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Broward prosecutors are looking to put rapper YNW Melly on death row for the shooting deaths of two of his close friends in Miramar last October. The once-rising star, whose real name is Jamell Demons, committed premeditated murder in a cold and calculated manner for financial gain, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office, which filed its notice of intent to seek the death penalty last Thursday. The notice also accuses Demons, who turns 20 next week, of being a gang... Read More

The financial condition of the government’s bedrock retirement programs for middle- and working-class Americans remains shaky, with Medicare pointed toward insolvency by 2026, according to a report Monday by the government’s overseers of Medicare and Social Security. It paints a sobering picture of the programs, though it’s relatively unchanged from last year’s update. Social Security would become insolvent in 2035, one year later than previously estimated. Both... Read More

As state health officials investigate the source, Hepatitis A continues to spread in Florida with 119 new cases in the last week. The new cases bring the state total to 883, with most reported incidents of the disease in Pasco and Pinellas counties. Miami-Dade (13), Broward (8) and Palm Beach (5) counties now have a combined 26 cases, up slightly from 19 a week ago. Statewide, case counts in 2019 already have surpassed those in 2018. The vaccine-preventable liver disease is spread... Read More

The music was ear-splitting, the crowd partying hard, a typical Saturday night in raucous downtown Delray Beach. Thirty people waited in line to get into Johnnie Brown’s, a lively restaurant and bar by the railroad tracks. The sidewalk out front was dense with revelers listening to the live band playing right on buzzing Atlantic Avenue. The restaurant was at capacity: 165 people. That meant no one could enter until someone else left. Firefighter Eddie Muniz, stationed at the entrance,... Read More

A weekend boating party turned tragic for a Lighthouse Point couple and a Fort Lauderdale woman who died after their center console boat crashed into the north jetty at Government Cut inlet in Miami Beach, a state official said. Killed Saturday night were Christopher Colgan, 56, and Elisaine Colgan, 38, who would have turned 39 on Sunday. Rescue crews recovered their bodies from the jetty, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer Ronald Washington said Monday. The body of... Read More

Oil and gas drilling around Florida’s coastlines would be permanently banned under legislation U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, is introducing this week. She’s announcing the plan or the Marine Oil Spill Prevention Act on Monday — which is Earth Day and the ninth anniversary that that the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig sank in the Gulf of Mexico, causing an environmental catastrophe. Wasserman Schultz, one of Florida’s most prominent liberal members of Congress, is... Read More

A woman got an unexpected request when Miami Beach police pulled her and boyfriend over. Carolina Delgado and boyfriend Romain Zago were heading to lunch when they were stopped by Miami Beach police in front of the Miami Beach Marina in the 300 block of Alton Road Friday for some type of traffic infraction. One of the officers, Elpidio Garcia, told Zago that his license was suspended and he was going to be arrested. Garcia then told her that they were going to give her the opportunity to say... Read More

A married couple from Lighthouse Point died after their boat crashed into a jetty in Government Cut in Miami, according to news reports. The fatal wreck also sent one person to the hospital and prompted a search for a fourth passenger, WSVN-Ch. 7 reported. Early Monday, a woman’s body was found in the surf not far from where the crash happened, according to news reports. Whether the discovery is related to the crash wasn’t immediately known. The Saturday night outing started as a... Read More

Officials say they were forced to euthanize an 11-foot alligator that broke through a chain-link fence into the backyard of a Miami home. The Miami Herald reports firefighters, police and officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission tried to capture the 600-pound reptile at first. But the gator wanted to go its own way. He would get up and start walking every so often and then lie down again. Fire rescue alerted the residents of the neighborhood. The incident played... Read More

Police in Sri Lanka said Monday the investigation into the Easter Sunday bombings will examine reports that the intelligence community failed to detect or warn of possible suicide attacks before the violence. The nine bombings of churches, luxury hotels and other sites was Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said Monday the death toll had risen overnight to 290 dead with more... Read More