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Florida’s new 15-week ban on abortions will likely mean more patients traveling out of state for the procedure — prompting a string of organizations to raise funds for trips hundreds of miles away, anywhere from North Carolina to New York. Florida’s new abortion law took effect Friday, a day after a judge said he planned to sign an order as early as Tuesday that temporarily blocks it. The new law has led groups to start looking at other states to send patients who are more than 15 weeks... Read More

Fueling speculation that he’s interested in the White House, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, unveiled an ad Sunday that will air in Florida. The ad pits him squarely against former President Donald Trump and Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Newsom, who is expected to win re-election to a second term as governor in November, urges viewers to “join us in California, where we still believe in freedom.” Advertisement Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif) displays a bill he... Read More

Activity in the tropics has slowed back down after a busy week. A tropical disturbance that was being monitored the past few days in the Caribbean Sea was no longer expected to develop, the National Hurricane Center said early Sunday. Advertisement The system that was Tropical Storm Colin dissipated near coastal North Carolina on Sunday. However, it has created the threat of rip currents and rough surf from North Carolina to southeastern Virginia over the July 4th holiday weekend. Colin... Read More

Deputies have arrested a man in the deaths of two people in unincorporated West Palm Beach, according to sheriff’s office. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies went to a home in the 500 block of Cherry Road, where they found a man and woman dead just before 9 p.m. Saturday. Advertisement Deputies also found Guillermo Silva, 57, at the scene. He was arrested and charged with two counts of homicide and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Authorities released no other details on... Read More

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A person using a flamethrower set fire Saturday to a Pan-African flag flying on a pole outside the headquarters of the Uhuru Movement, a Black international socialist group based in Florida. Security video released by the group shows the driver of a white Honda sedan pulling up outside the group’s St. Petersburg headquarters, removing a flamethrower from the trunk and shooting a tower of fire at the flag flying about 30 feet (9... Read More

The Nature Conservancy’s Joseph Schmidt envisions a future for the Lake Worth Lagoon. In it, American oystercatchers forage the shoreline, mangroves and oysters filter pollution and kayaks glide from restored island to restored island. In turn, those islands help protect human development. This vision is one step closer to reality with the completion of the The Palm Beach Resilient Island Project, which rebuilt an eroded island in West Palm Beach with green infrastructure such as oyster... Read More

An 18-year-old motorcyclist from Fort Lauderdale is dead after he rear-ended a car on Interstate 95 South near the Sheridan St. exit early Saturday morning, shutting down the highway and causing traffic to be diverted for hours, officials said. However, I-95 has been reopened. The crash happened shortly about 5:15 a.m. Saturday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Advertisement The motorcyclist, who was riding a 2013 gray Yamaha, “failed to reduce his speed,” according to a... Read More

Two storm systems are in the Atlantic right now, but neither poses a threat to South Florida and one could be gone after the weekend, forecasters said. Tropical Storm Colin, which is still in the Atlantic, is expected to dissipate Monday, while the tropical wave in the Atlantic that’s headed in South Florida’s general direction is still being given a low chance for developing, according to the National Hurricane Center. Advertisement Wind shear is expected to tear the system apart... Read More

A generation ago, women desperate for abortion might have used a coat hanger, but in contemporary Florida, they are likely to turn to pills. Pills that induce cramping and bleeding to empty the uterus — known as medication abortion — are legal in the state up until the 11th week of pregnancy. Advertisement But now that Florida has banned abortion after 15 weeks, women who want to end a pregnancy in their second trimester and don’t have the resources to travel may turn to these... Read More

Last year, 79,817 abortions were performed in Florida. Nearly 40% of these were in South Florida. With the overturning of Roe v. Wade and a 15-week abortion ban challenged in Florida’s courts, the future of abortion in Florida is unclear. The South Florida Sun Sentinel took a look at facts and figures about pregnancy terminations in Florida. Reviewing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Agency for Health Care Administration, and reports from independent research... Read More