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A new exhibition in Fort Lauderdale dives into Chambers v. Florida — a historic Supreme Court case that overturned the death sentence of four Black boys who were violently coerced into confessing to a 1933 Pompano Beach murder, paving the way for the "right to stay silent."
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JetBlue is set to start daily, nonstop flights from Tallahassee to Fort Lauderdale come next year. The low-cost carrier is the first to announce its arrival in Tallahassee since United left in 2021.
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South Florida's Haitian-American Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick tells WLRN how President Biden’s humanitarian parole program impacts Haitians, migrants and asylum seekers — while families discuss the stress of going through it.
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A South Florida jury has sided with a white Florida police officer accused of shoving a kneeling Black woman to the ground during a protest more than two years ago.
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John Herbst, who was the city's auditor for 16 years before being fired earlier this year, won his election for city commission last month — but then came the challenges over his eligibility. He finally took his seat on Tuesday.
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John Herbst, who won his election by over 2,000 votes, has had his eligibility challenged by his opponent. It means that, more than three weeks after the general election, the city's five-person board only has two members.
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In the last phase of the death penalty trial for Nikolas Cruz, lawyers gave their final remarks on what should happen to the shooter. It is now on the jury to decide his fate.
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Firefighters in Southwest Florida are working around the clock to protect residents and don't have much time to repair their own homes. That's where the union is helping out, with firefighters from Broward among those stepping in.
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Fort Lauderdale commissioners approved a deal that would pave the way for a $164 million state-of-the-art movie studio on unwanted land.
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Defense lawyers for the Parkland school shooter rested their case Wednesday, a move that came as a surprise–especially to the judge.
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The defense team for the man who murdered 17 people ended their case early, surprising the judge and prosecutors.
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The death penalty trial for the Parkland shooting trial resumed this week after a two-week break and Nikolas Cruz's lawyers have continued to take jurors through his life chronologically as they seek to prove his difficult childhood contributed to the violence. They hope it will be enough to persuade one juror to not back the death penalty, which would be enough for him to get life in prison instead.