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From a political standpoint, Gov. Ron DeSantis acted shrewdly last week in seeking a statewide grand jury to investigate school safety. By appearing with families of Marjory Stoneman Douglas victims one day before the one-year commemoration, DeSantis showed solidarity but kept the main focus off himself. If the Florida Supreme Court accepts his petition for the grand jury – which seems likely – DeSantis can keep the pressure where it belongs. A showboating governor might have tried to... Read More

He had a one-way ticket for a flight to Haiti on Monday, but a fugitive’s apparent plan to flee from rape allegations was foiled by federal agents from South Florida. Authorities say Pascal Estime, 56, was arrested by U.S. Marshals at Orlando International Airport, on charges that he sexually battered a mentally impaired woman in Boynton Beach 15 years ago. Informed Tuesday of Estime’s capture, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Joseph Marx ordered the Orlando man to be held without bond... Read More

Having twice stepped aside when the Miami Heat were at two of their lowest points, Pat Riley said in an interview with ESPN that he plans to continue on in his role as team president amid this latest uneven period. Interviewed by ESPN personality Dan Le Batard, Riley, in a clip of the interview posted Tuesday by the network, referenced Dwyane Wade leading the Heat back from the brink of disaster against the Dallas Mavericks in the 2006 NBA Finals, when Wade turned to Riley, then the... Read More

If the return of culinary goliath South Beach Wine and Food Festival is any indication, we’ve hit peak tourism season, when an embarrassment of art and culinary riches fills the streets from Lake Worth to Miami Beach. What that also means: Parking woes everywhere, as cars converge on South Beach Wine and Food Festival’s Grand Tasting Village, the street parade in Fort Lauderdale’s growing Sistrunk neighborhood and the chalk-art bonanza in Lake Worth. Here’s everything you should know... Read More

The father of a slain Stoneman Douglas High School student will be allowed in the courtroom when his lawyers question the former school watchman who saw the shooter, but failed to stop him from entering the campus last year, a judge ruled Tuesday. Former security monitor Andrew Medina wanted Broward Circuit Judge Patti Englander Henning to block Andrew Pollack from a deposition scheduled for next week. Medina is one of the defendants in a lawsuit Pollack filed over the wrongful death of his... Read More

It was early on a Sunday morning when Akeano Lewis left the Hibiscus nightclub and restaurant in Sunrise. Following Lewis out of the bar as he took his last steps were four men, including one armed with a gun, police say. On Jan. 27, as Lewis, 22, reached a parking lot outside the club, at 6289 W. Sunrise Blvd., he was shot twice in his back. Lewis tried to run away, but after he fell, the gunman stood over him, continued to fire a black handgun and a third bullet struck Lewis, according to... Read More

A sixth-grader in Lakeland now has a police record for having refused to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance on Feb. 4. To hear adults speak about it, it isn’t because he exercised his absolute constitutional right to shun the pledge at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy. Rather, it’s because of what they called his disruptive behavior after the teacher, substitute Ana Alvarez, provoked him. Their excuse is pathetic. By the teacher’s own handwritten account, she goaded the boy after he... Read More

Outside Florida, people love to look at Florida as something funny — and on Monday presidential candidate Bernie Sanders actually made Florida look funny. The map he distributed along with the announcement of his 2020 presidential candidacy shows Florida with a strange bulge emanating from the Tampa Bay area, protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. “Who drew this map,” political data analyst Matt Isbell wondered on Twitter. Isbell, who tweets under the name @mcimaps, knows maps. And he... Read More

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Roger Stone to appear in court to consider whether to revoke his bail after the longtime Donald Trump confidant posted a photo on Instagram of the judge with what appeared to be crosshairs of a gun. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Stone must show for a hearing Thursday afternoon and prove why she shouldn’t modify or revoke his bail or implement a full gag order in his case. On Monday, Stone posted a photo of Jackson with what appeared to... Read More

It’s time to get your salt lick on. National Margarita Day is Friday, Feb. 22 and — as you can imagine — anything commonly shaken with ice is a huge hit here in the subtropics. So we’ve gathered up a bunch of places in South Florida where you and tequila can become one. 222 Taco 1624 79th Street Causeway, North Bay Village. 833-222-8226. 222ta.co. 222 Taco (the name itself pays homage to Feb. 22) will debut Friday something they are calling La Margarita Shop. Starting at 12:22 p.m.... Read More