When Marcia Blanar stayed at Hawks Cay Resort in the Florida Keys during the summer, a decorative fountain surrounded by benches “was raging with active Legionella,” according to a lawsuit … Click to Continue » ... Read More
Don’t fall for GOP’s lies. We’re not being invaded by illegal immigrants with Gucci bags | Opinion
As we head into the 2022 midterm elections, the Trump-controlled Republican Party is stepping up its anti-immigrant hysteria with warnings of an alleged invasion of undocumented migrants wearing expensive clothes … Click to Continue » ... Read More
Biscayne Bay to get a license plate. Options include Stiltsville, sailboats, paddleboarders
Biscayne Bay is getting a specialty license plate to help fund conservation work and protect Miami-Dade County’s crown jewel. The public will have a chance to pick a design out … Click to Continue » ... Read More
Biscayne Bay gets a specialty license plate. You get to choose the design
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