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Avi Hoffman's Still Jewish After All These Years at Aventura Arts and Cultural Center: ...

Being a "zoophile" in modern American society, Beck says, is "like being gay in the 1950s. You feel like you have to hide, that if you say it out loud, people will look at you like a freak." Now Beck ...

A videotaped sworn statement has surfaced that bolsters the contention that Florida Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist had a recent romantic relationship with a ...

A million thoughts raced through Randy Lanier’s head as he cast a fishing line into the azure waters off Antigua, 1,300 miles from South Florida. He had a family back in Davie — a wife, an 8-year-old ...

Jack Nelson's swimmers have called him a second father. South Florida newspapers call him an icon. His lawyer says he's "a national treasure." And Diana Nyad, his former swimmer, says Nelson was a ...

"Financial support for MURDERERS!" yells a ponytailed man holding an American flag. "Are you going to blow up our daycare centers?" a woman shouts nearby. On a quiet, residential Margate street, ...

The infamous photograph of Stacy's death might be one of the few visual accounts of a lynching in Florida, but a new report from the Equal Justice Initiative about lynching across the American South ...

Under any other circumstances, the girl sitting in the oversized red chair might be screaming for help or begging for mercy. A tall, pale young man — his eyes lined in black — inches ...

Judge Matthew Destry has handed down extremely harsh or extremely random sentences, frustrating both the attorneys who appear before him and the defendants who seek his mercy.

Luckily, we Floridians don't have to settle. As many of you already know, there are quite a few places in South Florida that deliver the real deal. We gave you a list of the best tacos in Broward ...

On a quiet South Florida street stands an unassuming white house — one of many in this upscale neighborhood of winding canals, glitzy nightclubs, and alfresco restaurants. But this house is different; ...