Biscayne Bay will have its own specialty license plate to raise funds for conservation. The public can pick one among three design choices from Oct. 15 to Nov. 5, 2021. The Miami Foundation will manage the funds. … Click to Continue » ... Read More
Subject of Miami Herald PPP investigation charged with COVID-19 relief fraud
A Texas man flagged in a 2020 Miami Herald investigation whose companies were approved for millions in suspicious loans through the Paycheck Protection Program has been charged with multiple counts … Click to Continue » ... Read More
COVID in Florida: New cases and positivity rate drop sharply
The number of new cases dropped to 19,519, down from 25,792 the previous week, according to a report released Friday by the Florida Department of Health. Perhaps more significant, the test positivity rate fell to 3.8%, a full percentage point lower than last week’s rate. ... Read More
Parkland gunman will plead guilty to all 34 charges in 2018 Stoneman Douglas school shooting
Annika Dworet looks at her husband, Mitch Dworet, at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021 as Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz enters the courtroom to plead guilty on all four criminal counts stemming from his alleged attack on Sgt. Ray Beltran, a Broward County jail guard, in November 2018. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel) ... Read More
Maria Browne, ‘first lady’ of NBC6 and mentor to the Women of Tomorrow, dies at 71
Maria Josefa Junquera Browne juggled a lot of firsts in her 71 years. Browne, who died in Miami Beach on Oct. 2 of complications from stomach cancer, was the first … Click to Continue » ... Read More
‘It’s misleading’: Dems slam mailer sent by county commissioner’s aunt’s PAC
A campaign mailer produced by a political committee chaired by the aunt of a sitting Miami-Dade County commissioner is rankling local Democrats, who say the ad falsely implies that the … Click to Continue » ... Read More
Did you get a text message about your child’s bus? Miami-Dade Schools didn’t send it
A spammy text message was sent to Miami-Dade County Public School parents and employees shortly before Friday’s dismissal, alerting them to expect late school buses or no buses at all … Click to Continue » ... Read More
South Florida voters ask judge to compel DeSantis to call election to fill Democratic seats the Republican governor is keeping vacant
“This is a nakedly political, shameless move on the part of the governor. And it’s strictly designed to undermine the strength of the Black voters in this state, whenever he can, or however he can, by hook or by crook, pursuant to his aspirations to be the next Donald Trump,” said Don Mizell of Fort Lauderdale, one of the plaintiffs. ... Read More
Florida COVID update: 2,821 more cases added to tally, fewer patients in hospitals
Florida reported 2,821 more COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Thursday, according to Friday’s report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on Miami Herald calculations of … Click to Continue » ... Read More
Biden wants judge to dismiss challenge to Florida’s gambling deal with Seminoles
“In any event, if plaintiffs are correct that certain provisions of this compact are contrary to IGRA, then under their own theory, those provisions are not actually deemed approved. As a result, the secretary could not have made the allegedly unlawful approvals” that the legal complaint alleges, the motion said. ... Read More