More than 10,000 people of Haitian ancestry live in Miramar, a city with the fifth-highest Haitian population in Florida. Naturally, the local public schools have a large number of Haitian students — after the devastating 2010 earthquake on the island, Miramar High School took in 46 Haitian refugees, more than…

In 2005, the Florida Legislature passed arguably the state’s most controversial law, Stand Your Ground. Now, whether or not cops can use that defense comes down to how the state’s highest court defines the word “person.”

For a guy who once had fangs permanently bonded onto his teeth, who rose from a ring of fire for a televised audience of millions, who made the tabloids after spitting a goblet of blood in Donald Trump’s face, David Heath is actually kind of a wallflower. When he first…

In September 2015, Lisa was working as a pier attendant at the Deerfield Beach Fishing Pier when her boss, public works director Charles DaBrusco, called her into the bathroom to check out a broken toilet. Once the two were inside, however, it became clear he hadn’t summoned her for a maintenance issue.

Pizza Hut brands itself as a family-friendly chain with speedy delivery and more than 16,000 locations worldwide. But if you’re ordering dinner, whether your local store will deliver can depend upon where your family lives. In minority neighborhoods, Pizza Hut has a history of refusing delivery.

When you sign up to become a schoolteacher, no one hands you a book of names you shouldn’t call your students. That’s because most educators have good enough sense to know referring to their kids as terrorists is almost certainly a bad idea. Unfortunately, not everyone has good sense. This…

While you’ve been sitting at your stupid desk all week, thousands of sunburned Midwesterners have been bonging beer and Instagramming selfies at the beach for spring break. It’s unfair, but you can’t blame them for taking advantage of the weeklong rite of passage while they’re young and their livers are still somewhat virginal.

This past Friday, Bill Todhunter was bringing in the trash cans from the driveway when he heard his wife screaming. He left the cans and rushed out back to the couple’s deck at their home overlooking Port Everglades. There, just a short distance away, the 2,850-passenger Celebrity…

Fueled in part by President Donald Trump’s flame-throwing speeches, the number of hate groups in the United States rose for the second year in a row, according to a new analysis released last week by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).