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Nearly a dozen prematurely dismissed jurors were supposed to return to court Monday but didn't because of a miscommunication error.

An investigation continues into the death of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins. Initial reports say he was fatally struck by a dump truck while walking across a South Florida highway on Saturday.

What does Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill” mean in the classroom? Elections in Broward and Palm Beach Counties and the firing of Fort Lauderdale’s police chief.

South Florida U.S. Democratic Representative Ted Deutch announced this week that he is not running for re-election. Deutch has represented parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties since 2010.

The two finalists are Vickie Cartwright, Broward’s interim superintendent, and Michael Gaal, a former deputy chancellor of DC Public Schools and a 25 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty last fall to 17 counts of first-degree murder, but that did not end the case — prosecutors still have to convince 12 jurors that his crime deserves the death penalty.

A sergeant from the Sunrise Police Department has been relieved of his supervisory responsibilities and is the subject of an internal investigation after body cam footage from November released last week shows him grabbing an officer by her throat.

Miami Herald's Jacqueline Charles, WLRN's Tim Padgett, Sommer Brugal from the Miami Herald, and Nadia Sussman from ProPublica joined guest host Wilkine Brutus on The South Florida Roundup. They looked at the big issues facing Haiti, Florida's school districts, and alternative sugarcane harvesting in Brazil.

Broward County has two new commissioners. Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointments Tuesday morning.

The Parkland school shooter appeared in a Broward court today to enter a plea agreement for a case involving an assault on an officer while serving time in a Broward jail.

School board members in Broward and Alachua counties will have their salaries withheld as long as the districts have student mask mandates in place.

Broward County school leaders announced the district is reversing its mask mandate. Instead the school district said it would comply with the governor's executive order.