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‘Clown sighting file’ has dozens of leads that need to be investigated before accused killer clown trial, defense says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — On May 26, 1990, a killer dressed as a clown stood at Marlene Warren’s doorstep in Wellington and shot the 40-year-old woman in the face. Flowers and two balloons — a heart-shaped one that said “You’re the Greatest” and one with a picture of Snow White…

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Ian killed more Floridians than most recent major hurricanes. Its indirect death count could reach the thousands

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A heart attack after cleaning up debris. A missed dialysis appointment. An oxygen machine that blinked off when the power went out.

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After Parkland shooting, Rubio vowed to support law raising minimum age to buy assault-style rifle. Now he opposes it

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Immediately after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., promised to support a law raising the minimum legal age for buying assault-style rifles.

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Val Demings and Marco Rubio clash in a strikingly aggressive Senate debate

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — They engaged in the obligatory, predebate handshake. But when the TV cameras went on Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Val Demings, his challenger, engaged in a heated and aggressive debate, repeatedly shredding each other with descriptions like “lie” and “crazy.”

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A Florida firefighter figured a man was dead without checking. He turned out to be alive

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Delray Beach firefighter walked into an apartment, looked at a man’s body, determined he was dead and walked out, records show. But when workers tasked with removing the body came an hour and 19 minutes later, they were in for a shock: The man was…

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Will Texas Gov. Abbott concede a close race? Challenger O’Rourke isn't 'counting on it'

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Democrat Beto O’Rourke on Tuesday suggested that his opponent, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, would not concede if he were to lose a close race.

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Florida nursing home trial delayed as defense seeks dismissal of charges in 2017 hurricane-related deaths

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The last remaining defendant in the Hollywood Hills nursing home manslaughter case won’t be going to trial this month after all.

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Florida, US hotel revenues jump as consumers pay more

The nation’s COVID-battered hotel industry is on the rebound, with leisure travel revenue in the top 50 U.S. markets expected to exceed pre-pandemic levels of 2019, a national industry trade group declared Monday.

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Boat buyers, sellers navigate choppy waters from war, inflation, supply woes

When COVID-19 struck down the economy in 2020, it was the marine industry that converted crisis into opportunity as customers seeking a safe mode of recreation bought or rented boats in droves.

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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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‘A crime may have been committed’ in Parkland trial jury room, prosecutors say

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The deliberation room where 12 jurors decided the fate of confessed mass shooter Nikolas Cruz may have been a crime scene itself — a juror told prosecutors she was threatened by a fellow juror during deliberations.

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‘A crime may have been committed’ in Parkland trial jury room, prosecutors say

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‘A crime may have been committed’ in Parkland trial jury room, prosecutors say

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The deliberation room where 12 jurors decided the fate of confessed mass shooter Nikolas Cruz may have been a crime scene itself — a juror says she was threatened during deliberations, and prosecutors want the claim investigated.

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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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‘They did not receive justice today’: Families stunned, angered, disgusted by jury's decision to spare life of Parkland gunman

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It has been 1,702 days since they last looked into the eyes of their child, their spouse, but the families of 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 finally got their moment of reckoning.

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Parkland gunman gets mercy from jury with life prison sentences for school shooting

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — He doesn’t deserve to die.

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Jury offers mercy, rejects death sentence on all 17 counts for Parkland school shooter

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After a heart-wrenching three months reliving one of America’s most heinous crimes, a jury Thursday showed mercy to the Parkland school shooter, rejecting a death sentence and recommending he spend life in prison.

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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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‘Doomed from the womb’ or cold-blooded killer? Lawyers plead for the life and death of the Parkland gunman

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — What he did was cold. Calculated. Purposeful with shocking and deadly impact, prosecutors said.

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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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As Parkland shooting trial ends, state makes case for death penalty for Nikolas Cruz

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After a nearly three-month trial, a prosecutor on Tuesday urged jurors to vote to execute Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who murdered 14 students and three staff members in Florida’s deadliest school shooting.

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‘Hate is not a mental disorder,’ prosecution tells jury in closing arguments of Parkland trial

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — What he did was cold. Calculated. Purposeful, prosecutors said.

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‘Hunting his victims.’ As trial ends, state makes case for death penalty for Parkland shooter

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After a nearly three-month trial, a prosecutor on Tuesday made the case for executing Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who murdered 14 students and three staff members in Florida’s deadliest school shooting.

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Charlie Crist-Ron DeSantis debate in Florida governor's race set for Oct. 24

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Democratic challenger Charlie Crist will have their one and only gubernatorial debate on Oct. 24 — 12 days later than originally planned.

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