The Latest Breaking News from Fort Lauderdale

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The judge in the Parkland mass shooting trial has screened more than 1,200 potential jurors to decide the fate of confessed gunman Nikolas Cruz, focusing on a single question — who has time to sit on a four-month trial without suffering some kind of hardship, financial…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Chef Suzanne Barr’s comfort food is an orange fruit with big black seeds that thrives in South Florida back yards.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nearly a dozen prematurely dismissed jurors are supposed to return to court Monday to be screened for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting trial. There’s just one problem — it appears no one has officially told them to show up.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis imposed restrictions Friday on the way race-related issues are taught in public schools and in private workplaces in Florida. Lessons that might make some people uncomfortable would be banned.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two weeks before a teen was involved in a 151 mph crash that killed six people in West Delray, he was going even faster in his luxury car on Interstate 95 — reaching speeds of 182 mph, authorities say in newly released court documents.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A new ad campaign is putting diversity at the forefront as Florida draws attention over its controversial Parental Rights in Education law, nicknamed by critics as the “don’t say gay” law.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- On Fifth Avenue in the rapidly changing Flagler Village, a humble house surrounded by a forest of tropical trees looks like it’s about to be swallowed by a five-story wall of pale gray concrete.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One of Florida’s most prominent Black elected Democrats, state Sen. Shevrin Jones, said Monday that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to cut in half the number of Florida congressional districts with boundaries crafted to maximize the chance of electing Black representatives is a “racist tactic.”

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Coral Gables health care executive who had been fined for speeding in a boat in a manatee-protection zone was named this week to the Florida board in charge of protecting wildlife.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida is scrambling to prepare for the flood of calls expected when the country rolls out a three-digit suicide hotline this summer.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Six Northeast High School students were hospitalized Thursday night because of what could be overdoses at an Air Force JROTC Military Ball at the Signature Grand in Davie, Florida, according to Broward County Public Schools.