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A Broward Health employee is facing 10 counts of possession of child pornography after his wife found electronic devices in their Deerfield Beach home with files showing girls as young as age 5 participating in sexual acts, a probable cause affidavit said. Kevin Kull, 41, was arrested Friday and has since been released from jail after posting bail, court records show. He has been ordered to wear a GPS monitor as a condition of his pre-trial release. The judge also ordered Kull not have... Read More

In hospitality-rich South Florida, the new federal law making tips and overtime tax-free won’t touch the wallets of tipped restaurant workers until next tax season, but it’s already having a snowball effect on the diners they serve. That’s because misinformation, confusion and even online ire has polarized workers and customers about No Tax on Tips, the deduction baked into President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and signed into law on July 4. Mike Stocker/South Florida... Read More

Shot twice and bleeding from slash wounds in his arm and chest, DeWayne Williams was not entirely sure he was still alive. He lay on his bedroom floor while his assailant — Williams didn’t know what his assailant was doing. He only knew he had seen movies like this, and he knew how they ended. “I’m about to die,” he said, reliving the Sept. 12, 2019, incident for a Broward jury on Tuesday. Then he heard a voice in his head. It was insistent. “Get up,” the voice told him. “Get... Read More

Four Florida candidates are closer to becoming lifetime federal judges because the Senate Judiciary Committee has become just another extension of Donald Trump’s peremptory power. Two judicial nominees are particularly bad news. Their nominations went to the Senate last week uncontested by the Democratic minority, whose members walked out to protest how Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, accelerated a vote on Trump’s most controversial and undeserving choice, Emil Bove III, to join the... Read More

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s new chief financial officer, Blaise Ingoglia, unveiled details Tuesday about their plans to DOGE local governments, hoping to uncover what they see as wasteful or inappropriate spending. Their first target: Broward County. It is far from the last. After announcing their efforts at a news conference in northwest Fort Lauderdale, they flew to Gainesville for a similar announcement about the city. And over the next couple of weeks, DeSantis said the list... Read More

The owners of an assisted living home accused of removing all of its residents to convert to luxury apartments have now racked up $40,000 in fines over the renovations, Fort Lauderdale code enforcement officials said at a meeting Tuesday. Management for Oasis Living Quarters announced the controversial evictions at a meeting in March, according to residents, employees and a state inspection report. As residents moved out, workers began tearing down partitions, demolishing kitchenettes and... Read More

Q: Ira, when the Heat traded for Norman Powell it indicated a direction. We’re going for it. So if 32-year-old Norman Powell is it, then why not 31-year-old Marcus Smart, since our only point guard (Davion Mitchell) might not be a point guard? – Earl. A: Because lateral moves are not necessarily the answer, even when it comes to experience. While Marcus Smart could round out a guard rotation with Tyler Herro, Norman Powell and Davion Mitchell. that effectively would shut out opportunity... Read More

By ALANIS THAMES MIAMI — Jackson Merrill and Martín Maldonado had run-scoring hits in the second inning and the San Diego Padres held on to beat the Miami Marlins 2-1 on Monday night. Merrill had an RBI single that scored Xander Bogaerts. Maldonado followed with a double down the left field line off Eury Pérez (3-3) that scored Merrill from first and put San Diego up 2-0. Miami’s Kyle Stowers hit a solo homer off Padres starter Randy Vásquez that made it 2-1 in the fourth. Stowers,... Read More

By JANIE McCAULEY SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A beloved therapy bunny named Alex The Great, who provided snuggles and comfort from ballparks to NBA arenas, airports, farmers markets and even Easter egg hunts and NASCAR races, has died. He was 4. A floppy-eared Flemish giant who was larger than life in both size and spirit, Alex suffered complications from cancer treatment and died early Monday, his owners said. The rabbit had undergone care at the renowned UC Davis Veterinary Hospital in recent... Read More

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that found him in civil contempt because of a letter he sent in April after she ordered a halt to enforcement of a new state immigration law. Uthmeier’s lawyers last week filed a notice of appealing U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’ ruling to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. As is common, the notice does not detail arguments that Uthmeier will make at the Atlanta-based appeals... Read More