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Nearly 1,500 Jewish-Americans — including Broward County residents visiting Israel — were evacuated Tuesday aboard a cruise ship to Cyprus, and were scheduled to board flights home that were arranged by the state of Florida. Birthright Israel, a cultural and educational program mainly for young Jewish adults, said in a statement that the visitors boarded the Crown iris, an Israeli cruise vessel, for a 13-hour voyage to Larnaca, Cyprus, in the Mediterranean Sea. The ship sailed under the... Read More

Palm Beach County Commissioners on Tuesday approved clerk of the circuit court and comptroller Joseph Abruzzo as the new county administrator, concluding a monthslong search involving more than 200 applicants from across the country. Abruzzo is replacing former county administrator Verdenia Baker, who retired after a decade-long career on May 31. Abruzzo’s salary will be nearly half-a-million dollars a year. This will be the county’s eighth administrator. Abruzzo first started working as... Read More

Carlos Jose Abreu, a native of the Dominican Republic, assumed the identity of a Puerto Rican man with U.S. citizenship for nearly two decades while committing an array of crimes in the United States, including voting twice in Broward County. Abreu obtained government documents, filed taxes, was married, helped his spouse gain U.S. citizenship, purchased firearms, received stimulus checks, acquired licenses, got arrested, and opened credit cards and other lines of credit, a prosecutor said... Read More

The neck of a young Egyptian goose pierced by an arrow. A pellet lodged in the spine of a gray squirrel. Two baby panthers hanging onto life after being hit by a car. All were found by good Samaritans and taken straight to the South Florida Wildlife Center in Fort Lauderdale, where an expert staff works to rescue and rehabilitate an estimated 12,000 wild animals each year. For more than 50 years, the center’s staff has fixed broken wings, removed fishing hooks and tended to orphaned... Read More

The Dolphins will have 10 training camp practices open to the public at the Baptist Health Training Complex in Miami Gardens beginning July 26, which is the NFL’s “Back Together Weekend.” All practices begin at 9 a.m. unless otherwise noted. Admission and parking are free but fans must reserve for tickets at the Miami Dolphins training camp page.  The best news is that fans will have a chance to view one joint practice with Jacksonville, and that will be Aug. 21. Joint practices... Read More

A man who was sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Lisashante “Lisa” Dyke in 1993 and for the death of her disabled son in 2016, caused by the attack on his mother while she was pregnant with him, died in prison earlier this year. Records obtained Monday by the South Florida Sun Sentinel show that Ronnie Keith Williams died in a hospital in the Orlando area on April 25 from natural causes. He was 62. Eighteen-year-old Lisa Dyke was babysitting her friend’s 9-month-old son... Read More

By JOSEPH KRAUSS, JON GAMBRELL and NATALIE MELZER, Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel appeared to be expanding its air campaign against Tehran five days after its surprise attack on Iran’s military and nuclear program, as U.S. President Donald Trump posted an ominous message warning residents of the capital to evacuate. “IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,” Trump wrote Monday night before returning to Washington early from a Group of Seven summit in Canada.... Read More

Florida elected officials have received harrowing threats, prompting a move to shield their home addresses well before the weekend assassination of  a state representative, the killing of her husband, and the shooting of a state senator and his wife over the weekend in Minnesota. The threats received by Florida’s members of Congress, state lawmakers and local elected officials — and family members — are often kept under wraps. But state legislators said they’re more common... Read More

AI is making its way into women’s health in unusual ways, from a sanitary napkin that can predict ovarian cancer to an algorithm trained to detect patterns of endometriosis years before traditional diagnostic methods. In Miami, women’s health leaders say this is a new era of AI, enabling earlier diagnoses, more personalized treatments, and long-overdue attention to female medical conditions that have historically been misunderstood. “There’s a lot of momentum happening right now due... Read More