Oliver should be allowed to speak, but he... Read More

It’s the era of scooter commuters. You may have seen people in business suits zipping along the sidewalk or heading into the office, wheeling their stand-up electric scooters with them. Electric scooters are quickly becoming a new tool for South Florida commuters who ditch their cars because of gas prices or simple convenience. Advertisement Many South Florida commuters are using electric scooters to solve the “first and last mile challenge” — the distance between a public... Read More

A suspect in a Broward County shooting led law enforcement on a three-county pursuit Saturday night that ended with his arrest on Interstate 95 in Boca Raton, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. The shooting, which took place in the 4000 block of Southwest 18th Street in West Park, left a woman hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Advertisement Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue located the wounded woman shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday. She was... Read More

Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center are monitoring an area of low pressure that could develop just offshore of the U.S. Gulf Coast. Its odds of developing are at 20% within the next five days, according to experts. Any development is likely to be slow. Advertisement Regardless of development, it may bring heavy rain to the Florida Panhandle across to Louisiana over the next several days. Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center are monitoring an area of low pressure... Read More

Most of Broward’s cities have elections this November to pick commissioners and mayors, and a handful are also asking voters to make their voices heard on other issues, too. From allowing all voters to get a say on pay raises in West Park, to abolishing the rules that commissioners who violate ethics rules can’t be forced to give up their seat in Wilton Manors, referendum and charter questions are on the November ballot. Advertisement Here’s a look at the issues. Cooper City... Read More

BOCA RATON — Drivers in Boca Raton will face detours this week with the overnight closures of Glades Road at I-95 — part of an overhaul for a reconfigured highway exit that’s expected to start easing traffic later this year. Eastbound and westbound Glades Road at I-95 is closing from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday through Thursday. The interchange, one of the busiest roadways in Palm Beach County, is being remade into a “diverging diamond” configuration, which will be the first of its... Read More

MARGATE — A faculty member at Northern Caribbean University in Jamaica has been extradited to Broward County Jail after being arrested in a string of rape cases that date to the late 1990s in Margate and Tamarac, officials said. Russell McLean, who was arrested in May and extradited Thursday, is suspected of carrying out the attacks between June of 1996 and November of 1997, according to Margate police. He was caught — and now faces charges in four cold-case sexual batteries — because... Read More

The blast of train horns may be coming back to Broward County — no longer reserved for emergencies only. They could return after federal regulators consider whether to eliminate a countywide “quiet zone” as a way to reduce deadly accidents along the Florida East Coast Railway, the corridor that runs through many downtowns across South Florida. Advertisement The Federal Railroad Administration is placing Broward’s zone under an administrative review to determine whether it played... Read More

Congressional candidate Ben Sorensen, seeking to gain attention and to damage Democratic primary opponent Jared Moskowitz, is repeatedly attacking Moskowitz by linking him to Gov. Ron DeSantis. A major theme of Sorensen’s campaign is the suggestion that Moskowitz can’t be trusted to fight for Democratic values, and is sympathetic to DeSantis’ policies and former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement. Advertisement Sorensen is also highlighting a $500,000 campaign contribution... Read More