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Authorities say three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta had help from friends on the outside. Authorities say they used jail phones to call friends who met them and then arranged a Lyft ride to get them out of Georgia.

The 2025 Kwanzaa Community Celebration, titled “Africa Rising: Celebrating Heritage, Building Futures” will be held Saturday, Dec. 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Family members said the trauma of the Parkland shooting, which left 17 people dead, including 14 of Donovan Joshua Leigh Metayer's classmates, "lingered long after graduation and profoundly altered the course of his life."

In Florida’s family courts, parents who exhibit red flags of future violent behavior towards their spouses or children are routinely given access to those individuals - with vulnerable women often at a disadvantage. WLRN looks at the flaws in the system through three South Florida cases where these warning signs were ignored, with tragic results.

All eight Florida congressional Democrats, including South Florida’s five U.S. Representatives, voted in favor of two resolutions to invoke the War Powers Act of 1973, which was intended to reassert congressional power over the declaration of war.

In an Instagram post, Singer, a business attorney who has led Boca Raton since 2018, said he wants to bring "America First" conservative principles to Washington. He said flipping the 23rd district — which includes parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties— is key to keeping Republicans in command of the U.S. House.

As part of its 'Year of the Lies' series, PolitiFact FL reports on a pediatrician who quit her long practice of seeing patients in person, after the Trump administration’s unproved claims on everything from Tylenol to vaccines had added chaos and safety concerns to her days.

A South Florida man claims long-term use of the herbicide led to his diagnosis with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He is suing the product's Germany-based manufactuer, Bayer.

The vigil included “a moment of prayer, reflection, and public witness, honoring the dignity of migrants and calling attention to ongoing abuses within the immigration system,” said organizers.

Social media posts by local public officials and Broward County residents showing ICE agents come at a time when the Trump administration is deploying federal agents nationwide to track down suspected undocumented immigrants and deport them in record numbers.

Miami-Dade and Broward County public schools, two of the nation’s largest school districts, will be getting $5.2 million in federal funding to support mental health services, U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson announced Saturday.

Health care advocates and progressive groups across Florida said the U.S. Senate’s failure to extend premium subsidies for the Affordable Care Act was a “disheartening setback” that will significantly raise the cost of health insurance for nearly 5 million Floridians, including hundreds of thousands of people in South Florida.