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When Professor Ron Hassner made the decision to stage a sit-in protest at his University of California, Berkeley office until the school’s administration agreed to take seriously rising campus antisemitism, several other local professors were inspired to visit the professor of political science in solidarity as he ate and slept in his office — and taught class from there — for two weeks. Encouraged by Hassner’s activism and the support he received from other concerned... Read More

When attorney John H. Ruiz took his company public in 2022, the Miami entrepreneur promised that its software algorithms were so effective they could spot billions of dollars in improperly … Click to Continue » ... Read More

DANIA BEACH — If ever there was a company in need of a psychological lift, it is Spirit Airlines, twice a target of failed takeover bids by rival air carriers, and now flying with a fleet diminished by problems not of its own making. The South Florida-based discount carrier, now in its 25th year as the region’s “hometown airline,” seized the day on Thursday by unveiling its new 11-acre, four-building corporate campus on at Dania Pointe south of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International... Read More

A Broward judge dismissed the final charge in a drug possession case against Kodak Black Wednesday, the conclusion of a legal saga that at one point left the South Florida rapper in prison for two months. Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, had faced two criminal charges, one count of possession of oxycodone and one count of tampering with physical evidence after a traffic stop in Plantation last December. Police officers had found him asleep at the wheel, his car parked in the road,... Read More

Fort Lauderdale is running out of cemetery space. One potential solution? Turning shuttered Broward County schools into more burial space. During a city commission conference Tuesday, Mike Watson, the District … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Both Cavinder twins are coming back to Miami. A day after Hanna Cavinder announced her return to the Hurricanes, Haley Cavinder did the same. “Given the news yesterday that my sister was returning to play ball at Miami and after careful consideration and thought, I’ve decided to return to the University of Miami and play with Hanna for our final and fifth year,” Haley Cavinder posted on social media. “There is nothing more important than family and the bond I share with my twin... Read More

Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief financial officer, turned the tables on Sheldon Whitehouse, one of Rhode Island’s U.S. senators, on Wednesday. In a letter to Whitehouse, Patronis said he found the Democratic senator’s requests in November and March for information about Citizens Property Insurance Corp. “especially alarming” in light of an ethics complaint by conservative foundation Judicial Watch asserting that Whitehouse voted for environmental projects that financially... Read More

As South Florida faces sea-level rise, flooding and storm surge, officials are working to switch thousands of septic tanks across the region into sewer connections. “Within a number of years they’re going to fail and that will be horrible,” Broward County Commissioner Steve Geller, who also is the chairman of the Water Advisory Board. And as more sewage seeps into the groundwater that “of course affects the safety of our drinking water,” he said. Until now, Broward has eliminated... Read More

Newly released 911 calls captured the chaos and panic on April 6 at the Martini Bar in CityPlace Doral, where a mass shooting left two dead and seven people shot, … Click to Continue » ... Read More

About five minutes after an Orange County deputy got off the phone with a Seminole County detective working the case of a Homestead woman carjacked at gunpoint and murdered in … Click to Continue » ... Read More