Category: Florida News

A state panel Monday recommended that a Broward County judge receive a public reprimand for actions during a 2022 re-election campaign, including forwarding potentially false or unverified information about her opponent to a political club. The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission made the recommendation to the state Supreme Court after an investigation of Judge Mardi Levey Cohen. A document filed at the Supreme Court said Levey Cohen was accused, in part, of forwarding an email in July 2022 to a representative of the Wynmoor Condominium Democratic Club and did not “take sufficient...

VERO BEACH (CBS12) — Four people are dead, including a 7-year-old boy, following a crash involving five vehicles on Interstate 95 in Indian River County. The deadly crash occurred on I-95 northbound near mile marker 153 at 2:15 a.m. on Monday morning, near Fellsmere, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash involved five vehicles and 11 people. Officials stated that the chain of events began when a 37-year-old woman from Miami, driving a Toyota Camry, rear-ended a Suzuki Vitara driven by a 40-year-old man from Miami, causing both vehicles to become disabled on the highway....

Three Florida medical professionals who recently traveled to Gaza said they are on a statewide tour to bear witness to what they touched, smelled, heard and saw. Rana Mahmoud worked at Gaza’s European Hospital providing wound care for mass-casualty events and injuries at the emergency room. Medical professionals Waleed Sayedahmad, Rana Mahmoud, and Bahar Alzghoul speak during a “Voices From the Frontline” presentation Sunday about their aid work in Gaza. (John McCall/South Florida Sun Sentinel) She relayed stories of tents that were available as aid, but being sold on the streets for...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a controversial measure that will bolster self-defense arguments for people who kill bears on their property, while vetoing a bill that would have prevented motorists from cruising in the left lanes of highways. DeSantis’ office announced Friday night that he had signed 14 bills from this year’s legislative session and vetoed three. Among the other bills he signed was a measure (SB 7014) that revamped ethics laws. DeSantis vetoed a bill (HB 317) that would have prevented drivers from cruising in left lanes of highways with at least two lanes...