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DeSantis issues state of emergency for 34 counties across Florida ahead of potential Hurricane Nicole

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a state of emergency in 34 Florida counties — including Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach — on Monday due to the potential of an approaching Hurricane Nicole.

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Parkland gunman leaves Broward jail for prison

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland gunman is no longer in the custody of the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

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Families’ hope for Parkland killer: ‘A name on a tombstone no one visits’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With his fate sealed and his life spared, the gunman who murdered 17 people stepped into a Broward County courtroom Tuesday to face the ire of those whose lives he shattered.

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Families’ hope for Parkland killer: ‘A name on a tombstone no one visits’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With his fate sealed and his life spared, the gunman who took 17 lives stepped into a Broward courtroom Tuesday morning to face return fire.

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Florida Republicans register 9 new voters for every 1 new Democrat in months leading to midterms

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Prospects for Republicans in Florida are shining brighter than ever as Democrats face difficult-to-overcome numbers.

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Broward Sheriff’s Office spent $2.6 million housing, supervising Parkland gunman since 2018, record says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The gunman who murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, has been behind bars for over 1,700 days.

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Mail voting tops 1.2 million in Florida with more than two weeks to midterm elections

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — More than 1.2 million Florida voters have already cast their midterm election ballots, before the candidates for governor face off in their only debate. It reflects a continuing desire by many to vote from the comfort of their homes, rather than lining up at an early…

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DeSantis draws large crowd in heavily Democratic Broward

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered both a traditional election season campaign pitch on Sunday — promising tax cuts —and touting the conservative social messaging — on gender, education and immigration — that have become hallmarks of his time in office.

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State of Florida spent more than $2 million prosecuting the Parkland mass shooting case

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The state of Florida spent more than $2 million prosecuting and then trying — but ultimately failing — to obtain a death sentence for the man who shot and killed 17 victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office.

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Jury rejects death sentence for Parkland school shooter in all 17 murders

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Broward County jury showed mercy Thursday to a heartless killer who didn’t know the meaning of the word as he stalked the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School more than four years ago, viciously ending the lives of 17 innocent people.

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Life or death for Parkland school gunman: It’s in the jury’s hands now

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nearly three months after testimony started in the sentencing trial of confessed Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz, the defendant’s fate is officially in the hands of a jury — seven men and five women who just asked a Broward judge for hours of testimony to be read…

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Life or death for Stoneman Douglas gunman: It’s in the jury’s hands now

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As Parkland trial ends, defense urges jury to spare Nikolas Cruz the death penalty

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A defense lawyer on Tuesday urged jurors to spare the life of Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who murdered 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland high school, saying he was “doomed from the womb” because his birth mother drank heavily and smoked crack cocaine…

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2 tornadoes tear through Broward County, while Ian hounds Florida as a major hurricane

MIAMI — Two tornadoes wreaked havoc in Broward County on Tuesday night as fearsome Hurricane Ian bore down on the state, the National Weather Service confirmed.

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Judge won’t step down from Parkland mass shooting case

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer refused to step down from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting case Monday, dismissing a defense demand filed Friday as “legally insufficient.”

Salon

Parkland shooter trial heats up

"This is the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case," says Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer

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Prosecutors push expert witness to concede testimony was incomplete picture of Stoneman Douglas shooter

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz showed no lack of mental competence as he planned and carried out his attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a Broward prosecutor said Tuesday.

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Broward’s elementary schools will start publishing their list of books. Some deemed ‘objectionable’ might get tossed.

Every book at Broward’s elementary school libraries will be cataloged and posted online so parents can review content for anything they find objectionable.

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After a grand jury report blasted Broward schools over campus safety, the state wants answers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A statewide grand jury’s blistering critique of a school renovation program led to the removal of four Broward school board members, but the report also accuses the school district of serious safety failures.

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What does the Florida primary tell us about November elections? Is that an ominous sign for Democrats?

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After the months of fire and fury from Democrats declaring outrage over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the number of voters who participated in their party’s summer primary to pick a DeSantis challenger was ... about the same as it was four years ago.

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Man obsessed with mass shootings is arrested for leaving animal corpses on Parkland memorial

Broward Sheriff’s Gregory Tony said Robert Mondragon reconstructed Nikolas Cruz’s journey on the day of the Parkland massacre, saying that the suspect has a ‘desire to create an active shooter event in our school system’

Salon

Ron DeSantis’ school board coup

Controversial Parkland report allowed DeSantis to take over the school board in Florida’s most liberal county

Miami Herald

Cases against 20 arrested voters in Florida on shaky legal ground. State issued them voter IDs

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two weeks after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top election officials stood in a Broward County courtroom and announced the arrest of 20 people for voting illegally, the state’s case is starting to fall apart.

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Filipino teachers share how they’re adjusting to their new lives in Florida

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Onofre Bejona spent his 34th birthday riding the bus alone, readying himself for the next three years of his life. It was Aug. 14, and the teacher had arrived in Broward only a few days before from his home in Malita, a city in the southern…

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DeSantis-suspended Broward school board member, challenger fight for votes in November runoff

MIAMI — The next chapter of the contentious relationship between the state’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the school board of Broward County, the Florida county with the most registered Democratic Party voters, revolves around one central question: Could and would the governor suspend a school board member twice?

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