Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Fla

‘It has to go’: Stoneman Douglas building, the site of Parkland massacre, will finally be demolished

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The justice system no longer has a need to preserve the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, which has remained standing for five years as a reminder of the Parkland mass shooting that destroyed many families. Now come the summer preparations for this fenced-off site…

Tribune News Service

DeSantis, Trump seek to rewrite history on COVID response

ORLANDO, Fla. — In January 2021, Gov. Ron DeSantis was proud to announce the one-millionth COVID-19 vaccine given out in Florida.

Orlando Sentinel

Magic exercise team option on Bitazde, decline Schofield, Carter-Williams

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Magic have exercised its team option on center Goga Bitazde for the 2023-24 season, the Sentinel learned via league sources Thursday.

Orlando Sentinel

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Ex-school deputy found not guilty of all charges in Parkland mass shooting

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Former School Resource Officer Scot Peterson, the only person other than the gunman to face charges in the 2018 Parkland massacre, accused of failing to rush into the building to confront the mass shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, has been found not…

Tribune News Service

Ex-deputy Scot Peterson found not guilty of all charges in Parkland mass shooting

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, the school resource officer accused of failing the children in his care by running from the building instead of confronting the Parkland mass shooter in 2018, was found not guilty on all charges Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Dolphins star Tyreek Hill tried to give man $200 after slapping him, report says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The man didn’t know he was slapped by the highest-paid receiver in the NFL. Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill offered him $200 with his apology, according to a Miami-Dade Police report.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis wants Disney trial held after presidential election

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ legal team wants the trial date for a high-stakes battle with Disney to be in August 2025, well after the presidential election.

Orlando Sentinel

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Kevin Baxter: Soccer rules expert Christina Unkel unafraid to call it like it is — just ask her husband

SARASOTA, Fla. — Every player who has played the game knows the sinking feeling that comes from seeing a referee stride purposefully toward you and reach into their pocket for a card. Will it be red or yellow?

Los Angeles Times

Florida Supreme Court justice should recuse himself on key abortion case, says ex-chief justice

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Barbara Pariente, a former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court, said Tuesday that one of the current justices, Charles Canady, should recuse himself from the case before the court that will decide if state efforts to sharply reduce access to abortion are constitutional.

Tribune News Service

Ex-Buc Leonard Fournette escapes injury after SUV catches fire

TAMPA, Fla. — Former Bucs running back Leonard Fournette escaped injury late Tuesday morning after his vehicle caught fire as he drove northbound on Interstate 275.

Tribune News Service

Deliberations continue in Parkland ex-deputy’s negligence trial

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jurors deliberated without reaching a verdict Tuesday in the case of former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, the school resource officer accused of child neglect for taking cover instead of pursuing the gunman during the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Tribune News Service

What Florida, DeSantis can learn from other governors who ran for president

TAMPA, Fla. — One afternoon late last month, Ron DeSantis the governor and Ron DeSantis the presidential candidate were theoretically doing two different things at once.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis wants to keep migrant workers out, but businesses say Florida needs them

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his “no excuses” proposal for tightening the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday, he unfurled a plan that depends on employing more law enforcement and erecting more walls but left out any mention of the federal program that allows businesses to bring in…

Miami Herald

People in Florida prisons will get free calls for good behavior in new program

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Department of Corrections plans to allocate $1 million to a new program that will make a small number of phone calls free for people serving time in prison who display good behavior.

Orlando Sentinel

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Orlando Sentinel

DeSantis, district target Disney lawsuit against them

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis and a revamped Central Florida special district sought Monday to scuttle a federal lawsuit in which Disney contends its constitutional rights have been violated amid a long-running feud with DeSantis.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Sedriques Dumas embraces his ‘goofy’ Ric Flair-type character after UFC on ABC 5

Sedriques Dumas picked up the first win of his UFC career at UFC on ABC 5 in Jacksonville, Fla.

Tribune News Service

Jury deliberating in ex-deputy’s Parkland negligence trial

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Scot Peterson, an armed school resource officer, was dropped off 10 feet from the east entrance of the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when gunman Nikolas Cruz made his way to the other end of the building on the first floor.

Tribune News Service

Deliberations almost underway in ex-deputy’s Parkland negligence trial

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Chepe Mariscal interested in fights in three divisions after short-notice UFC debut win

Chepe Mariscal beat Trevor Peek in a promotional debut on 10 days' notice at UFC on ABC 5 in Jacksonville, Fla.

Orlando Sentinel

Conservative Fort Pierce jury pool could bode well for Trump defense, but is it that simple?

ORLANDO, Fla. — For now, former President Donald J. Trump, indicted for hoarding classified government documents at his South Florida home, is scheduled to go on trial in U.S. District Court in Fort Pierce, a venue that many observers view as a potentially favorable place because of its politically conservative…

Orlando Sentinel

Ex-Florida college student who hit cop with skateboard during Capitol riot gets 3 years in prison; father also sentenced

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former Full Sail University student who struck a police officer with a skateboard while participating in the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison last week.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Tabatha Ricci in no hurry for title shot, but knows she’s in contention after UFC on ABC 5

Tabatha Ricci picked up her fourth straight win when she outworked Gillian Robertson at UFC on ABC 5 in Jacksonville, Fla.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2023: Top 100 U.S. public-access courses ranked

Check out Golfweek's top 100 U.S. public-access golf courses in 2023.

USA Today Sports Media Group

UFC on ABC 5 video: Grotesque poke leads to bleeding eye, Austen Lane vs. Justin Tafa no contest

The nastiest eye poke in UFC history may have taken place Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla.

USA Today Sports Media Group

UFC on ABC 5 play-by-play and live results

Get live play-by-play and official results from Josh Emmett vs. Ilia Topuria at UFC on ABC 5 in Jacksonville, Fla.

1 … 8 9 10 11

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.