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July 3, 2019 at 9:39 am

Orange fireball lighting Florida sky was Chinese space junk

MIAMI (AP) — Conspiracy theorists took to social media in a flurry of excitement Wednesday after a mysterious flying object resembling an orange fireball streaked...

May 16, 2019 at 2:17 pm

Florida prepares for influx of immigrants from Mexico border

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Officials in South Florida say they are preparing for an influx of immigrants being sent by the federal government as...

April 17, 2019 at 10:18 pm

For school shooting survivors, trauma has no time limit

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Alex Rozenblat can still hear the cries of a wounded boy calling for help as she hid from the gunfire that...

FBI agent in charge Dean Phillips talks to reporters in Denver Wednesday, April 17, 2019. A Florida teenager who authorities say was obsessed with the 1999 Columbine school shooting and may have been planning an attack in Colorado just ahead of the 20th anniversary was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide after a nearly 24-hour manhunt. (Colorado Public Radio via AP) LA317 LA317

April 17, 2019 at 10:09 pm

Columbine focuses on healing as questions loom after manhunt VIEW

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado community changed forever by the attack that killed 13 people at Columbine High School moved ahead Thursday with ceremonies...

April 10, 2019 at 7:06 am

Families of massacre victims criticize notification process VIEW

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Families whose loved ones perished in last year's Florida high school massacre told a state commission Wednesday they waited hours, often...

March 27, 2019 at 2:06 pm

Parkland parents, teachers seek to help teens after suicides

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Days after the suicides of two student survivors of the Parkland school shooting, parents and teachers packed a town hall Wednesday...

March 25, 2019 at 9:05 am

Linked by pain: 2 school massacre survivors, dad kill selves

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Tragedies like the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High and Sandy Hook Elementary school massacres eventually fade from view, blunted by other...

March 16, 2019 at 12:12 pm

Once sanctuaries, houses of worship struggle with security VIEW

DETROIT (AP) — A rabbi who packs a gun. A church installing security cameras. A police car protecting a mosque. Houses of worship have traditionally...

March 14, 2019 at 1:16 pm

Surgeon denies posting homophobic comments on social media

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A prominent gender-reassignment surgeon resigned from a University of Miami clinic after he was accused of posting photos of patients'...

March 7, 2019 at 7:49 am

Parkland shooting: Suspended sheriff sues Florida governor

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida sheriff who was suspended by the governor and accused of failing to prevent the Parkland school shooting filed...