Brooke Baitinger

The story of the mob that hanged an innocent man 90 years ago for something he didn’t do is at risk of being erased under Florida’s ‘anti-woke’ laws, according to the Black man’s surviving family members. To stop that from happening, they’ve set up the Rubin Stacey Justice Initiative, a nonprofit th…

In impassioned speeches, a group of moms, teachers, students, and gun control advocates called on Sen. Marco Rubio to join their fight to end gun violence, even if it would mean turning his back on his donors at the National Rifle Association.

Three city commissioners gave City Manager Whittingham Gordon the boot at his six-month evaluation. Gordon submitted a list of accomplishments to commissioners, but it appeared to do little to impress them.

How some students are protesting law dubbed 'don't say gay' as graduation nears  South Florida Sun Sentinel

Ferencz served as a chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials — what was then called “the biggest murder trial in history” — which led to the conviction of 22 German SS officers for the murders of 1 million people.

Local and state leaders spoke out against the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would prohibit teachers and school districts from talking with students about gender and sexual orientation. The bill is moving quickly through the legislature.

The county announced late Thursday afternoon that officials will hand out the hugely popular tests again Friday at eight library locations across the county. Broward’s initial supply of 75,000 tests ran out at certain locations almost instantly on Thursday, the first day the kits were distributed.

Nikolas Cruz is expected to plead guilty to murdering 17 people and injuring 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. The families who lost loved ones have a long and grueling road ahead of them, but these new developments seem as though it could be the start of the last leg toward…

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper narrowly escaped a collision with a pickup truck as he was helping a driver stopped along I-95 with a blown tire. The trooper noticed the oncoming pickup just in the nick of time to jump out of the way before it sideswiped the SUV right where he was standing seconds…

Harvesting palmetto berries is a crime in Florida, but poachers work throughout South Florida to meet the demand for one of the nation’s most popular herbal supplements.

Authorities say the woman posted videos about her Second Amendment gun rights after investigators had called her to ask whether she had been in the nation’s capital on Jan. 6.

Two men and a woman, waving makeshift flags, were rescued from a deserted island on Tuesday after surviving on coconuts, conch and rats for 33 days, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

“Judge, you [are] so gorgeous, so gorgeous judge, I just had to tell you. You’re gorgeous,” defendant Demetrius Lewis said to Judge Tabitha Blackmon during a bond hearing.

An accused hit-and-run driver said he knew he hit something with his Jeep but didn’t know it was a 64-year-old man on a bicycle who later died in a Delray Beach hospital, police said.

The low rumble felt across South Florida on Friday was no earthquake. It’s more likely it was a shock wave from a military aircraft breaking the sound barrier offshore.

Donald Trump is planning to live at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach after his term as president ends, Bloomberg News reported Thursday night. He’s expected to fly to Florida before the inauguration of Joe Biden on Wednesday.

How a little boy wound up alone in a Miramar parking lot on Sunday morning is a mystery. On Monday night, police said they were searching for a missing woman named Leila Cavett who may be the boy’s mom.

Bree “Nuk” Black, 27, was already dead from multiple gunshot wounds when first responders arrived at 244 NW 12th St., on Friday night, said Sgt. Bryan Tutler, a detective with Broward Sheriff’s Office Homicide Unit.

The health department in Broward issued only two swimming advisories in 2019 — and not until the last 10 days of the year — even though water tests showed unsafe bacteria levels in beach water at least 25 times, according to 2019 health department data.