School shooting threats cost taxpayers millions of dollars
In the last year, Florida led the nation in school threats, according to a firm that tracks threat and swatting incidents
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In the last year, Florida led the nation in school threats, according to a firm that tracks threat and swatting incidents
Ted Scouten reports on how a J. P. Taravella High School student accused of making school threats will be on house arrest after posting bond.
Catrina Petit is facing a number of charges including intimidation to write or send a threat to kill or injure
Catrina Petit will be on house arrest and cannot use her phone or computer.
A Coral Springs high school student has been arrested in connection with a school shooting threat that sparked panic Friday in several other local school districts.
A Coral Springs high school student has been arrested in connection with a school shooting threat that sparked panic Friday in several other local school districts.
Several school districts across the state have deemed online threats as non credible.
The school was checked out, nothing was found, so the all clear was given.
The sheriff's office said all students and staff are safe
Lockdown put in place after a student reported seeing another student with what looked like a gun
Jones suggested the arrest was related to a lawsuit she filed in March to get her job back
These are civilians who will be responsible for keeping schools safe.
Teen charged with written threat to conduct a mass shooting, which is a felony
A lockdown at Fort Lauderdale High School was lifted after an unspecified threat led officials to place the school on a secured lockdown status Monday morning
Another day, another lockdown at Cypress Bay High School.
According to police, Erick Nendez threatened to do a parkland style massacre on a woman and her family.
A series of disturbing threats landed a Tamarac man in jail.
Students at McArthur High in Hollywood tell us about tense moments at school after a call came in of a shooting on campus. "Security guards told us to go inside the gym, where they said there was a threat dealing with another person. It was as call and a threat," one student told us.
A fifth-grade teacher in northwestern Indiana, charged with felony intimidation after authorities say she told a student she had a "kill list" of students and staff, has agreed to stay away from the school.
The schools were placed on a precautionary lockdown.
Peter D'Oench reports no threat was found at any school
Police are investigating the source of the so-called "swatting" calls.
Police investigating them as "swatting" calls.
The car was on display at Vera Cadillac in Pembroke Pines this week.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.
Temperatures will soar to around 90 degrees Thursday afternoon, but it will feel hotter when you factor in the humidity.
Oil prices hit a 4-year high as Axios reports Trump will hear new options to try to break the Strait of Hormuz standoff with Iran with a new wave of attacks.
James Ernest Hitchcock was convicted of raping, beating and killing his step-niece in 1976.
The car was on display at Vera Cadillac in Pembroke Pines this week.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.
Temperatures will soar to around 90 degrees Thursday afternoon, but it will feel hotter when you factor in the humidity.
James Ernest Hitchcock was convicted of raping, beating and killing his step-niece in 1976.
A ceremony was held at Miami International Airport ahead of the first flight on Thursday morning.
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.
The Coast Guard will run out of funding to pay personnel on May 1, with the first missed paychecks expected May 15.
The budget blueprint is the first step in Republicans' two-pronged plan to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.
Former Florida governor and U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist is running for mayor of his hometown of St. Petersburg.
Spirit Airlines only has enough available cash to continue operations for a matter of days, not weeks, and talks for a government-backed rescue of the no-frills carrier have stalled, sources say.
President Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Wednesday about Ukraine and Iran.
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.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
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.
Luna said she expects Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to be the next member who either resigns or gets expelled.
Uthmeier was asked several times during a press conference in Miami this week if he had formally requested the judge overseeing the grand jury to keep the findings secret.
Seventy-three percent of Americans say delays and denials of medical treatment by healthcare insurers are a major problem. Now, a company called Sheer Health says they will fight insurance battles on behalf of their clients.
An unlicensed cosmetologist from Florida has been found guilty in a California court for providing an injection that killed a model who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
Food containing norovirus may smell and taste normal but still cause serious illness if consumed, FDA warns.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants the popular coffee chains to prove their surgery drinks are safe for teens and suggested the Trump administration could place limits on your cup of coffee.
Tests of dozens of baby formulas by Consumer Reports found that nearly half contained potentially dangerous chemicals.
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.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.
Jake was at the funeral for one of his closest friends when he learned of his parents' deaths, he said.
Michael Tilson Thomas, the 12-time Grammy Award winning composer and famed conductor who led the San Francisco Symphony for a quarter century, has died.
Afrika Bambaataa, a rapper and producer, was best known for breakthrough tracks like 1982's "Planet Rock" and for founding the Universal Zulu Nation art collective.
The moon music tradition started more than 50 years ago, NASA said as it shared the Artemis II crew's playlist this week.