Terry Spencer | Associated Press

Two little piggies will not become Christmas Eve roast pork thanks to a holiday pardon they received from a Florida mayor. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava pardoned the 4-month-old pigs, Glinda and Elphaba.

Under an agreement signed by Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips, survivor Anthony Borges, the families of slain students Meadow Pollack, Luke Hoyer and Alaina Petty and fellow student survivor Maddy Wilford now control any attempt by shooter Nikolas Cruz to profit off his name or likeness or grant interviews. Each of the five parties has veto power.

The last Kmart on the U.S. mainland sits alone at the west end of a suburban Miami shopping center, quiet and largely ignored.

Former Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer told the Florida International University law students Thursday that the public defenders who represented Nikolas Cruz during his 2022 death penalty trial says they “lost their minds” as they defended him for the killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Dan Brown, a specialist at the National Hurricane Center near Miami, said Helene had all the attributes that make a storm widely destructive. “Systems that get very powerful, large and fast moving unfortunately do bring the potential for impact and damage well inland.”

A nasty rift between the most seriously wounded survivor of the 2018 Parkland school massacre and some families of the 17 murdered has erupted in court.

The parents of Luke Hoyer, Alaina Petty and Meadow Pollack each reached $50 million settlements with the shooter. Wounded student Maddy Wilford agreed to a $40 million settlement.

A Florida school employee who let her transgender daughter play on her high school’s girls volleyball team is being suspended by the district's board for 10 days. The Broward County school board found on Tuesday that Jessica Norton violated state law but said firing her would be too severe.

The Broward County school board was poised to reject Superintendent Howard Hepburn’s recommendation that Jessica Norton be fired as a computer information specialist at Monarch High School, where her daughter played on the varsity team last year. But the board delayed its decision.

The first lawsuits have been filed in connection with last weekend's melees that broke out when fans without tickets forced their way into the Copa America soccer final at South Florida's Hard Rock Stadium. Court records show that at least four lawsuits have been filed.

A Florida judge has released transcripts of a detailing 2006 grand jury testimony that accused the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting numerous underage teenage girls at his Palm Beach mansion.

The most severely wounded survivor of the 2018 massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now owns shooter Nikolas Cruz’s name.