Federal Jobless Benefits Approved For Florida
Florida's request to tap into federal money to provide additional unemployment benefits has been approved, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said over the weekend.
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Florida's request to tap into federal money to provide additional unemployment benefits has been approved, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said over the weekend.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expects people to be better behaved in preventing the spread of the coronavirus during the Labor Day weekend than they were on Memorial Day.
The Miami-Dade County Commission voted Monday to bring back the independent civilian panel for police accountability.
Many Beleagured restaurant owners in Miami-Dade are welcoming a return to indoor dining for the first time since early July and said they hope they can survive economically amid the new restrictions.
Restaurants in Miami-Dade aren't the only businesses reopening. Casinos also opened back up with restrictions.
While some kids may have been playing video games or watching movies all day when everyone was asked to stay-at-home during the coronavirus pandemic, there were four kids, all under the age of 10, who learned to play the stock market.
A California girl is on the mend after nearly losing her life to a condition being linked to COVID-19 in children. The rare inflammatory syndrome has sickened hundreds of children across the country, and doctors say parents need to know the warning signs.
Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 11 a.m. on August 31, 2020.
Families will soon have another option other than sitting outside or take-out at Miami-Dade restaurants.
Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 1:15 p.m. on August 30, 2020.
Over 800 employees at Universal Orlando Resort hotels will be losing their jobs as the state's theme park industry continues to be devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Florida Department of Health reported Saturday 150 new deaths from COVID-19 and 3,197 new confirmed cases as the positivity rate continued to drop in the state.
In a partial win for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, a Tallahassee-based appeals court on Friday put on hold a Leon County circuit judge's ruling that said a state mandate for schools to reopen this month amid the coronavirus is unconstitutional.
Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 11 a.m. on August 29, 2020.
Two South Florida men are accused of using fake and stolen identities to steal over $3 million in coronavirus relief funds, authorities said.
Governor Ron DeSantis made the case that tourists could safely take commercial flights to visit Florida, as newly reported coronavirus cases grew by more than 3,800 people Friday, down from peak averages of nearly 12,000 cases daily in mid-July.
With just about two to the first Hurricane football game of the season, the University of Miami President has announced changes for both fans and students.
If you are having a hard time finding a new or used boat these days, you aren't alone and you can blame it on the coronavirus pandemic.
South Florida is seeing improvement in the number of COVID-19 cases but Broward County leaders are being cautious about lifting restrictions too soon.
One day after the federal government announced the purchase of 150 million of the new rapid COVID-19 antigen tests from Abbott Laboratories, Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) urged President Trump to deploy at least 10 million of those tests to the state of Florida.
It seems like the more you see masks on people's faces, the more you also see them littering streets and sidewalks, even beaches. With so many people wearing masks, that's adding up to a lot of excess waste, but one company is working to change that.
Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 11 a.m. on August 28, 2020.
As Miami-Dade public schools get ready to embark on a virtual start to the year, Broward public schools are now a week in.
Abbott Laboratories has created its BinaxNOW rapid test for $5 each, delivering results in 15 minutes. It'll also have an app to give people proof they were tested and they're negative. The FDA gave it a go for an emergency-use status.
It was a special day for James Gardner.
Castro's indictment announcement coincides with a U.S. Department of Justice event at Miami's Freedom Tower honoring the victims.
Higher fuel and food costs are causing consumers to scale back on spending at restaurants, a trend that is also pinching local businesses and commercial fishermen.
The law builds on changes made in the public-school system after the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The action reportedly stems from the shootdown of two airplanes belonging to the group Brothers to the Rescue 30 years ago over international waters.
The boat, a 39-foot Sea Ray Cabin motorboat, was anchored at the Haulover sandbar with 13 passengers on board, according to a new report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
Castro's indictment announcement coincides with a U.S. Department of Justice event at Miami's Freedom Tower honoring the victims.
Higher fuel and food costs are causing consumers to scale back on spending at restaurants, a trend that is also pinching local businesses and commercial fishermen.
The law builds on changes made in the public-school system after the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The action reportedly stems from the shootdown of two airplanes belonging to the group Brothers to the Rescue 30 years ago over international waters.
The boat, a 39-foot Sea Ray Cabin motorboat, was anchored at the Haulover sandbar with 13 passengers on board, according to a new report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
In an interview with "Face the Nation," Gates said another mass exodus from Cuba is the "biggest risk."
In a move aimed at curbing the growing problem of "teen takeovers," D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is threatening to bring charges against parents if their teens violate the local curfew.
Sens. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin say their concern is there may be more emergency exit doors than flight attendants in the event of an evacuation.
As Powell steps down after more than eight years leading the Federal Reserve, economists say he helped steer the U.S. through historic shocks but misread inflation.
ICE has released the wife of an active-duty U.S. soldier after a month in detention, her husband told CBS News.
CBS News Miami has confirmed from multiple sources that the Miami Dade State Attorney's office is investigating A3.
State Senator Rosalind Osgood is urging Wasserman Schultz not to run in Florida's 22nd Congressional district.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
A New York native is among 16 American passengers who are quarantining in Nebraska after being on the cruise ship that is at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak.
The head of the World Health Organization says "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
More than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus are set to be disembarked.
In 2002, Zermeño found out he contracted hantavirus after cleaning the family house following the death of his mother and sister. He had been exposed to rodent droppings and became infected.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
The Library of Congress revealed this year's list of 25 recordings to be preserved for future generations on the National Recording Registry.
"The Devil Wears Prada 2" edges out "Mortal Kombat II" at the North American box office this weekend.
A trial in the lawsuit between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was set to begin later in May.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.