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This Man Owns An Island - Someday It May Bear His Name

An iconic resident of Key West may one day be immortalized with the highest honor the Keys have to offer — an island that bears his name.

Editorial: A Free And Independent Press Doesn’t Serve Itself. It Serves All Of Us

2018 Florida Governor's Race: Dems Focus On K-12 Funding, Republicans On Career Training

Aretha Franklin, The 'Queen Of Soul,' Dies At 76

By Ted Robbins • 1 hour ago

Parents Fear Mold, Asbestos At Stonybrook Apartments Are Making Their Children Sick

By Nadege Green • 4 hours ago

Edna House is parting her daughter’s hair into small neat triangle ponytails while the three-year old watches cartoons inside their apartment. The pair was abruptly moved into this unit a week ago.

House says she complained for more than a year to the management at the Stonybrook Apartments that her last apartment had a mold problem.

“They knew what was going on and yet they still did nothing,” she says. “I complain and complain and they saw me as like a nuisance.”

Colorado Baker Sues State Again, After Refusing To Make Cake For Transgender Woman

By James Doubek • 6 hours ago

The Colorado baker who won a Supreme Court case over his refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple is suing state officials, alleging religious discrimination over his refusal to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.

Attorneys for Jack Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., said Wednesday that the state is "continuing to single out Jack for punishment and to exhibit hostility toward his religious beliefs."

Hundreds Of Newspapers Denounce Trump's Attacks On Media In Coordinated Editorials

By James Doubek • 8 hours ago

Updated at 10:04 a.m. ET

More than 300 news publications across the country are joining together to defend the role of a free press and denounce President Trump's ongoing attacks on the news media in coordinated editorials publishing Thursday, according to a tally by The Boston Globe.

Judge Expresses Anger Over Sun Sentinel Reporting, Defers A Ruling On Contempt

By Leslie Ovalle • 17 hours ago

A Broward Circuit Judge was unsympathetic to the South Florida Sun Sentinel during a hearing Wednesday over the newspaper's decision to publish legally obtained information about the Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nicolas Cruz's educational record.

School Security The Focus On Broward's 'Bittersweet' First Day Back

By Caitie Switalski & Jessica Bakeman • 19 hours ago

Summer is just about over for students and teachers in South Florida. Schools reopened in Palm Beach County on Monday. On Wednesday, they reopened in Monroe and Broward Counties.

UN Says An Estimated 2.3 Million People Have Fled Venezuela

By Associated Press • 21 hours ago

An estimated 2.3 million Venezuelans had fled the crisis-wracked country as of June, mainly to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil, the United Nations said Tuesday.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that those fleeing — about 7 percent of Venezuela’s 32.8 million people — cite lack of food as the main reason for leaving. U.N. humanitarian officials report that 1.3 million of those who fled were “suffering from malnourishment,” he said.

Debris From Irma Makes Wildfires More Likely In The Keys. State Forest Service Wants To Stop Them.

By Nancy Klingener • 22 hours ago

With lots of rain and high humidity over the summer, Big Pine Key has not seen a repeat of last spring's wildfire that consumed dozens of acres. And the state forest service is trying to keep it that way.

The fire last April consumed dozens of acres and destroyed one structure. It was fueled by the dead vegetation left behind by Hurricane Irma, which crossed the Lower Keys as a Category 4 hurricane in September of 2017.

Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis Deepens As Authorities Lag In Response

By Tom Gjelten • Aug 15, 2018

A two-year grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania resulted in what the state's attorney general, Josh Shapiro, called "the largest, most comprehensive report into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church ever produced in the United States."

Security Consultant to Broward District: Avoid Using Metal Detectors

By Caitie Switalski & Jessica Bakeman • Aug 15, 2018

Six months to the day after the shooting that left 17 people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — and coming shortly after the Broward County school district’s controversial reversal of a plan to install metal detectors at the Parkland school — a consultant tasked with providing a security assessment recommended against using the devices.