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Amy Beth Bennett
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South Florida Sun Sentinel
It was a brutal and emotional end to the prosecution’s case against the confessed Parkland shooter. Jurors visited the school building where the massacre happened — seeing with their own eyes the bloodstains and bullet holes preserved at the crime scene — and heard the final victim impact statements from loved ones of those who were murdered.
Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel
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South Florida Sun Sentinel
Jose A. Iglesias
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El Nuevo Herald
Gov. Ron DeSantis
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NEWS
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There are still resources available for those in South Florida affected by the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who may be having a hard time. -
Palm Beach County approved plans to build affordable housing in the county's Agriculture Reserve, but the plan has environmentalists sounding alarms. In Miami-Dade County, a plan to build mini-homes for the homeless on Virginia Key has brought out many voices of dissent.
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The sedative xylazine is starting to permeate illegal opioids and cocaine. It does not respond to naloxone, an overdose reversal medication, and may be to blame for grisly injuries and infections.
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Saying the law will “stigmatize and harm LGBTQ youth,” attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia are seeking to aid challengers to a new Florida law that restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in the state's public schools.
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Jones is being sued for defamation by the parents of a first grader killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 for saying the school shooting was a hoax on his radio show.
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As the people of New Zealand confront their nation's troubled past with colonization, a return to the Maori name of Aotearoa is being presented to a parliamentary committee.
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The charges announced by Attorney General Merrit Garland on Thursday include civil rights violations, conspiracy, use of excessive force offenses and obstruction.
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U.S. employers added 528,000 jobs in July, showing the labor market remains strong, despite high inflation and softening economic growth. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%.
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Health workers are continuing to provide life-saving COVID-19 information and other health resources throughout the community of Immokalee.
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The Arizona senator said she will move forward with the Inflation Reduction Act after Democrats reached an agreement to remove a carried interest tax provision.
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A series of military drills launched in the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan this week show how China's military has made dramatic gains since the last crisis over the island democracy.
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The way Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden announced the deaths of terrorist chiefs revealed much about their own leadership.
Sundial
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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScIThe latest from the Parkland trial. We take a closer look at deep space. Plus, how a lifeguard shortage is affecting South Florida beaches. And for this month’s Sundial Book Club we chat about the River of Grass. -
Miami Herald archives/Secretary of State talks about elections, cleaning up Biscayne Bay, and a young filmmakers' festivalWe look at WLRN Reporter Wilkine Brutus’ conversation with Florida's Secretary of State, Cord Byrd. Plus, there's tons of trash piling up in Biscayne Bay, other waterways and mangrove regions. Also, we meet one of the young people in the Miami 4 Social Change Youth Film Festival.
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