Broward County

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.

A grieving father erupted in anger as he told jurors about his daughter who was murdered four years ago, along with 16 others, by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz.

The Florida Board of Medicine is slated to consider a proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to bar physicians from providing treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking medication to transgender youths.

Few Americans outside law enforcement and government ever see the most graphic videos or photos from the nation’s worst mass shootings. But during the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, surveillance videos and crime scene photos are being seen by jurors and journalists.

Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book, a Plantation Democrat elected in 2016, is trying to hold onto her seat after the makeup of Senate District 35 changed earlier this year. Barbara Sharief, a former Broward County commissioner who also served as the county’s mayor, is facing off against Book in an open primary.

Consumer confidence among the multi-ethnic Hispanic population, the fastest growing population and a growing base for the demand of goods and services, is bleak.

The union representing Broward sheriff’s deputies filed a bar complaint Thursday against Ben Crump, the nationally known civil-rights lawyer, accusing him of bringing up a racial issue where they say none existed in a case involving the rough arrest of a Black teen.

Crime scene investigators and medical examiners detailed the victims' injuries in graphic detail during the sixth day of the death penalty trial.

A Broward jury on Monday acquitted a former sheriff’s deputy of battery in a 2019 encounter where he slammed a Black teen into a parking lot’s pavement and punched his head during an arrest.

The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz began on Monday, the deadliest U.S. mass shooting to go before a jury. Jurors must decide whether he gets death or life without parole.

Monkeypox vaccines finally arrived in Broward County on Tuesday to high demand as residents filled all appointment slots available.

Broward County could lose its federally mandated "quiet zone" along the Florida East Coast Railway line as industry and government officials seek ways to reduce deaths among trespassers on railroad property and motorists who try to beat trains across the tracks.