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The Palm Beach Post’s local columnist for more than 30 years, Frank Cerabino, is leaving the paper in early September, joining other key staffers in accepting a buyout that will reduce the paper’s newsroom by more than 10 percent.

When a mental health crisis unfolds in Miami-Dade, a call to 1-866-SAFEMIA brings a different kind of first responder: the Freedom House Mobile Crisis Team sends trained medics, therapists and crisis interventionists who focus on de-escalating and connecting people to care — without involving police. A new $2.2 million grant will allow the Liberty City-based team to operate seven days a week.

The Broward Sierra Group Junior Team set up the county's first seed libraries at five library branches. Visitors “borrow” packets of seeds free of charge to plant in their own yards or community gardens. The seeds are native or beneficial to South Florida’s ecosystems, in order to support pollinators like bees, increase biodiversity and reintroduce native plants lost to development.

Rapper Sean Kingston is scheduled to be sentenced in South Florida on Friday after being convicted of a $1 million fraud scheme.

No Sleep Till is the debut feature by French-American director Alexandra Simpson, set in Jacksonville during the eerie calm before a looming hurricane. It follows a comic duo, a grieving storm chaser and a lonely teen as they confront personal struggles ahead of the storm.

A defiant stand in Delray Beach — as city leaders are holding firm on keeping an LGBTQ Pride mural in place, despite pressure from the state.

More than 100 residents of Li'l Abner — one of the last mobile home parks in left in Miami-Dade — came to have their eviction cases heard before a panel of judges as they await trial

Negotiations have turned sour between Broward Sheriff's office and the City of Deerfield Beach. Both sides have traded barbs, including claims of misinformation and alleged threats of violence.

COMMENTARY The U.S. has indicted Haitian gang ruler Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier — but he and his Viv Ansanm confederation hold the cards in Port-au-Prince as long as they don't face real force.

Miami's Freedom Tower stood as a beacon of hope for Cubans fleeing communist rule at the height of the Cold War. It will reopen next month as a museum honoring the history of Cuban exiles with immersive state-of-the-art exhibits that explore the meaning of migration, freedom and homeland.

A federal judge is hearing closing arguments over whether to stop construction indefinitely at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The judge is considering Tuesday whether the facility violates environmental laws.

Spirit Aviation Holdings, the budget carrier’s parent company, says it has “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern within the next year — which is accounting-speak for having the resources needed to sustain operations.