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Walmart has started offering to deliver groceries right into customers’ fridges across South Florida. The retail giant’s “InHome” delivery service began this week in parts of Florida, including across Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. InHome is available as an add-on to the Walmart+ membership program, which costs $12.95 a month, or $98 a year. And InHome is an extra $7 a month, or $40 per year. Advertisement The service lets customers choose where their groceries... Read More

As the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting case inches closer to trial, the judge overseeing it is setting down strict rules to protect sensitive crime scene photos and videos from leaking to the general public. Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, expressing concern for the victims and their families, said she will not display the graphic material on television monitors in the courtroom, nor will she allow them to be transmitted to a nearby room where dozens of local and... Read More

SpaceX got back to expanding its Starlink satellite constellation with another batch launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday. This marks the 15th Starlink launch of the year, and 50th Starlink launch since the first operational deployment in 2019, with more than 2,700 satellites sent to orbit. Advertisement A Falcon 9 rocket with 53 of the 570-pound satellites on board lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 during at 9:11 a.m. The booster on this flight is... Read More

The woman charged with felony manslaughter in the death of her fiance’s son was pointing a loaded gun and laughing moments before it went off and killed the teen, an arrest warrant released Wednesday says. Francy Marcos, 24, of Miami Gardens, turned herself into the Broward Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday — nearly a month after police said she unintentionally shot the boy inside of their home in Pembroke Pines on June 11. The boy is named only by initials in court records, but friends... Read More

A much-anticipated grand jury report that investigates possible corruption in Broward schools could become public within days, potentially causing major turmoil during this year’s School Board elections. It’s also possible the release of the report could be delayed until after the August and November elections if the state Supreme Court decides to hear appeals from those fighting to expunge details that portray them negatively. Advertisement Gov. Ron DeSantis convened the grand jury... Read More

An analysis of social media posts, Internet searches and other computer records offers some indication of what the Parkland gunman was thinking in the months leading up to the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. It’s the kind of information defense lawyers believe jurors should not be allowed to hear, not because it isn’t true, but because it is so disturbing and inflammatory that it promises to overwhelm the central question of the case — whether confessed... Read More

Expand Forensic psychologist Michael Brannon and Assistant State Attorney Jeff Marcus speak as Brannon testifies during a hearing in the penalty phase of the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel) Here are updates from Day 25 in the sentencing trial of confessed Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, 23; a jury will decide if he will be executed or... Read More

Pete Antonacci, the Republican sent in to clean up Broward’s elections office after years of problems, was appointed Wednesday to head Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new elections investigation office. Antonacci, 73, has had many top government roles, mostly appointed by Republicans. He was also a top lieutenant to a former Democratic attorney general. Advertisement He’s had several high-profile roles in South Florida, including an appointment as Broward supervisor of elections, an... Read More

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A Florida woman is accused by a North Carolina sheriff’s office of stabbing the man she provides care for with a felt-tipped marker and pushed him out of a moving car. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release on Monday that Arlene Mary Bonitz, 57, of Palm Harbor, Florida, was driving south on Sunday on Interstate 95 near the 64-mile marker in Godwin, North Carolina. In the car with her was a man for whom she provides care and support due to... Read More

Fireworks-related mishaps on the Fourth of July and Tuesday claimed a few victims in Broward and Palm Beach counties, including an 8-year-old girl who was shot in the leg in Lauderhill, teens who lost fingers in West Palm Beach and an apartment fire in Lauderhill, officials said. On top of that, there were at least three suspected celebratory bullet incidents in Palm Beach County on Monday, along with an eye injury to a 9-year-old that didn’t require hospitalization. Advertisement And... Read More