Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Florida

Nuts! That’s Going To Hurt: Seige Gunman Hit In Groin With Police Rubber Bullet

Deputies arrived at the residence around 1:30 p.m. to find Francioni barricaded in his home.

Zenger

Police snipers surround alligator-infested Florida pond after deadly car crash

Beloved gas station mechanic dies after his car flipped over before crashing into pond with his 80-year-old mother inside

The Independent UK

Snipers aim at alligator-infested pond as mum and son are rescued from waters

Nieves Matos, 80, was driving with her son, Mario Laza, 56, along the Florida Turnpike in Miami, US, on Friday when she lost control of the blue Toyota minivan and veered into a pond off the highway

Daily Mirror

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

Now the far right is coming for college

Republicans are channeling tax dollars to right-wing institutes at colleges across the nation. What's the endgame?

Salon

Florida principal who fought DeSantis over weakening Covid rules in schools dies from virus

Jimbo Jackson fought against reopening schools after the death of two school employees

The Independent UK

State courts could overturn abortion bans in red states

If the federal right to abortion is erased by the U.S. Supreme Court in a few weeks as expected, the legal spotlight will shift immediately to state courts, where experts say judges in some conservative states could surprise everyone and uphold the right to abortion.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Surfside collapse could’ve been another missed opportunity. Lawmakers proved us wrong

Florida lawmakers wrapped up their regular legislative session in late March under a cloud of disappointment.

Tribune News Service

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

Florida man, 18, arrested for threatening school shooting

Copycat threats are abounding in the wake of the deadly shooting barely a week ago in Uvalde, Texas – and at least two of them have come from Florida.

Tribune News Service

La Nina, Loop Current and other factors put Florida in crosshairs of another active hurricane season

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The six-month hurricane season begins Wednesday, and outlooks from three respected entities — NOAA (the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration), Colorado State University and AccuWeather, the independent forecasting service — predict above-average activity for the third consecutive year.

Tribune News Service

Florida boy, 10, arrested over threat of mass shooting after Texas school tragedy

A 10-year-old Florida boy is under arrest for allegedly threatening by text to conduct a mass shooting, police in Lee County said Sunday.

Tribune News Service

Deputies arrest Florida man who threatened a school shooting

Detectives arrested an 18-year-old Florida man after receiving a tip that he threatened a mass shooting at a school in a social media post

The Independent UK

Boyhood home of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant for sale

The Florida house where Lynyrd Skynyrd rock legend Ronnie Van Zant and his brothers Donnie and Johnny grew up is on the market for $629,000

The Independent UK

Cities in Arizona, Texas and Florida lead population boom

The U.S. is spreading out, heading South and West and creating new boomtowns, tech hubs and rising power centers.

Axios

Ten-year-old arrested for threatening school shooting in Florida

‘Right now is not the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not funny,’ sheriff says

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Inside the Tampa Airbnb that looks like the ‘Friends’ sitcom

An Airbnb rental in Ybor City, Florida, needed a makeover.

Tribune News Service

‘Frustrated, angry and heartbroken’: Shevrin Jones, Charlie Crist, Parkland parents voice rage at Sunrise gun control rally

SUNRISE, Fla. — As Florida State Sen. Shevrin Jones stood onstage in Sunrise, reading aloud the names of 31 victims gunned down May 14 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, he burst into tears. He blamed the influence of gun…

Miami Herald

Florida will extend Medicaid coverage for new mothers to a full year following childbirth

MIAMI — For a decade, Florida lawmakers have refused to expand eligibility for the public health insurance program, Medicaid, to all low-income adults as prescribed under the Affordable Care Act.

Tribune News Service

Florida poll: 67% want abortion legal in most or all cases, just 12% want complete ban

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As Florida and much of the U.S. impose major restrictions on access to abortion, Florida residents don’t like the trend.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Dave Matthews Band cancels weekend performances in South Florida due to COVID

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Dave Matthews Band has canceled its West Palm Beach concerts for this weekend after a band member came down with COVID-19.

Miami Herald

Report: ‘Insufficient evidence’ to prove whistleblower’s claim Florida manipulated COVID data

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A claim by data expert Rebekah Jones that her bosses at the Florida Department of Health intentionally falsified COVID case data as Gov. Ron DeSantis was attempting to reopen the state is unfounded, according to an internal inspector general’s report conducted by her former agency.

Miami Herald

Judge gives preliminary approval to billion-dollar Surfside class-action settlement

MIAMI — Just hours after a Surfside condo building collapsed and buried 98 people last summer, the first of many lawsuits that would turn into one of the biggest class-action cases in Florida was filed.

Tribune News Service

Obsession with guns. Dysfunctional families. Many parallels exist between Parkland and Uvalde shooters

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A young man with a troubled home life, who felt bullied at school and developed an obsession with guns, easily walked onto a school campus where he murdered students and staff with a legally purchased AR-15 style rifle.

The Independent UK

A look at big US legal settlements amid Surfside's $1B deal

The proposed settlement of more than $1 billion as compensation for the 98 people who died in a Florida condominium collapse is far from the largest in U.S. history

The Independent UK

Judge gives initial OK to $1B deal in Florida condo collapse

A Florida judge has given gave initial approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion to families who lost loved ones in the collapse last year of a Florida beachfront condominium building in which 98 people died

Miami Herald

Defendants’ payments detailed as lawyers submit $1 billion Surfside settlement to judge

1 … 622 623 624 625

People

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

Organisations

Colorado State University

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.